Totem

TÓTEM is a great moment in Latin American cinema about a day in the life of a large Mexican family. Seven-year-old Sol has come to help with the preparations for her father Tona's birthday party. There is cooking, baking and cleaning, laughing and arguing, ghosts are exorcised, family members and friends arrive. Beneath the buzzing hustle and bustle lies a tangible tension that binds everyone and everything together: concern for the terminally ill Tona, who is gathering his last strength. A polyphonic film about life, love, pain and death.