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Directors' Debuts Competition

Cinematographer: Lorenzo Hagerman

Director: Abner Benaim

Producer: Abner Benaim, Matthias Ehrenberg, Rubén Sierra Salles

Writer: Abner Benaim

Production designer: Coca Oderigo

Editor: Soledad Salfate

Cast: Fernando Xavier De Casta, Ilse Salas, Manolo Cardona

Production Company: Apertura Films

Distribution company (world): Luminosity Films

Distribution company: Luminosity Films

Year: 2021

Country: Panama, Mexico, Colombia

Time: 94

Date and place:

2022.11.18, 17:45Cinema City - Screening Room No. 09

2022.11.18, 16:00Cinema City - Screening Room No. 09

Alicia had “the perfect life” and lost it. Her six-year-old son died in an accident. Her grief is plagued by guilt, which has made her disassociate from society, from married life, and from herself. She now lives in the Old Quarter of Panama, a rich colonial enclave surrounded by Panama’s poorest neighbourhoods. There she meets Chief, a street-smart 13-year-old who takes care of cars in front of her apartment and insists on getting paid for his job. Alicia keeps a safe distance from him, until one night Chief arrives at Alicia’s apartment bleeding from a gunshot wound and begs her to let him inside. How far would you go to help a stranger?

Directors' Debuts Competition