Films Boutique has come on board to represent sales on Ariel Escalante Meza’s Costa Rica-set Cannes Un Certain Regard selection Domingo And The Mist.
The Costa Rica-Qatar co-production takes place in the tropical mountains of the central American country where widower Domingo owns a coveted piece of land. When contractors send in thugs to intimidate the community, the neighbours leave one by one except Domingo, who refuses to give up his home as the place hides a special secret.
Carlos Ureña, Sylvia Sossa, Aris Vindas and Esteban Brenes Serrano star and producers are Escalante Meza, Nicolás Wong, Felipe Zúñiga, Gaby Fonseca, and Julio Hernández Cordón (director of 2020 Ariel Awards best director nominee Buy Me A Gun). Wong additionally served as cinematographer.
Escalante Meza’s Escalante’s second film shot in spring 2021 in Cascajal de Coronado outside the Costa Rican capital San José and was presented as a work in progress at Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event earlier this year. Incendio Cine, the company Escalante co-founded in 2019, makes its producing debut alongside Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica and Doha Film Institute.
The director’s first feature The Sound Of Things was Costa Rica’s Oscar submission in 2018. He is a Berlinale Talents alumni and received the National Prize for the Arts from Costa Rica’s ministry of culture in 2018
“I’m thrilled to be embarking on this adventure alongside Films Boutique, as they are widely recognised for bringing audiences face to face with bold and daring cinema,” said Escalante Meza. “Our war cry behind Domingo And The Mist was always to make a punk and risky film, and I cannot wait to take it to Cannes and see how all those crazy impulses we had on set will play out on the screen”.
Films Boutique CEO Gabor Greiner added, “Ariel Escalante Meza’s masterfully directed and beautifully shot mature feature is a film about loss, redemption and justice and the fight of a man to stand up and defend his property. A deeply moving and important film - no wonder that it already created an early buzz among festival programmers.” Cannes runs May 17-28.
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