Defenders of Life
Children Bearing Children
93 mins
In the hills of Costa Rica, Doña Carmen struggles to pass on her tribe's traditional ways of life. She must soon marry off her only granddaughter, and 70-year-old shaman Don Claudio lays his claim to the girl, who is only 12 and already impregnated by him. When the girl befriends the young son of a visiting anthropologist, it forces a collision between the modern world and the ancient one.
Eylin Esther Jimenez Gonzales
Esmeralda
Carmen Romero Palacios
Doña Carmen
Francisco Rodriguez Atencio
Don Claudio
Kattia Palacio Palacios
Kattia
Alexis Rodriguez Gallardo
Don Alexis
Maria Bejarano
Doña Maria
Dana Ziyasheva
Director
Dana Ziyasheva
Writer
Dana Ziyasheva
Editor
Adrian Fernandez Chióng
Sound Editor
Fernando Fonseca Espinoza
Sound Editor
Tony Núnez
Sound Mixer
Ana Maria Acevedo
Visual Effects
Daniel del Risco
Visual Effects
Xinia Jimenez Gonzalez
Costume Designer
Andrej Petras & Gromkost O.K.
Original Music Composer