Colombian Film: LA CACHERA | Proimágenes Colombia

Synopsis

When a couple fights publicly, leave each other and eventually reconcile as if nothing happened, the neighbors organize them a CACHERA; a bizarre serenade to ridicule them with sharp verses, trumpets, sticks and pans, in the middle of the night.   Cacheras emerge in mid  1900´s, in the region of Montes de Maria in the Bolivar department in the northern region of Colombia, as a social punishment that is manifested as a community strategy that involves the loss of intimacy, where “neighbors know more about our lives than we do”, born from miscegenation (black, indigenous, mulato, sambo), the orality that represents this region in words and lyrics  and gossip in its maximum splendor.