Systems Down: Challenging the status quo

In 2016, the FARC-EP guerillas and the Colombian government signed what was believed to be a revolutionary peace agreement. Built into the negotiations were guarantees to provide land to the poorest farmers, as well as financial and technical support to transition cocaine and marijuana crops to alternative sustainable production. But in the North of Cauca, farmers who are dependent on the illicit crops have seen only broken government promises as they struggle to survive. The directors give a powerful voice to the farmers in this rare glimpse into illusions of peace as they reveal that with the disarmament of FARC-EP, they have been left unprotected, leaving their land ripe for the picking from multi-nationals and vulnerable to armed groups both rogue and paramilitary. As their community leaders are threatened and killed and body counts rise, they fear that the region is heading back into conflict. Heather Haynes

This event has been financially assisted by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, administered by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund Corporation.