COLOMBIA • 75′
a movie by CATALINA VILLAR
Medellin, too well know as the cartel’s city. An unbelievable level of violence. The suffering of the peasants chased off their lands, eaten away by war, overpopulation, unemployment. The first victims of this violence are the young children and the adolescents. Surviving is managed by trying to cling on to anything offering some semblance of peace: women (from families often reduced to their vestiges), school (bereft of means), the church (omnipresent). In a school run by quite a surprising teacher, adolescents attempt, try to write in their “Notebooks” the stories of their violent lives, to establish something they can depend on for orientation. Millerdad and Sandra, Maria-Eugenia and Doralba, Juan-Carlos and Camilo tell about their mother’s kindness, the absence of fathers, the battle to survive, and above all, childhood and the will to live.
FESTIVALS
PRIX DECOUVERTE SCAM (France 1999)
PRIX DU LONG METRAGE ET PRIX DU PUBLIC (Switzerland 1998)
HOW TO GET THE FILM
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LETTER OF AGREEMENT FOR FESTIVALS AND DISTRIBUTION
ADDITIONAL IMAGES
CREDIT
author-director CATALINA VILLAR
producer JACQUES BIDOU
productions JBA PRODUCTION, ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP, LA SEPT ARTE, PERIFILMS
image CARLOS SANCHEZ
sound CéSAR SALAZAR
year of production 1998
RPCA 91 661
all rights reserved
LANGUAGES
in Spanish – subtitled in French / in English – beta num and beta sp pal mono 4/3 – photography: all rights reserved