This marks the world premiere week for Panama City-based Ana Endara‘s fiction feature debut at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (Centerpiece programme selection) with it’s European premiere set for San Sebastian next week. After cutting her teeth in the docu format, Endara digs into themes of isolation, connection and companionship with Beloved Tropic (aka Querido Trópico). Paulina García and Jenny Navarrete share the top-billing in the drama.
Set in Panama City and starring acclaimed Chilean actress Paulina García (Gloria), Querido Trópico explores the evolving relationship between two dissimilar lonely souls who form a touching and unexpected bond. Ana María (played by Jenny Navarrete, The Other Son) is a Colombian immigrant facing status and financial challenges while harboring a secret. She is hired as a home caregiver for Mercedes, a high-class woman struggling with encroaching dementia that is slowly erasing her identity and past.
