Horizon

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Decades-long conflict has claimed the lives of many in Colombia. This visually transcendent cinematic reverie explores a mother and son’s remorse as they reckon with their own transgressions during this period. A man visits his home village looking for his mom, Inés (Beloved Tropic’s Paulina García), but she doesn’t answer the door when he arrives and finds the family farm in disrepair. Over time, it’s revealed he was conscripted as a teenager into the government’s war against the guerrillas and, like Colombia itself, he needs a Truth and Reconciliation moment with his parent and community. Though Horizon is certainly a film about war and its attendant horrors, its sensibility is poetic and symbolic, more Tarkovsky than Tarantino. What César Augusto Acevedo achieves here is a profoundly moving film questioning whether one can forgive the unforgivable and, if so, what might be the mechanisms of that forgiveness. —Rod Armstrong

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