“El Silencio de Los Niños” by Sofía Quirós Ubeda
CRFIC, or Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine, has announced the list of award winners for the 2022 festival, organizers announced on June 18th.
The CRFIC, or Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine, is a project of the Ministry of Culture and Youth and the Costa Rican Center for Film Production, and seeks to create a privileged exhibition and meeting space for the national and international audiovisual sector and the Costa Rican public.
The Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine (CRFIC) offers a large program of high-quality independent titles from all over the world; master classes, talks and conferences with renowned filmmakers, as well as industry meetings that seek to encourage national and regional production.
The artistic director of the 10th CRFIC, Fernando Chaves Espinach, has commented, “The CRFIC allowed us to show the most innovative and exciting of contemporary Central American cinema and the Caribbean. Our Festival has positioned itself as an important window for Costa Rican cinema and the cinema of our region and we want to continue promoting it. The awards reflect the diversity of local cinema and the freshness of the proposals that are on their way or that we can already enjoy. We wish that these films have a great journey from now on and that our cinema travels the world.”
With a program made up of 87 movies from 37 countries in 15 different languages, the tenth edition of the Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine, or CRFIC, has wrapped-up for the first stage, which took place in San José and the towns of Grecia, Jacó, Limón, Paso Canoas, San Carlos and San Ramón.
The next stage of the CRFIC will be held from June 29 to August 26 in six indigenous communities: Matambuguito, Shiroles, Boruca, Térraba, Sarapiquí and Grano de Oro.
The jury for the Central American and Caribbean Feature Film Competition was made up of Peter Taylor (Northern Ireland), Christina Newland (United Kingdom) and Pablo Hernández Hernández (Costa Rica).
“La Pasión de Nella Barrantes” by Nicolas Pacheco from Costa Rica won the Best Costa Rican Feature Film award “for its exploratory cinematographic language, its enigmatic central performance and its all-encompassing sense of dislocation.”
“La Pasión de Nella Barrantes” is a humorous drama that follows the spiritual journey of Nella, who feels lost regarding her purpose of her life, caught between a job that bores her and a family past that embarrasses her.
The jury awarded the CRFIC statuette for Best Feature Film from the Central American and Caribbean region to “Para Su Tranquilidad, Haga Su Propio Museo” by Pilar Moreno and Ana Endara from Panama “for being a manifesto in favor of the dignity of older women and for its powerful delicacy, its rhythms and resonance.”
“Para Su Tranquilidad, Haga Su Propio Museo” follows Senobia Cerrud, who is a ghost. She lives in a tiny town, where she decided to turn her house into the Museum of Antiquities of All Kinds years ago. She has discovered how to avoid death and now, she lives forever in the fantastic world she has created.
“Perejil” by José María Cabral from Dominican Republic and Haiti received a Special Mention from the Jury “for its brilliant recreation of erased history, its commitment to a form of justice that does not come from a court, but from the power of memory.”
“Perejil” is based on the Perejil Massacre of 1937 when Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the execution of Haitian communities on the country’s border with Haiti.
The jury in the National Short Film Competition consisted of Alexandra Latishev (Costa Rica), Juan Soto (Colombia) and Vanesa Fernández (Spain).
“El Silencio de Los Niños” by Sofía Quirós Ubeda received the award for Best National Short Film “for her mature capacity for synthesis in the use of cinematographic language and originality in the adaptation of a theatrical text, the director manages to immerse us in a forceful story from the hand of an outstanding interpretation.”
“El Silencio de Los Niños” follows Soledad, who tries to remember her childhood. At 9 years old, when she discovers that she is in love with her cousin Juan de Ella, she begins to live an intense and forbidden story. Soledad is sure that children also fall in love.
“Entre Luces Dibujo Tu Rostro” by Francisco Saco received a Special Mention from the Jury “for his honest perseverance in filming his family for a period of years, through montage the filmmaker manages to suture the cracks left by displacement, promoting a necessary reflection on belonging and identity.”
Shot between 2007-2020, “Entre Luces Dibujo Tu Rostro” unfolds as a visual essay that gently seeks to portray the director’s grandmother Ruth Caballero de Saco during everyday moments wrapped in nostalgia and uncertainty.
“Los Nadadores” by Charlie López received an Honorable Mention from the jury for “it is a formal, risky and fresh exercise, which demonstrates a knowledge of cinematographic resources and points to a promising career of a filmmaker with a original voice.”
“Los Nadadores” is “History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about them. Inspired by Ed Ruscha’s swimming pool photographs.”
For the complete list of Industry Awards, please go to the CRFIC official website.
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