Palm Trees in the Snow

Palm Trees in the Snow

Based on thousands of real stories

2015 · 164 min · ★ 7.4 · Drama, History, Romance

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

Directed by Fernando González Molina · Written by Sergio G. Sánchez

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