The Colors of the Mountain

The Colors of the Mountain Spanish Los colores de la montaa is a 2010 Colombian drama film directed by Carlos Csar Arbelez. It won the Golden Pheasant Award for the Best Film at the sixteenth International Film Festival of Kerala. The film was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but did not make the final shortlist.

The film starts with the scene of children entering a oneroom school ofgrades. The young teacher lets an older girl read the names of her attendance list, while she distributes paper booklets. The children are seen writing busily into them, but Manuel draws pictures. The teacher calls him out reminding him that it is mathematics lesson and everyone giggles. As the children walk home through swampy grass they pass by paramilitaries training in the field above them. Manuels older friend Julian says that his older brother left town supposedly to work on the coast, though he believes he is with unnamed guerillas. Manuel is seen cheer leading to play and starts a ball game in a tight circle ofboys, complaining the ball is a rag.Manuel lives with his mother, father Ernesto and infant brother on a small finca, owning a couple of cows and raising pigs. He takes a trip to a market where his father tries to sell a piglet. His father leaves Manuel at an outdoor cafe table, disappears in a house and returns with a small grain sack. Back home at night he is seated at a small table opposite his father with his infant son on his lap. Manuels mother brings in a small chocolate cake lit with nine candles and Manuel unpacks his birthday present, a soccer ball and goalkeeper gloves. ........

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