Utopia 79

The Sandinist Revolution of 1979 opens one of the last hopes and illusions of changing the world of the 60’s and 70’s generation. Turning to the magic narrative of some personal diaries, we’ll meet people whom, disappointed by the Spanish democratic transition, travel to Nicaragua to search for their own “utopia” while some others Nicaraguans had dreamed about this revolution from the mountains guerrillas or from the cities rebelliousness. The collective ecstasy moments that are lived during the very early years of the revolution start to fall apart with the beginning of the Contra War financed by USA and that takes advantage of the Sandinist leaders own mistakes. The film moves forward 25 years to show the consequences of this utopia on its future generation. It ends with a magic realism, an ending which takes everybody to the search of the human illusions essence.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA