While The Night Falls

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2023 / 18min.

Rating2

Genres

Documentary

Family

Synopsis

An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.

Directors

Actors

Carlos Escalona Ruiz

Delvys Escalona Ruiz

Jacinta Ruiz Hernández

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