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I Dreamed His Name

September 12 @ 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm

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Director: Ángela Carabalí
Colombia | 2025 | Spanish with English subtitles | 86 min | Documentary

After 30 years denying her pain, Angela is confronted by her past when her father appears to her in a dream, asking her to find him. With her sister Juliana, she embarks on a trip across Colombia to the Indigenous lands where their father, a farmer of Afro-descent, became a victim of forced disappearance. The journey from Medellin to Caloto, in the challenging Cauca’s province in the Southwest of Colombia, confronts the sisters with paradoxes of the land, family emotions, and indigenous spirituality that will show Angela an unexpected path to reconnecting with her father.

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street Vancouver
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7 Canada

I Dreamed His Name.

ÁNGELA CARABALÍ

Afro-Colombian documentary filmmaker with a master’s degree in Documentary Film and a master’s in Documentary Photography. She is a founding partner of Carabali Films & New Media, a company that focuses on social and ethnic issues as well as transmedia narratives. She is the director, screenwriter, and co-producer of the internationally recognized interactive documentary “Criers of Medellín” (Dok Leipzig, MIT Docubase). A fellow of the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, and Solutions Storytelling Project:LATAM. I “Dreamed His Name” is her first feature (2025: Hot Docs – Special Jury Mention, SFFILM).