BIN MARTHA, KOLUMBIANERIN

The film is a slowcumentary, the nearly three-hour portrait of a young Afro-Colombian woman, a slow, closely observing documentary, probably the world‘s most intense portrait of an Afro-Colombian woman and of Afro-Colombian life and thought to date. In a long conversation, she talks about her life in Colombia, about her first trip abroad, about love, sex and tenderness, about nationality, patriotism and politics, about health and education, about spirits and shamans, about women and men, about plants and animals, about order and discipline, about God and the world. Martha was born in the Chocó department in northwestern Colombia. She grew up there in a small village, lived for a while in Quibdó, the capital of Chocó, and six months in Cartago, a city in the Valle del Cauca department, before she came to Cali, the capital of this department. She now commutes between Chocó, where her parents live, Cali and Santafé de Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. She lived in Cali for a while with her sisters Yulisa, María and Yasnury. During this time I got to know them and was allowed to observe their life together there for two months and document it for this film.

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