SYNOPSIS
93-year-old Mama Icha wants to return home. Even now after 33 years of living in the US, she dreams of spending her last days in Mompox, Colombia, in the house she patiently built there with money she sent. Her life in the US has been comfortable, but an ancestral desire to return to the land of origin pushes her. Upon her arrival, the idyllic home she imagined confronts the disrepair created by years of separation and economic inequality.
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SINOPSIS
Mama Icha, de 93 años, quiere volver a casa. Incluso ahora, después de 33 años de vivir en Estados Unidos, sueña con pasar sus últimos días en Mompox (Colombia), en la casa que allí construyó pacientemente con el dinero que iba enviando. Su vida en Estados Unidos ha sido cómoda, pero un deseo ancestral por volver a la tierra de origen la empuja. A su llegada, el idílico hogar que imaginó se enfrenta al deterioro que generó los años de separación y de desigualdad económica.
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"La casa de Mama Icha" is a declaration of love to one's land. In a time of great displacements, of fragmentation of the bonds of belongingness, of preponderance of certain hegemonic cultural values, Mama Icha with her story resignifies the relevance that has the sense of rootedness. She, heroically and with the strength of an ancestral thought, faces great obstacles to meet the goal of living her last days and die in the land of origin. "La casa de Mama Icha" also mirrors family conflicts and how heart-breaking they are, specially when the elders approach the end of their days. Altogether, this story makes us think about the multiple meanings of the experience of “home”.
Director Oscar Molina
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"La casa de Mama Icha" es una declaración de amor a la tierra de uno. En una época de grandes desplazamientos, de fragmentación de los lazos de pertenencia, de preponderancia de ciertos valores culturales hegemónicos, Mama Icha con su historia resignifica la relevancia que tiene el sentido del arraigo. Ella, heroicamente y con la fuerza de un pensamiento ancestral, se enfrenta a grandes obstáculos para cumplir el objetivo de vivir sus últimos días y morir en la tierra de origen. "La casa de Mama Icha" también refleja los conflictos familiares y lo desgarradores que son, especialmente cuando los mayores se acercan al final de sus días. En conjunto, esta historia nos lleva a reflexionar sobre las diferentes sentidos de la experiencia del "hogar".
Director Oscar Molina
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OVERVIEW
Feature-length documentary
Running time: 85 mins.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Production countries: Colombia & United States
Production Company: Actor Inmaterial Producciones
In Coproduction with: Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz - Three Spokes Produtions, Jorge Martín Molina Escobar, La Tina Sonido
With the kind support of:
Participation in:
Feature-length documentary
Running time: 85 mins.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Production countries: Colombia & United States
Production Company: Actor Inmaterial Producciones
In Coproduction with: Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz - Three Spokes Produtions, Jorge Martín Molina Escobar, La Tina Sonido
With the kind support of:
- La FEA. Fundación Espacio Arte.
- Filmedellín-Grant: Estímulo al Fortalecimiento Audiovisual de Medellín, 2017
- Centro Atico, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Postproduction Grant, 2016
- Colombian Film Fund for Short Documentary Production, FDC-Proimagenes, 2014
- CLAP Studios.
Participation in:
- ChileDoc, CONECTA con el Impacto, Santiago de Chile, 2019
- Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM), section Screenings, Bogotá, Colombia 2019
- Invitation as lecturers by Homing - The Home-Migration Nexus, University of Trento, Italy, 2019
- Invitation as filmmaker to the 10th Annual Conference in Political Economy: Envisioning the Economy of the Future, and the Future of Political Economy AFEP-IIPPE Conference, Lille, France, 2019
- Residencias Walden, 2018
- DocuLab.8, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico, 2016
- Art Residency by Espacio-Arte, Medellin, Colombia, 2016
- Cartagena International Film Festival, Documentary Workshop, Colombia, 2016
- Spotlight on Documentaries-Independent Film Program Week, IFP, New York, 2015
- International Documentary Film Festival DocsBarcelona+Medellin, 2014