Red Princesses
Costa Rica
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2013
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Color
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100 min
This directory compiles the glossaries from all editions of Cines del Sur: eleven already held and the twelfth currently underway. It serves as a living memory of the festival, its films, guests, sections, and spaces for reflection on the cinemas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. Here you can trace the evolution of its programming, rediscover filmmakers, and follow the thematic threads that have defined Cines del Sur's identity as a meeting point for cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding cinema from the Global South.
Nicaragua border, 1980s. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister travel in a car with their parents. From the car windows, they witness the violence in their country. After a long stay in Nicaragua, the family returns to Costa Rica, where they continue their political activism. The parents belong to the Sandinista Front, and their mission is to establish a clandestine front to support the revolution. Claudia dreams of being a young pioneer, even though she often doesn't know what her parents are really doing, and she treasures several revolutionary medals as her most prized possessions. Red Princesses is a look at the Nicaraguan revolutionary movement through the eyes of two girls.
Technical Details
Direction:
Laura Astorga
Cinematography:
Julio Costantin
Music:
Lester Paredes
Language:
Spanish
Production:
Laura Astorga, Marcela Esquivel, Amaya Izquierdo, Aldrina Valenzuela
Sound:
Carlos Bolívar Díaz
Subtitles:
English
Screenplay:
Laura Astorga
Editing:
César Custodio, Ariel Escalante, Daniel Prync
Cast:
Valeria Conejo (Claudia), Aura Dinarte (Antonia), Carol Sanabria (Magda), Fernando Bolaños (Felipe)
Director
Laura Astorga
Born in San José (Costa Rica) in 1977, Laura Astorga grew up in various cities: Managua, Havana, San José, Miami and Frankfurt. She studied filmmaking in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Argentina and Spain. In addition to being a director, she has worked as an actress in television series in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and as a teacher at the Universidad Veritas in Costa Rica, where she taught the acting workshop. Her first short film, Ellas se aman, premiered at the 2008 Locarno Festival. Red Princesses, her first feature-length film, was screened at the Berlinale in 2013 and it was acquired by the Spanish distribution company Latido Films for international distribution and sale.
