La Tierra Prometida

“The Promised Land” is a video essay that intentionally captures the conditions of poverty in Panama City and questions the reasons for a progress that, despite its abundance, failed to reach the people. In the filmmaker's words: “Dedicated to that pain made flesh, called the People; to that martyr, made of scars and rags, with hands bound by the iniquity of all laws made in their name, and mouth sealed by the blasphemous stone of Force, placed upon it like the claw of a basalt sphinx…”

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