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No More Flowers

MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY
MEMORIAS DE UN CUERPO QUE ARDE

• Director: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss
• COSTA RICA, SPAIN / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 90’ / Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss
• Director of Photography: Andrés Campos Sánchez
• Editing: Bernat Aragonés
• Music: Juano Damiani
• Cast: Sol Carballo, Paulina Bernini, Juliana Filloy, Liliana Biamonte, Gabriel Araya, Juan Luis Araya, Leonardo Perucci, Cecilia García, Teo Yuja
• Producer: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss
• Production Co.: Sub.stance Films, PlayLab Films
• World Sales: Bendita Film Sales

2024 Berlin Audience Award–Panorama

‘A woman never stops feeling alive.’ Premiered at the Panorama section of the Berlinale in February Memories of a Burning Body expresses deepest thoughts on pleasure, desire, marriage, love, sexuality, and women through the memory and intimacy of three women over 65. Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, these three women found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman on screen, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires. This is the second feature film by Costa Rican writer-director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss who says ‘Memories of a Burning Body is the conversation I never had with my grandmothers. It is the collective outcry of women, who, despite taboos, dare to talk about their most intimate secrets.’

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.