Plaza Catedral

Thursday - 11/17/2022
9:00 PM - Kommunalkino City 46 

Alicia, a well-off architect working as a realtor in Panama City, is deeply unhappy. The accidental death of her six-year-old son has destroyed her marriage and her seemingly perfect life. Isolated and dissociated from herself, she now lives alone in an upscale colonial neighbourhood surrounded by the poorest areas of the city. It is here that she encounters Chief, a 13-year-old street kid, who waves cars into parking spaces in front of her building and insistently demands to be paid for it. Alicia tries to stay away from him until one day she finds the boy in front of her flat with a gunshot wound. Reluctantly, she decides to let him in.

The evolving relationship between the privileged woman and the poverty-stricken boy is told in an almost documentary-like manner that saves the film from becoming a fairy tale of mutual rescue. Instead it tells a deeply touching story of the encounter of two worlds that exist right next to each other and yet rarely meet.
The film has been shortlisted to the Oscars 2022.