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After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to her native city to join her father, acclaimed filmmaker and writer Victor Gaviria (The Rose Seller), in the shooting of his next film. He is a director who has filmed his family throughout the years.
In the encounter of both filmmakers’ ways of looking, her mother’s silence, and her brother’s stubbornness, Mercedes embraces the time they shared in their home videos and her family’s endless contradictions in order to find her own beginning.
As a result, the film works as a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the place of women in the film world, which is still strongly ingrained with a patriarchal mindset.
"The subtle power of Como el cielo después de llover is that as auteur, Mercedes reclaims her father's footage, gaining control over hers and others' representation and encouraging a reassessment of the 'reductive past' framed by her father." — Rebecca Wilson, Sounds and Colors
"Never didactic, the director tries always to keep distance, but it is not easy to keep the distance from your family. A calm but moving reflection on gender and filmmaking. " — Meredith Taylor, Filmuforia
"A bright example of these new [Latin American] gazes, which aim to renew and rebuild new paths in Latin American filmmaking, and break away from ideologies rooted in past generations, by exposing and questioning them." — Ivonne Sheen, DesistFilm
Cinema Studies; Family; Women; Culture + Identity; South America
Keywords
Victor Gaviria, The Rose Seller, filmmaking, intimate discourse, spanish, spanish language, latin america, latin american cinema, latin american film, ibero america, latin, latinx, latino, ; "The Calm After The Storm"; Pragda; Colombia; Spanish; film studies; gender; Latin America; Latin American; documentary; doc;
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 72 minutes
Date: 2021
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish / English subtitles
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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Closed Captioning: Not available
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