Olivia & the Clouds

Olivia & the Clouds (Spanish: Olivia & Las Nubes) is a 2024 Dominican adult animated experimental drama film written and directed by Tomás Pichardo Espaillat in his feature directorial debut. The film had its world premiere at the 77th Locarno Film Festival on 15 August 2024. Olivia and The Clouds explores love's complexities through the Rashomon effect. Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds. In an interview with Loud and Clear, Pichardo Espaillat revealed that the production of the film began ten years prior. Different animators contributed different animation techniques to the film. "The film has these different points of views and characters, so I could play around with that idea in the visuals. All these people could bring their own styles and ways of working," he explained. Olivia & the Clouds had its world premiere at the 77th Locarno Film Festival on 15 August 2024, competing for the Concorso Cineasti del Presente award.