Suncatcher

Introverted young Laura arrives in a secluded town enveloped in palm plantations. As she and her family start their new life, Laura glimpses a hidden world, marked by a chilling legend about a forest-dwelling beast that preys on women. At first, she dismisses it as a childish fantasy. But when she meets the radiant Daniela, their friendship takes her on a journey that unravels the beast’s true nature.

In the small coastal town of Manzanillo, Costa Rica, local teens and adolescents share their stories, lies, and fantasies on the cusp of a cataclysmic event. Playing amid ruins and wreckages, and voicing their boredom at the lack of change, Manzanillo’s children engage in a collective fabulation, finding strategies for building a new world from the old.