German premiere
Spanish with English subtitles

200 years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, The Soldier’s Lagoon retraces El Libertador’s journey across the highaltitude marshlands while searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory. Reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land, The Soldier’s Lagoon traverses the páramo, a living and elusive archive, navigating through the dense fog suspended between Simón Bolívar’s past and Colombia’s present. The Soldier’s Lagoon is the second in a three-part series of films exploring the intersection of oral narratives, political outcomes, and the territories marked by Simón Bolívar’s passage during the Liberation Campaign of Colombia in 1819.

• Sektion Section: Feature Films
• Programm Programme: The Soldier's Lagoon