Laura Astorga Carrera : 2013
Red Princesses
The Nicaraguan border in the 1980s. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister experience the street fighting at first hand outside their car window. Their parents are Sandinista activists, now escaping to neighbouring Costa Rica to create a clandestine front to support the revolution, and the girls are packed off to their relatives. Claudia hordes her treasured collection of revolutionary badges and fantasises about forming a secret pioneer movement in conservative Costa Rica. Passports are forged, there are nocturnal meetings and car number plates are switched. One day, her mother disappears. They say she's gone to Miami. The children piece together fragments that give them an insight into their parents' dilemma of trying to balance their political struggle with family life. The story focuses on the point of view of the two sisters, who are very close, as they learn more than they are able to cope with, but too little really to understand. A political thriller about a revolutionary struggle, seen through the eyes of children. The film premiered at Berlin International Film Festival 2013.
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