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Costa Rica Film Festival Returns With New Head, Focus on Women and Desire for Regionalization in Central America
Costa Rica Film Festival returns with selection of hits and Central American discoveries with focus on collaboration with continental neighbors
Other films in competition include Annecy standout “Olivia and the Clouds,” two Dominican Republic dramas in “La bachata de Biónico” and “Sugar Island,” and San Sebastián entry “Querido Trópico.” On top of a remarkable number of documentaries, another interesting thing about this year’s CRFIC is the emphasized focus on female filmmakers. The country boasts a fruitful new generation of directors, spearheaded by key women behind the camera, such as Antonella Sudasassi (“Memories of a Burning Body”), Valentina Maurel (“I Have Electric Dreams”), Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (“Clara Sola”), and the festival’s very own Guzmán, whose latest film, “The Skin of the Water,” premiered at Locarno last year. To answer to this demand, Guzmán and her team have programmed festival favourites such as Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light,” Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” Gabriel Mascaro’s “The Blue Trail,” and Berlin Teddy-award-winner “Lesbian Space Princess,” as well as presenting a strand titled Generation Alpha, reflecting on what it feels like to be young today.
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