Sunday 24 August
2008, San José, Costa Rica
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His Minister Conclude
Come Back In 2011
Cartago Hospital Tells
Gallstones Patient
Child Support
Costa Rican
International Award
Winning Movie Finally
Opens In Costa Rican
Theatres
Banana Exports Drop
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Costa Rican
International Award
Winning Movie Finally
Opens In Costa Rican
Theatres
The award winning
independent film by
Isthar Yasin, El Camino,
has finally made its way
to Costa Rican theatres
following years of
anticipation.
Written and directed by
Costa Rican, Ishtar
Yasin Gutierrez, the
movie made a mark with
viewers at the Berlin
Film Festival and won
two awards: the FIPRESCI
Prize and the Mayahuel
Award at the Guadalajara
Mexican Film Festival.
The film also won awards
at the Switzerland film
festival.
Work on the film started
in 2000, but it wasn't
until 2006 that it was
filmed and released last
year and became Costa
Rica's first showing at
the Cannes International
Film Festival.
The 90 minute movie (in
Spanish) is about two
young Nicaraguan
children, Saslaya and
her mute brother Dario,
who travel to Costa Rica
to find their long-lost
mother.
The children travel from
Managua to Granada,
cross the lake, walk by
the volcano, through the
jungle; sometimes just
following the wind,
other times planning
their itinerary.
In their journey, they
encounter different
characters and face many
challenging situations.
That’s how they meet a
foreigner who travels
with his hand puppet
theatre, a boy who sells
his products on the
streets and undocumented
immigrants.
At the border, the girl
and his brother get lost
and so she has to face
the hardships by
herself. Along their
journey, Saslaya and
Darío rewrite their
destiny.
The film is thought to
be more of a documentary
as it identifies with
the plight of many
Nicaraguan mothers who
leave their children
behind with family
members in search of a
better life in Costa
Rica.
The 14 year old female
lead, Sherling Paola
Velásquez, said she
personally identified
with the plight of her
character as she herself
never got to know her
mother after she and her
younger brother were
left to be raised by
their grandmother over a
decade ago.
Click here for a
prologue of the film
shown on YouTube
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