Laura Baumeister, Valeria Pivato and Alvaro Brechner are among the Latin American filmmakers returning to next month’s San Sebastian International Film Festival with projects in the Europe-Latin America co-production forum (September 22-24).
Nicaraguan filmmaker Baumeister is back with What Follows Is My Death after her first work Daughter Of Rage played at Toronto and went on to win at the forum and WIP Latam in 2022.
Argentina’s Pivato is taking part with her first solo feature An Illusion Of Paradise, after The Desert Bride played at Cannes and in Horizontes Latinos in 2017, and Surfacing was in New Directors last year. Both were co-directed with Cecilia Atán.
Uruguay’s Brechner is taking part with La Piel Del León, after being selected for Horizontes Latinos in 2018 with