This screening will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.
— About GUIÁN —
As a consequence of Guián passing away, Nicole starts meeting with people who have known her grandma. Traveling to different parts of Costa Rica provides a glimpse of the Chinese-Costa Rican community, and she finds a poetic resemblance between these characters and her deceased grandma.
Nicole finds the need to go to Southern China to find the house Guián abandoned when she emigrated to Costa Rica. Having never learned Chinese, she confronts the reality of a country and culture she thought she knew.
This film is the first and last imagined conversation between a granddaughter and a grandmother who never shared a common language.