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
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
Si no ardemos, cómo iluminar la noche 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. See More
Night Light 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. See More
Suncatcher When a mysterious light invades socially awkward Lila, she encounters its source: a cyborg who comes to remind her who she was in a past life. See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
