Colombian Film: THE HOUSE OF MAMA ICHA | Proimágenes Colombia

Synopsis

Mamá Icha feels the end of her life very close and only thinks about one thing: going back to her native Mompox. Decades ago she has immigrated to the United States to help her daughter in the care of the grandchildren. She dreams about being swinging between the arms of the Magdalena River when the sun sets, surrounded by her family and neighbors in the backyard of the house she built during the years of absence with the money she used to send from abroad. But the idyllic world of his memories is confronted when he returns home with greed, laziness and deteriorated family relationships. Mama Icha’s house is an observational documentary that portraits the heroic return of Maria Donisia Navarro to Colombia. It is a film that explores the legacies of migration and immerses us in the heartbreaking reality implicit in family power struggles when seniors become dependent on the care of others.