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Exclusive Video Interview: Director Abner Benaim and Star Ilse Salas on Panama’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Plaza Catedral’

This marks the first time that Panama has made the Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature, competing with fourteen other films for five slots. Plaza Catedral, the second narrative film from director Abner Benaim, is a powerful story of a grief-stricken woman, Alicia (Ilse Salas), who meets a 13-year-old boy named Chief (Fernando Xavier De…