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Locarno’s Open Doors: Paz Encina, Ernesto Bautista Triumph at Awards Ceremony as Showcase Preps 2025-28 Focus on Africa
Rosa María Rodriguez, Fernando Mendoza, Rob Mendoza, Luis Flores Alvarenga, Yamila Marrero and Ivan de Lara also among winners.
Its winners – Encina’s “The Unique Time,” Bautista’s “Salvation,” Rodriguez’s “Her Lightness” and Mendoza’s “The Return of the Last Mochica Warrior” – were announced Tuesday at the Swiss Festival as Open Doors’ arresting three-year focus on smaller markets in Latin America and the Caribbean came to a close. “Mixing ancestral storytelling with a video game culture,” says Mendoza, in “Return”, a gamer robs his ancestors’ tombs to pay playing in cybercafes until he’s contacted by the spirit of an ancient Peruvian warrior. In further recognitions, the Tabakalera-San Sebastian Film Festival will offer a residency at the Tabakalera, one of Spain’s top development programs, to Luis Flores Alvarenga, at Open Doors with “The Lost Boys,” about three children from Garifuna, Lenca and Tolupán indigenous groups who meet at an orphanage.
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