The second feature from directing duo Juan Miguel Gelacio and Esteban Hoyos García centres on a Colombian mother searching for her son, years after he was “forcibly disappeared.”
By Elena Lazic
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Courtesy of Patra Spanou Thousands of people in Colombia have been “forcibly disappeared”, as the euphemistic expression goes, since conflicts began in the mid-1960s between the Colombian government and various paramilitary and guerilla groups. This reality is well-known, and has been so for a while — an awareness that, over such a long period of time, may dim the horror of the facts for some. But for the mothers of the missing, as portrayed in “Five Years, Four Months,” the pain never stops, it transforms. The years do not heal, they only dig deeper that dizzying gulf between the grieving, still looking for answers, and those lucky others for whom the present isn’t a constant reminder of what has been lost.
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