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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #100. Daughter of Rage – Laura Baumeister

Published on December 31, 2019

Daughter of Rage

Nicaragua’s Laura Baumeister should have her highly anticipated feature debut Daughter of Rage ready for 2020. A co-production between Nicaragua-Netherlands-Mexico-Germany, Baumeister took home three of the four prizes at San Sebastian’s Co-production Forum in 2019. The project is produced by Rossana Baumeister, Christine Anderton, Bettina Brokemper and Samuel Chauvin. Daughter of Rage is the first narrative feature to be directed by a Nicaraguan woman. Her 2019 short, “Water Navel” was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Gist: A mother-daughter story that takes place in a garbage dump in Managua, the young Maria is consumed by rage after being abandoned by her mother and joins a gang of other abandoned children.

Release Date/Prediction: With production scheduled for late 2019 and an anticipated mid-year completion in 2020, we think Baumeister could premiere in Venice 2020.

Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.