Olivia & the Clouds

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.

• Olga Valdez as Olivia
• Héctor Aníbal as Ramón
• Elsa Núñez as Doña Olivia
• Fery Cordero Bello as Mauricio
• Dominique Goris as Barbara
• Fidia Peralta as Yudelkis
• Lill Taveras as Laura
• Rebecca Dalmasí as Graciela
• Cesar Calcagno as Arturo
• Ricardo Ariel Toribio as Vendedor de flores / Marinero

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.^[1]

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.^[2] Prior to its premiere, Miyu Distribution acquired the film's distribution rights.^[3]

It also competed at the 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival,^[4] in the Sutherland Trophy section of the 2024 BFI London Film Festival where it won a special mention,^[5] in the Harbour section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam screened in February 2025,^[6] in the Contrechamp section of the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival^[7] and in the International Animated Feature Films Competition of the 2025 Guadalajara International Film Festival where it won best international animated film.^[8]

The film had a limited theatrical release on June 19, 2025, in Dominican theaters in the Fine Arts chain.^[9]