fantasy, grief, social/political repression, urban
In the tropical mountains of Costa Rica, widower Domingo owns a piece of land that is coveted to build a new highway. When the contractors send in thugs to intimidate the community, the neighbors leave one by one. But Domingo refuses to give in, especially as the land hides a special and mystical secret.
Ariel Escalante Meza graduated in Political Science from Universidad de Costa Rica and Cinema from Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. The Sound of Things, his debutorial film, won the Kommersant Weekend Prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 2016 and represented Costa Rica for the Academy Awards and Goya Awards in 2018. He is a Berlinale Talents alumni and recipient of the National Prize for the Arts from Costa Rica’s Ministry of Culture in 2018.
