CARABALÍ
An Afro-Colombian community leader from the Valle del Cauca, Colombia, is threatened and forced into exile to save his life. Torn from his roots, he must abandon everything he knows and loves. Far and alone in displacement, facing an uncertain future and bearing the weight of longing for his land and the distance from his family, Carabalí resists, yearning for the possibility of one day returning to the place where he belongs.
Medhin Tewolde Serrano is Eritrean-Mexican and resides in Chiapas, Mexico. After her training in documentary filmmaking, she became concerned about telling other people's stories. Since then, she has dedicated herself to accompanying participatory video processes and community communication. Accompanying these processes reveals to her own process of identity construction as an Afro-descendant woman, and this makes her return to cinema, convinced of its transformative power and the importance of creating new narratives and representations of Afro-descendants, their resistance and struggles. She directed the documentary feature "Negra" (2020), the animated short "Nyanga" (2023), and the documentary short "Carabalí" (2026).
