Nobody sleeps here
- Direction
- Paz Fábrega
- Country
- Panama
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Fiction
- Original title
- Aquí nadie duerme
- Film presented in Toulouse
Aurora – Compétition Long-métrage de fiction 2021
- Scenario
- Paz Fábrega
Paz Fábrega
Paz Fábrega (Costa Rica, 1979) studies at The London Film School and then attends the Binger Filmlab, Torino Film Lab, Sundance screenwriting workshop, and the Cinéfondation Residence. Her first feature film, Agua fría de mar, premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival where it won the Tiger Award. Viaje, her second feature, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Desasosiego is her third feature film.
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.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
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- Shooting planned date
December 2022
- Planned shooting location
Panama
- Percentage of funding in place
- 0%
- Project's development phase
Developpement
- Production
- Mente Pública
- Producer's biography
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).