Abrir Monte

“When the Revolution is going to break out, the sun rises like a red bomb, but that day it wasn’t like that”

Between 1925 and 1929, in the mountains of Colombia, there was a group of rebels who took the name The Bolsheviks of Lebanon Tolima, mirroring themselves on the Russian Revolution. María Rojas Arias evokes her experience through a precise, sensory work, which is also a declaration of cinematographic integrity in homage to the resistance of what are considered to be the first Latin-American guerrillas. With sounds and images in black and white, or with red tints, a revealing female voice-over accompanies a work brimming with a deep melancholy about the state of affairs. (SdB)

Spanish Premiere