Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Baumeister’s Daughter of Rage

Published on November 17, 2020

No news in 2020 isn’t necessarily bad news seeing that the Covid changed a lot of game plans. Laura Baumeister‘s Daughter of Rage was pegged for a mid 2020 release but it was radio silence, surprising since it won swept three of the four prizes at San Sebastian’s 8th Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum in 2019. Listed high up on our most anticipated film items for 2020, this French-Nicaraguan could shore up at Sundance, Rotterdam (she premiered her short Ombligo de agua here) or Berlin in the first quarter of 2021.

Gist: La hija de todas las rabias looks at 11-year-old María, who seethes with rage at her mother’s abandonment of her at a garbage dump in Managua, Nicaragua’s capital. Joining a gang of other abandoned children who work at the dump’s recycling factory in return for food and water, she sets out find her mother crossing a city rocked by violent protests.

Production Co./Producers: Pomme Hurlante Films

Prediction: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).