RAINS OVER BABEL

2025 (Colombia, Spain, USA)

Director: Gala del Sol

Duration: 113 min

Colombian writer-director Gala del Sol's stylish debut feature is an audacious, ambitious, kaleidoscopic carnival of queerness. Rains Over Babel first began to take shape during Covid lockdown, initially as a kind of shared group therapy project between del Sol and her team of young theatre actors, before gradually evolving into a full-blooded screen drama about a group of misfits that converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, where La Flaca (Saray Rebolledo), the city's Grim Reaper, presides.