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- Director: Matías Rojas Valencia
- Release Date: 2025
- Genres: Documentary
- Subgenres: Drama, Migration, Human rights
- Awards
Movie Story
Bárbara, a 15-year-old Venezuelan, crosses the Andean Altiplano at night between Bolivia and Chile — a frozen desert at 4,000 meters — driven by the hope of a dignified life and by a spiritual force that drifts with the wind.
With every step, the violence of borders and the ferocity of the landscape pulse, but so does an adolescent resilience that refuses to give in.
Atardecer en América, a short documentary, distills that journey with hypnotic visual power and, in the words of Sebastian Markt, the Berlinale’s Head of the Generation section, “not only addresses an individual migratory journey, but explores the violence of borders as a social fact […] with a quiet yet devastating political cinema.”
At the 75th Berlinale (2025), the Generation 14plus Youth Jury awarded the film a Special Mention, describing it as “a film about a lost childhood.”
With a poetic and critical gaze, the short turns the Latin American migration crisis into a universal experience of resilience, freedom, and human rights that transcends continents.
With every step, the violence of borders and the ferocity of the landscape pulse, but so does an adolescent resilience that refuses to give in.
Atardecer en América, a short documentary, distills that journey with hypnotic visual power and, in the words of Sebastian Markt, the Berlinale’s Head of the Generation section, “not only addresses an individual migratory journey, but explores the violence of borders as a social fact […] with a quiet yet devastating political cinema.”
At the 75th Berlinale (2025), the Generation 14plus Youth Jury awarded the film a Special Mention, describing it as “a film about a lost childhood.”
With a poetic and critical gaze, the short turns the Latin American migration crisis into a universal experience of resilience, freedom, and human rights that transcends continents.
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