Colombian Film: UNA CASA SOLA SE VENCE | Proimágenes Colombia

Synopsis

An intense testimony by Marta Palma from 1999¸ at the coliseum of Turbo¸ Antique´s Uraba¸ where the displaced Afrocolombian communities of Cacarica¸ from the low Atrato¸ Choco¸ lived for three years. The displacement situation caused by the violence¸ the life at the port of Turbo¸ the hardships of rising four kids with nothing; loneliness and the loss of her husband¸ takes Marta to a moral illness state and death in august 2002. This documentary is dedicated to her memory¸ homage of her fight and resistance and a harsh representation of the Colombian women¸ victims of violence who die leaving a motherless country. Marta was part of Clamores¸ a displaced women organization who asked to be re- situated at Turbo¸ a marine port located at the Golf of Urabá; Atlantic Ocean. Most of these women have had their husbands and kids assassinated and cannot find the physical and psychological conditions to return to their land; neither the security to survive there.