A Thousand Days, A Thousand Nights

A Thousand Days, A Thousand Nights

A Thousand Days, A Thousand Nights

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A Thousand Days, A Thousand Nights

2025

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A study of light on nature, a lyrical film in the first person that records in an abstract and impressionistic way where the vision is altered to the pulse of a time that accelerates and stops.

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Directed by: Emiliano Cativa

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