Younger talents won out at San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum this year which allotted two top awards to “Do Not Let Me Die Alone,” from Chile’s Francisco Rodríguez Teare and Nicaraguan Laura Baumeister ’s “What Follows Is My Death.”

The second feature by Rodriguez Teare whose “Otro Sol” won Latin American Feature at Mar del Plata. Here a miserable delivery boy gets by disposing of mummies recovered in Iquique, North of Chile. “The Chinchorro mummies emerge as figures that guide the characters’ journey, inviting us to explore the memory of bodies that transcend death,” says producer Rodrigo Díaz. Project teams Chile’s Axolotl and Mimbre Films with Belgium’s Michigan.

Baumeister’s second feature after the high-profile Toronto player and San Sebastián winner “Daught

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