Your dead grandpa won't stop haunting you, but at least the view's amazing.
Your dead grandpa won't stop haunting you, but at least the view's amazing.
An aging hermit, Eloy, lives in seclusion in the Colombian mountains, haunted by his grandfather’s ghost and bound to the land. When park rangers bring news of his dying mother, Eloy faces a choice between returning to his family or remaining in the mountain that defines him.
Cinematography
The Andes as character—crushing, gorgeous, unforgiving.
Acting
Betancur's silence speaks entire family histories.
Direction
Estrada packs a lifetime of regret into nineteen minutes.
Director
Andrés I. Estrada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Colombian magical realism tradition meets contemporary rural displacement—Eloy embodies thousands displaced by violence who vanished into the cordilleras.
Pilina, who plays Ramón, was a local mountain dog with no training—his natural indifference to humans was apparently 'undirectable' per the director's Q&A.
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