Patricia Ayala Ruiz

A Matter of Land recounts the first year of application of Colombian's Land Restitution Act from the perspective of a community who decide to engage with the process. The film explores the tensions that arise when such communities come face to face with the complex institutions responsible for enforcing the law. The result of these tensions is a narrative worthy of Kafka, in which a doorway to justice is opened for the sole purpose of demonstrating that no one can pass through it.

Three generations of the same family equally obsessed with images, those generated by the film camera or by the radiology machine. Ironically, all three died of cancer. A triptych of the gaze that reveals the society we have been over the last century.