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12 articles available in total starting from 18/02/2019. Last article published on 20/02/2024.

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Review: Memories of a Burning Body

Review: Memories of a Burning Body

BERLINALE 2024: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’ second feature film is an emancipatory cry uniting different generations of women who have been held back by limits set by the patriarchy  

20/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Berlinale Panorama entry Memories of a Burning Body

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Berlinale Panorama entry Memories of a Burning Body

The new film by Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss homes in on three mature women who relive the memories of a repressed sexuality  

18/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Tengo sueños eléctricos, the first feature by Valentina Maurel, is in post-production

Tengo sueños eléctricos, the first feature by Valentina Maurel, is in post-production

The young, Belgian-based director of Costa Rican origin shot the film last November and December in San José, Costa Rica  

25/03/2022 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Costa Rica/France

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Nima Yousefi • Director and producer of The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands

Interview: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Nima Yousefi • Director and producer of The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands

“A tropical, gothic drama about the historical colonization of the female body”

The director of Clara Sola and her producer spoke to us about their new project, the winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, handed out at the TorinoFilmLab for the very first time  

07/12/2021 | TorinoFilmLab 2021

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén  • Director of Clara Sola

Interview: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén • Director of Clara Sola

“We have definitely raised the volume when it comes to addressing the patriarchal side of religion”

CANNES 2021: The director shares some of her thoughts and memories from a journey that started years ago in both Costa Rica and Sweden  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Clara Sola

Review: Clara Sola

CANNES 2021: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén offers up a candid coming-of-age tale with strong doses of magical realism under an illuminating Nordic spotlight  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s feature debut, Clara Sola, ready for the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s feature debut, Clara Sola, ready for the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

The new feature, a Swedish-US-Costa Rican-Belgian-German co-production, will star Costa Rican dancer Wendy Chinchilla in the lead role  

16/06/2021 | Production | Funding | Sweden/USA/Costa Rica/Belgium/Germany

Review: August

Review: August

Cuban filmmaker Armando Capó makes his debut with a coming-of-age story based on his own adolescence and memories of the 1994 rafters’ crisis  

01/10/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Horizontes Latinos

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