Winner of the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Festival, after having participated at the San Sebastian Co-Production Forum in 2013, this film portrays a family as they try to repair the fragile ties that bind them in the face of their imminent disappearance, brought about by the overwhelming power of progress.
César Augusto Acevedo is a Social Communicator at the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia). La Tierra y la Sombra (Land and Shade), his first work, had its world premiere at the Cannes Festival Critics’ Week (2015), where it won the SACD (Authors’ Guild) Award, the France 4 Visionary Award, Le Grand Rail d’Or (Audience Award) and the Caméra d’Or. He was also the co-writer and assistant director of Los Hongos (2014), by Óscar Ruiz Navia.