FLORENCIA OF THE DEEP RIVERS AND THE BIG SHARKS
A girl escapes the reality of violence through a story told by her mother. She enters an imaginary world, where the dream turns into a nightmare. With Raquel Rivera, Gustavo Rojas and Ishtar Yasin.
This short film was part of the official selection of International Film Festivals in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States, France, Denmark, Spain. The script was awarded by the Costa Rican Center for Film Production and the National Institute for Women.
Duration: 15 minutes
Language: Spanish
Astarté Films
1999
THE YELLOW TREE
A self-referential documentary short film, made in a mythical place, the Moulin de Andé, in Normandy, France. It is dedicated to Maurice Pons and Suzanne Lipinska, the music is by Alain Kremski (bols bouddhiques -Chine, Japan).
Duration: 12 minutes
Language: Spanish, French subtitles.
Astarte Films
2004
THE HAPPY TABLE
This documentary arises during the process of making the feature film “El camino”. A group of Nicaraguan immigrants gather around a table on the rooftop of the Hotel Central in San José, Costa Rica. It premiered at the Cultural Center of Spain and was part of the official selection at festivals and international film shows in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, and the United States. It was also part of the selection of the cycle Migrations: Looking to the South.
Duration: 23 minutes.
Spanish Language
Astarte Films
2005
THE INVISIBLES
On February 25, 2010, one month after the earthquake, I traveled to Haiti as part of the RIF International Feminist Radio team. I went with the “Carretero Cinema”: a screen, a projector and a selection of films to present outdoors in the camps where the victims of this tragedy were. We settled in the garden of the house of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights CEDH, directed by Jean Claude Bajeux and his companion Sylvie Wadestrandt.
"Ishtar´s trip to Haiti, the invocations sung to the dead, it is devastating: how to continue living with so many (children, mothers, friends) dead? How to continue singing? There is no need to tell a story: in those songs and their litanies they insist on pain and the unanswered question, why? Why a god was cruel and remains the same. "Ana Longoni
This film was part of the Selection of the International African Film Festival in Spain FCAT, the International Festival “Cultural Resistence” in Lebanon and the Women Film Festival, in Mexico City.
Duration: 48 minutos
Language: Creole , subtítulos al español
Astarté Films-Esperanza Producciones
2010
EXQUISITE CORPSE
Short film made on "Day of the Dead", in the Xoxocotlán pantheon, San Agustín and Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
In Oaxaca, in the village of San Agustín and in the cemetery of Xoxocotlán, they celebrate the Day of the Dead, a tradition in Mexican culture.
The souls of loved ones return and families receive them with an offering. One woman walks among the graves and she calls death by her names.
Duration: 11 minutes
Spanish Language
Astarte Films-Luis Javier Castro-Pimienta Films
2012
THE WOUNDED TABLE
First short film of the Character Construction Workshop "The memory of the body and the underground labyrinth", part of the investigation of the feature film DOS FRIDAS
It was made in the ART BOX space. NOBODY'S LAND dance theater collective, civil society, with the director Pável Escareño and the producer Alma Gallegos.
Duration: 20 minutes
Spanish Language
Astarte Films
2013
INFRAMUNDO
Second short film made in the character construction workshop "The memory of the body and the underground labyrinth" part of the investigation of the feature film DOS FRIDAS.
Duration: 12 minutes
Spanish Language
Astarte Films
2014
APOCALYPSE OF OUR TIME
“Apocalypse of our time” is structured from the large-scale paintings by Julio Escámez and the musical composition by Arnold Schoenberg, “La Noche Transfigurada”. It is a documentary that builds a fiction and reveals the atrocities of the capitalist world, and how, through history and its changes, the inexorable transformation of social reality is manifested. The film premiered at the Festival of the Arts of Costa Rica and has been part of the selection of the Festival ArtesDoc of Mexico City, the Official Competition of the Memory Festival in Cuernavaca, as well as in the official selection of the International Festival of Cinema of Murcia, Spain, among others.
Duration: 30 minutes
Language: no dialogues
Genre: Creative Documentary
Astarte Films
2014
THE SONGS OF THE GRANDMOTHER
It premiered on the platform of the "Jirondai" project, on May 12, 2021. It was held in the indigenous communities of Soqui and Amubri, in Talamanca, Costa Rica, with the ancestral songs of the guardian of the Bribri culture, Natalia Gabb Sánchez , of the Kacha'utwak clan. It is part of the investigation of the feature film project in development “Crepuscular”. The struggle of the original peoples against the usurpers of the territories continues. The indigenous communities of Costa Rica are unprotected. The lives of its defenders, of recuperating women, are in constant danger. They suffer attacks and the crimes remain in impunity. I bow down grateful to learn from his ancient wisdom; because they have resisted colonization through centuries; for these songs that have the power to heal wounds.
Duration: 7 minutes
Language: Bribri
2021