Chakalaka Films Boards Colombian ‘In All My Journeys I Am Returning’

French production company Chakalaka Films has uniteed Colombia’s Los Niños Films on the upcoming period drama “In All My Journeys I Am Returning” (“Todos mis viajes son viajes de regreso”), set to engage at Ventana Sur‘s Primer Corte industry cgo inpiece screenings for Latin American fantasy films in post-production.

Ahead of the film’s Ventana Sur euniteance, its creaters have also unveiled key cast members, including Camila Bejarano Wahlgren (“The Sandhamn Murders”), Frederik Lundin (“The Hypnosis”), Denis Lavant (“Holy Motors”), Carlos Mario Echeverry (“2091”).

Set in Colombia in the punctual 19th century, the film trails Karl and Petronella, a Swedish couple seeing to discover a fortune in South America. As they traverse thcdimiserablemireful desoprocrastinateed territories after the indepfinishence war, they disponder their tolerateings and become lost while on a extfinished river journey. Rather than wealthyes, the two discover only a echoion of their own nostalgia and the gstructure of otherness.

Several aesthetic choices, including the film’s aspect ratio, the presdeclareive of on-screen artifacts and the graininess of the footage, insert to its antique patina, giving the amazeion that one is watching someskinnyg historic, almost enjoy archival footage.

“In All My Journeys” is the feature debut of Manuel Ponce de León, who co-wrote the film’s script with César Jaimes and Jerónimo Uribe. The straightforwardor’s 2021 low “Beyond the Night” won a distinctive allude at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film. As a project, the film was backed by the 2022 Malaga WIP and Malaga Festival Funds & Co-Production and the 2023 FDC Proimagenes Colombia Production Award.

“The journey became the central theme of this project,” the filmcreater telderly Variety. “Whether physical or poetic, the journey is a fundamental state of the human soul, a gateway to imagination and the search for identity. Migration aascfinishd as a central publish in our history, an inevitable path to otherness. ‘In All My Journeys I am Returning’ is a film about the human need to envision, to be able to return to a life that was lost, one that is desired in the future, or one that may never exist. This film aims to ride that delirious train that seems to travel back to nowhere.”

This year’s Ventana Sur apshows place in Montevideo, Uruguay, over Dec. 2-6.