AFI Latin American Film Festival 2009

Writer/director Lisandro Duque Naranjo crafts a blackly comic satire of Colombia’s ongoing civil conflict. Three Colombian mimes, Alvaro (Mario Duarte), Tamar (Coraima Torres) and Santiago (Vicente Luna), think they’ve hit the big time when wealthy businessman Norberto (Nicolas Montero) offers to fund their tour of Spain. But when Norberto gets arrested, the mimes discover the merchandise they’ve been “watching” for him consists of high-grade weaponry. Still intent on their dreams of Spanish stardom, the mimes hatch a plan to head out to the frontier and pose as guerilla fighters who want to trade arms for amnesty—and exile to Spain. But out in the jungle, the difference between acting and reality is lost on the soldiers and rebels engaged in the civil war. Audience Award, 2008 Cartagena Film Festival.