Suncatcher

Introverted young Laura arrives in a secluded town enveloped in palm plantations. As she and her family start their new life, Laura glimpses a hidden world, marked by a chilling legend about a forest-dwelling beast that preys on women. At first, she dismisses it as a childish fantasy. But when she meets the radiant Daniela, their friendship takes her on a journey that unravels the beast’s true nature.

In the small coastal town of Manzanillo, Costa Rica, local teens and adolescents share their stories, lies, and fantasies on the cusp of a cataclysmic event. Playing amid ruins and wreckages, and voicing their boredom at the lack of change, Manzanillo’s children engage in a collective fabulation, finding strategies for building a new world from the old.

A tale about solitude portrayed from the intimacy of three brothers who are about to receive one of the worst news of their lives. In the midst of it all, the wilderness accompanies them, but also haunts them.