After half a century of armed conflict and three failed peace processes, the oldest guerrilla in the world, the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC), begins a dialogue with the Colombian government, promising to silence their weapons and undertake the transition into the political spheres.
In this final stretch, which took more than 6 years, some of the 8000 men, women and children who brandished weapons in order to survive in the jungle, face with uncertainty the end of a battle.
Other guerrilla members defended their revolutionary ideals in Havana, Cuba, during a peace process that awoke mixed feelings in the Colombian public opinion, which in ended up divided and polarized.
Through the director’s independent, incisive and critical look, this is the intimate close-up of some of the FARC's political and military strategists, as well as the spokespeople of the government’s delegation. The constant confrontation to each of the parties about their speeches, their promises, their successes and failures, allow us to understand the challenge of building trust with our enemies, to establish a common language and convince a country and the world’s public opinion, that these historical enemies are ready to battle together, from the same standpoint, the most difficult battle, the final one: The battle for reconciliation and peace. This is the intimate account of a story that changed history.
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Filmmaker and journalist, Natalia has a master in Humanitarian Cooperation and Political Sciences, both obtained in Paris, France . Directed and wrote documentaries and journalistic reports such as “Guantanamo, until when?” (2011), and “Gypsies, citizens without a country” (2011).
She wrote and directed the documentary “Benghazi, beyond the front line” (2012), a coproduction between France (France TV), México (Once TV), and Colombia (RCNTV), winner of the CBP prize for the best work for TV, 2014. She’s the two year winner of the National Simon Bolivar Journalist Award (2010 and 2012).
With 10 years of experience as an international correspondent for radio, print, and TV, first in Europe and then in Washington DC, She’s covered different war regions of the world, world events (UN, OTAN, G8), and has interviewed different world leaders and personalities for international news outlets: George W Bush, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Alvaro Uribe (Colombia), Vicente Fox (México). She’s the cofounder of the Colombian independent news outlet @las2orillas.
Etienne Boussac - Editing
Daniella Botero - Assistant Director
Juan Fernando Mosquera - Script consultant
Willian Alfonso M.- Photography
Alejandro Ramirez R.- Original Score
Sergio Godoy - Logistics Coordinator
Rafael Becerra - Finalization
Julian Giraldo - RCN TV
Alex Zalat - ARTE Francia
Natalia Orozco - Pulso Mundo
Christinne Camdessus - Alegria Films
Serge Gordey -Alegria Films
Natalia Orozco - Director and workshop
Juan Fernando Mosquera - Workshop
Camila Zuluaga - Workshop
Sergio Godoy - Logistics Coordinator
Alba McAllister
Cineplex
elbamc@cineplex.com.co
Through several screenings of “When the Guns Go Silent” in the rural and urban Colombia, we aim to highlight the value of dialogue and consensus-making as the road to approach any conflict respectfully and calmly, as well as to give the audience useful tools to make agreements that allow people to overcome differences or live with them peacefully.
The screenings are followed by Q&A’s with members of the team or characters from the documentary, or by workshops of non-violent communication taught by experts on the subject and adapted to the different audiences.
We are inspired by 5 specific goals:
After the test screening of the documentary in front of several focus groups (ex-guerrilla commanders, opinion makers, politicians, human rights defenders, ex-combatants, victims of all the groups and entrepreneurs, among others) and after making a special screening in which we summoned historical enemies to sit together in front of a cinema screen (the military and the FARC leadership), we are convinced of the humanizing and pedagogical power of this work.
The hundreds of messages that we receive daily through our website and our social media pages, the more than 15,000 spectators who went to Colombian cinemas (which sold out most screenings and turned this documentary into the most seen in this type of alternative film circuits in the history of the country), in addition to the young students from the schools and universities where we’ve screened the film, reacted in such a way that their remarks and their insights reassure us of the mobilizing power of the film as a pedagogical tool to educate, support, and make people aware of the progress that’s being made in Colombia towards peace and reconciliation.
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