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Your ticket includes a recorded introduction and Q&A with director Germán Arango Rendón.
Preceded by the short film, Elena.
Along the riverbank in the small community of Bellavista, a young Oneida learned to sing alabados, traditional funeral chants sung by Afro-Colombians on the Pacific coast to bid farewell to the dead as they return to the realm of souls. When she was eight years old, a snake devoured her leg, leaving her for dead in the jungle—a looming metaphor for what was to come. Oneida and her community found themselves in the midst of terror as war escalated in Colombia and their town became the site of one of Colombia’s deadliest confrontations, the Boyajá Massacre. As an adult, Oneida’s alabados are now sung for the millions of souls who have suffered as a result of this conflict. Mesmerizing and hypnotic director Germán Arango, together with Oneida, weave a melodious tale marking the scars of her misfortune and that of Colombia’s, to realize a healed future.
En la ribera del rio en la pequeña comunidad de Bellavista, la joven Oneida aprendió a cantar alabados que son cantos tradicionales para funerales, cantado por afrocolombianos en la costa del Pacífico para despedir a los difuntos cuando retornan al mundo de las almas. Cuando ella tenía ocho años de edad, una serpiente devoró su pierna, dejándola por muerta en la selva—una metáfora amenazante de lo que se avecina. Oneida y su comunidad se encontraban sumidos en el terror mientras arreciaba la guerra en Colombia, y su pueblo se convirtió en el sitio de una de las confrontaciones más trágicas de Colombia, la masacre de Boyajá. Hoy en día, los alabados de Oneida son cantados por millones de almas que sufrieron debido al conflicto armado. El director Germán Arango logra un relato conmovedor, hipnotizante e luminoso de la búsqueda de sanación espiritual de las cicatrices provocadas por la violencia sin fin en Colombia.
Director Biography
Also known as Luckas Perro (Colombia, 1981), Germán Arango Rendon is an anthropologist and a filmmaker with a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology at FLACSO in Ecuador. He has been a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Communication at the University of Antioquia. He has directed eight documentaries and twelve hip-hop video clips. He has also worked in TV stations as Señal Colombia and Teleantioquia. He is currently developing several film scripts. Songs That Flood the River is his first feature-length documentary.