Mountains That Weep

Rising like monuments from the flat jungle of the Colombian Amazon stand three black mountains named Mavecure, Mono, and Pajarito. One and a half billion years old, they are the granite remains of a former world, home to time’s deep roots and myths that accumulate like geological layers. Filmmaker Aurora Solá seeks to understand what makes this place sacred. Where do the visceral feelings evoked by the landscape come from? Shifting between temporalities, she meets a geologist and an Indigenous poet, each reconstructing the ecological histories and ancestral memories of these mountains through the traces of the past that remain present.