When Clouds Hide the Shadow

(Cuando las nubes esconden las sombras)
José Luis Torres Leiva | Fiction

2024 | 70 minutes | Argentina, Chile

María travels to Puerto Williams to film but is stranded by a storm. In solitude, she confronts pain, memory, and the quiet rhythms of the south.

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Synopsis

María travels to Puerto Williams, at the southern tip of Chile, to star in a film. But when a powerful storm prevents the crew from arriving, she finds herself stranded and alone. As she seeks relief for a sudden bout of severe back pain, María begins to discover the rhythms of life in the world’s southernmost city – and with it, an unresolved chapter from her own past. The latest film by acclaimed director José Luis Torres Leiva features María Alché—the Argentine director of A Family Submerged and star of Lucrecia Martel’s The Holy Girl—in a quietly luminous performance. Meditative and atmospheric, the film unfolds like a diary of solitude and revelation, capturing the fragile beauty of place, memory, and the passage of time.

Reviews

"The filmmaker constructs a self-portrait of a heart mortified by loss, a confession of the physical symptoms that weigh on the emotional ones, and a document that keeps his mother's memory alive." - Elena del Olmo Andrade, Cinemania

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Festivals

Jeonju International Film Festival; San Sebastian International Film Festival; FIC Valdivia; FIDOCS Chile; Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse; FICCI Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival; Uruguay International Film Festival

DIRECTOR: José Luis Torres Leiva

NATIONALITY: Argentina, Chile

YEAR: 2024

GENRE: Fiction

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adult

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

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