LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA (LAND AND SHADE) - Semaine de la critique

WORLD PREMIERE
by César Acevedo Colombia/ France/ Netherlands/ Chile/ Brazil 2015, 94 mins

With Haimer Leal-Alfonso, Hilda Ruiz-Alicia, Marleyda Soto-Esperanza

Production companies: Burning Blue, Ciné-Sud Promotion, Topkapi Films, Rampante Cine, Preta Portê Filmes

International Sales: PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL

 

Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family.

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