LA BONGA

BEST FIRST FEATURE and CULTURAL INTANGIBLE HERITAGE AWARD - Cinéma du Réel | BEST DOCUMENTARY - Colombian Film Festival NY Afro-Latinx History and Identity • Afro-Colombian History • Maroon Community • Internal Displacement • Civil War • Collective Memory • Communal Land & Land Rights • Restitution Date of Completion: 2023 | Run Time: 77 minutes​​ | Language: Spanish with English & French subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Directors: Sebastián Pinzón Silva and Canela Reyes | Producers: Gabriella García-Pardo, Diogenes Cabarcas & Nevo Shinaar | Executive Producer: Kellen Quinn | Editor: Laura Huertas Millán On April 5, 2001, shortly after a nearby massacre at the hands of paramilitaries, two hooded strangers delivered a letter to the farming town of La Bonga. The note accused the people of sympathizing with the FARC, the largest guerrilla group in Colombia. They were given 48 hours to either leave or be forcibly removed. The entirety of La Bonga fled that