Pizarro

Colombian director Simón Hernández demonstrates an excellent mastery in composing portraits of public figures that are crucial to understanding the history of his country. In his documentaries, he manages to weave a discourse that returns to the viewer the complexity of the linear biographical story, especially when it comes to people known socially or historically. With Pizarro, hand in hand with his daughter María José, he activates a story that seeks an elusive truth about who this guerrilla was and the reason for his murder. A trajectory similar to the one he tackles in his next documentary film, Jairo's Revenge (2019), about the Colombian horror and science fiction director.

Synopsis: This is a story about the burden of family inheritance. It begins when María José, in her exile in Barcelona, realizes that - no matter how far she runs - she cannot escape the ghost of her father, Carlos Pizarro, an M-19 commander assassinated on April 26, 1990 after having signed a successful peace treaty with the Colombian government. Pizarro is an iconic figure of war and peace in Colombia. Twenty years after his murder, she returns to her country to understand the causes that led to this murder and discover a forgotten chapter in the country's history, silenced by violence and fear.