The Pink Cloud

Iuli Gerbase’s debut feature is an eerily prescient sci-fi parable, made entirely pre-COVID, about a global threat which forces the world’s population to stay indoors. The threat in question is a mysterious and deadly pink cloud of unknown origin which is life threatening for anyone who comes into contact with it. Strangers at the outset, Giovana and Yago are on a one night stand when the lockdown begins but as years pass, Yago creates his own utopia while Giovana feels trapped deep inside. A dreamily compelling psychodrama.

‘While I was writing the script, I was always thinking: What should I explain? I didn’t want to explain that much. I thought that the more explanation I gave, the more explanations the viewer would look for. One of my references for the film was The Exterminating Angel by Buñuel, because they’re all stuck in that house and there’s not much of an explanation. Why are they stuck? Why, suddenly, at the end of the film, are they not stuck anymore? What’s happening? You don’t know. The Pink Cloud is also a movie about the relationship between people and how they’re getting crazy during this lockdown and not so much about the physical explanation of their confinement.’

Iuli Gerbase, Director