After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children are not there. She soon finds out that her son has been drafted during an army raid and will be sent to the front in a notorious war zone near the border. His fate seems sealed. With only a single day left until his departure, Amparo manages to contact a man who offers to alter Elias’ files and get him out. With nothing much on her side, she embarks on a race against time to free her son in a society ruled by corruption.
Winner of the Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. It was also presented at the San Sebastián
Film Festival.
Amparo
2021
14 years
95 min.
Fiction
Colombia, Sweden, Qatar
Colombia, chaos, corruption, crime, family drama, international festivals, awarded films, war, motherhood, repression
Colorido
Simón Mesa Soto
Simón Mesa Soto
Juan Sarmiento G.
Ricardo Saraiva
Sandra Melissa Torres, Diego Alejandro Tobûn, Luciana Gallego, John Jairo Montoya
Juan Sarmiento G., Simón Mesa Soto, David Herdies, Martin Heisler, Michael Krotkiewski
Ocultimo, Momento Film, Flare Film
Benedikt Schiefer
The Match Factory
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