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sereno (serene wind)

2022 · 22 min · spanish · fiction / historical / nature
1928. The thinker Fernando González and former jesuit Benjamín Correa have been walking for weeks. Completely isolated, they hike up the tropical glacier of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano where they wonder about evil and love. As Fernando gets swallowed by the wind, a magical appearance in the mountain desert connects his inner struggle to our present day.
Cast: Benjamín González, Juan Lugo y Julián González
Direction, screenplay, producer: Andrés Isaza Giraldo
Co-producing companies: Guateque Cine, Emilia II Cine
Inspired by: 'Viaje a Pie' by Fernando González
Cinematography: Mauricio Reyes
Costume design: Catherine Rodríguez
Wardrobe and makeup: Maria Camila Castrillón
Editing: Juan Carlos Sánchez
Sound design: Diana Muñoz, Jose Delgadillo
Music: Tania Granada, Sara Fernández
Sales: Atmosfera International Sales
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“Fernando González and Benjamín Correa cross the Nevado del Ruiz, they are two wandering walkers immersed in the immensity of a landscape that at the same time welcomes and strikes them; the inclemency of the journey gives rise to disjointed reflections, ideas come and go, they are renewed, just like the geography they travel through. Inspired by Fernando Gonzalez's Viaje a pie, Sereno bets on the representation of the sublime; the journey, although it implies movement and the constant search for paths, is at the same time an encounter with intimacy, an ascent towards abstract revelations about the demons that afflict them, atonement and love. The characters are confronted by the breathtaking nature of the paramo and the glacier, creating images that resemble the paintings of romanticism, and as a rupture mediated by the passage of thought, the modern city appears, a concrete landscape where Fernando questions the Catholic Church. Beyond the pursuit of a destination, it is the journey that becomes relevant; as the journey progresses, the narrative abandons the causal chain to propose sensorial images, where color, sound and music take center stage, as if the limits of the body were vanishing to give way to dreaming. Sereno proposes an edifying encounter with nature that notices the human being as part of it, walking it then becomes a mobilizing act of both body and thought, a stimulating journey through the evolution of unusual thoughts.”
Melissa Mira from Cinemancia Film Festival

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