Country: Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway, Spain
Year: 2022
Duration: 91'
Nicaragua, today. 11-year-old Maria lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a garbage dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth must go to the city and drops Maria off at a recycling center where she must stay and work. But days pass and she doesn’t return. Maria feels lost, bewildered and angry. One night, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with her mother.
Biography
film director
Laura Baumeister
(Nicaragua, 1983) graduated in film directing in Mexico. She has written and directed several short films. Her short Isabel Im Winter was screened in Cannes Critic’s Week in 2014. Ombligo de agua has its world premiere at IFFR 2019. Daughter of Rage is her first feature, it premieres in TIFF 2022. The film is the fifth fiction film in the story of Nicaragua, the first to be shot by a female director born in Nicaragua.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lagunas (cm, 2014), Isabel Im Winter (cm, 2014), Fuerza bruta (cm, 2016), Ombligo de Agua (cm, 2018), La hija de todas las rabias (2022).
Declaration
film director
“The starting point for Daughter was a specific place: La Chureca, the biggest open- air landfill in Nicaragua. I first went there as a teenager and couldn’t get it out of my head. The contrast between tons of garbage and one of my country’s most beautiful landscapes – the great lake Xolotlán’s coast and its mountainous relief – really shocked me and led to a number of questions. The other thing that really touched me was the people, those living in the dump. Particularly their ability—their creative force – to reappropriate and reinterpret objects in order to give them a second use. At that moment, I was working a lot with found ‘ready-made’ art and video-installation, and suddenly there, in the least elegant and respected place within the art world, I found myself surrounded by people who involuntarily transformed objects so as to extend their life cycle. These contradictions – garbage versus nature, waste versus art – stayed with me. I would wake up wondering about the human condition, about people’s creative drive. And when I finally had to commit myself with a place from which to speak about the separation between a daughter and her mother, I knew it had to be La Chureca.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Laura Baumeister. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Teresa Kuhn. FILM EDITING: Julián Sarmiento, Raúl Barreras. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Marcela Gómez. COSTUME DESIGN: Bea Lantán. MUSIC: Para One, Arthur Simonini. SOUND: Lena Esquenazi. CAST: Ara Alejandra Medal, Virginia Sevilla, Carlos Gutierrez, Noé Hernández, Diana Sedano. PRODUCERS: Rossana Baumeister, Bruna Haddad, Laura Baumeister, Martha Orozco. PRODUCTION: Felipa Films, Marthfilms.
CONTATTO:
Best Friend Forever - Marc Nauleau marc@bffsales.eu
