Voces para intentar escribir otra historia: Niños, Cine y Conflicto Armado Colombiano

Abstract

This work focuses on how art, especially cinema, has portrayed the Colombian internal conflict. It is important to notice which stories were chosen to be depicted, and how certain situations, such as the creation of new Film Laws, have affected the narrative. I seek to understand how these stories have evolved in the last decade, and how they have become the platform through which to analyze the conflict from the point of view of the victims; from the children’s perspective, more specifically. This thesis wants to shed light on the new discourses from films produced during the first decade of the 21st century, examining how they portray previously marginalized perspectives, and exploring how the figure of the innocent victim impacts on the representation of collective memory. Children´s perspective allows the audience to recognize and validate circumstances related to the internal conflict, which are otherwise alien to the viewers´ realities, but that contribute to the country´s collective memory. In order to accomplish this, the following work will focus on three films produced between 2011 and 2015: the animated documentary Little Voices, Alias María, and Los Colores de La Montaña. These three movies have been selected because all of them share common plots of children who were victims of the armed conflict.