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STRANGERS TO PEACE

AJENOS A LA PAZ

By Noah DEBONIS, Laura ÁNGEL

BOGOTÁ AUDIOVISUAL MARKET - as PROMO

Documentary - Post-Production 2019

After a lifetime of war, former FARC guerrillas Ricardo, Dayana and Alexandra leave conflict behind and take their first steps toward an uncertain future in a homeland that views them as terrorists.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, First film, Social issues
- Countries
- COLOMBIA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Noah DEBONIS, Laura ÁNGEL
- Producer(s)
- Fausto TAPIAS (PIVOTE CINE)
- Synopsis
- After a lifetime of battle, nearly 10,000 FARC combatants are preparing to leave their jungle strongholds and return to Colombian society, but will a war-weary Colombia accept them? Strangers to Peace chronicles the challenges of reintegrating rebel fighters into a society that views them as terrorists.
  The narrative is told through the eyes of three former FARC guerrillas currently undergoing reintegration: Dayana (47), the market vendor negotiating the stigma of her guerrilla past and her new identity as a transgender woman; Ricardo (26), the government employee who secretly maintains his communist ideology; and Alexandra (21), the indigenous woman yearning to reconnect with the family and tribe she left behind as a child soldier. In its watershed moment Colombia is documented through these characters: both they and the country reimagine their identities after living through a lifetime of war.