CIELO (Awake & Aware)

O Cinema's Awake & Aware Series Continues!

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Eight-year-old Santa frees her mother from the hands of an abusive father. Infused with the powers of a goldfish she swallowed whole, she sets off on a fantastical road trip toward a heaven in the sky she believes is as real as the ground beneath her. On her journey through the otherworldly Bolivian Altiplano, Santa tests the faith of a priest, befriends a troupe of cholita wrestlers, and clashes with a burnt-out cop grieving the death of his wife. Eyes firmly on the horizon, she leaves a trail of miracles in her wake and prompts her unlikely followers to question everything they believed was possible.

Shot against the otherworldly landscapes of the Bolivian highlands, Alberto Sciamma's CIELO moves between grim reality and pure fable without ever losing its footing, funny and unsettling and strangely tender all at once. It's the masterpiece of a filmmaker who spent thirty years chasing eccentric premises without quite landing one, until now.

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