'Pescador' (2011) – Sebastián Cordero.

This compelling Columbian/Ecuadorean crime drama is given additional bite by being based on a true story. A sizable quantity of cocaine is washed up on the shore and we follow poor fisherman Blanquito(Andrés Crespo) as he gamely tries to woo the glacial beauty (Maria Cecilia Sanchez) and sell the drugs. I enjoyed this well-made, lively Ecuadarean crime drama, the quality performances are wonderfully natural, and the able director shoots 'Pescador' in an engagingly loose verite style.  Cordero's visually engaging choices of exterior locations added a great deal of texture, on a more personal note, I found the rumpled, endearingly sad-faced Crespo's performance to be a hugely sympathetic one.