Sinopsis
Fiction. Selva is a young girl living in a small town, on the Caribbean seaside. She lives in a damp house surrounded by vegetation. She is going through a time in her life that she doesn’t understand, and yet, Selva tries to keep her family united. But this becomes harder and harder because her parents disappear and her grandfather has delusions about non-existing goats, while he starts to let himself die. Among imaginary landscapes and mysterious shadows, Selva wonders if she should help her grand-dad to fulfill his wish, even if this entails that she may have to go through her last childhood moments on her own.
Sofía Quirós Úbeda studied Image and Sound Design at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2011, she directed the short documentary entitled The other side of the Mountain (Al otro lado). This film went to several festivals and received public recognition. In 2015, she concluded the short film Entretierra (Entre la tierra), a project developed at the Talents Buenos Aires (Berlinale), the Talents Guadalajara (Berlinale and FICG), and also in BAFICI. Entre la tierra was in the official selection of the following Festivals: Clermont Ferrand, Viña del Mar, São Paulo, and Cartagena de Indias. In 2016 she shot Selva, premiered during the Critics’ Week at the Festival de Cannes, where it received great national and international recognition. Since her first short films, Sofía Quirós chose to work with natural actresses and actors, creating movies where intimate worlds are explored with a poetic vision, thus highlighting the atmosphere and the importance of the senses. Land of Ashes (Ceniza negra) is her first feature film of fiction. Its world-wide premiere happened during the Critics’ Week, at the Festival de Cannes, in France, in 2019. It is now going through a wide circuit of international festivals around the world.
November, 7th 2020 to November, 9th, 2020. 5 pm
Programmed by Casa de América
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Section: Three Maps – Three Territories
Year of Production: 2019
Running Time: 81’
Countries: Costa Rica, Argentina, Chili and France
Language: Spanish
Director: Sofía Quirós Úbeda
Cast: Smashleen Gutiérrez, Humberto Samuels, Hortensia Smith and Keha Brown
Production: Mariana Murillo Quesada
Production Company: Sputnik Films
International Sales: Totem Films
Main Festivals and Awards: Award to the Best Film at the International Cairo Festival. Award to the Best Film at the National Cultural Awards of Costa Rica. Special Mention at the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival. Festival international de Cannes. International Munich Festival. Lima Film Festival. International Latin-American Film Festival. International Film Festival of Morelia. International Film Festival of Santiago. International Film Festival of Melbourne. International Film Festival of Amsterdam. International Film Festival of Athens
