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Olivia y las nubes
(Olivia & The Clouds)

Tomás Pichardo Espaillat

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Day 19 at 22:00 - Cine Albéniz - Sala 3

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Day 19 at 16:00 - Cine Albéniz - Sala 3

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COUNTRY Dominican Republic

PRODUCTION Guasabara Cine, Historias de Bibi, Cine Chani

YEAR2024

DURATION80 min

WRITING Tomás Pichardo Espaillat

CINEMATOGRAPHY Tomás Pichardo Espaillat

MUSIC Cem Misirlioglu

EDITION Tomás Pichardo Espaillat

CAST

Olga Valdez, Elsa Nuñez, Héctor Aníbal, Dominique Goris, Fery Cordero, Fidia Peralta, Rebecca Dalmasí, Lill Marie Taveras, César Calcagno, Ricardo Ariel Toribio

DISTRIBUTION Miyu Distribution

INTERNATIONAL SALES Miyu Distribution

CONTACT festival@miyu.fr

SYNOPSIS Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds. Bárbara, rejected by Mauricio, escapes reality through fantastical stories. Mauricio, full of regret, is swallowed by the earth. Ramón, smitten by Olivia, witnesses the growth of a strange plant mirroring her. With surreal elements, Olivia & the Clouds delves into the enduring power of love’s memory.

Tomás Pichardo Espaillat Animator and filmmaker from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 2013, he received a scholarship at Fabrica, Italy, and obtained his BFA in Animation from Parsons in 2010. He graduated in Fine Arts and Illustration from Altos de Chavón in 2008 and from the Pictoplasma Academy in Berlin in 2016. In 2023, he participated in Berlinale Talents and Talents Guadalajara. His work has been showcased at festivals such as Annecy, La Triennale di Milano, MAC, and the Festival of New Latin American Cinema, among others. He has won awards such as the Premio Joven de la Imagen in 2017 and the Salón Bienal in 2019. In 2019, he received the Ibermedia and Fonprocine funds. In 2021, he won the Best Animated Short Film award at the Libélula Dorada Festival, and in 2022, he was a finalist at the Quirino Awards (Tenerife, Spain). His work has been featured in a retrospective at Lago Film Fest, Italy. FILMOGRAPHY One of the Most Dangerous Men in American History (short film, 2023), The Rebel Radio that Brought Down a War (short film, 2022), The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp (short film, 2021), Asterisco (short film, 2021), El club de chichiguas (short films, 2020), El regreso al planeta M (short film, 2020), Heart Rot (short film, 2019), El camino interminable (short film, 2017), Malvao (short film, 2015)