VIOLENCIA
Jorge Forero

O.V. Spanish

A man in chains in the jungle, a teenager willing to do anything to find a job and the head of a paramilitary group: Violencia paints a portrait of three Colombians seemingly chosen at random. Screened as part of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum section, the film presents the three narratives without imposing boundaries between them, as if the protagonists were travelling on a shared path whose outcome is both uncertain and disturbing. Women are largely absent from these...