Night Vision by Carolina Moscoso
Two Latin American films were the top winners at the 2020 edition of FIDMarseille: the Chilean film Night Vision / Visión nocturna by Carolina Moscoso was the winner of the Grand Prix of the International competition, while the Argentine film Shady River / Río Turbio by Tatiana Mazú González was the winner of the Georges de Beauregard International Prize.
“Fragmented, unvarnished and raw,” as described by Screen Daily, Moscoso uses text, candid footage, animation and sound design, to confront a personal trauma in her debut feature: a violent rape that happened eight years ago when she was a film student. Recording the everyday was always a way of relating to the world. One night the rape happened and everything changed, although the search continued. When revisiting these images, a dialogue arises between light and darkness, while the strangeness remains before the world.
According to a myth still powerful in the coal towns of Patagonia, the earth becomes jealous if a woman enters a mine. Then, there’s collapse and death. Such is the foundation of Mazú González’s documentary film: Shady River starts from a dark personal experience to transform into a film about the silence of women who live in men’s villages.
The film Heliconia by Colombian director Paula Rodríguez Polanco received a Special Mention in the First Film competition, and two other Colombian short films received Special Mention in the new Flash competition: No Weight Whatsoever by Mauricio Arango and El renacer del Carare / The Rebirth of the Carare by Andrés Jurado.
The 31st edition of the FID Marseille Film Festival, combining virtual and in-person screenings, took place July 22-26 in France.
