LEAP YEAR

AÑO BISIESTO

By Michael ROWE

MACHETE - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2010

Laura is a lonely woman who indulges in an increasingly violent relationship with a sadist driven by a seemingly suicidal agenda.

Festivals
& Awards

Directors' Fortnight 2010
Caméra d'or
    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • MEXICO
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michael ROWE
    • Writer(s)
    • Michael ROWE, Lucía CARRERAS
    • Producer(s)
    • Edher CAMPOS (Machete Producciones), Luis SALINAS (Machete Producciones)
    • Synopsis
    • Laura is a young woman from the State of Oaxaca, now living in Mexico City, who goes through each and every day of the month of February while she creates links between melancholy and cruelty caused by a tragic event in her past. When she meets Arturo, a man who struggles between tenderness and sadism, she suddenly finds love. However, Laura has a set date, February 29th, as the day in which she will finally find one of three possibilities: freedom, atonement, or a criminal sentence.
    • Partners & financing
    • MACHETE PRODUCCIONES / IMCINE
    • Beginning of shooting
    • May 01, 2009