As a part of the Latinx and Latin Americas Movies on the Sundance Movie Pageant, a movie by Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist and director Glorimar Marreno Sánchez, La pecera (Puerto Rico/Spain, 2022, 93 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) can be screened in individual and on-line on the Sundance Movie Pageant. See description under.
The Sundance Movie Pageant has simply unveiled the total lineup for its 2023 version, going down January 19-29, each in individual in Park Metropolis, Utah in addition to on-line. Because it’s been the case in earlier years, the subsequent version of the pageant will characteristic a number of movies made by U.S. Latinx and Latin American filmmakers.
Three Latin American movies—from Puerto Rico, Chile, and Mexico—may have their world premiere within the subsequent version of the World Cinema Dramatic Competitors. La Pecera, the debut characteristic movie by director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez starring Isel Rodríguez, tells the story of Noelia, whose final resolution as her most cancers spreads is to return to her native Vieques, Puerto Rico, and declare her freedom to determine her personal destiny. She reunites together with her family and friends, who’re nonetheless coping with the contamination of the U.S. Navy after sixty years of army practices. [. . .]
La pecera (The Fishbowl) After years of remission, Noelia’s most cancers has returned and is spreading shortly. Exhausted by relentless remedy plans and drugs that do extra hurt than good, she seeks one other means out. Brushing apart her boyfriend Jorge’s well-meaning however suffocating gestures, she heads again to Vieques, the blissful jap Puerto Rican island the place she grew up; a land grappling with its personal poisoning after a long time of contamination from U.S. Military operations. With Hurricane Irma closing in, and alongside her mom within the serene comforts of residence, Noelia seems to be for a solution to her ache within the land she’s all the time been intertwined with.
In her arresting debut characteristic, interdisciplinary artist Glorimar Marrero Sánchez submerges us in a cinematic language of therapeutic and reverence, casting a nuanced eye over the deeply felt wounds of colonization that seep into the material of every day Puerto Rican life. Isel Rodríguez embodies Noelia with grace and quiet energy, laying naked the willpower to reclaim her autonomy when confronted with the truth of her analysis. Coupling lyricism and heat, La pecera miraculously reveals how mourning shouldn’t be with out hope.
Glorimar Marrero Sánchez (Barranquitas, Puerto Rico) is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist primarily based in Puerto Rico, whose works have been screened in Latin America, the USA, and Europe. La pecera is her first characteristic movie, which made her a recipient of the Tribeca Movie Institute’s Latin American Movie Fund and gained the Finest Unpublished Screenplay Coral Award within the Havana Movie Pageant.
For extra info, see https://pageant.sundance.org/program/movie/638a6fa9a54797ae18ba779f and https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/sundance-2023-announces-titles-by-latinx-and-latin-american-directors
[Above: A still from La pecera by Glorimar Marrero Sánchez, an official selection of the World Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.]