

La Cocina
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In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $770K
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- Language
- English
- new york city
- immigration
- restaurant
- times square
- abortion
- kitchen
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Mexico, United States of America, Sweden
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IndiaIN
- PremiereInternational Film Festival of Kerala15 Dec 2024
United StatesUS
- PremiereTribeca Festival9 Jun 2024
- PremiereAFI Latin American Film Festival19 Sept 2024
- PremiereBend Film Festival11 Oct 2024
- PremiereHeartland International Film Festival13 Oct 2024
- PremiereOrcas Island Film Festival17 Oct 2024
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival19 Oct 2024
- PremiereNew Hampshire Film Festival20 Oct 2024
- PremierePhiladelphia Film Festival21 Oct 2024
- PremiereMontclair Film Festival25 Oct 2024
- Theatrical (limited)R25 Oct 2024
- PremiereAFI Fest27 Oct 2024
- PremiereVirginia Film Festival30 Oct 2024
- PremiereMiami Film Festival2 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTT2 May 2025
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival10 Oct 2024
- TheatricalLeeds International Film Festival9 Nov 2024
- Theatrical1528 Mar 2025
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Digital / OTTVideo On Demand: AppleTV, YouTubeTV, GooglePlay, OSN Store7 Jan 2025
AustraliaAU
- PremiereSydney Film Festival5 Jun 2024
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival9 Aug 2024
- TheatricalMA 15+15 May 2025
CanadaCA
- TheatricalForest City Film Festival27 Oct 2024
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereMar del Plata Film Festival25 Nov 2024
AustriaAT
- Theatrical17 Jan 2025
BrazilBR
- PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival24 Oct 2024
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival23 Apr 2024
- PremiereShanghai International Film Festival14 Jun 2024
- Theatrical (limited)28 Feb 2025
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+7 Nov 2024
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical16 Apr 2025
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La Cocina was released on 25 October 2024.
Audience reviews
2- C6/10
CinemaSerf
3/29/2025
If you saw “Boiling Point” (2021) then you’ll get the gist of this drama set in an hectic New York restaurant kitchen. “The Grill” might look peaceful to the customers, but it’s kitchen is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and attitudinal melting pot of cooks, waitresses and cleaners under the guidance of a no-nonsense chef (Lee Sellars) and a slimy manager “Luis” (Eduardo Olmos). It’s this latter man who finds there’s…
- B8/10
badelf
11/7/2025
La Cocina: Society in a Pressure Cooker Not every film needs to be an Aesop's fable, and "La Cocina" understands this perfectly. Alonso Ruizpalacios has crafted an impressive slice-of-life film that elevates the genre by compressing time, making everything that can happen in a restaurant kitchen visible within 139 minutes. That alone is worth the price of admission. What makes the film remarkable is how success…
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