SILVER

[YO VI TRES LUCES NEGRAS]
With his visually lush, dreamlike sophomore feature, filmmaker Santiago Lozano Álvarez (SIEMBRA) explores the impact of Colombia's ongoing guerrilla and paramilitary conflict on the country's rural population, specifically its Afro-Colombian communities. Seventy-year-old José (Jesús María Mina) lives deep in the rainforest on Colombia's Pacific Coast, where he is a spiritual leader in his remote village. When the ghost of his son, Pium-Pium (Julián Ramirez), a recent victim of the conflict between local paramilitary factions, visits José and warns him about his own impending death, José embarks on a final journey to find a place where his soul can pass peacefully into the afterlife. As he ventures deep into the jungle, encountering a world in which militias and illegal mining have decimated his community, he must dodge bullets, rival gangs and corrupt local officials to save his soul from purgatory. Winner, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography in an Ibero-American Feature Film, 2024 Guadalajara International Film Festival. Official Selection, 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. DIR/SCR Santiago Lozano Álvarez; SCR Fernando del Razo; PROD Ana María Ruiz Navia, Oscar Ruiz Navia. Colombia/Mexico/France/Germany, 2024, color, 87 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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