The Costa Rican Kim Torres returns to Locarno to premiere "Solo la luna comprenderá," selected in the international short film competition, Pardi di domani. With this premiere, the director completes a cycle of three short films in three years, in a journey that took her from Locarno to Cannes and back to Locarno. The director made her debut in 2021 at the Swiss festival with the short film "Atrapaluz," a story of identity with futuristic touches; last year, at Cannes, she premiered "Luz nocturna," a drama about abandonment and resilience, with which the Costa Rican filmmaker secured a place in the current landscape of Latin American cinema.

Torres captures the texture of what it is to live in the Costa Rican village of Manzanillo by means of immersion. Oscillating between scenes of leisure and moments of disquieting stillness, the film moves quickly between geographies.