Limbo


Direction: Alexander L. Fattal
Screenplay: David Rojas, Gustavo Vasco, Nicolas van Hemelryck, Clare Weiskopf, Alexander L. Fattal
Production company: Casatarantula, Break the Frame Films
Producer: Nicolas van Hemelryck, Clare Weiskopf, Alexander L. Fattal
Cinematography: Julian Mejia Villa
Edition: David Rojas
Music: Santiago Lozano
Cast: Javier Alexander Jojoa


Runtime: 25:16
Format: Digital
Dialogues: Spanish
Subtitles: English, French
Country: Colombia, United States
Year: 2019


A oneiric journey through Alex’s life as a former FARC guerrilla leads to a reckoning with the devil inside of him. Alex tells his story of war and its legacy inside of a truck transformed into a camera obscura, a space where dreams suffuse with reality and a life in limbo is illuminated.


Festivals

Sheffield Doc/Fest | United Kingdom, Jun 2019
BOGOSHORTS - Bogotá Short Film Festival | Colombia, Dec 2019 Special Jury Mention
Cinéma du Réel - Festival International de Films Documentaires | France, Mar 2020
BLOW-UP - International Arthouse FILM FEST - Chicago | United States, Mar 2021
Fidé - Festival International Du Documentaire Émergent | France, Apr 2020
FIDBA Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires | Argentina, Sep 2020
MIDBO Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá | Colombia, Oct 2020
Panorama du Cinéma Colombien de Paris | France, Oct 2020 Prix du Jury Étudiant au meilleur court-metrage