Sunscreen Film Festival

Petrus Cariry, Brazil, 2018, 72 m  
Portuguese with English subtitles
World Premiere

In an isolated fishing village, Esmerina is married to a fisherman and has 26 children. The oldest son secretly desires to leave to see the world beyond the sea. The daily routine of this family is suddenly altered when a mysterious boat runs aground on the beach entering Ana, a girl who survived the shipwreck.

More mystical than real. More allegorical than actual.  The film challenges the human need to venture beyond the known and the fear of change that keeps many immobilized.

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVXGNqHoSd4​​​
Foreign: Argentina; Spanish with English subtitles
Agustin Falco, Argentina, 2017,75m  
North American Premiere

Film narrated in eight continuous takes. Ariel is a young family man, who loses his job in the middle of an economic crisis. Ashamed by it, he decides to hide the truth from his wife and daughter, agreeing to take part in some dangerous and sketchy business.

Course is a reminder that economic stress of the middle class is not just a USA reality.  It is also a look at the shame of job loss and the extreme measures one might take to maintain the ability to care for one's family when greater powers turn your world upside down.

​https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=2s&v=dE50mdFOZg0​​​
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Kenneth Muller, Guatemala, 2017, 70 m  
Spanish with English subtitles
St. Petersburg Premiere

Teresa was just three months old when, on September 5th 1980, a bomb tore through the bus carrying her and her mother. She lost her mother and her hearing that day. The years to come would be a time of painful reckoning for Teresa, her father and her country wounded by a 30 year civil war.   Septiembre grants the viewer a look into life with a disability in a of country in the throes of chaos. It is also a film about parental love, control and the struggle of letting go.

​https://vimeo.com/245379091​​​
Juan Pablo Richter, Bolivia, 2018, 95 m  
Spanish with English subtitles
St. Petersburg Premiere

Sebastian comes to a small tropical-jungle town on the banks of a huge river where his father Rafael lives with his young mistress, Julieta. Sebastian, a city kid, must adapt to a new competitive macho environment of dominance, money and raw sex.  Slowly the river’s secrets and force appear before his eyes; the so-called paradise teems with violence, lies and power games in which women are pawns and victims.   Reluctantly, Sebastian enters those rhythms. Chaos results from his obsession with Julieta; Sebastian feels trapped. The turbulent waters of the river are the backdrop for the tensions in the home and his own dangerous pursuits.