In ‘Donkey Princess,’ a Young Royal Travels Through Worlds – and Film Genres – in Search of Love (Exclusive Trailer)
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, the Chilean filmmakers who have made a name for themselves with The Wolf House and The Hyperboreans, as well as...
Key points
- Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, the Chilean filmmakers who have made a name for themselves with The Wolf House and The Hyperboreans, as well as collaborators of Ari Aster, will world premiere their third feature film, Donkey Princess (Princesa Burro), in the international competition program of the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Friday, Aug.
- Related Stories The Donkey Princess focuses on Diana, the princess of an ancient kingdom, whose father, King Arthur, has forbidden love.
- “Diana travels through parallel worlds where each universe transforms the film’s genre,” the creative duo explains in a directors’ note on the Locarno website.
- “Donkey Princess is our way of reimagining the history of fantasy cinema: a film that engages with this tradition while presenting our own vision of the genre,” León and Cociña highlight in a directors’ statement.
What happened
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, the Chilean filmmakers who have made a name for themselves with The Wolf House and The Hyperboreans, as well as collaborators of Ari Aster, will world premiere their third feature film, Donkey Princess (Princesa Burro), in the international competition program of the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Friday, Aug. Related Stories The Donkey Princess focuses on Diana, the princess of an ancient kingdom, whose father, King Arthur, has forbidden love. “Diana travels through parallel worlds where each universe transforms the film’s genre,” the creative duo explains in a directors’ note on the Locarno website. “Donkey Princess is our way of reimagining the history of fantasy cinema: a film that engages with this tradition while presenting our own vision of the genre,” León and Cociña highlight in a directors’ statement. In Donkey Princess, we take these ideas and adapt them into a fiction feature film performed entirely by actors. THR can now exclusively premiere a trailer for Donkey Princess.
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