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Témoin indésirable (Unwanted Witness)
CH/F/Colombia 2008 87'
Director: Juan José Lozano
Camera: Sergio Mejia
Sound: Carlos Ibanez
Editing: Ana Acosta
Music: Victor Hänni, Gabriel Scotti
Production: Intermezzo Films
Témoin indésirable
Sin tregua
Juan José Lozano
Colombia is not kind to its journalists. Hollman
Morris is well aware of the fact, having been
obliged to go into exile for a time in 2000 with
his wife and child after receiving death
threats. This former journalist for the daily
paper “El Espectador”, now the director of a
production company, has directed a weekly
investigative programme called “Contravia”
since 2003 for the public channel Canal Uno.
The programme does not hesitate to criticise
all the participants of the conflict: guerrillas,
paramilitaries and the army. Morris is troublesome,
so much so that President Uribe
once accused him of being a mouthpiece for
the FARC. Juan José Lozano follows every
step of the work of this “undesirable witness”,
who attempts to understand “the guts
of the war” by investigating his entire country,
especially the rural areas. In the south,
for example, we see him covering a movement
– and its suppression by the regular security
forces – of “cocaleros” protesting against
fumigations that are destroying their plantations.
TEMOIN INDESIRABLE also shows the
protection (two armed bodyguards and an
armoured 4X4) that constantly accompanies
Morris. However, his life choices eat away
at the family home. His wife Patty oscillates
between frustration and selflessness: “I can’t
live on your prizes,” she tells him. As the film
concludes, the journalist has been threatened
again and has received two prestigious international
rewards meant to ensure that he
receives the support he lacks in Colombia.
“Contravia” was taken off the air again at the
end of 2007…
Visions du Réel Nyon 2008
Juan José Lozano
2011 IMPUNITY
2008 TEMOIN INDESIRABLE
2006 HASTA LA ULTIMA PIEDRA
2004 HORO, MAIN DANS LA MAIN
2003 LE CHANT DU CHICUACO
2002 UN TRAIN QUI ARRIVE EST AUSSI UN TRAIN QUI PART
2001 VIVRE LA DEMOCRATIE
2000 COLOMBIE, LE BAL DE LA VIE ET DE LA MORT
1998 NACUCO
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