WITH THE LIPS CLOSED

SIN MOVER LOS LABIOS

By Carlos OSUNA

MALTA CINE - as PROD

Second film - Completed 2015

Carlos is a talentless ventriloquist that loves her mother as much as he hates her. When she dies he finally meets success but inevitably he will end up hugging her now transformed into a dummy.

Festivals
& Awards

Stockholm IFF 2015
Twilight Zone
FICCI Cartagena 2016
Official Colombian Cinema Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Second film, Drama, Black comedy
    • Countries
    • COLOMBIA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carlos OSUNA
    • Writer(s)
    • Carlos OSUNA, Juan Mauricio RUIZ
    • Producer(s)
    • Juan Mauricio RUIZ
    • Synopsis
    • With the lips closed tells the story of Carlos, a talentless ventriloquist that since he was a little child has been told by his mother to participate in talent shows where he always ends up losing, crying and hugging her.

      He grows older (45) and becomes a worse person every day. He is vicious, perverted, sadistic, and, worst of all, he is still a ventriloquist.

      Suddenly his mother dies so he tries to change his life. He leaves his job, his girlfriend, betrays Chalo and gets another girlfriend. Everything moves chaotically. New people, new circumstances but the same decadent human being who does not know how to face this “new” life who turns out to be very similar to the past.
      Inevitably, Carlos will end up embracing his mother once again but this time transformed into a dummy.
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Jul 17, 2014
    • End of shooting
    • Aug 14, 2014