Midnight Family

"From director Luke Lorentzen ("New York Cuts"), "Midnight Family" is an extraordinary yet brief and captivating Mexican documentary that explores two things at once: a working-class family, like many in Mexico, living hand to mouth and counting their pennies; and the precarious and corrupt healthcare system upon which millions of people in the country's capital depend. Winner of the top awards at the Guanajuato, Guadalajara and Monterrey film festivals, and selected for Sundance Festival; this is a documentary that achieves a surprising closeness with its protagonist family without succumbing to sensationalism, focusing instead on the peculiar dynamics in the everyday lives of those who operate private ambulances, having to balance the moral responsibilities of their job with the need to make money to survive."