retratos en un mar de mentiras

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Director(s):

Carlos Gaviria

Description:

After the death of their grandfather in a mudslide, Jairo, an itinerant photographer, and Marina, his young amnesic and mute cousin, decide to go back and try to recover the land from which she was displaced years ago. They travel from Bogota to the coast in an old beaten Renault 4. During the trip the story of her traymatic past starts to unfol. Upon reaching their hometown, paramilitaries kidnap them. While attempting to flee, Jairo is wounded. Marina goes to the ruins of her family house and there she remembers the killing of her family. She returns with the deed of their land but Jairo is fading fast. She takes him to die by the sea.