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Solo la Luna comprenderá
2023 | B/N | 18:30

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.


Country: Costa Rica, Estados Unidos
Direction: Torres; Kim
Script: Torres; Kim, Seco; Julieta, Bricaire; Mandarava, Bulgarelli; Pietro
Production: Mandarava Bricaire
Photography: Bulgarelli; Pietro
Sound: Becka; Thomas
Music: Bergen Dyck; Carlos
Cast:Arthurs Cambpell; Joel, Brown Goodman; Dichan, Será Bonilla; Fiorella Nahomi, Oporta López; Luna
Participation year at FICM: 2023

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