10 · 30 · 21 Claudia Sainte-Luce's El camino de Sol Shows How a Person Inhabits Life After Losing a Child Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gustavo R. Gallardo El camino de Sol (2021), written and directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce, was presented at the 19th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) in the Mexican Feature Film Section. "I think that what was happening to me at that time and what haunts me is the theme of death. In El camino de Sol I wanted to show how someone who doesn't know for sure what happens with their child inhabits life. They can't collapse because if they do, who's going to look for their child?", the director of Los insólitos peces gato (2013) pondered. Cast of El camino de Sol During the press conference, the filmmaker was asked about how she perceived the women whose children were violently taken away, she said: "Hope. You can't be at peace even if you have a garment, something left behind. You need to have and closure through something physical. They were hopeful, they still believed." On the process of writing the screenplay, Claudia Sainte-Luce said she started in 2016, but failing to find sponsorship through calls, she had to do it with her own resources: "All the people who worked in the crew, all the actors, no matter how small their character, joined for free. My entire film crew believed in the story." Sainte-Luce's third film tells the story of Christian, a seven-year-old boy who is kidnapped from the housing unit where he lives. Sol, his mother, takes over the search after seeing justice's slow and indifferent response handling the case.
