Chennai International Film Festival

Memories of a Burning Body

Spain | 2024 | 90 mins | Spanish

Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, Ana, Patricia, and Mayela found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires.

Director
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Antonella Sudasassi a Costa Rican writer, director, and producer. Her first film The Awakening of the Ants, premiered at the Berlinale 2019. The film was selected as the Costa Rican entry for the Academy Awards. It became the first Central American film to receive a Goya Award nomination, and to win a Platinum Award. It was selected in more than 65 international film festivals and received 15 international awards. Memories of a Burning Body is her second film.
Cast & Crew

Director – Antonella Sudasassi
Producer – Antonella Sudasassi
Cinematographer – Andrés Campos
Editor – Bernat Aragonés
Music – Valeria Castro, Juano Damiani
Cast – Sol Carballo, Paulina Bernini Viquez, Sol Carballo, Juliana Filloy Bogantes