“Milky Way,” (“Via Lactea,” Pax Fabrega, Costa Rica) Made by Valenzuela, to “explore the diaspora experience and dislocate the grand narrative of history,” she says. Mixing colonial history, displacement and criminal investigation, a hybrid fiction-doc-come-essay reconsidering the life of Lucrecia Pérez, a Dominican immigrant in Spain brutally murdered in 1992 by four neo-Nazis, the same year that Spain celebrated its conquest of Latin America. “Three Bullets,” (“Tres Balas,” Génesis Valenzuela, Dominican Republic) “Set in the natural beauty and sounds of Jamaica’s Blue Mountains, the film tells a rich and layered love story that shines even under the heavy veil of colonialism,” says Allen. Devastated by her husband’s death, young widow Trudy escapes to its Blue Mountains and falls for a taciturn goatherd imbued by the highlands’ mysticism. “Raised By Goats,” (Gibrey Allen, Jamaica) Mexico)Ĭheca’s follow-up to breakout feature debut “Tiempos Futuros,” produced by Bertha Navarro and Sebastián Cordero and picked up by Outsider Pictures, a “coming-of-age Western vampire story,” says Checa, set in a futuristic Peru ravaged by desert storms. “Last of Kings,” (“El Ultimo Rey,” Victor Checa, Peru, Germany. “Desidia,” (Leandro Grillo, Bolivia, Chile)Īn early project from Bolivia’s Trisomia Cine, founded by Grillo and Alejandra Antequera, a production manager on “Puán.” To shoot in 16mm, set in a rain-drenched Aymara city El Alto, in the Bolivian highlands, following two young friends, schizophrenic Renato (22) and recluse Piotr (24), the film’s disassociation of situations capture the “controlled disorder,” as Grillo puts it, of El Alto, and Renato’s mind. 17 of 18 Project Hub and Producers’ Lab titles, however, will be first or second features. This year’s Open Doors features producers who have worked on Berlin best actress winner “The Heiresses” (Ivana Urizar), San Sebastian 2023 competition contender “Puán” (Alejandra Antequera), Cannes Camera d’Or laureate “Nuestras Madres” (Joaquín Ruano), Malaga-prized “Utama” (Federico Moreira) and “90 Minutes” which scooped a Miami Audience Award (Ana Isabel Martins Palacios). “Not only is Piura’s Sechura desert a magnificently cinematic landscape with its own vibrant culture, people, and history, it’s a place that has rarely been shown on screen,” says director Victor Checa of the setting of “Last of Kings.”įabrega’s 2011 “Agua Fría de Mar” won a Rotterdam Tiger Award. They’re also showing new vistas, literally, and proud to do so. Rae Witshore’s “Eating Papaw on the Seashore,” an 18-minute short, is the first Guyanese’ film to showcase same-sex intimacy between two men where kissing is captured on camera. Directors are also offering new viewpoints. Valenzuela is exploring “counter narratives,” she says. To tell the story of Nicaragua’s Contras, for example, in “Pantasma,” Gloria Carrión uses stop-motion animation, creating dry corn leaf small-scale replicas of places and figures, mixed with archival footage, video art and photos, sometimes projected onto the screen, “The Missing Picture”-style.” Peru’s “Libertines” is Kafka-esque fantasy drama, “Last of Kings” a futuristic vampire Western. Filmmakers, moreover, are bringing a much broader gamut of tools to explore that issue, led by genre and animation. “Amidst global concerns such as climate change, sustainability, peace and equality, one topic stands out for discussion: Identity,” says Zsuzsi Bánkuti, head of Open Doors. “I’ve become really interested in stories about women who regret having children,” says “Milky Way” director Paz Fábrega. Both “Libertines” and Costa Rica’s “Milky Way” question motherhood as woman’s natural destiny. In Jamaican Gibrey Allen’s “Raised by Goats,” as Jamaica battles for independence, a woman struggles towards freedom and self knowledge. Kill Your Masters” tells the history of Haiti’s 1791-1804 Revolution, but from the POV of Afro-Caribbean female Vodun empowerment. That could be said to varying degrees and multiple ways of the titles at Open Doors, all from smaller Latin American countries or the Caribbean. Questioning Cliches, Intertwining Narratives
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