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El Poder de la Ficción es Terrible
Short Film by David Loynaz
14’ min | Costa Rica / Italy | 2025
Contact: mercuriafilms@pm.me
María Finojosa, wife of Spanish settler Juan de Cervantes, tunes into the fragile memory of the exact moment when her husband became obsessed with founding a town that would perpetuate his family name. In the middle of the 19th century, in the mountains of Costa Rica, María's memory of her husband's Quixote-like delusions, unravels like the reel of an old film, projected onto the persistent rain and the constant lurking of the cracks of fiction.
The film is the last of David’s ‘Trilogía Decimonónica’ a series of three short films that explore Costa Rica's colonial and republican identity.
Director/writer: David Loynaz
Production: Natalia Quesada
Director of photography: Carolina Mora
Creative production and editing: Mandarava Bricaire
Executive production: Pietro Bulgarelli, CCR, Mandarava Bricaire, David Loynaz
Production manager: Samantha Solís Salazar
Sound engineer: Sebastián Gutiérrez Umaña
Art direction and costumes: Sabrina San Gil Sánchez, Saiph Castillo
Sound design and mixing: Nayuribe Montero Jiménez (ACSA)
Image Post Production: Alonso Viquez
Juan de Cervantes: Leo Van Schie, Flora Vargas León: María Finojosa, Alonsa: Angel of Death
Solo La Luna Comprenderá
Short Film by Kim Torres
18min | Costa Rica/USA | 2023
Streaming: FILMIN
Distributor: Lights On
Contact: mercuriafilms@pm.me
As a magical moon creeps in the twilight, different timelines entwine in the town of Manzanillo, located in the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The youth and the elderly unite and collide in a tale where the town is able to exist as it is: both beautiful and abandoned, mysterious and monotonous. As if in a dream or a memory, mixing a documentary style and science fiction, this story is a search for the complexities of what it means to grow up in a place like Manzanillo.
Director: Kim Torres
Producer: Mandarava Bricaire
Co-Producer: Raul Garcia, Jr.
DoP, writer, EP: Pietro Bulgarelli
Distributor: Lights On
Executive Producers: Kim Torres, Mandarava Bricaire, Pietro Bulgarelli
Screenwriters: Kim Torres, Julieta Seco, Mandarava Bricaire, Pietro Bulgarelli
Editors: Julieta Seco, Kim Torres
Composer: Carlos Bergen Dyck
Image Post Production: Alonso R. Víquez
Sound Designer Thomas Becka
Sound Recording Nayuribe Montero Jiménez
Sound Mixer António Porém Pires
Cast Joel Arthurs Campbell (as narrator), Dichan Brown Goodman (as himself), Fiorella Nahomi Será Bonilla (as herself), Luna Oporta López (as herself)
Process and Scan: Cinelab Romania
