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JORIS IVENS AWARD
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At night, the Colombian countryside undergoes a transformation. Those who prowl around can grant or take away magic powers. Carmen knows, she has experienced it: at night, it’s wiser to prick up your ears and stay home, when you have lost the power to tell the future. Carmen’s life has not been easy, with a violent husband and one pregnancy after another. But she still knows how to recognise the sound of a passing witch… Carmen’s partner, one of her employees, can find some amusement in the village. She can only recount, in shivers or smiles, the chapters of her survival, the pride of having raised children, her fragile resistance against the crushing forces of this world, and the invisible… (Yann Lardeau)