Guián

76 minutes | 2023 | Documentary | Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin | English & Chinese Subtitles

Canadian Premiere

Born into the Chinese community in Costa Rica, filmmaker Nicole Chi Amén decided to go to China for the first time after her grandmother Guián’s death, in an attempt to rediscover her roots and come to terms with the duality of her identity. The result is a sublime, cinematic, and intimate travelogue in which sensuous shots capture the essence of a place and its people, in spite of linguistic differences.

Nicole Chi is a Costa Rican-born Chinese director and producer currently based in Austin, Texas. In 2022, she was selected as a Mentee at Berlinale Talents Guadalajara, and was also the recipient of the Texas New Voices Grant awarded by the Austin Film Society in 2021. Her short films have screened in important festivals worldwide, such as Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, SXSW, NYLFF, and New Orleans Film Festival. Her debut feature Guián premiered at Visions du Réel.