BIBLIOBURRO, THE DONKEY LIBRARY

BIBLIOBURRO

By Carlos RENDON ZIPAGAUTA

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Documentary - Completed 2009


    • Year of production
    • 2009
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • COLOMBIA, FRANCE, BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carlos RENDON ZIPAGAUTA
    • Synopsis
    • Each week-end, Luis Humberto Soriano, a teacher living in the remote hamlet of La Gloria in the north of Colombia, brings, with the help of his two donkeys « ALPHA » and « BET », the written word and knowledge to communes as secluded as Nueva Granada. With the kids - who ever their parents are peasants or members of
      FARC, paramilitaries, drug cartels - Luis gives lectures and private tutoring, organizes puppet shows and board game sessions…