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Completed - SPANISH - First film, Drama, Social issues - 79 minutes

Log Line

VIOLENCE is a cinematographic essay about the common daily violence in Colombia.

Previous markets

  • Ventana Sur 2013 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2014 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2015 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Jorge FORERO
Writer(s) : Jorge FORERO
Cast : David ALDANA, Rodrigo VÉLEZ, Nelson CAMAYO

Producer(s) : Diana DUSTAMANTE (Burning Blue), Paola PÉREZ (Burning Blue)

Synopsis

A man in chains, another younger man who dreams of belonging, and a militant from an armed group forced to commit acts of cruelty he doesn’t believe in are all trapped in a circle of violence they don’t understand. As the film’s three successive stories unfold, they bring three separate, totally unique faces to the tragic reality of war. The characters, each of them voluntary and involuntary cogs in a mechanism bigger than themselves, reveal their greatness or poverty in the “minimal” tasks they perform in order to survive. From out of this at times macabre poetry of the everyday and the irrefutable truth in details, we discover a country whose social body is sick and wounded, and yet continues to seek happiness, dream, and love.

Production

Country(ies) : COLOMBIA

Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2015 Forum
Gent IFF 2015 Feature Films
Stockholm IFF 2015 Latin Visions
Istanbul 2015 (Mined Zone)
Riviera Maya 2015 (Panorama)
Curitiba 2015 (Competition)
Split 2015 (Competion - Opening films)
Ars Independent 2015 (Competition Black Horse)
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal 2015 (Panorama)
FICCI Cartagena 2016 Colombian corner


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