This screening of El rojo más puro (The Deepest Red; Yira Plaza O’Byrne, 2023), closes the workshop Thinking Cinema, Thinking Latin America organized by GLARN (Glasgow Latin American Research Network). Following the film there will be a conversation between Irene Piedrahita, researcher at the University of Antioquia, Colombia, and doctoral student at the University of Glasgow; Julieta Lobato, British Academy International Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Law, University of Glasgow; and Charlotte Gleghorn, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

📅Thursday 16 of October (18.30)
📍Screening Room, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW

Free entry (registration recommended)

EL ROJO MÁS PURO / The Deepest Red
Dir. Yira Plaza O’Byrne | 73’ | Colombia | 2023

While Yira was growing up, her father’s union struggle kept Luis away from home. In the family album there is only one photograph of him with her and her two siblings. First it was his activism in the Union Patriótica, the rallies and assemblies that kept him away. Then came the threats. In 2014, Luis survived an attack that forced him into exile in Europe. Upon his return, father and daughter live together for the first time, and Yira discovers the fragility of a man who appears tough and, at seventy, misses his family. Disillusioned with the left-wing politics she once embraced, the director revisits the battles inherited from her father, stitching together archival material with her family’s memories and recent national events to question whether their convictions have been worth it.

Accessibility:

-Wheelchair accessible
-English captioning

This Screening is a collaboration between Cinemaattic and GLARN as part of the Workshop celebrated the same day: Thinking Cinema, Thinking Latin America.