Proxima Competition / Forenses / Colombia 2024
The signing of the peace accord between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas in 2016 led to the formation of the Search Unit for Missing Persons. The act of finding and identifying the missing was thus seen as essential for rebuilding a nation, whose identity is shaped by those who disappeared. This experimental essay interweaves three stories: a female director reconstructing the life of a dead transgender woman through film; an intimate study of the filmmaker’s family, who also dealt with a missing relative; and the testimony of forensic pathologist Karen Quintero. This formally unremitting work finds a compelling balance between the personal and the political, adding conceptual reflections on the texture of the region, on cartography, and the unspoken traumas of Colombia’s modern history.
Vojtěch Kočárník
91 min / Color, Black & White, DCP
International premiere
Director Federico Atehortúa Arteaga
/ Screenplay Katalina Ángel
/ Dir. of Photography Nicolás Pinzón
/ Music José Delgadillo
/ Sound Diana Martínez, José Delgadillo
/ Editor Verónica Balduzzi
/ Art Director Katalina Ángel
/ Producer Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga
/ Production Invasión Cine
/ Coproduction Guateque Cine
/ Contact Invasión Cine
Federico Atehortúa Arteaga. Filmography: Mute Fire (Pirotecnia, 2019, doc.), Forensics (Forenses, 2025, doc.).
Invasión Cine
, , Bogotá
Colombia
Phone: +57 311 237 7723
E-mail: [email protected]
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