Synopsis

After years of absence, Ciro returns home to his mother's bedside. In the Colombian desert of Tatacoa, he meets those he fled and confronts the last guardians of a territory as fragile as it is enchanting.

ACID CANNES 2025 – Official Selection (Cannes, France) – World Premiere

Feature-length, Fiction, 85′, 2025

Director: Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux
Co-writer: Marlène Poste

Production: Dublin Films
Coproduction: Burning (Colombia) and Vulcana Cinema (Brazil)
Associated production: Laima Producciones (Colombia)
International Sales: MMM Film Sales
French Distribution: ARP Selection

Shooting: March-April 2024 (Colombia)

DOP: Sylvain Verdet
Editor: Thomas Glaser
Producers: David Hurst, Diana Bustamante, Paola Wink, Jessica Luz
Sound: Marco Lopes, Tiago Bello, Jocelyn Robert
Original score: Tindersticks

Cast:
Alexis Tafur
Miguel Ángel Viera
Angela Rodriguez
Laura Valentina Quintero
Virgelina Gil

With the support of

FRANCE

• Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in partnership with the CNC and the support of ALCA
• Département de la Charente-Maritime, in partnership with the CNC
• Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma (lauréat 2023)
• Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée (support for the creation of original music)
• Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine

FOREIGN

• Proimágenes Colombia (FDC)
• ANCINE (Brazil)