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Esteban Ramírez | Costa Rica | 2015 | 97 min | Spanish | e.s.
Although her jealous boyfriend really opposes it, Victoria nevertheless starts working for a successful businessman. Her decision opens up new avenues to her: a career, a sympathetic boss and contact with his best friend who is in jail. When Victoria starts speaking to the latter on the telephone more regularly, she becomes curious. And so, for the first time in her life, she visits a penitentiary, in search of this mysterious young man. The moment marks a turning point in her life and has consequences for her love life and her choices from then on. Director Esteban Ramírez who is popular in Costa Rica was inspired by the documentary Los presos/The Inmates, a film his father made in 1975. In 2014, Presos/The Imprisoned’ crew filmed the prison scenes in a real prison just like Ramírez’s father once did. The prisoners and staff make very unobtrusive extras in among the professional actors in this drama.
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 7 April 2016
Time: 22:00
Duration: 1:45
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 9 April 2016
Time: 18:30
Duration: 1:45
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 10 April 2016
Time: 19:15
Duration: 1:45
Year in
Festival
2016
Director
Esteban Ramírez
Camera
Paulo Soto
Cast
Country
Costa Rica
Editor
Alberto Ponce
Language
Spanish
Length
97 min
Music
Bernal Villegas
Producer
Production Company
CINETEL
Proyección Films
Production Design
Carolina Lett
Scenario
Walter Fernández
Esteban Ramírez
Sound Design
Carlos Aguilar
Year of Production
Website
Films by Esteban RAMÍREZ (Costa Rica) are very popular in his home country. After studying communication he shot a number of documentaries and short films. He then debuted with the feature film Caribe (2004), which was a massive hit in Costa Rica and was screened at various international film festivals. Presos/Imprisoned (2015) is his third feature film.
Filmography
Caribe (2004), Gestación/Gestation (2009), Imae (2011, short), Adios Franklyn (2012, short), Presos/ Imprisoned (2015)