The Black Snake

Feature-length, Fiction, 100′, 2025

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

Production: Dublin Films

Coproduction: Burning (Colombia) and Vulcana Cinema (Brazil)

Associated Production: Laima Producciones (Colombia)

Infos

 

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.

Festivals

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

Technical infos

Feature-length, Fiction, 100′, 2025

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

Production: Dublin Films
Coproduction: Burning (Colombia) and Vulcana Cinema (Brazil)
Associated production: Laima Producciones (Colombia)

Shooting: March-April 2024 (Colombia)

Image: Sylvain Verdet
Editing: Thomas Glaser
Producers: David Hurst, Diana Bustamante, Paola Wink
Sound: Marco Lopes, Tiago Bello, Jocelyn Robert
Music: Tindersticks

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

Funding/Labs

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)

 

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.