The jury of the CLaP festival awarded an honorable mention to the film ‘Mala reputación,’ directed by Marta García and Sol Infante, for its thematic focus on defending the rights of sex workers in Uruguay.
‘Greice’ was recognized by the jury for being “a burning tale of globalized youth,” featuring a protagonist named Greice, who travels across the ocean from Brazil to Portugal.
‘Cuando las nubes esconden la sombra’ was lauded for the “delicate changes” in its storytelling, which revolves around the relationship between the protagonist, María, and the inhabitants of Navarino, the southernmost island in Chile.
The Espace Saint-Michel, a legendary venue in the heart of Paris founded in 1911, hosted 21 films from nine different countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
The festival aims to “build a solid bridge between Latin American artistic and essayistic creation and the global capital of cinema that is Paris,” stated its director Carlos Tello. This edition evaluated a total of 382 films, three times more than the previous year.
In France, CLaP follows in the tradition of events such as the Cinélatino in Toulouse, which shares a similar mission. Before its inception in 2023, Paris only held festivals dedicated to specific Latin American cinematographies, such as Peruvian or Colombian.
