La Sierra
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During the last decade over 35,000 people have been killed in Colombia's civil war, a now 40-year-old conflict that has moved from the nation's jungles to its cities, where left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries combat each other and government forces. Today urban gangs allied with either side are engaged in a war for the control of neighborhood slums, with adjoining barrios pitted against one another, and the civilian populace caught in the middle. As a resident of one such Medellin barrio, La Sierra, explains, the neighborhood is "in the hands of kids with guns." Depicts a year in the life of three young people in a Medellín barrio: Edisón, the charismatic gang leader and playboy who has fathered six children with six different women; Cielo, a widowed mother with a paramilitary boyfriend in jail, as she struggles to avoid becoming a prostitute; and Jesús, a young gangster whose readiness for death fuses with his indulgence in drugs.
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Nominated for the 2005 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary.
Released in United States Fall November 10, 2005
Released in United States February 20, 2007
Released in United States November 10, 2005
Released in United States on DVD February 20, 2007
Shown at IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival (International Showcase) June 16-26, 2005.
Shown at SILVERDOCS:AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (World View), June 14-18, 2005.
dialogue Spanish, subtitled English
rtg MPAA NONE
Released in United States February 20, 2007
Released in United States on DVD February 20, 2007
Released in United States Fall November 10, 2005
Released in United States November 10, 2005 (New York City)
