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While The Night Falls (2023)

Genre : Documentary, Family

Runtime : 18M

Director : Amir Aether Valen

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.

Actors

Carlos Escalona Ruiz
Carlos Escalona Ruiz
Delvys Escalona Ruiz
Delvys Escalona Ruiz
Jacinta Ruiz Hernández
Jacinta Ruiz Hernández

Crews

Amir Aether Valen
Amir Aether Valen
Director
Dany Celeiro Rodríguez
Dany Celeiro Rodríguez
Producer
Amanda Cots Martínez
Amanda Cots Martínez
Director of Photography
Marisol Cao Milán
Marisol Cao Milán
Sound Designer
Amir Aether Valen
Amir Aether Valen
Writer
Angel Suárez
Angel Suárez
Editor

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