WE ARE WHAT WE ARE
aka SOMOS LO QUE HAY
Year: 2010
UK: Artificial Eye
Cast: Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chavez, Paulina Gaitan, Carmen Beato, Jorge Zarate, Esteban Soberanes, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Adrian Aguirre, Miriam Balderas
Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
UK: 89 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong bloody violence, horror and language
UK Release Date: 12 November 2010
Synopsis
Jorge Michel Grau's visceral portrait, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (SOMOS LO QUE HAY), is also a debut feature, both beautiful and shocking, following the dynamics of a family of cannibals when the father, the main flesh-winner, dies.
When a middle-aged man dies in the street, he leaves behind his widow and three children. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals...
They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies. Now the father can no longer supply the family with victims, they are destitute without him...