Monte Adentro
Director Nicolás Macario Alonso
Countries Argentina, Colombia
Duration 79 min
Synopsis
MONTE ADENTRO explores the universe of one of the last muleteer families in Colombia and follows the mule train and lives of two brothers, the Gypsies., Alonso, one of them, now forced by the illness of their mother to live in a city, attempts to start a new life while accompanying his mother who the doctors won’t allow to return to live in the mountains. Novier, the other brother, still in the mountains of Caldas Province, but now on his own and despite the lack of work, tries to make a living and maintain their old mountain house and the mule driving tradition, as their father and grandfather did. As each of them strives to make a living on their own, memories of their common past make them wish to go back to their origins., It is not easy for a peasant family to survive in today's Colombia - with progress knocking on everyone's door and promising a better life in the city - let alone if they are muleteers, a centuries-old profession in extinction.
MONTE ADENTRO explores the universe of one of the last muleteer families in Colombia and follows the mule train and lives of two brothers, the Gypsies., Alonso, one of them, now forced by the illness of their mother to live in a city, attempts to start a new life while accompanying his mother who the doctors won’t allow to return to live in the mountains. Novier, the other brother, still in the mountains of Caldas Province, but now on his own and despite the lack of work, tries to make a living and maintain their old mountain house and the mule driving tradition, as their father and grandfather did. As each of them strives to make a living on their own, memories of their common past make them wish to go back to their origins., It is not easy for a peasant family to survive in today's Colombia - with progress knocking on everyone's door and promising a better life in the city - let alone if they are muleteers, a centuries-old profession in extinction.