Screenings
August 26 20:00
DEBATOUN GUESTHOUSE
The Moon Will Contain Us
Costa Rica/USA, 2023, 18’
in Spanish w/Arm./Eng.subtitles
Director: Kim Torres
Producer: Mandarava Bricaire
Screenwriters: Kim Torres, Julieta Seco, Mandarava Bricaire, Pietro Bulgarelli
Cinematographer: Pietro Bulgarelli
Editors: Julieta Seco, Kim Torres
Composer: Carlos Bergen Dyck
Sound: Thomas Becka, Nayuribe Montero Jiménez, António Porém Pires
Narrator: Joel Arthurs Campbell
Production Company: Mercuria
As a magical moon creeps in the twilight, different timelines entwine in the town of Manzanillo, located in the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The youth and the elderly unite and collide in a tale, where the town is able to exist as it is: both beautiful and abandoned, mysterious and monotonous.
Kim Torres
Born in 1993, Kim Torres is a Costa Rican screenwriter and director. Her work focuses on inquiries about identity and the experience of inhabiting a body and a place, exploring narratives that play with a free and experimental cinema. Her short films The Moon Will Contain Us (2023), Night Light (2022), and Suncatcher (2021) have been screened in the official selection at Cannes, Locarno, Mar del Plata, Cinélatino Rencontres Toulouse, New Directors/New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center, among others.
Filmography
El Campeón (2015), Forest/Mountain (2017), Bandana (2019), Suncatcher (2021), Night Light (2022), The Moon Will Contain Us (2023).