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La Bonga
Dirs. Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes; 2022
Big Ragtag
Thu, Mar 2, 2023 7:30 PM
Q&A with co-directors Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes
Willy Wilson @ Ragtag
Fri, Mar 3, 2023 10:45 AM
Q&A with co-directors Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes
The Globe
Sat, Mar 4, 2023 3:00 PM
Q&A with co-directors Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes
Two decades ago, the inhabitants of the Afro-Colombian village of La Bonga received a death threat that forced them to flee their homes. Today, having never returned, the Bongueros keep the memory of their village alive through stories. For Maria de los Santos, however, tales of the past are not enough. Determined that her children know where they come from, Maria uses the occasion of the feast of La Bonga’s patron saint to organize a procession of hundreds of Bongueros back home through the jungle. Employing a deliberately—and sometimes literally—opaque narrative strategy, La Bonga, directed by Sebastián Pinzón Silva and Canela Reyes, refuses to make an ethnographic spectacle of this trek and this community, its rituals, and its history. Instead, its affectingly poetic—and hauntingly beautiful—approach honors the Bongueros and their indelible connection to the land. (JA) Preceded by short “Moune Ô
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