Walking with Cecilia

“Walking with Cecilia” is the intimate portrait of an indigenous woman trying to live a self-determined life. Cecilia has left her ancestral village in Valledupar in Colombia to be “free.” Free from the traditions of her tribe, free from her former husband, free from the terror of the Guerrilla groups controlling the region. But her desire to return to the piece of land where she was born and raised means she must confront her own past. Cecilias memories of her homeland are filled with sadness. The Colombian civil war has entered the quiet mountain range of the Sirerra Nevada. The paramilitaries, the Guerilla and the state army have turned the Arhuaco’s land into a conflict zone. The region of Cecilia’s village is under the control of a FARC Guerilla group. Many times they were stealing the harvest of Cecilia’s land.