Get to know the full list of Colombian films that will be screened at the Toulouse Film Festival

There will be no few Colombian film shows that are ready to be screened at the Toulouse Film Festival; in fact, renowned titles make up the luxury exhibition that will represent the country at the film symposium that has already begun and which will run until next Sunday, April 3rd.

The Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine in Toulouse, now known as the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival, is an event that has been held in the old continent since 1989 and which, sacredly, is dedicated to films produced in this part of the planet; this with the aim of strengthening artistic and cultural ties between the two areas, as well as in the media and among the French public, so that they can learn a small part of the great contributions being made, for example, by Colombian industry.

In its 34th edition, the Festival will be attended by outstanding exponents such as María Matiz, Gisela Restrepo Triviño, Germán Arango, Joan Gómez Endara, Iván Guarnizo, Ángela Matiz, Juan José Lozano and Inti Jimena Zamora Martínez, all of whom will be responsible for announcing their titles to be screened.

Now, focusing on national cinema, for the Fiction Feature Film Competition will be 'El arrojo 'by filmmaker Joan Gómez and whose premiere will be, precisely, at this event. The story focuses on the death of his father, Eliécer, and the responsibility he will have in taking care of his half-sister, named Esperanza. Her mission: to travel with her to the city to find the birth mother of the little girl.

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'On the other side' by José Guarnizo, participates in the Documentary Feature Film Competition. This format, which focuses on the signing of the Peace Agreement between the national Government and the extinct FARC guerrillas and the subsequent hope that the territories could see an iota of ceasefire between armed groups.

However, the footage shows the escalation of violence, reaching the point that Guarnizo and his brother are engaged in investigating the abduction of their mother. 'Songs that flood the river', a film that shows how Oneida learned the tradition of singing to the dead and their souls on their journey to the light. These songs, today, are pieces of resistance that account for the escalation of violence in their territory.

Ana Katalina Carmona's 'The Enemies' is present in the Short Film Competition, as well as 'Aurora and the house of lights', by María and Angela Matiz. In Documentary Discoveries, Andrés Wiesner's 'The Cats' competes, which focuses on Dilan, a young man who regains his freedom after spending seven years in prison for complicity in a homicide, learning about the deaths of his mother, grandmother and sister.

Reprises will screen 'Memoria', the film by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and 'The Oblivion We Will Be, 'by Spaniard Fernando Trueba, which recreates the intimate life and social struggles of Héctor Abad Gómez through a narrative as charged with emotions as in the eponymous literary work of his son, Héctor Abad Faciolince.

For its part, 'Under silence and earth' will be in Panorama des associations. There will also be a meeting between its director, Gisela Restrepo Triviño, with Carlos Martín Beristain and Lucía González, both members of the Truth Commission, in which they will talk about the disappearance and extermination of former combatants in Colombia following the signing of the Agreement in 2016.

Finally, the independent project 'Cali: Everyone Shout' will have its space at the festival, an ideal window to show the power of the protests that occurred during the April 2021 National Parade in this city, as well as the repression that took place against protesters. In this sense, 'Guerrilla Memories' by the David Marín collective will be shown, as well as the stories of 50 ex-combatants who decided to leave the war to start a life away from arms, but with prejudice, threats and neglect in tow.

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