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The oblivion that we will be, directed by Fernando Trueba, made by Caracol Televisión and Dago García Producciones, and that represented Colombia at the Goya Awards, won the Best Ibero-American Film award on March 6.
The film is based on the eponymous book by Hector Abad Faciolince that tells the story of the doctor Hector Abad Gómez, champion of public health and human rights, assassinated in Medellín in 1987.
For Dago García, “Its merit is that it is a Latin American film based on the life of a good man, a positive character. In general, the Third World in the cinema is associated with marginality and other issues that, of course, we must talk about, but a production that narrates people who are not marginal is rare”.
The film starred Javier Cámara, Patricia Tamayo, Juan Pablo Urrego and María Teresa Barreto.
Competed with I’m not here anymore (Mexico), Agent Topo (Chile) and La Llorona (Guatemala).
Trueba, via the web and after overcoming problems with the transmission, highlighted the “It was wonderful the experience of traveling to Colombia to make a film about a doctor who fought for public medicine and access to healthcare for everyone. He was a visionary, a character that today is very timely”.
García confirms the latter: “One of the scenes shows the doctor and his son washing their hands and he explaining the importance of health, which is vital today.”
After twelve attempts, Colombia achieves this Goya, while Trueba has won seven of 13 nominations in this award, the most important in Spanish cinema.
The film, which was pre-nominated for the Oscar, has not yet been released in the country. García says: “We will wait for better times and conditions to bring it to theaters.”
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