Andrés Davila

Sol, a bitter music teacher, and Camilo, a young blind man who dreams of being a pianist, run a makeshift academy for students with disabilities.

Barranca travels with his mariachi band to a remote town with the mission of offering a serenade. With no more clue than a voice mail from the client who forgot to give him the address and the name of the woman to whom they should sing, Barranca starts a desperate search through all the village.

Inspired by the name of an oil town in Texas, Sour Lake was the name given by Texaco in the sixties to a small town in the Ecuadorian jungle, known in Spanish as Lago Agrio. This name underlies the framework that builds the film: from the surroundings of this city to the Colombian Andes, where the jungle vegetation merges with the mountains.

In the Sibundoy Valley, Mercedes Cuatindioy cultivates her chagra as an act of resistance and remembrance. Between seeds and polyculture practices, her life embodies the transmission of indigenous knowledge threatened by oblivion.

In the mid-1970s, as a child, Susana accompanied her father, Pedro Juajibioy, on various journeys throughout the Putumayo region, where he collected plants while dreaming of establishing a botanical garden in his hometown of Sibundoy. Today, together with Susana and Brayan—a young botanist from Sibundoy—we traverse those same paths in the Colombian Amazon, following in the footsteps of Pedro, who is well-known for having accompanied the ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes on his explorations of the region between 1941 and 1953. This legacy lives on through the work of Brayan; inspired by Pedro’s original garden—which was destroyed by a landslide in 2000—he has created a new conservation space in Sibundoy and resumed the task of collecting and caring for plants. "A river of deep, luminous waters" accompanies these journeys, revealing how knowledge is passed down through generations and remains vibrant among those who continue to practice it within their own territory.

Sol, a bitter music teacher, and Camilo, a young blind man who dreams of being a pianist, run a makeshift academy for students with disabilities.

Inspired by the name of an oil town in Texas, Sour Lake was the name given by Texaco in the sixties to a small town in the Ecuadorian jungle, known in Spanish as Lago Agrio. This name underlies the framework that builds the film: from the surroundings of this city to the Colombian Andes, where the jungle vegetation merges with the mountains.

In the Sibundoy Valley, Mercedes Cuatindioy cultivates her chagra as an act of resistance and remembrance. Between seeds and polyculture practices, her life embodies the transmission of indigenous knowledge threatened by oblivion.

In the mid-1970s, as a child, Susana accompanied her father, Pedro Juajibioy, on various journeys throughout the Putumayo region, where he collected plants while dreaming of establishing a botanical garden in his hometown of Sibundoy. Today, together with Susana and Brayan—a young botanist from Sibundoy—we traverse those same paths in the Colombian Amazon, following in the footsteps of Pedro, who is well-known for having accompanied the ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes on his explorations of the region between 1941 and 1953. This legacy lives on through the work of Brayan; inspired by Pedro’s original garden—which was destroyed by a landslide in 2000—he has created a new conservation space in Sibundoy and resumed the task of collecting and caring for plants. "A river of deep, luminous waters" accompanies these journeys, revealing how knowledge is passed down through generations and remains vibrant among those who continue to practice it within their own territory.