Cyprus Film Days 2023|The Fishbowl

Synopsis
Noelia, a 40-year-old Puerto Rican visual artist, discovers her cancer has metastasized after spending several years in remission. Despite the insistence of her partner, Jorge, she refuses to continue her treatment and decides to return to Vieques, the small Caribbean island east of Puerto Rico where she grew up and where her mother, Flora, lives. Once there, she keeps her cancer a secret in order to live freely and throws herself into the work she had dedicated herself to years before: denouncing pollution left by the U.S. military after 60 years of military exercises on the island.

Biography
Βorn in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico (1978) Glorimar Marrero Sánchez is a filmmaker, screenwriter and interdisciplinary artist whose work is related to grief, identity, colonialism and gender. Her work includes film, photography and installation. In 2017, she won the Best Screenplay Award in the Unpublished Screenplay Competition of the New Latin American Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. That same year, she premiered Revuelo en Roosevelt, a piece of video art commissioned by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Fishbowl is her debut feature film.

92', 2022 | Spain

Directed by Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
Screenplay Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
Cinematography PJ López, SPC
Editing Clara Martínez Malagelada
Production design María Eugenia Sueiro
Music Sergio de la Puente
Cast Isel Rodríguez, Modesto Lacén, Magali Carrasquillo, Maximiliano Rivas, Anamín Santiago, Idenisse Salamán
Producers José Esteban Alenda, Amaya Izquierdo, Glorimar Marrero Sánchez

Filmography
2023 The Fishbowl / La Pecera

Tickets: €5