Urubu
- IMDb link: 10801220
- IMDb rating: 5.2 (623 votes) Search
- Genres: Horror, Thriller
- Director: Alejandro Ibáñez
- Cast: Carlos Urrutia, Clarice Alves, Jullie D'Arrigo, Clarice Alves, José Carabias and others
- Release date: 18 Sep 2020
- Release year: 2019
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Country: Spain
- Keywords: daughter, photographer, amazonas brazil, rainforest, jungle, city, professor, bar, meeting, altar
Plot
Storyline
Tomas, birdwatcher and photographer, tries to give his career a push by taking an impossible photograph: an albino Urubu never seen outside captivity. To this end, he drags his wife and daughter to the Amazonian forest.
2019. To the city of Manaos, Brazil, arrives from Spain Tomas with his Brazilian wife Eva and their little children Andrea, for meeting Profesor Enrique Diaz, Tomas' close friend from his times of college. Well-known photographer which carrier is fading, Tomas tries to find the albino Urubu, a bird that lives in the rainforest but never seen photographed outside captivity. As Captain Ahab with Moby Dick, Tomas is obsessed to make the first photograph hoping it restores not only his prestige and reputation but his family life, after he neglects Eva and her stranded Andrea prefers spends the time looking a tablet that talking with her father. Helping his friend, Diaz rents a cabin in the middle of the rainforest, in an almost uninhabited zone where they will spend a week in complete loneliness, accompanied by Ceara, an aging assistant and the only one inhabitant of the place. Renting a boat commanded by Captain Nauta, Tomas, Eva and Andrea travel upriver to the cabin, where Nauta shows an interest by Eva and Andrea, causing jealousy in Tomas. However, things not better at their arrival: the isolation caused by the endless rainforest turns an enemy for relation between Eva and Tomas, discussing all the time by the travel and his obstinacy about the urubu, and Andrea starts to show a strange behavior that Eva fears. All worsens when at the second night to be in the cabin, Andrea vanishes without a trace. Looking around the place, Eva and Tomas searching for their daughter between accusations against each other, finding a ruined house where it was supposed did shouldn't to exist, hearing voices of children between the trees. When they back to the cabin, Tomas discovers that somebody has destroyed the radio to talk with Nauta and the city, hiding Eva. Making a second attempt at the next day, Tomas and Eva separate to walk by different paths hoping to find Andrea, just to find horror in the way: Eva meets an old woman in the jungle that drugs her for making her hallucinate, and Tomas finds an apparently harmless little children but that they show an avid instinct for killing. Escaping from them to save his life, Tomas will finds himself in a situation out of any control, facing to a terrific question if he wants find Andrea and survive: who can kill a child?
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