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In a 19th-century Colombian convent, an earthquake leaves the mother superior grievously wounded. In the days that follow, her body succumbs to a mysterious affliction, while she is haunted by enigmatic and mystical visions.

Synopsis

Ines (60) is the mother superior of an isolated rural order of cloistered nuns. Her life is spent in peace and quiet, devoted to observing God and preparing food for the impoverished local community. One day, she suffers an accident during an earthquake. In the aftermath of the event, mysterious ulcers begin invading her body, making her sick and weak. Along with her physical deterioration, she begins to hear a noise and to experience mystical episodes. The other nuns of the congregation, not knowing how to treat this mysterious condition, begin to feel afraid of Ines behavior, which completely change the environment and hierarchy of the convent. But this terrible and weird occurrence has helped the mother superior to experience her spirituality in an extreme and unprecedented way. Once Ines’ condition worsens to a breaking point, the nuns rebel and ostracize her. Having lost her community, Ines completely gives into her ailment and takes her mysticism to the limit.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Fernando Iriarte — Writer/Director
Fernando Iriarte (writer and director): Fernando Iriarte is a Colombian filmmaker with an MFA in Film from Columbia University, where he also taught undergraduate Screenwriting. He is currently in post production of his new short film Delirio, produced by Paola Andrea Pérez Nieto and Inercia Películas, with celebrated filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul onboard as executive producer. Fernando is also developing his debut feature, Mountain Sorrow. As a producer, he worked on Tropicalía, which premiered at the Rotterdam and San Sebastián film festivals. He has also served as a staff writer at Fidelio Films, contributing to projects for Netflix, HBO, Gaumont, and Amazon Prime.

Paola Pérez — Lead Producer
Paola has years of experience in several production roles on some of the most significant Colombian films in recent years. She was the producer of La Tierra y la Sombra (Caméra d’Or, Cannes 2015) and Horizonte by César Augusto Acevedo, as well as Los Iniciados 2 by Carlos Moreno and Mi Bestia by Camila Beltrán (ACID Cannes). She also served as line producer on Memoria (2021) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Los Iniciados (2023) for Amazon Prime. Since 2017, she has led Inercia Películas.

Santiago Porras — Producer
Santiago Porras was the casting director and third assistant director on the feature film Gente de bien (official selection selection at the Critics’ Week – Cannes Film Festival, 2014). He was the casting director and second assistant director of the short film Sol Negro (2014), directed by Laura Huertas. In 2016, he worked as the first assistant director in the short film Madre (official selection at Cannes Film Festival – 2016), directed by Simon Mesa. In 2019 he served as the casting director and first assistant director of Litigante (opening film at the Critics’ Week – Cannes Film Festival, 2019). Earlier this year, he worked as a first assistant director for Palm Do’r winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul in his feature film Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton. In 2017, he worked as a logistics producer on the feature film Birds of Passage, directed by the Oscar nominated directed director Ciro Guerra.

Rodney Llaverías — Producer
Rodney Llaverías is a Dominican filmmaker and founder of Centuria, a production company dedicated to exploring and representing Caribbean identities through a queer sensibility. With a bold, auteur- driven approach, Llaverías crafts stories that fuse the poetic with the political, and foreground the sensory and the intimate. His work challenges traditional cinematic structures and gives voice to narratives often overlooked in mainstream Latin American cinema. His feature debut, La Canícula, is currently in development. A short film based on the same universe, Tropicalía, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and was selected at San Sebastián and Locarno, among other festivals. The film now lives on the Criterion Channel. Under his direction, Centuria has become a space for innovative and provocative filmmaking. The company champions marginalized perspectives while celebrating the cultural richness and complexity of life in the region. Through a refined visual language and a commitment to expanding the scope of Caribbean cinema, Centuria seeks to position new voices on the international stage and redefine what Caribbean storytelling can be.

Camilo Martínez — Sound Recordist
With 9 years of experience in direct sound recording and post-production on more than 25 documentary and fiction projects. In fiction, he has worked as direct sound recordist on the features Mañana a esta hora by Lina Rodríguez; Nuguwaymasig (in post-production) by Guillermo Moncayo; Sastre (with Felipe Rayo) by César Heredia. As a boom operator, he has worked on productions such as La tierra y la sombra (2015) by César Acevedo, where he also edited ambient sounds; the Canadian films Sundowners by Pavan Moondi and The Padre by Jonathan Sobol; Siete cabezas by Jaime Osorio; La defensa del dragón by Natalia Santa; the second unit of Loving Pablo by Fernando León de Aranoa; El alma quiere volar (in post-production) by Diana Montenegro; Lavaperros by Carlos Moreno; Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul; and the Mexican feature Driftwood (2020) by Michel Franco.

Diego Ricardo — Production Designer
Diego Ricardo was born in Bogotá in 1993 and is an industrial designer and art director, graduated from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano and ENNAC. He completed the directing workshop series at Congo Films School and founded Los Niños Films in 2014. With over six years of experience, he has primarily worked in the art department, standing out in various national and international projects. His work with Los Niños Films has been recognized at festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, and FID Marseille. He was also the Set Decorator Assistant in Horizonte (2025), directed by César Augusto Acevedo.

Sofia Oggioni — Director of Photography
Sofia Oggioni H. is a Colombian cinematographer with an educational background in arts, and documentary.Her fascination with the artistic properties of light ultimately led to her career in filmmaking, working her way up the ladder from the lighting department to assistant camera and finally DoP and camera operator; this makes her one of the first women cinematographers in Colombia involved in the film industry shooting documentaries and narrative features. She is no stranger to shooting in nature and has developed a sensibility to interpret and complement natural light and color of jungles, rivers, and harsh landscapes, or create light from the darkness in unexplored dry and underwater caves to film studios and urban location setups.

Ella Becerra — Director of Photography
Ella Becerra (Lead actress): Master in Performing Arts, graduated from the Superior Academy of Arts of Bogotá – Actress and stage director. Co-founder of La Maldita Vanidad Teatro (2009) and co-founder of the collective Escena y Sistémica (2020). Winner of the “Golden Laurel” Award for Best Actress at the MESS Festival in Sarajevo in 2012.

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