Marta Rodríguez

Amor, mujeres y flores

Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

Planas, Testimonio de un Etnocidio

Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva

A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous community formed a cooperative to defend their rights from settlers and colonists, but the government organized a military operation to protect the latter and foreign companies.

Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro

Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva

Fernando Vélez, Eulogio Gurrute

The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.

Campesinos

Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva

A Colombian documentary that expose the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early '70s.

La Sinfónica de los Andes

Marta Rodríguez

The North of Cauca is the region of Colombia most affected by the internal armed conflict since 1940. There is an orchestra of ancestral music composed of young indigenous people of the Nasa ethnic group who, with their instruments, their voice and their poetry, remember Maryi Vanessa Coicue, Sebastian Ul and Ingrid Guejia, three of the hundreds of indigenous children who have died because of this eternal and useless war between leftist guerrillas, armed groups of the extreme right, drug traffickers and the Colombian State.

Beyond Silence

Caroline Link

Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

Chircales

Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva

This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.

Nunca más

Marta Rodríguez, Fernando Restrepo Castañeda

A documentary about the struggles of Colombian peasants in the province of Chocó who are caught in the middle of an armed conflict between the military, guerrillas and other paramilitary groups.