‘Forenses’ intertwines three stories of enforced disappearance in Colombia to explore the links between memory and national identity. Through an essayistic exploration of personal loss, and by combining archival footage, animations, dreams, maps and multiple formats, the film reveals that the history of Colombia is also the history of its missing victims.
Carlos Federico Atehortua
He was born in Medellín (Colombia) in 1990 and graduated in Film Directing from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, where he made his first short films, both fiction and documentary. In Barcelona, he specialised in creative documentary before returning to his native country to found the production company Invasión Cine. After directing short films like ‘Espeso humo blanco’ (2014) and ‘Susurros’ (2017), he made his feature film debut in 2019 with ‘Mute Fire’, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was selected for other festivals such as Shanghai and Las Palmas. In 2022, he directed the documentary series ‘Un destino más concluyente’, focusing on the Colombian peace process, and in 2025 he won the Special Jury Prize in the Proxima section of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival for ‘Forenses’, his second feature film.
DIRECTOR
Carlos Federico Atehortua
SCREENPLAY
Federico Atehortúa Arteaga, Katalina Ángel, Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga, Sonia Ariza, Juan Mora, Verónica Balduzzi
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nicolás Pinzón
EDITOR
Verónica Balduzzi
SOUND
José Delgadillo, Diana Martínez Muñoz
MUSIC
José Delgadillo
PRODUCTION
Jerónimo Atehortua, Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga, Federico Atehortúa Arteaga, Juan Mora, María José Alarcón, Nicolás Pinzón Sarmiento
