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2025 SFFILM Festival

Horizon

Directed by César Augusto Acevedo

Colombia | Fiction | 125

20 Apr
Sun, Apr 20 at 8:00 pm PT

Description

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

Director César Augusto Acevedo

César Augusto Acevedo is a director and screenwriter who was born in Cali, Colombia. His first feature Land and Shade (2015) was the first ever Colombian film to win the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. He also made a short film, Los pasos del agua (2016). Horizon is his second feature.

Film Details

LanguageSpanish

Original Language TitleHorizonte

Year2024

Runtime125

CountryColumbia, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Chile

DirectorCésar Augusto Acevedo

ProducerPaola Andrea Pérez, Nieto Thierry Lenouvel

Executive ProducerLizeth Nieto Castro, Giancarlo Nasi, Donato Rotunno

WriterCésar Augusto Acevedo

EditorSoledad Salfate, Camila Beltrán

CinematographerMateo Guzmán Sánchez

MusicHarry Allouche

CastClaudio Cataño, Paulina García

Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are not currently confirmed for this film

Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions are not currently confirmed for this film

American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film