Completed - SPANISH - Drama, Female director - 94 minutes
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Antonella SUDASASSI FURNISS Cast : Daniela VALENCIANO, Leynar GOMEZ, Isabella MOSCOSO, Avril ALPÍZAR, Adriana ÁLVAREZ, Carolina FERNÁNDEZ, Katia ARCE
For thoughtful, demure young housewife Isa, life in a lush, postcard-perfect Costa Rican seaside village is far from anyone’s idea of a dream. She is being pressured by her intrusive and loudly opinionated in-laws to have another baby – a boy – even as her already cramped household struggles to stay afloat. She tends to the needs of her husband and two daughters while her own desires remain distant and ignored.Isa finds herself suffocated by rigid gender roles and the cloistered, provincial thinking that comes with small-town life. Desperately imagining some other way of living—single, childless, desired—while growing increasingly tense towards those closest to her, Isa finds herself at a breaking point awakening to the possibilities of a life lived on her own terms, in this engrossing and intimate feature debut from writer/director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss.
Country(ies) : COSTA RICA, SPAIN
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Academy Awards 2019 (COSTA RICAN SUBMISSION FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM)Platino Awards 2019 (FILM AND EDUCATIONAL VALUES)Berlinale - EFM 2019Goya Awards 2019 (BEST HISPANO AMERICAN FILM NOMINEE)Seattle IFF 2019 (GRAND JURY PRIZE, IBERO-AMERICAN COMPETITION)Festival de Cinema de Gramado 2019 (BEST LATAM FILM, CRITICS JURY AWARD, SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR ISABELLA MOSCOSO AND AVRIL ALPIZAR)Seoul International Women's Film Festival 2019 (SPECIAL JURY AWARD)Costa Rica IFF 2019 (BEST COSTA RICAN FILM)AFI Latin American Film Festival Washington 2019