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INSIGNIFICANT THINGS
Cosas insignificantes

DIR. Andrea Martinez Crowther, Produced By Guillermo Del Toro DRAMA (18+) MEXICO/SPAIN 2008 98 MINS
With Bárbara Mori, Fernando Luján, Carmelo Gómez, Lucía Jimenez

Winner - Audience Aw ard - Biarritz International Festival Of Latin American Cinema

The debut feature from writer-director Andrea Martinez Crowther, produced by Bertha Navarro and Guillermo del Toro, is an emotive story about a young girl who learns about people through what they leave behind.

Teenager Esmeralda (Paulina Gaitan) lives with her grandmother and younger sister in Mexico City. She works in a diner, where one day the aging Gabriel (Fernando Lujan) leaves his wallet, which contains a piece of paper with a phone number. Esmeralda keeps a box under her bed where she collects the ordinary treasures that she finds, and she puts the number in the box. INSIGNIFICANT THINGS is the tale of three of the Esmeralda’s objects and the secrets of the people behind them, who are all linked by a shared incapability of relating to the person they love most.

Despite a subject matter that exudes sadness, INSIGNIFICANT THINGS plays as an ode to hope. Deftly handled, it announces Martinez Crowther as a talent to watch.

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