10 · 20 · 19 Tierra Adentro and The Girl With Two Heads were presented at the 17th FICM Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Cristina Salmerón The Girl With Two Heads by Betzabé García and Tierra adentro, by Panamanian director Mauro Colombo were presented in a joint screening in the context of the 17th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). These films had a screening in the presence of Chloë Roddick, FICM programmer and Colombo, who talked about how their films pretend to go beyond the screen and provoke reflections in the audience. Mauro Colombo The Girl With Two Heads was the winner of the Ojo to Mexican Short Film Fiction at the 16th FICM and in 2019 was awarded the Caribbean Shorts Award of the Rotterdam Curaçao International Film Festival (CIFFR). Betzabé García’s short tells the story of Anne, and 18 year old who explores the issues of body-image, self-perception and her own understanding of what it is to be a woman in the 21st century in two highly contrasted worlds: that of her traditionally “feminine” mother, Céline, at home and the gym world where she trains with like-minded people. On the other hand, Tierra adentro addresses how filmmaker Mauro Colombo immerses himself in the Darién stopper, a primary jungle that divides Colombia from Panama and is crossed by guerrillas, drug dealers, immigrants, indigenous people, farmers, wild animals and the local police. Mauro’s observation of this land of no one goes beyond its characters to focus on the meaning of the jungle as a metaphor of the wildness we carry within.
