Guardians of the Land: The Colombia Migrant Film Festival Launch

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Join us for the launch of the Colombia Migrant Film Festival, where we will be screening a short documentary. This year, we welcome the film festival in its Environmental and Migrant Justice edition, an edition that recognizes the importance of speaking with urgency about the direct relationship between environmental impacts and migration. This is the year in which migrants, exiles, refugees and artists, positioning themselves from a perspective of the global south, reaffirm their connection with the territory and recognize that to remember the armed conflict in Colombia is to remember nature itself: victim, scenario and instrument for war.

This year’s short and long-form films and documentaries are a tribute to the more than 1,910 leaders assassinated in Colombia in the last decade, to the 7,579 hectares of coastline we have lost, to the more than 3 million hectares of forest deforested, to the polluted rivers that have had to experience the ravages of violence, to all the places that have had to be transformed and readapted, to the thousands of people in the country who have been displaced by events related to climate change and that the State has kept in oblivion for years. But this selection is, above all, a tribute to all the people who, despite these crude figures and realities, still refuse to fall into despair. This selection is for all of us who believe in the possibility of telling our own narratives that will lead us to collective restoration and the sowing of a dignified and just country.

For more information about the Colombia Migrant Film Festival, visit their Facebook page.

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