LA IMPRESION DE UNA GUERRA
SYNOPSIS
(Eng)
For over 70 years, Colombia has been confronted with internal armed conflict. Over the years, the outlines of the conflict have grown indistinct. A climate of generalized violence has gradually settled over society as a whole.
Violence and barbarity have worked themselves into every aspect of daily life, and fine traces of it mark the streets. Through a multitude of these traces, perhaps the narrative of this hazy war will finally take a firmer shape.
“Impression of a War” offers a vision of some of those deliberate, accidental, ostensible, fleeting or dissimulated marks. They are often signs of the struggle against oblivion, indifference and impunity.
(FR)
La Colombie est confrontée depuis plus de 70 ans à un conflit armé interne, dont les contours ont, au fil des ans, largement perdu de leur netteté. Progressivement s’est installé un climat de violence généralisé à l’échelle de la société.
La violence et la barbarie ont fini par imprégner tous les aspects de la vie quotidienne, laissant dans les rues ses traces ténues. C’est peut-être par une multitude de ces traces que le récit de cette guerre diffuse prendrait enfin corps.
« L’impression d’une guerre » donne à voir quelques une de ces marques, volontaires ou accidentelles, ostensibles, fugaces ou dissimulées. Souvent signes de lutte contre l’oubli, l’indifférence et l’impunité.
(ESP)
Colombia se confronta desde hace más de 70 años a un conflicto armado interno, cuyos contornos han perdido con el tiempo nitidez. Progresivamente se ha instalado un clima de violencia generalizada a la escala de la sociedad.
La violencia y la barbarie han impregnado todos los aspectos de la vida cotidiana, dejando en las calles sus marcas tenues. Es quizá por una multitud de esas marcas que el relato de esta guerra difusa se encarnaría por fin.
“La impresión de una guerra” muestra algunas de estas marcas, voluntarias o accidentales, ostensibles, fugaces o disimuladas. A menudo signos de lucha contra el olvido, la indiferencia y la impunidad.
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English title: Impression of a War
Original language: Spanish
Original format: 16mm film
Distribution format: DCP with French subtitles / DCP with English subtitles /
DCP original version without subtitles /
H.264 format
Length: 26 min
Production countries: Colombia – France
Production company: 529 Dragons
Distribution:
contact@camilo-restrepo-films.net
2015
AWARDS
Pardino d’argento concorso internazionale (Festival del Film Locarno 2015
Mikeldi de oro documental (Zinebi 2015)
Award to the best photography (X Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife 2015)
Mención especial xurado Radar (Curtocircuito 2015
Best Short-film (Festival de Cine de Cartagena de Indias 2016)
Best documentary short film (IndieLisboa 2016)
Prix qualité (CNC)
Best short documentary (Dokufest 2016)
Shortlisted Award for Emerging Voices 2016 (Oppenheimer founds & Financial Times)
Prix ex æquo (Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris 2016)
Best short documentary (Bogoshorts 2016)
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
2015 :
FESTIVAL DEL FILM LOCARNO
Locarno (Switzerland) PREMIERE
FESTIVAL CURTOCIRCUÍTO
Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE VALDIVIA
Valdivia (Chile)
2MORROW/ZAVTRA
Moscow (Russia)
MAR DEL PLATA FILM FESTIVAL
Mar del Plata (Argentina)
ZINEBI DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Bilbao (Spain)
RIDM – RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DU DOCUMENTAIRE DE MONTRÉAL
Montréal (Canada)
STOCKHOLM FILM FESTIVAL
Sweden (Stockholm)
ANTOFADOCS
Antofagasta (Chile)
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DEL NUEVO CINE LATINOAMÉRICANO
La Habana (Cuba)
33 FESTIVAL TOUS COURTS AIX EN PROVENCE
Aix en Provence (France)
TABAKALERA
San Sébastian (Spain)
TRANSCINEMAFESTIVAL.
Quito (Perú)
2016 :
LES INNATENDUS
Lyon (France)
FICUNAM
Mexico D.F. (Mexico)
FESTIVAL DE CINE DE CARTAGENA (FICCI)
Cartagena (Colombia)
CINELATINO – 28ES RENCONTRES DE TOULOUSE
Toulouse (France)
ART OF THE REAL
New York. (USA
34º FESTIVAL CINEMATOGRÁFICO INTERNACIONAL DEL URUGUAY
Montevideo (Uruguay)
EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL (EMAF)
Osnabrück (Germany)
KYIV INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Kyev (Ukraine)
TRUE/FALSE FILM FESTIVAL
Columbia (USA)
INDIELISBOA
Lisbon (Portugal)
OBERHASUEN FILM FESTIVAL
Oberhausen (Germany)
EDOC
Quito – Guayaquil (Ecuador)
PANORAMA DU CINÉMA COLOMBIEN 2016
Paris (France)
DOCUMENTARIST ISTANBUL DOCUMENTARY DAYS
Istanbul (Turkey)
IMAGES CONTRE NATURE 2016
Toulouse (France)
DOKUFEST
Prizren (Kosova)
ETATS GÉNÉRAUX DU FILM DOCUMENTAIRE
Lussas (France)
SHORTSMEXICO
Mexico D.F. (Mexico)
DIE ÄSTHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS – PETER WEISS 100
Berlin (Germany)
21° FESTIVAL DE CINE INTERNACIONAL DE OURENSE
Focus Camilo Restrepo . Ourense (Spain)
CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTES DA IMAXE
La Coruña (Spain)
INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE WINTERTHUR
Winterthur (Switzerland)
BOGOSHORTS
Bogotá (Colombia)
2017:
CLERMONT FERRAND SHORT-FILM FESTIVAL
Clermont Ferrand (France)
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
Veracity : New Documentary Cinema
Seattle (USA)
FESTIVAL DE CINE DE CARTAGENA (FICCI)
Focus Colombia. Cartagena (Colombia)
AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Palm Springs (USA)
IMAGES FILM FESTIVAL
Toronto (Canada)
10TH SUBVERSIVE FESTIVAL
Zagreb (Croatia)
CORTO CIRCUITO
RetrospectivA Camilo Restrepo
Cali (Colombia)
FESTIVAL DE CINE CORTO DE ENVIGADO
Envigado (Colombia)
SEMINARIO: REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA VIOLENCIA EN COLOMBIA DESDE LA ESTÉTICA DEL DISENSO
Seminario abierto a cargo de Diana Kuellar.
HEARING EYES, SEEING EARS
Screening 8th August 2017
Images Festival at New Media Society in Tehran (Iran)
OČI KOJE ČUJU, UŠI KOJE VIDE
Screening 25th auugust 2017
Images Festival at Belgrade (Serbia)
SCREENING AT ISMO, ISMO, ISMO
Los Angeles (U.S.A.) October 29Th
PROJECTION À L’ÉCRAN VOISIN
Paris (France) October 8th
THE MUSICAL POLITICS OF CAMILO RESTREPO
Retrospective at the Institute of Modern Art:
Brisbane (Australia) 16th November
RÉTROSPECTIVE LE CINÉMA COLOMBIEN : HIER, AUJOURD’HUI, DEMAIN
Cinemathèque Française December 9Th
Paris (France)
EXPOSITION ATTACHES
Retrospective Cité International des Arts
Paris (France)
2018:
AGAINST THE NATIONAL PROJECT:
MEMORY AND MOBILITY IN CONTEMPORARY COLOMBIAN CINEMA
Cuarted by Juana Suárez
6th March 2018
Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (UK)
RETROSPECTIVE CAMILO RESTREPO
Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida III
Cuenca (Ecuador)
Dark Matter: Collective, Singular and Parodic Resistance
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
21st September 2018 (Check)
TROPIC POCKET: RECENT WORKS BY CAMILO RESTREPO
Union Docs – New York (USA) Curated by Cecilia Barrrionuevo
22nd March 2018
GHOSTS AND SONGS (RETROSPECTIVE)
Conversations at the Edge
School of the Art Institut of Chicago
20th September
Chicago (USA)
CINE POR VENIR. VI EDICIÓ
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno IVAM
23rd October 2018
Valencia (Spain)
THE COMPILER SCREENINGS 2018
co-curated by Bruno Quiblier and Chantal Molleur
Basel (Switzerland)
VOD
MUBI August – September 2017
Bref Cinema (online from Novemner 2017 to February 2018)
https://www.brefcinema.com/colombie/la-impresion-de-una-guerra.html
INTERNATIONAL SALES & DISTRIBUTION
Collectif Jeune Cinéma
http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/fiche_auteur.php?auteur=977
USA SALES & DISTRIBUTION
Video Data Bank
https://www.vdb.org/artists/camilo-restrepo
& Grasshoper films
http://store.grasshopperfilm.com/impression-of-a-war.html
COLOMBIA SALES & DISTRIBUTION
Mutokino