Identity

I do not know If I should win. I know I want to go there. Not much into this dynamique "winning"-"loosing". Anyway.

I am Colombian living in Switzerland. Right now I am writing my master's dissertation and preparing my PhD project, both, on the funerary rites around the violence of armed conflict in a small town in the Colombian Magdalena Medio. Thus the film I have entered.

As many urban upper middle classe Colombians, I really do not know my country. Media and prejudices have done quite a job in our state of mind.

To me going back to rural Colombia is a way to rediscover my own Identity and the magic of a culture often misunderstood by locals and foreigners alike.