Palm Trees in the Snow
2015 · Movie · 164 min · ★ 7.4 · 78% critics
In 2003, a young woman in Spain uncovers a clue that sends her from the snowy mountains to Equatorial Guinea. As she visits the island where her father and uncle spent their youth, she pieces together a family history shaped by love, loss, and the lingering impact of Spain’s colonial past.
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Details
- Original title
- Palmeras en la nieve
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-12-25
- Language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 164 min
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (542 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a sweeping, emotional romance-drama with a historical backdrop and are happy to pay close attention; Not for you if you dislike long melodramas, nudity, or debated colonial themes, like in The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society.
Pros: gripping emotional story; beautiful locations; absorbing historical backdrop | Cons: very long runtime; uneven dubbing options; colonial portrayal criticized
Themes
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- 1970s
- plantation
- forbidden love
- family secrets
- colonialism
- 1950s
- 1960s
- west africa
- 2000s
- african history
- +1 more
Cast & crew
Mario Casas
as Kilian
Adriana Ugarte
as Clarence
Macarena García
as Julia
Alain Hernández
as Jacobo
Berta Vázquez
as Bisila
Djédjé Apali
as Iniko
Daniel Grao
as Manuel
José María Kimbo
as Ose
Fernando Cayo
as Garuz
Celso Bugallo
as Old Kilian
Directed by Fernando González Molina