Igualada + Landslide (Avalancha)

Landslide (Avalancha) (2023)
Dir. Daniel Santiago Cortés Ramírez
25min; DCP
In Spanish with English subtitles

Composed entirely of archival footage, this experimental documentary opens with solely sound: scraping, rattling, and rumbling, like pebbles coming loose and starting to roll down a slope. The earth stirs before it starts to slide. What follows is a procession that runs through time and always takes a different form. A funeral procession, a protest march, a sea of fedoras, uniformed men on horses. And the sound continues to swell. The result is not just a depiction of Colombian history, but of resistance broadly, and the lives lost in its wake.

Igualada (2024)
Dir. Juan Mejia Botero
81min; DCP
In Spanish with English subtitles

Deemed “rousing and intimate” by Variety, Botero’s film follows the 2022 campaign of Francia Márquez, a Black woman from a rural background in her pursuit of Colombia’s presidency. The film’s title, defined by an opening caption as “a derogatory term (based on class, race and gender) used to designate someone who acts as if they deserve rights and privileges that supposedly don’t correspond to them,” is transformed through Márquez’s campaign, drawing the historically underrepresented into the nation’s political process. Filmed over the course of 15 years, Botero provides a portrait that is both personal and socially moving.