Zama

Tired of waiting for the King to transfer him to a more liberating location, Don Diego de Zama, a South American officer of the Spanish Crown, embarks on a perilous journey towards freedom.

The new film by Lucrecia Martel is a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility. Martel adapts Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 classic of Latin American modernism and transports us to a remote corner of 18th-century South America, where a servant of the Spanish crown slowly loses his grip on reality.

Filmography: The Headless Woman (2008), The Holy Girl (2004), La Ciénaga (2001).