There Will Come Soft Rains

Q&A with Iván Fund and introduction by Luis Alejandro Yero

A remarkable ensemble of young nonprofessional actors leads Argentine director Iván Fund’s latest feature—an oneiric vision of the apocalypse in which a strange incident sends the adults of a working-class neighborhood into an everlasting slumber. Left to their own devices, the town’s children gradually adapt to a peculiar new world that remains largely undisturbed by mankind’s absence. Fund draws inspiration from Sara Teasdale’s 1918 poem of the same name, lucidly translating the imagery and themes of the original text into a lyrical film about the regenerative, blissful elements of nature in the aftermath of calamity. North American Premiere

Preceded by:
The Cemetery Lightens / El cementerio se alumbra
Luis Alejandro Yero, Cuba, 2018, 14m
Spanish with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Nocturnal, seemingly random images of Havana conjure up a dark, feverish, and deceptively political work about present-day Cuba.