Lightning Falls Behind
Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 2018
February 28 - March 4, 2018
Mexican-Guatemalan filmmaker Julio Hernández Cordón’s sixth feature is a rakish slacker movie that follows two rebellious girls, Sole (Adriana Alvarez) and Ana (Natalia Arias), who find something inside the trunk of a car that they’d rather immediately forget.
Q&A with actress and producer Adriana Alvarez
The sixth film by Mexican-Guatemalan filmmaker Julio Hernández Cordón (I Promise You Anarchy, ND/NF 2016), and his first shot in Costa Rica, is a rakish slacker movie that follows rebellious girls Sole (Adriana Alvarez) and Ana (Natalia Arias). While biking around San José, and planning to create a vintage cab company, they find something inside the trunk of a car that they’d rather immediately forget. Lightning Falls Behind, featuring playful and fluid camerawork, is a prime example of the kind of recent Central American cinema that has delighted viewers on the international film circuit. N.Y. Premiere
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