30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: Panorama

Icebox (2018) 16

United States of America | 2018 | 88 min.

The grim reality of the current US immigration system through the eyes of Oscar, a 12-year-old schoolboy from Honduras, whose unwanted ties to a brutal gang have prompted his parents to smuggle him out of the country in the hope that he will escape to America and lead a better life under the protection of his uncle Manuel, a recent immigrant. However, Oscar is caught in the Arizona desert by border police and sent to a juvenile immigration center, where he tries regain control of his life inside a "wire box" and reach his dream destination.

CountryUnited States of America
Year2018
Duration88 min
Rating16
LanguageEnglish
SubtitleCzech
Directed by Daniel Sawka
Screenplay Daniel Sawka
Director of Photography Carolina Costa
Music Steve Mazzaro
Edited by Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Contact HBO Europe

Biography

Screenwriter and director of Swedish origin. He made the short films Reverb (2010), Quality Time (2014) and Icebox (2016). The last one he developed into his feature-length debut of the same name (2018).

Teenagers, Drama, Refugees, Politics

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