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LA CAJA NEGRA

THE BLACK BOX

By Elisa BARBOSA RIVA

Documentary - Completed 2025

The traces left by Daniel Chavarría are fading away. The memories of him are vanishing, and his portraits offer a false promise of immortality. His image is trapped in a haze where the line between reality and fiction blurs.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- URUGUAY, COLOMBIA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 116 mn
- Director(s)
- Elisa BARBOSA RIVA
- Writer(s)
- Elisa BARBOSA RIVA
- Producer(s)
- Isabel GARCÍA ARNABAL (MONTELONA CINE), Pancho MAGNOU ARNABAL (MONTELONA CINE), Carlos GARCÍA (BLOND INDIAN FILMS), Alejandra MOSQUERA (BLOND INDIAN FILMS)
- Synopsis
- In the morning of October 28, 1969, a man identified as 'David Chavarriaga' in the Colombian Pacific coast hijacked Avianca flight HK 1022 and rerouted it to Cuba, where, years later, he would become a cult 'Cuban writer.' Half a century later, as his figure begins to fade away, the director behind this documentary struggles to preserve his memory, confronting the fleeting nature of human remembrance. Recalling the tumultuous Latin America of the 1970s, the film is a reflection on the passing of time, the traps of looking back and the need to delve into our fragile collective memory.