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Hope for Colombia

53 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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For ten days in November 2010, a group of pilgrims walks through Bogota and its outskirts, part of what organizers call the Grace Pilgrimage. The film follows two projects behind the walk: Tamera, a peace research center in Portugal, and San Jose de Apartado, a Colombian peace community that has spent years trying to stay neutral in the country's armed conflict. Participants come from Israel, Palestine, Germany, and elsewhere, walking alongside Colombians into shanty towns and remote areas where the peace community has faced threats and violence. Along the way they meet local activists, grassroots organizers, and government officials, building what the film frames as a network of international witnesses meant to offer the community some protection simply by paying attention. The camera stays close to these encounters rather than narrating over them, tracking conversations between people who share little language but a stated goal: testing whether an international presence can shield a community that has chosen to refuse both guerrillas and the army. It is a small, specific attempt at an idea usually discussed only in the abstract.