Annual Top Films Lists

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #26. Michael Rowe’s Manto Acuifero

Published on January 14, 2013

Manto Acuifero

Director/Writer: Michael Rowe
Producer(s): Gael García Bernal, Julian Levin, Arturo Sampson
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tania Arredondo, Arnoldo Picazzo, Zaili Sofia Macias

Camera D’or winner for Best First Feature in Cannes for his 2011 film Leap Year, the Aussie-born Michael Rowe has become an instant player in the current wave of Mexican auteur cinema.

Gist: Part of a trilogy of films based on solitude, this revolves around a couple who decide to divorce, affecting the emotional state of his daughter, who on her own and through various circumstances, is forced to find support elsewhere.

Release Date: Cannes Film Festival playdate is assured. Un Certain Regard category.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).