Francisca Alegria’s feature debut The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future (La vaca que cantó una canción hacia el futuro) begins with both nature, and with its contradictions. To the accompaniment of a fly’s audible buzzing and birdsong, a dead rat is seen lying on a bed of fallen, browned leaves. Growing from…
Tigers Are Not Afraid first published by ScirFiNow “There’s no wishes. Don’t be stupid.” “I wish that your scar disappears.” This exchange between hardheaded, traumatised Shine (Juan Ramós López) and idealistic, quixotic Estrella (Paola Lara) captures a dialectic that is ongoing in Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid (aka Vuelven, literally ‘return’), a film that constantly…