Screening with conversation: Forenses

Forenses
Federico Atehortúa Arteaga / 2025 / Colombia / 90 min.
Forenses interweaves three stories about the figure of the disappeared in Colombia to question the link between the memory of our dead and national identity. In front of Katalina Ángel’s house, a transgender woman has been murdered. In the absence of authorities, she decides to take responsibility for the body, performing the recovery and giving her a name, since her identity was never established and she was buried as unidentified. In the mid-1980s, Jorge Arteaga, my uncle, disappeared. To avoid acknowledging the situation and identifying ourselves as relatives of a disappeared person, for decades fictitious stories were invented about his whereabouts. These two stories are interwoven with the testimony of forensic anthropologist Karen Quintero, through whom the country’s current efforts to search for the disappeared are portrayed. Through an essayistic exploration that links archives, animations, dreams, maps, and different formats, the film makes us understand that the history of Colombia is also the history of its disappeared.

Following the screening, we will have a conversation with the film’s director, Federico Atehortúa Arteaga, Karen Quintero, and social leader Luz Helena Galeano.

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