Movie·2023·0h 18m

While The Night Falls

Country

Cuba

Language

Spanish

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The Story

Original title: Mientras Anochece

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.

Producer

Dany Celeiro Rodríguez

Cinematography

Amanda Cots Martínez

Editor

Angel Suárez

Themes

firecubafamily's daily lifelongingnostalgiaagingslice of lifefamilyspiritualruralabsenceyearning

Production House

Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano