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SHOCK LABOR

By Marcos DIAZ SOSA

MARINCA FILMES - as PROD / FIN

Black comedy - Development 2020

In the Socialist Cuba in 1988, a young romantic nurse doesn’t want to have her child in the town she lives, but after a tornado sweeps her away to a vast luxury resort, she realizes that there is no place like home.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2017
Talents Market
Cannes 2017
La Fabrique
Tribeca FF 2017
TFI Network
Guadalajara FICG 2017
Coproduction meeting
Ventana Sur 2018
Proyecta
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    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Black comedy, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA, CUBA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marcos DIAZ SOSA
    • Synopsis
    • In Santa Clara, Cuba, in the late 1980s, Wilma Valdés, a young nurse, romantic dreamer and obsessed with movies, lives with Iván, her disabled husband, in a militarized country town where everyone likes hunting and skeet shooting, considered a patriotic sport in Cuba. Wilma hates this indoctrination, but, ironically, she has a fine marksmanship. When she becomes pregnant, she fears getting stuck in that town. After failing to find a job in Havana, she decides to find a way out applying for the National Skeet Team. But the coaches rejects her because she is accused of being a deserter who wants to leave the country. More frustrated than ever, Wilma decides to abandon her husband and have an abortion, without an idea of what to do afterward. But when she is leaving, a tornado arrives suddenly and takes her far away.
      She is found on an island where the communist elite spend their vacations, and where the National Skeet Competition takes place. Garcel Fonseca, one of the most powerful men on the island is attracted to Wilma, and decides to help her to compete. She still has to prove her accuracy, but she makes it by using her shooting talent when she hunts down an American alligator that attacks the island. Then, Wilma becomes a celebrity and finds herself living a wealthy accommodation with the elite. But Garcel realizes she
      is pregnant, and he becomes jealous and wants to denounce her, but Wilma promises that she will abort the pregnancy afterwards, and he consents.
      The day of the competition, she is full of doubts. Her talent isn’t good anymore, and the contest is hard. In a decisive moment, she remembers that all she wanted was home for her child, so there is no purpose in winning any competition if she can’t go on with
      her pregnancy. Wilma suddenly quits, and she abandons that island, swimming back to
      her country town. She returns to her husband, and they decide to have their child in that place, even when they won’t be happy forever.
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