Land and Shade

A worker returns home after many years. He reunites with his ex-wife and his sick son, and meets his daughter-in-law and his grandson for the first time. The film, set against the backdrop of a sugarcane plantation in Colombia, gives a taste of Colombian rural life by building its plot around a family struggling for survival. The dialogue is minimal, the pace is slow, and the characters seem to be emotionally detached until they finally buckle under the weight of relentless hardships. First-time director Cesar Acevedo tells a simple story about modern-day Colombian society with a mixture of realism and symbolism.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Script: Cesar Acevedo

Cinematography: Mateo Guzman

Editing: Miguel Schverdfinger

Sound: Juan Felipe Rayo

Actors: Haimer Leal (Alfonso), Hilda Ruiz (Alicia), EdisonRaigosa (Gerardo), Marleyda Soto (Esperanza), Jose Felipe Cardenas(Manuel)

Production: Burning Blue, T. +57 30 0553 3853jorgeforero@burningblue.com.co

Producers: Diana Bustamante Escobar, Paola Andrea Perez Nieto, Jorge Forero

Co-production: Cine-Sud Promotion (France), Topkapi Films (The Netherlands), Rampante Cine (Chile), Preta Porte Filmes (Brazil),

Format: DCP Color

Production Country: Colombia-France-The Netherlands-Chile-Brazil

Production Year: 2015

Duration: 97

Contact: Pyramide Films, FranceT. +33 1 4296 0220F. +33 1 4020 0551sales@pyramidefilms.comwww.pyramidefilms.com

Awards :
Camera d’Or – Cannes IFF 2015

Cesar Acevedo

He was born in Colombia in 1987. He graduated with honors from the Universidad del Valle’s School of Social Communications (Cali, Colombia) and the screenplay for La tierra y la sombra was his graduate thesis. The screenplay went on to become his first feature film and premiered at the 2015 Cannes Festival’s Critics’ Week, after receiving support from a great number of Colombian and international foundations. Before he shot Land and Shade, he shot two short films and he worked as an assistant director to Oscar Ruiz Navia οn his film Los hongos de Oscar (Jury Special Prize at the Rotterdam IFF 2009), and as an assistant producer on his film El vuelco del cangrejo (FIPRESCI Award at the 2010 Berlinale) by the same director.