Fairytales by Daniela Soria Gutiérrez
The Tribeca Festival announced this morning its 2023 short film lineup composed of 76 productions from 91 filmmakers across 25 countries, including seven from Latin American countries Argentine, Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, which will be screened in the film program “Life Isn’t Normal, “curated by Jose Rodriguez.
“Life Isn’t Normal” will host the world premiere of the Bolivian short Angelo, written and directed by Alex Plumb about a young shoe shiner who uses his imagination to escape a harsh, everyday reality; and the world premiere of the Chilean short Cuarto de Hora, written and directed by Nemo Arancibia, telling the story of an undocumented young Haitian man living in Chile who does not speak Spanish. After a car accident he is helped and translated by Daniela (50), a passerby with whom he is going to live what could be his last 15 minutes of life.
The program will also host the world premiere of Ecstasy by writer-director Carolina Costa, a mystical sci-fi based on Saint Teresa de Avila's writings, set inside a ghostly mausoleum, where some nuns are being affected by a black hole; and the world premiere of the Mexican short Fairytales, co-written and directed by Daniela Soria Gutiérrez, telling the story of Lidia, who befriends Arantxa with a fabricated tale in a religious retreat. But after discovering a dead fairy, Lidia questions her lies and the true essence of friendship.
In the Chilean short Ferns, written and directed by Paz Ramírez, Ana's family lives in confinement after seven years of the pandemic. The plants' ban as the new carriers of the virus, won't stop Ana from turning home into a forest. The Argentine short Schettinimous by Tomás Terzano narrates the story of an old prophetic artist, who confronts the conclusions of his career in a trash TV show. In the meantime, his eight-year-old granddaughter is making a school documentary about his life.
Rounding up the short film program is the Mexican short Spinning by Isabel Vaca and Arturo Mendicuti. Spinning bike, corpse, plastic dick, lots of lies, blood, money cleaning up the mess, a perfect world slowly falling apart and greed watching from its seat in the front row.
Additionally Tribeca will also host the world premiere of the documentary short Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games, by U.S. Latinx director Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster, an illuminating look at the influence that hand games played by Black girls has had on the American creative landscape; and the world premiere of My Eyes Are Up Here, a romantic comedy directed by Nathan Morris and starring disabled Latinx model Jillian Mercado as an international fashion model whose mission to get the morning after pill is complicated by her disability and clumsy but considerate partner.
The 2023 edition of the Tribeca Festival will take place June 7-18 in New York City.
