Roma star in Panama for Festival screening

Oscar nominee Yalitza Aparicio, the lead actor in the multiple award-winning movie “Roma” will be a special guest at Panama’s International Film Festival (IFF) along with production designer, Eugenio Caballero.

Alfonso Cuarón’s masterpiece will be on the big screen at the eighth running of the festival. April 4-10, which continues to grow in stature.

‘We are happy to present’ Roma ‘as it should be, on the big screen, and because it is being presented by two very special guests, Yalitza Aparicio, and its main star and a woman of great value who has entered the panorama film with all its freshness, with the same that has broken all kinds of molds and stereotypes. In addition, we will have back the great art director, Eugenio Caballero. This is a unique opportunity to see Roma on the big screen and also be able to chat with two of its pillars, “said Pituka Ortega, director of IFF Panama.

At the Oscars, ‘Roma’ won Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Foreign Film. I n the Golden Globes it won; Best Film and Best Director. At the Critic’s Choice Awards; Best Film, Best Foreign Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography. At the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA).; and it took the Golden Lion, in its Venice Festival premiere.

This film portrays the life of Cleo, a domestic employee in a disintegrating middle-class family as the father leaves and eventually separates from his family, where Cleo remains as the backbone emotionally supporting the four children of the family.

Yalitza Aparicio is a, from Oaxaca, Mexico, who made her debut film in Roma and is the first indigenous woman, the fourth Latina and the second Mexican woman to receive an Oscar nomination for best actress.