Pacífico
Daniel Duque · Colombia, France · 2025 · 22 min
SHORTS COMPETITION · TERRITORY
In the waters of Colombia’s Pacific coast, life is celebrated through a particular kind of song: the Arrullos. This music honors life in a territory marked by violence and armed conflict, where enslaved people once found refuge at the end of colonial rule. In these same waters, each year, thousands of whales arrive from Antarctica to give birth. Pacífico weaves a polyphonic narrative around birth in an aquatic space where body, territory, and memory are deeply intertwined.
Documentary · Experimental · 12+
Language: Spanish
Themes: Territory, memory, tradition
Screenplay: Daniel Duque
Producer: François Bonenfant (Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains)
Cinematographer: Mauricio Reyes
Key cast: Maria Eugenia Osorio, Didier Narcilo Yimez Mina
Director's Statement
Afro-descendant communities in the Colombian Pacific have been overlooked for decades by the state, and violence persists through armed conflict, mining exploitation, abusive resource extraction, and more. My aim is to open alternative conversations with these places, from a critical and sensitive perspective that acknowledges the qualities of this territory and its communities—communities I feel responsible for today as part of a new Colombian generation. — Daniel Duque
