OLIVIA & THE CLOUDS
[OLIVIA & LAS NUBES]
Taking a page from Akira Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, Dominican filmmaker Tomás Pichardo Espaillat concocts a spellbinding exploration of love, trauma and memory using a wild combination of stop-motion animation, live-action footage and graphic sketches to tell the story of Olivia, a woman haunted by her past relationship with a man named Ramón. From this simple and universal starting point, Pichardo takes viewers on a surreal journey through time and space that emphasizes how our personal recollections are shaped by the narratives we tell. This is a bold, beautiful feature debut that ushers in a new talent. –Javier Chavez
Official Selection, 2024 Locarno and London film festivals; 2025 Rotterdam, Miami and San Francisco film festivals. DIR/SCR Tomás Pichardo Espaillat; PROD Amelia del Mar Hernández, Fernando Santos Díaz. Dominican Republic, 2024, color, 81 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 81 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025
Genre: Animation