Costa Rica Scales New Heights With Cannes-Selected Filmmaker Valentina Maurel and ‘Forever Your Maternal Animal’

Almost four years after debut feature, “I Have Electric Dreams,” won big at Locarno, French-Costa Rican filmmaker Valentina Maurel makes her Cannes debut with “Forever Your Maternal Animal.” The film, selected for Un Certain Regard, follows Elsa (Daniela Marín Navarro), who returns to her home in Costa Rica after years studying in Europe. There, she […]

By John Hopewell