Colombia in My Arms
Jenni Kivistö and Jussi Rastas
Visually strong documentary about Colombia after the peace agreement between the government and the FARC guerrillas. Will the fragile peace deal survive the distrust and rancour built up by decades of war? With elections coming up, some politicians hope to gain from exploiting the tensions even further.
When in 2016 the Colombian government reaches a peace agreement with the biggest left-wing guerrilla group FARC, the promise of ‘a new Colombia’ is on the horizon. But it soon turns out to be very hard to rise above decades of war and pain.
With a calm and poetic cinematography, Colombia in My Arms tells the story from different perspectives. The guerrilla’s in the woods, preparing to hand in their weapons and trying to accept that their fight will be a political one from now on. The ‘old money’ elites, who shudder at the thought of FARC gaining power. The political establishment, cynically exploiting tensions in society for their own political gain. And the workers on the coca fields, summing it all up by saying: ‘The chaos starts at the top, not at the bottom.’
Credits
- Director
- Jenni Kivistö and Jussi Rastas
- Type
- Documentary
- Country
- Finland, France, Denmark, Norway
- Year
- 2020
- Spoken language
- Spanish
Theatres, dates and times (updated when more dates are announced)
- Alkmaar
- Tue 15 Feb at 19:00 in Filmhuis Alkmaar
- Amersfoort
- Mon 14 Feb at 19:15 in De Lieve Vrouw
- Amsterdam
- in Kriterion
- Apeldoorn
- Tue 8 Feb at 20:00 in Gigant
- Arnhem
- Wed 23 Feb at 19:00 in Focus Filmtheater
- Delft
- Thu 10 Feb at 19:30 in Filmhuis Lumen
- Den Haag
- Sun 13 Feb at 14:30 in Filmhuis Den Haag
- Deventer
- Mon 28 Feb at 20:00 in MIMIK
- Enschede
- Mon 21 Feb at 19:30 in Concordia
- Groningen
- Tue 8 Feb at 20:30 in Vera Zienema
- Hilversum
- Tue 8 Feb at 20:00 in Filmtheater Hilversum
- Leiden
- Mon 14 Feb at 19:00 in Kijkhuis
- Maastricht
- Wed 23 Feb at 19:30 in Lumière
- Middelburg
- Thu 17 Feb at 20:00 in Cinema Middelburg
- Nijmegen
- in LUX
- Utrecht
- Mon 14 Feb in Louis Hartlooper Complex
- Wageningen
- Tue 15 Feb at 19:30 in Movie W
- Zevenaar
- Wed 16 Feb at 19:30 in Filmhuis Zevenaar
- Online
- in Picl