Red Moon Tide

Director: Lois Patiño

2020 / 84min / DCP

Patiño (2023’s Samsara) draws from the deep well of Galician mythology for his meditative fiction feature debut, set in a seaside village in northwestern Spain—also the setting of his documentary Coast of Death—that has been rocked by news of the disappearance of a diver, Rubio (Rubio de Camelle), renowned locally for his ability to retrieve shipwrecked sailors’ bodies. Their motionless vigil is overlaid with lyrical voiceover monologues, which are interrupted by the arrival of three witches tasked with searching for the absent Rubio. “A portrait of a seaside village suspended in an extraordinary catatonia. Its transfixion is contagious… A majestic vision.” —The New York Times