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Fantastic Pavilion Discovery ‘The Day is Long and Dark’ Reveals Trailer, First Images (EXCLUSIVE)

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Marta Balaga Julio Hernández Cordón’s vampire tale “The Day is Long and Dark” (“El Día es Largo y Oscuro”) is unveiling first images and trailer, which world premieres at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion.

Alina Rojas, Diana Bustamante and Hernández Cordón produce, for La Mitad del Continente (Mexico) and Burning (Colombia). The film, currently in post-production, dives into a complicated family dynamic as Vera, a 17-year-old girl, needs to learn how to live with her “vampirism gene.”  Prisoners of the sun, she and her father, Cruz, spend their days in hotel rooms until she can’t take it: Feeling guilty and misunderstood, and missing her boyfriend she is afraid of hurting, Vera wants to die.

Suddenly, her father – who is also a film director – has two missions in life. He can’t let her attack anyone but he also needs to make sure she doesn’t commit suicide.

Luis Alberti and Carla Nieto star, with Mila Mijangos and Eli Acosta making their feature debut. The score is by Alberto Torres and band Hospital de México, with Alexa Bas on board as a cinematographer. “It’s a story about DNA, about what we inherit and the cycles we repeat in our families.

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