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Locarno’s Open Doors: New Films from Paz Encina, Rosa Maria Rodriguez as a Revolution Continues in Next Generation Latin American Filmmaking
Focused on smaller countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Locarno’s Open Door works as a powerful talent showcase.
Developing “Non, je n’ai pas trouvé l’Eldorado,” a feature doc that “intimately captures the personal odyssey of the director as a young woman and mother confronting the looming question of exile and the elusive allure of an idealized ‘elsewhere,’” Desert says. Rotterdam’s 2022 top Tiger Award winner, a stunning vision of a young Ayoreo Totobiegosode girl in the Northern Paraguayan Chaco committing to memory the landscapes and myths of her forest as she prepares to leave it, forcibly displaced by deforestation. Based between Barcelona and New York and focusing in film on her family and literary endeavor, as in her debut feature “Los Capítulos Perdidos,” a docu-fiction hybrid where Ena, played by Alvarado’s sister, returns to Venezuela and discovers a mysterious postcard, which sparks a curiosity for a Venezuelan author who wrote under hundreds of pseudonyms.
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