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The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do

Juanita Onzaga, Belgium, Colombia, 2017, 20’
Berlinale Generation

Best Short Film 2017

VAF Wildcard Documentaire

2017

San Sebastián Int’l Film Festival

2017

Colombia is a land of ghosts. Two siblings roam these mystical landscapes searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the Colombian jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams. Here they will find some answers and attract unexpected company.

The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do (Juanita Onzaga, 2017)
The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do (Juanita Onzaga, 2017)
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Enduring Spirits

Juanita Onzaga’s The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do

Alonso Aguilar
01.05.2023

With inequality as rampant as it can get and failed political structures eroding more and more as time shows their inherent futility, the milieu of the Latin American urban center has truly evolved into a no man’s land, a non-place of sheltered privilege juxtaposed to chaotic urgency, a “phantom city” as the initial narrator of Juanita Onzaga’s The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do calls what she used to think as her hometown of Bogotá. The past tense of the latter statement has to do with her moving on from the Colombian capital, a setting that for her can only evoke violence and forgotten bodies, a sense of phantasmagoria close-knit with her family history.

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Credits

Script
Juanita Onzaga
Cast
Pablo Rodríguez Onzaga, Tania López
Camera
Juanita Onzaga
Editor
Juanita Onzaga, Mira Matthew
Sound
Jeremy Bocquet, Thomas Noël
Music
Lucho Quintanilla, Senjan Jansen
Producer
Juanita Onzaga
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documentary fiction coming-of-age mystery

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