I DREAMED HIS NAME

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Thirty years after her father's forced disappearance, filmmaker Ángela Carabalí dreams that he is calling her to find him. Joined by her sister Juliana, she embarks on a deeply personal journey across Colombia to the Indigenous lands where their Afro-Colombian father, a farmer and activist, vanished during the country's armed conflict. Blending family memories, archival images, and Indigenous spirituality, the sisters confront buried grief, uncover forgotten histories, and discover an unexpected path toward healing, remembrance, and reconciliation.

THE FILMMAKER

Ángela Carabalí is an Afro-Colombian documentary filmmaker with a master's degree in Documentary Film and a master's in Documentary Photography. She is a founding partner of Carabali Films & New Media, a company that focuses on social and ethnic issues as well as transmedia narratives. She is the director, screenwriter, and co-producer of the internationally recognized interactive documentary Criers of Medellín (Dok Leipzig, MIT Docubase). A fellow of the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, and Solutions Storytelling Project:LATAM. I Dreamed His Name is her first feature, a project she has worked on for over eight years.

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Special Jury Prize – Int’l Feature Documentary – Hot Docs Canadian Int’l Doc Festival, Canada
Best Feature Film – Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosur International Film Festival (FAM), Brazil
Best National Feature Film (María Award) – Cali International Film Festival (FICCALI), Colombia
Best Feature Film (Ibero-American Feature) – Buenos Aires Int’l Doc FF (FIDBA), Argentina
Honorable Mention – National Doc Feature – Int’l Human Rights FF (FICDEH), Colombia
DOC NYC, US
San Francisco International Film Festival, US
International Women's Film Festival Dortmund+Cologne, Germany
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Canada
Chicago Latino Film Festival, US
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, US
London Colombian Film Festival, United Kingdom
Miradas Medellín Film Festival, Colombia
Jardín Film Festival, Colombia