For Seigner’s second feature, the dead from an unending civil war intermingle with the living in a mysteriously beautiful and isolated land. In this cross between fantasy film and social critique, the silent ones make their lament heard.
A woman and her two children fleeing the Colombian civil war find themselves in Amazonia near the Brazilian border. On an island haunted by ghosts, painful memories come flooding back, exacerbating the daily struggle for survival in an out-of-the-way community. Taking a page from the documentary handbook, Beatriz Seigner delivers a subdued political fable in which she calls up the dead and missing to remind the survivors to rise up against injustice. As the title suggests, they are silent, but...
Feature film , Drama
BRAZIL, France, Colombia | 89 minutes | 2018
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