A vast landscape of refuse and the community that survives by salvaging its waste is central to the plot in the debut feature from Nicaraguan writer-director Laura Baumeister. “Daughter of Ra…
The narrative follows 11-year-old María and her mother, Lilibeth , who pick through a littered shore to ensure their survival. Lilibeth, forced to travel to town to settle debts, leaves María to fend for herself at a sweatshop where children sort garbage for resale. With newfound pal Tadeo by her side, María grapples with an uncertain future, dreaming up fantastic scenarios to cope with the abandonment that looms over her head like an eerily dark sky before a storm.
International sales are handled by Brussels-based Best Friend Forever, which launched at Cannes in 2019 with a focus on boarding groundbreaking arthouse cinema from emerging and established global talents. They currently represent Venice Orizzonti competitor “To The North” and Alê Abreu’s rousing animation feature “Perlimps.” about imagination, writing multi-faceted characters and what she hopes audiences will take away from the story.
When I faced the reality of the location, this giant landfill in Managua, I felt the need for the way the characters experience things not to be seen solely through the objective reality of poverty and their economic condition. I also wanted to give them something that we all have, imagination. I think we almost always see less privileged realities from the eyes of privilege. From that privilege, it seems terrible to us. There are many disadvantages and a void of opportunity. Yet, there’s joy, an engine of survival that prevails in their day-to-day life.
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