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The Land of the Whale

2025 · 79 min

A quiet, haunting meditation that drifts like a memory, asking you to sit with loss and beauty.

Directed by: Armando Capó

Overview: For filmmaker Armando Capó, the southeastern Cuban town of Gibara is a place of ghosts, haunted by his lost youth, a bustling past that cannot be recovered — and the skeleton of a whale. THE LAND OF THE WHALE is a beautiful meditation on craft, beauty, aging, the transmission of knowledge, and what it means to be an artist.

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Directed by: Armando Capó

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
aging
art
isolation
environment
Places: small town
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	4
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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