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Book Beloved Tropic, Panama’s submission to the 2026 Academy Awards®, directed by Ana Endara, together with a Q&A, masterclass, or workshop!

BELOVED TROPIC / ANA ENDARA / 2024 / 108 MIN

In her fiction debut, celebrated documentarian Ana Endara brings the humid intimacy of Panama City to life in this atmospheric drama about two women from isolated worlds. Ana María, an undocumented Colombian immigrant hiding a desperate secret, takes work as a caregiver for Mercedes, a woman whose sense of self is being slowly erased by dementia. As memory fades and lies accumulate, something unexpected grows between them: a fragile, tender bond that neither sought but both need. Beloved Tropic is a film about invisibility, belonging, and the connections that form in the margins of the world.

“Endara explores the harsh realities of the class divide as well as immigration, with grace” – Frank J. Avella, The Contending

Related subjects: Health + Aging, Central America + The Caribbean, Economics + Social Class Issues, Family, Immigration + Exile, Mental Health, Women, Cinema Studies

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Three reasons to book a Screen+Talk with the director!

1. A film that opens interdisciplinary dialogue on urgent contemporary issues — Aging, dementia, caregiving, identity, belonging, immigration, class politics, and women’s issues, among others: Beloved Tropic manages to move through multiple and urgent frameworks, checking all your syllabus needs.

2. A landmark in Panamanian cinema — This is a rare opportunity to engage with the filmmaker of Panama’s submission to the Academy Awards® at the exact moment her work is entering the international conversation. 

3. A festival circuit that speaks for itself — Beloved Tropic has traveled the full range of the international festival landscape, including premieres at Toronto and San Sebastián, and awards at Cinélatino, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Biarritz, and more.