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Crab Trap (Spanish: Trampa de cangrejo) (French: Piège à crabe)
Film poster
Directed by	Oscar Ruiz Navia
Written by	Oscar Ruiz Navia
Produced by	Guillaume de Seille
Starring	Arnobio Salazar Rivas Rodrigo Vélez
Edited by	Felipe Guerrero
Release date	12 March 2009 (2009-03-12)
Running time	95 minutes
Countries	Colombia France
Language	Spanish

Crab Trap (Spanish: El vuelco del cangrejo) is a 2009 Colombian-French drama film directed by Oscar Ruiz Navia. The film was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Plot

Daniel arrives in the Afro-Colombian community of La Barra on Colombia's Pacific coast, looking for a boat to leave the country. He intends to stay for only a few days, but a strange shortage of fish has affected La Barra and the fishermen have been sailing far out to sea in hopes of finding better catch. These circumstances make Daniel's search more difficult. In the meantime, the villagers have their own issues: Cerebro, the leader of the community, is trying to adjust to the advent of modernity.

Cast

• Arnobio Salazar Rivas as Cerebro
• Rodrigo Vélez as Daniel

See also

• List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Colombian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

1. "'Crab Trap' represents Colombia at Academy Awards". colombiareports. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
2. "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 January 2011.

External links

• Crab Trap at IMDb
• Crab Trap at Rotten Tomatoes
• African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)

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