Under shadows cast by colossal oil refineries, emerging from the desert like chrome cathedrals, SO FOUL A SKY presents a journey through several frontier lands of Venezuela – the world's first petrostate – now shaken by the worst political and humanitarian crisis South America has experienced in the 21st century.

While storm clouds gather in the skies, sleepy soldiers patrol the Caribbean Seas, migrants drift through lugubrious border posts between Brazil and Venezuela, and smugglers venture across the hostile Guajira Desert, trafficking the last remaining barrels of embargoed gasoline. All is enveloped by scrambled radio newsreels fired from both sides of the ideological struggle ripping the capital apart.

This is a film portraying pirates and pilgrims, orphaned children of a land that they have made their own without planting flags or imposing anthems; anarchic just like the hovering storm clouds threatening to put an end to the limbo all inhabit.

"A lyrical piece oscillating between distant lanscapes and intrusive intimacy. It is meant to be inhabited through all the senses as some sort of space rather than merely watched as a linear narrative following clear character lines." Director Alvaro F. Pulpeiro on the https://truestoryfilm.blog/

Dir. Alvaro F. Pulpeiro - 83min - 2021 - Columbia, Spain, UK

"A dark and sensory road movie through Venezuela, based on Joseph Conrad. A visionary mood report from a country on the brink of collapse." - CPH Dox

"this strikingly photographed documentary is a lament in response to the political and humanitarian crisis the country has faced in the last decade....a courageous expedition into a bitumen-stained heart of darkness." - Guardian

"the road movie embeds itself with a series of individuals throughout a country on the brink of economic and political collapse." - ScreenDaily

"A lyrical piece oscillating between distant landscapes and intrusive intimacy" - Variety