Surrounded by the grandiose rocks of a Mexican beach, two couples of young painters bend the moral rules set upon them, while an obscure strange figure observes. Their audacity will be judged and punished, sealing their destinies forever.
WAKE OF UMBRA reflects on the clash between the old Mexican rurality and the contemporary world —immersed in instantaneous and thoughtless communication— and presents love as the most intimate fabric of humanity, and the taste for judgment as the calamity of our time.
Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican film director, writer, and producer.
At the end of the 1990s, he made four short films in Belgium, and in 2002, he finished his first feature film, JAPÓN, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, where it received a special mention from the Camera d’Or.
In 2005, his second film, BATTLE IN HEAVEN, premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. At the same festival, in 2007, he was awarded the Jury Prize for SILENT LIGHT and in 2012, the Best Director for POST TENEBRAS LUX. In 2018, OUR TIME premiered in the Venice competition. He is presently preparing WAKE OF UMBRA. In 2022, he published Presence (AnDante), a meditative essay that contests the concept of cinema as representation.
