SIKUA (FOREIGN)

SIKUA (EXTRANJERO)

By José Pablo PORRAS MONGE

BETTA FILMS S.A. - as PROD

First film - Completed 2016

Sons of creoles, we do not find the borders between our European, Indigenous or Black legacies. Sikua is the Bribiri word to refer to the non-natives. It means, literally, "foreign"

Festivals
& Awards

Mittelamerikanisches Filmtestival Wien 2016
Documentary
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • First film, Environmental, Documentary
    • Countries
    • COSTA RICA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 64 mn
    • Director(s)
    • José Pablo PORRAS MONGE
    • Producer(s)
    • Amaya IZQUIERDO (Betta Films)
    • Synopsis
    • In a starless city, a photographer wonders how would the ancient natives of the Costa Rican high mountains explain the firmament. His search for a perfect sky is entangled to a voyage of encounter with the cosmogony of the bribri community. In this journey, he will see himself identified as “sikua”, the name given by the bribri to the non-natives, and which means, literally, “foreign”.