DCP

Land and Shade

César Augusto Acevedo

César Augusto Acevedo’s Camera d’Or–winning directorial debut is a meditative and painterly allegory in which tensions simmer between an elderly campesino and his ex-wife when he returns to the small house in Valle del Cauca he left 17 years earlier.

DIRECTOR
César Augusto Acevedo
YEAR
2015
COUNTRY
Colombia
RUNTIME
94 minutes
LANGUAGE
Spanish with English subtitles
FORMAT
DCP

A poetic and devastating statement on how environmental issues impact every aspect of life, César Augusto Acevedo’s Camera d’Or–winning directorial debut is not to be missed. The elderly Alfonso (Haimer Leal) returns to the small house in Valle del Cauca he left 17 years earlier in order to care for his bedridden son Geraldo (Edison Raigosa), who suffers from a mysterious ailment related to the harsh farming techniques of the sugar-cane plantations around them. Tensions quietly simmer between Alfonso and his ex-wife (the wonderful Hilda Ruiz), but familial ties and pride keep them tied to the land in Acevedo’s meditative and painterly allegory.

Land and Shade
Land and Shade
Land and Shade
Land and Shade
Land and Shade

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