Following a Generation 14Plus jury special mention at its Berlinale premiere and a string of successful festival screenings since, Colombian-born and Swiss-trained filmmaker Jorge Cadena’s “The Jar…
Cadena talked with Variety while in Karlovy Vary about going back to his native Colombia to film, giving screen time to under-represented people and the responsibility of filmmakers to ask important questions in their work.It was a great opportunity to speak about my project and the details of how, when and why I made this film. My film school in Switzerland gave me this opportunity to meet a new generation of filmmakers, learn what they are making today and what they want to make in the future.
Your film is a Swiss production but set in Colombia near your hometown of Barranquilla. What made you go back to make this film? It’s actually my second film set in Colombia. I’ve been living abroad for more than 10 years now; I lived in Argentina before I came to Switzerland. When I went there for film school, I ended up shooting my bachelors graduation film in Barranquilla. Now my masters’ film, “The Jarariju Sisters,” is in La Guajira. My next project which my sister and I are writing, my first feature, is also set in Colombia.
Until very recently the Wayuu people were not well-represented in Colombian cinema. What made you want to tell a Wayuu story? They are not present in the collective memory of Colombia or internationally. I grew up close to the community, so when I traveled with my family in the north of Colombia I saw the Wayuu many times. I saw how the land changed over the years. Pollution destroyed the river, the land got sick and there was litter everywhere. For me, this disconnect is the problem. This community pays for our idea of progress. The coal mine is a big business there.
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