Nobody sleeps here
- Film présenté cette année à Cinélatino
Aurora – Compétition Long-métrage de fiction 2021
- Direction
- Paz Fábrega
- Country
- Panama
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Fiction
- Original title
- Aquí nadie duerme
- Scenario
- Paz Fábrega
Paz Fábrega
Paz Fábrega is a Costa Rican director, who studied filmmaking at the London Film School. She has developed projects at the Binger Filmlab, and at the Cinefondation Residence. She often works with nonprofessional actors.
Filmography
– Agua fría de mar Rotterdam Film Festival (Tiger Award), Festival de Cine de Lima (Special Prize of the Jury), BAFICI, Cinélatino Recontres de Toulouse
Note of intent
During the first weeks of 2020, in the Gnabe-Bugle reservation in Panama, there was a massacre in which six children and their mother were murdered as part of a Christian ritual. I visited the village a short while after. People spoke of an evil spirit that took over and made people do horrible things. They were still afraid it would come back. This is a very personal film about death and mourning, and the complicity of silence, taking this story as a starting off point.
Synopsis
A massacre occurs in a remote community as a result of which six children are murdered. Lucia, one of them, returns to the town as a spirit that observes the silence in which its inhabitants are submerged. Fear does not let them sleep. Lucia helps her grandparents survive this trance until they can finally fall asleep.
Visual concept
The place where this film takes place is a village in the mountains that can only be reached by going two hours up a river and then one hour uphill, by foot. It’s remoteness and the landscape is part of the story.
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- Shooting planned date
December 2022
- Planned shooting location
Panama
- Budget
- 500 000 USD
- Percentage of funding in place
- 0%
- Project's development phase
Developpement
- Production
- Mente Pública
- Biographie producteur.ice
Panamanian film producer. In 2010 she founded the film production company, Mente Publica. Her films include Chaos in the City (2012), Kenke (2015), The Joy of Sound (Premiered IDFA 2016), Days of Light (Premiered AFI 2019), Flying Blind (in postproduction), Las Hijas (in pre-production), Querido Tropico and Aquí nadie duerme (in development).