La Sierra

Independent Films, Film Profiles

In a Medellín barrio on the front lines of Colombia’s ongoing civil war, two factions—a right-wing paramilitary group and a left-wing group of guerrillas—are in a state of perpetual combat. Their brutal power struggle would be shocking enough, but even more horrifying is that their ranks are barely over the age of 20. This gut-punch of a documentary captures a year in this nihilistic world of youthful destruction and suffocating despair.