La Bonga: A Film About Memory, Displacement, And The Return To A Vanished Town
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On memory, displacement, and the return to a vanished town.
In 2001, the entire population of the Colombian town La Bonga fled overnight after receiving a death threat from paramilitary forces. More than two decades later, the displaced community sets out on a symbolic return to reclaim the land and history they were forced to abandon.
La Bonga is a powerful and poetic documentary about memory, violence, and resilience. As the villagers walk through dense jungle to the ruins of their former home, the film becomes both a collective act of remembrance and a portrait of the ties between people and place.
A film by Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes
The film will be introduced by Alma Nygaard Aspen of Architects Without Borders
Year: 2023
Length: 77 min.
Language Spanish with English subtitles.
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Om erindring, fordrivelse og tilbagevenden til en forsvunden by.
I 2001 flygtede hele befolkningen i den colombianske by La Bonga natten over, efter at have modtaget en dødstrussel fra paramilitære styrker. Over tyve år senere begiver det fordrevne lokalsamfund sig ud på en symbolsk tilbagevenden for at generobre det land og den historie, de blev tvunget til at forlade.
La Bonga er en stærk og poetisk dokumentar om erindring, vold og modstandskraft. I takt med at landsbyboerne vandrer gennem tæt jungle mod ruinerne af deres tidligere hjem, bliver filmen både en kollektiv erindringshandling og et portræt af båndet mellem mennesker og sted.
En film af Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes
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