Gala del Sol
Directing
Biography
Gala del Sol is a Spanish-Colombian director, screenwriter and creative consultant for narrative projects born in 1996, whose stories revolve around fantastic realism and have a punk aesthetic with a tropical twist. She was a finalist for the Student Academy Awards with her short film Pasajeros en trance, her thesis from Chapman University, making her the second Colombian to be nominated in the history of the Student Academy Awards. Rains Over Babel (2025) is her debut feature film.
Known For
In a retro-futuristic, tropical-punk twist on Dante’s Inferno, a group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, where La Flaca—the city’s Grim Reaper—presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death Herself.
Rains Over Babel
A psychological voyage through the memory of time-obsessed office clerk Marcel as he chases the woman who stole his golden pocket watch.
Transient Passengers
On the night his criminal empire begins to collapse, a miami drug lord must choose between repeating the mistakes of the past or breaking the generational cycles that shaped him.
After Vice
The Sandman goes round his nightly routine of putting people in town to sleep. All goes well until he accidentally puts a railway operator to sleep, and finds that he must seek a way to wake him up before two oncoming trains collide with each other.
The Sandman
Two feral children connect emotionally with each other without the need of language.