Dreflix: While The Night Falls

While The Night Falls

An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.

2023

Documentary·Family

0h 18min

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Carlos Escalona Ruiz
Delvys Escalona Ruiz
Jacinta Ruiz Hernández

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