VALLEY OF SOULS [TANTAS ALMAS] Trailer - 2020 AFI Latin American Film Festival

Colombia, on the banks of Magdalena River, 2002. José (non-professional actor Arley De Jesús Carvallido Lobo, in his first role) returns to his home deep in the jungle after a long night of fishing to discover that soldiers of a right-wing paramilitary group have killed his two sons, Dionisio and Rafael, and thrown their bodies into the river. Knowing that local paramilitary leaders have forbidden the removal of bodies from the Magdalena, José begins a long, lonely and treacherous journey to retrieve and provide a proper burial for his boys, in order to save their souls from eternal limbo. Aboard his canoe, throughout his odyssey, José discovers the beauty and tragedy of a country torn to pieces by deep divisions and civil war. This powerful narrative debut from documentarian Nicolás Rincón Gille (NOCHE HERIDA, LOS ABRAZOS DEL RÍO) is a truly immersive elegy in which José's Dante-like journey into a purgatory of human construction assumes mythic proportions. Winner, Best Feature Film, 2019 Marrakech International Film Festival. Official Selection, 2019 Busan International Film Festival, 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam and San Francisco International Film Festival. DIR/SCR Nicolás Rincón Gille; PROD Hector Ulloque Franco, Manuel Ruiz Montealegre. Colombia/Brazil/Belgium/France, color, 137 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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Cast: Arley De Jesús Carvallido Lobo, Carlos Enrique Avila Argota, Maria Amanda Vargas Barbosa, Emil Quitero Contreras, Oscar Carvallido Cuellar


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