Screen can reveal the first trailer for Juan Miguel Gelacio and Esteban Hoyos García’s Five Years, Four Months, which plays in competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

The film follows a mother, played by Jenny Nava, who lost trace of her son in the Colombian armed conflict. Having exhausted the institutional options, she turns to a support group of women, where she meets Sandra, who tells her a rumour: “in a remote village in the plains, you can ask a dead person for a favour”. The two set out on a journey in search of answers.

The Colombia-US co-production is the second feature from Gelacio and García and is the first Colombian film at Karlovy Vary.

The film won the Platino industry award for best Latam WIP at San Sebastian, and is produced by Colombia’s Selva Producciones and coproduced by Redline Enterprises, Chicamocha Films, Andante Producciones.

Patra Spanou Film handles international sales.

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