Colombian Film: THE SILENCE OF THE RIVER | Proimágenes Colombia

Synopsis

Anselmo is a boy who has lost his father. Epifanio, a poor countryman who sees his world threatened by violence. Two parallel stories that are tragically connected by a river. A river that is at once a mass grave where the victims the war wants to condemn to anonymity are disposed of and a river of memory, whose waters flow into forgetfulness, demanding that the deceased be mourned. In this, his directorial debut, Carlos Tribiño observes with contained emotion a landscape that was once beautiful. This landscape and its people provide the background for Anselmo’s rite of initiation, his painful descent to the world of the dead that will rob him of his childhood.