Biography

Gala del Sol (1996) is a Spanish-Colombian director and screenwriter whose stories revolve around fantastic realism and have a punk aesthetic with a tropical twist. She was a finalist at the Student Academy Awards with her short film Transient Passengers (2018), her thesis from Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. She's a Berlinale Talents B.A 2025 Fellow, and her first feature film, Rains Over Babel, had its World Premiere at Sundance '25 and its European Premiere at IFFR '25.
- IMDb mini biography by: Eloisa De la Rosa

I think that the goal of any director is to get their film seen, and to get it appreciated by the right audiences. We're very lucky and grateful for the audiences that we had at Sundance and at Rotterdam. I had a lot of people come up to me after the screenings, crying sometimes, telling me a little bit of their life story and how the film affected them. That was the goal, you know?

We have to forgive ourselves. If we don't love ourselves, if we can't forgive ourselves for stuff that we've done in the past -- or if we can't forgive other people -- this guilt traps us in our own purgatory. It's about healing the relationship that we have with divinity, whatever that may be for each person.

"I say the style is retro-futuristic, tropical, punk," Gala del Sol tells Latina Media Co. The writer/director is talking about her film Rains Over Babel, which had its world premiere at Sundance on January 26.