The Amparo (2017)

Original title

El Amparo

Directed by

Rober Calzadilla

Genre

drama film

Country

Colombia, Venezuela

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

15

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is based on a real event where the Venezuelan army killed fishermen they accused of being guerrillas. It follows the aftermath of that massacre along the Colombian border.

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What happens

El Amparo is a 2016 drama film directed by Rober Calzadilla and coproduced between Colombia and Venezuela. The film is set in El Amparo, a Venezuelan location on the shores of Arauca River, in the Colombian border, based in the 1988 Massacre of El Amparo, where the Venezuelan army killed several fishermen, accusing them of being Colombian guerillas. The film premiered as the opening film of the 2016 AFI Latin American Film Festival. It was screened at Colombian theaters on 28 November 2019. The film was Venezuela's candidate for the Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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