A Vanishing Fog
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1h 16m
Directed by Augusto Sandino | 77 mins | 2021
For Colombia’s Indigenous Muisca people, Sumapaz Páramo, a tropical plateau located high up in the Andes, was a sacred realm. It is here that Augusto Sandino sets his haunting, mystical debut—the first film to have ever been shot in this now-endangered territory. At the heart of his Jodorowsky-limned eco-fable is a guardian and inventor figure known only as F, played by the late Sebastian Pii, an artist who lived with a rare genetic disorder.
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