Kim Torres

Directing

Kim Torres

Born

1993-01-12 (33)

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Kim Torres is a Costa Rican director and screenwriter, recognized as an emerging voice in Latin American cinema. Her short Night Light (2022) was the first Costa Rican film to be nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Her work has screened at NYFF, Locarno, MoMA, Lincoln Center and the Eye Filmmuseum. Her debut feature participated in La Fabrique Cinéma and Cannes Focus Copro. She was a Guest Artist at CalArts (2022), a Berlinale Talents mentee (2023) and an alumna of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy (2024).

Known for

Behind the camera

Memory poster
NR

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

Memory

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Era más grande la tierra poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Era más grande la tierra

2025

Suncatcher poster
5.0

When a mysterious light invades socially awkward Lila, she encounters its source: a cyborg who comes to remind her who she was in a past life.

Suncatcher

2021

Indignation poster
NR

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

Indignation

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Hope poster
NR

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

Hope

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Náufragos poster
NR

Miriam, a 13-year-old teenager, will do whatever it takes to attend a party, even if that means risking her little brother's life.

Náufragos

2024

Ghost, Animal poster
NR

A machine that contains a ghost. From two eyes to one eye. The same four limbs. The artificial body. The appearance of things, their incandescence. The light on the screen feels more alive than ever. The satellite guides me. Through a transmutation exercise a human in old age performs a ritual that allows him to deposit his essence in the body of a drone. In the gaze of the machine, a new illusion is reconfigured.

Ghost, Animal

2020

The Moon Will Contain Us poster
NR

In the small coastal town of Manzanillo, Costa Rica, local teens and adolescents share their stories, lies, and fantasies on the cusp of a cataclysmic event. Playing amid ruins and wreckages, and voicing their boredom at the lack of change, Manzanillo’s children engage in a collective fabulation, finding strategies for building a new world from the old.

The Moon Will Contain Us

2023

If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light Up the Night poster
NR

13-year-old Laura feels adrift in her newly stitched-together family. Just as the forests and endless palm plantations begin to feel like home, she uncovers a lurking secret that threatens the women she holds close.

If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light Up the Night

2025

If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light Up the Night poster
NR

13-year-old Laura feels adrift in her newly stitched-together family. Just as the forests and endless palm plantations begin to feel like home, she uncovers a lurking secret that threatens the women she holds close.

If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light Up the Night

2025

I Dreamed of a Gentle Landscape poster
NR

Through the quiet rhythms of everyday life and her imagination, Chunyan drifts between two worlds—her hometown of Enping, China, and her new home in Manzanillo, on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

I Dreamed of a Gentle Landscape

2025

I Dreamed of a Gentle Landscape poster
NR

Through the quiet rhythms of everyday life and her imagination, Chunyan drifts between two worlds—her hometown of Enping, China, and her new home in Manzanillo, on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

I Dreamed of a Gentle Landscape

2025

The Shadow of the Desert (or the Paradise Regained) poster
5.0

While an exodus of migrants waits to cross the deadly Altar Desert towards the US, the last Natives of the desert survive a diaspora that has them on the verge of vanishing.

The Shadow of the Desert (or the Paradise Regained)

2020

Nuestras Cartas poster
NR

Faced with the possibility of electing a president with a past of sexual harassment, four Costa Rican filmmakers come together to produce a series of film letters in which they express their discontent, their fears, and their experiences, but at the same time, the invincible power of union that characterizes women in dark times. Each card expresses a different perspective on the experience of women in this patriarchal society.

Nuestras Cartas

2022

Night Light poster
4.7

Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger siblings from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back.

Night Light

2022

Night Light poster
4.7

Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger siblings from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back.

Night Light

2022