Tantas Almas

Early in the morning, fisherman José returns to his house after a long night of fishing. But instead of being welcomed by his three children, he finds only his crying daughter Carmen. She tells him that her brothers Dionisio and Rafael were kidnapped at night by paramilitary troops. José is pretty sure they were shot and their bodies thrown into the river. He has no choice but to return to the river and search for the remains of his sons. A dangerous journey that could cost him his life, but it has to be done, because their souls will never find rest without a proper burial.

In his first feature film, which he also wrote, director Nicolás Rincón Gille wants to give a voice to everyone who lost loved ones in the Colombian civil war. He does so at the pace at which the river calmly flows through the landscape.