PRÓXIMAMENTE FESTIVAL opens its third edition with a new State of the Arts from Latin America in conversation with Carolina Mendoca, Andrea Bonilla, Leonor Courtoisie, Patricia Doors, Lucia Giannoni and Ana Luz Ormazabal.

At 6:00 PM, as part of the State of the Arts, the Brussels Latin American festival Kinolatino presents a selection of short films that we are privileged to showcase during Próximamente.

AliEN0089 – Valeria Hofmann
21 min / Fiction / Chile
 

While a gamer uploads a video testifying about the bullying she has endured, a stranger breaks into her home and hacks her computer, blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.

TAKANAKUY – Gustavo Bockos
18 min / Fiction / Peru

In a conservative Andean village, a tender friendship develops between two boys, Fausto and Chaska. This enrages Fausto's virile father, leading to a violent confrontation during the annual Takanakuy festival.

LUZ NOCTURNA – Kim Torres
14 min / Fiction / Costa Rica

Seventeen-year-old Ale lives with her younger siblings in rural Costa Rica. Amid landscapes filled with silence, resentment, and fleeting moments of joy, Ale struggles to protect them from a harsh truth: their mother is not coming back.

The State of the Arts program concludes with a drink at the KVS TOP Bar.