THE BRIBE OF HEAVEN

EL SOBORNO DEL CIELO

By Lisandro DUQUE

CINE GLOBAL - as DISTR

Black comedy - Completed 2016

In a small Catholic village, the community stands against the local priest when the latter refuses to offer a funeral mass for a suicide victim. In reprisal, the priest denies the sacraments to the entire town, until the family of the deceased remove the body from the catholic graveyard.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2013
Encuentro Coproducción
Guadalajara FICG 2013
Encuentro Coproducción
Huelva 2013
Encuentro Coproducción
IBERMEDIA 2013
Ayuda Coproducción
Fondo de Cinematografía - Colombia 2013
Premio Escritura
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Black comedy
    • Countries
    • COLOMBIA, MEXICO
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Lisandro DUQUE
    • Writer(s)
    • Lisandro DUQUE
    • Producer(s)
    • Anais DOMINGUEZ (GESTIONARTE CINE), Concepción TABOADA (SPECTRUM FILMS), Rogelio CHACÓN (SIXAOLA PRODUCCIONES)
    • Synopsis
    • This is the story of a confrontation between a Catholic community and the parish priest due to the refusal of the priest to carry out the funeral of somebody who has committed suicide. Furthermore, the priest also refuses to administer Holy Sacraments to the whole of the villagers asa way of revenge against those who support the dead man. Pressed by this measure, people stop supporting the deceased and his family. In response to this, the family of the dead man escalates the conflict and requests that all those who have committed suicide be unburied and moved to the non‐religious cemetery.