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When the guns go silent
Start date: Jul 12, 2014, End date: Jan 11, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

How to conclude a war? After more than 50 years of armed struggle, after three failed peace processes, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC, are preparing to disarm and take the path of political struggle. After all these years in the jungle, the 8.000 people in the revolutionary group are seriously considering to end a war with a government that has now also decided to find a political outcome. In Havana, a delegation of the movement is engaged in peace talks with government officials. The charges held against them are temporarily suspended and Interpol has allowed them to get to Cuba.Faced with this process, the Colombian public opinion feels conflicting emotions: exhaustion, disgust, anger, resentment, rancour against various civil and military groups whose manipulation and perverse clashes pushed the country to horror. The film will chronicle the transition from war to peace, in a crucial historical moment.Beyond Colombia, the film will suggest a general reflection on what ending a war entails: how to overcome violence, what forgiveness and memory mean.How to be close enough to earn the confidence of all these people, how to be distant enough to keep a critical sense: this is the stake of this film. While highlighting the historical and political complexity of the current peace process, we shall be open to the personal thoughts, feelings and emotions the members of the oldest guerrilla world go through, as they are preparing to disarm. This subjective approach is possible thanks to the access and the relations we have been able to build with our characters. However this approach will take its full sense thanks to a wide range of complementary information processed through the use of archives, a field survey work in the guerrilla, testimonies and views of the other parties of the conflict.
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