Addresses (Direcciones)

Maria Luisa Santos, Carlo Nasisse

2023 / 14 minutes
Costa Rica

Winner: Best Short - Honorable Mention
Recognizes the film shorter than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the Festival.

In Costa Rica there are no street addresses. Or they may exist in some government office, but the people have steadily resisted any effort to develop a centralized system. Instead, an address contains a series of directions in reference to various landmarks. In this film, a Costa Rican woman who has always felt a pressing anxiety by this lack of order tries to understand its origins. In doing so she discovers a larger story about human memory and place.