After 12 Noms, Colombia Wins First Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film With FORGOTTEN WE'LL BE

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After 12 nominations, Colombia has finally won its first Goya Award for Best Ibero-American film this evening for the drama Forgotten We’ll Be / El olvido que seremos, the film adaptation of Héctor Abad Faciolince's acclaimed memoir and cult novel, directed by Spanish Oscar-winner filmmaker Fernando Trueba (Belle Époque).

Starring Spanish actor Javier Cámara, the film was produced by Caracol Televisión and Dago García Producciones, and was selected in 2020 Cannes Film Festival. The Goya Award was accepted by producer Dago García and director Trueba.

Forgotten We’ll Be portrays the life of Héctor Abad Gómez, a prominent doctor and human rights activist in the polarized, violent Medellin of the seventies. A family man worried not only for his own children but those of the underprivileged classes as well, his home was imbued with vitality and creativity, the result of an education based on tolerance and love.

Nothing could foretell that a terrible cancer would take the life of one of his beloved daughters. Driven by sadness and rage, Héctor devoted himself to the social and political causes of the time. But Medellin's intolerant society would harass him until he was finally silenced.

 
 




 
 
 
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