Films by Frank Matter

Germany, Switzerland, Colombia 2015, 97 min
by Jens Schanze

Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the community of Tamaquito, a village in the forests of northern Colombia. For centuries, they’ve hunted in the mountains, foraged for fruit and reared hens, sheep and cattle.But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by the El Cerrejón coal mine. This vast chasm extends for 700 square kilometres, making it the world’s largest open-cast coal mine. The coal is exported all over the world. In Germany, the United Kingdom and Israel, in the Netherla