HIERRO

Year: 2009
UK: Optimum Releasing
UK DVD: Optimum Home Entertainment
Cast: Elena Anaya, Bea Segura, Mar Sodupe, Andres Herrera, Miriam Correa, Raquel Salvador, Javier Mejia, Kaiet Rodriguez, Tomas del Estal, Jon Arino
Director: Gabe Ibanez
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
UK: 89 mins
UK Certificate: 12A contains strong language, once, moderate violence & psychological threat
UK Release Date: 18 June 2010 (Limited Release)
UK DVD Release Date: 26 July 2010


Synopsis

While travelling by ferry to the island of El Hierro, Maria mysteriously loses her young son Diego. Diego simply vanishes. Has he fallen overboard? Has he been abducted? Nobody seems to know.

Six months later...Maria is fighting to overcome the pain of her loss, to pick up the pieces and continue with her life, when she receives an unexpected call. A child's body has been discovered; she must return to El Hierro. On the island, in this strange and threatening landscape, surrounded by sinister, malevolent characters, Maria is forced to confront her worst nightmares. As she travels the terrible path that may lead to her son, Maria will make the most unbearable discovery of all - that some mysteries should never be revealed.

Emotionally devastating, visually stunning and truly terrifying, a Spanish genre thriller in the tradition of JA Bayona's THE ORPHANAGE and Guillermo del Toro's PAN'S LABYRINTH, HIERRO depicts one woman's desperate journey into a nightmare vortex of horror and loss.