Following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and before its bow at the San Sebastian New Director’s Competition, BFF, who heads international sales, presented diverse Exclusive access to the trailer for Nicaraguan director Laura Baumeister’s film, “Daughter of Rage”.
The film follows 11-year-old Maria and her mother, Lilibeth, who overcome poverty by collecting and reusing waste from a local landfill. A look at the stifling generational debts inherited in societies that work hard to stay afloat, the film also deals with early family ties, abandonment, and redemption fiction that allows the protagonist to deal with uncertainty.
As the trailer starts up, a huge area of garbage accumulates on the chassis. Maria is alone looking at the other children on top of a mountain of trash. Separated from her peers, a large collection bag was wrapped around her slender chassis, cruising through the landfill in search of merchandise.
Scenes of playful tenderness and care are paired with shots of Lilibeth scolding and scolding the sad Maria, demonstrating the ambivalence of their complex relationship.
With veiled tensions rising, Lillibeth leaves Maria to work in a factory while she travels to settle debts. Maria appears around the property and confronts Tadeo; The two form an instant and familiar bond, trusting each other.
Crossing her ordeal, other scenes evoke her imaginative way of coping before she follows her away from her newfound friend, Tadeo, and the Factory, in search of her mother or a little closure. The society around him is on fire, yet the glimmer of hope in her eyes still remains, despite the ever-evolving traumas.
Produced by Laura, Rossana Baumeister, Nicaragua-based Felipa Films of Bruna Haddad and Martha Orozco at Marth Films in Mexico along with co-producers Halal, Heimafilm, Promenades Films, Caron Pictures, Dag Hoel Filmproduksjon and Nephilim Producciones. Filmed by a Nicaraguan-born filmmaker inside the country.
“Daughter of Rage” will compete in San Sebastián’s New Directors section alongside 15 other films by emerging directors including Rocío Mesa’s second feature film “Tobacco Barns”, “To Books and Women I Sing” by Maria Elorza and Jeong. Ji-Hye Evening Opening. -Sun.”
The film offers a sobering commentary on the course of grief, revealing the weight of abandonment; Who settles like a seed that grows firmly rooted, advancing like an untamed weed into the depths of the hero’s psyche. It is a poignant nod towards the stark contrast between the lives of children born in safety and those who have grown up under periodic turmoil.
“In the concept of family we have come to know, adults, to some extent, protect children from certain information, deficiencies, pain and anxiety so that they can live. Life is gradually entering their worlds,” Baumeister said. In the case of these children, there is no one to protect them. Entering life from birth, their minds collide instantly and they have to deal with the real world.”
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