A group of friends decide to visit a forest on the city’s outskirts, despite the warning and restrictions placed due to a strange moss that has recently invaded the area. The characters play, sing, and display their bodies freely in this place, where reality warps gradually and intertwines with their stories, fantasies, and dreams.
You Made Me See the Sky is a neo-pastoral and queer film where the organic merges with the inorganic. A group of queer people go on an expedition into the heart of the forest, transgressing the limits imposed by the authorities and entering an area contaminated with lichens that grow and expand uncontrollably. Not only do these lichens take over the space, but they also intoxicate the minds of those who touch them. However, the queer touch produces a kind of fusion that feels like a second transgression. The space of the forest being is reclaimed and absorbed by the body, only to become a digital matrix, warm and red, flickering in the dark like a home to return to. (Emilian Lungu)
Luis Esguerra Cifuentes graduated in Audiovisual Communication and Multimedia, and in Social Communication and Journalism from La Sabana University (Bogotá, Colombia). Between 2017 and 2018, he worked as a programming assistant for the Cartagena de Indias lFF (FICCI) and, from 2018 to 2020, he was a programming coordinator at the Bogotá IFF, where he currently works as a programmer. In 2019 he founded the production and distribution firm Bruma Cine. His first experimental short film, Lo Espeso (2018), was screened at international film festivals in Brazil, Spain and Mexico, among other countries. The Night Shatters My Shadows (2020), has been presented at festivals including the 42nd Havana FF and the Twelfth UNAM IFF (FICUNAM).