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17 articles available in total starting from 18/02/2019. Last article published on 13/02/2026.

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Xavier Solano • Director and Head of Studies, EuroCine Lab

Interview: Xavier Solano • Director and Head of Studies, EuroCine Lab

“The philosophy of Euro CineLab focuses on the importance of real-world practice”

The training programme aims to give talented young Latin Americans their first professional experience in the European film industry  

13/02 | Europe/Latin America

Review: If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light up the Night

Review: If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light up the Night

Costa Rican filmmaker Kim Torres’ debut feature is a slow-burning yet stimulating coming-of-age story that serves as a powerful calling card  

24/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Ana Sánchez-Gijón makes her directorial début with Kid Vereje

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Ana Sánchez-Gijón makes her directorial début with Kid Vereje

This non-fiction film, starring non-professional actors and currently in post-production, portrays the epic personal journey of a successful boxer who chose family life over glory  

18/08/2025 | Production | Funding | Spain/Costa Rica

Euro CineLab 2025 opens its call for young filmmakers in Central America

Euro CineLab 2025 opens its call for young filmmakers in Central America

Filmmakers with an interest in short-film production can apply until 3 March  

05/02/2025 | Industry | Market | Latin America/Europe

Antonella Sudasassi Furniss • Director of Memories of a Burning Body

Interview: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss • Director of Memories of a Burning Body

“I would love it if the film invited us to revisit our female lineage”

The Costa Rican director talks about her second feature, in which she delves into the private lives and sexuality of women who have been oppressed all their lives  

28/10/2024 | /Costa Rica/Spain

Review: Memories of a Burning Body

Review: Memories of a Burning Body

BERLINALE 2024: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’ second feature film is an emancipatory cry uniting different generations of women who have been held back by limits set by the patriarchy  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Berlinale Panorama entry Memories of a Burning Body

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Berlinale Panorama entry Memories of a Burning Body

The new film by Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss homes in on three mature women who relive the memories of a repressed sexuality  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Tengo sueños eléctricos, the first feature by Valentina Maurel, is in post-production

Tengo sueños eléctricos, the first feature by Valentina Maurel, is in post-production

The young, Belgian-based director of Costa Rican origin shot the film last November and December in San José, Costa Rica  

25/03/2022 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Costa Rica/France

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