Mexico’s El Relicario, whose “El rostro cubierto de besos” screened at Cannes Critics’ Week in its 2023 Morelia showcase, has boarded Ximena Valdivia’s Malaga Festival winner “4Eber,” a movie melding the modern teen dance scene in Cusco and ancient and contemporary fantasy and mythology.

Written by Valdivia and Costa Rica’s Luisa Mora Fernández, a co-scribe on Mexican Kim Torres’ Cannes Festival-selected short “Luz Nocturna,” “4Eber” is now produced by Valdivia’s and El Relicario’s Mariano Rentería and Jorge Diez, in the first international feature co-production outing for the Morelia-based outfit.

To be presented at next week’s Sanfic Industria Lab-Fiction, which runs Aug. 23-26, “4Eber” captures a swelling movement in Latin America to abandon social realism for other mixed genre styles offering an alternative take on Latin America, its past and present, which is far more sensitive to the region and the director’s own roots.

Now in advanced development,...