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When the Clouds Hide the Shadow

Year
2024
Country
Chile, Argentina
Duration
70’
Director
José Luis Torres Leiva
Maria travels to Puerto Williams to act in a film. The rest of the crew won't be able to arrive due to the weather. Alone, she seeks help for back pain, which leads her to discover the town's inhabitants and an unresolved story in her life.
CREW:
Director: José Luis Torres Leiva
Producer: Catalina Vergara, Laura Mara Tablón
Sound: Nahuel Palenque
Production
Catalina Vergara, Laura Mara Tablón
Sales:
Juliana Schwindt
Director
José Luis Torres Leiva
José Luis Torres Leiva was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1975. He has made a significant number of short films and independent videos, including No Place Nowhere (2004), Workers Leaving the Factory (2005), The Time That Remains (2007), Three Weeks Later (2010), among others, with which he has participated in various international festivals. The Sky, the Earth, and the Rain (2008), his first feature fiction film, premiered at Rotterdam 2008, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI prize. His second feature film, Summer (2011), premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section. In 2013, he released two documentaries: What Story Is This and How Does It End about the cinema of Ignacio Agüero and Seeing and Listening. In 2016, he presented The Wind Knows That I'm Coming Back Home, and in 2019, he premiered his ninth feature film Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes in the official competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
Selected Filmography
When the Clouds Hide the Shadow (2024), Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes (2019), About Things That Had Happened to Me (2018), Ana´s Dream (2017), The Wind Knows I’m Coming Back Home (2016), What Story Is This and What Is Its End (2013), See and Listen (2013), Summer (2011), The Sky, the Land, and the Rain (2008), The Time That Stays (2007), Women Workers Going Out of the Factory (2005)
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Year
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Country
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Directors
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Duration
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Malqueridas
Year
2023
Country
Chile, Germany
Director
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Duration
75’
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Pirópolis
Year
2024
Country
Chile
Director
Nicolás Molina
Duration
73'20'’
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CHILEAN VISIONS: FIDOCS FOCUS
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Year
2024
Country
Chile, Argentina, France
Director
Celeste Rojas Mugica
Duration
77’
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