This story is told by them, with their drawings and their words; It is the story of the Colombian children to whom the war crossed the road and in their lives. They are talking to us. Do we hear his voice?

1. DO WE HEAR HIS VOICE?
TEACHER DANIEL WONG Y.
DATE: On May 28 2020
https://vimeo.com/207047394

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INSTRUCCIÓN
Small voices': the drama of
Colombian children
An animated film with drawings
of refugee children thrills at
the Cartagena de Indias festival
There are 20 million refugee
children in the world. One
million, according to UN
figures, are Colombians. The
film Small Voices, winner in the
Documentary category of the
recently concluded Cartagena de
Indias International Film
Festival, tells its story from
its perspective. An animated 3D
movie where the images are their
drawings, and the story is told
by themselves.
The naturalness with which the
children speak of the armed
struggle is surprising. They
It is “Pequeñas voces” a different
animated film, in which through simple
drawings it is spoken of the harsh
reality that affects a million
displaced children in Colombia,
according to UNICEF.

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mention a fight and they know
who is fighting, although they
are not very clear why. "The
most dramatic thing is that
children see violence as
something normal. They don't
question it, they assume that
the world is like that." The
drawings that inspired the
animators became sophisticated
landscapes that do not lose
their childish air. For
Carrillo, the most moving thing
is when a child talks about the
saddest moment of his life: it
is not leaving his house or
losing all his belongings, but
the farewell of his animals.
“Pequeñas voces” tells the story
of four kids, between 9 and 12
years old, who were expelled
from the interior of the country
by the violence carried out by
armed men –with different
uniforms- as displaced towards
the capital, Bogotá.

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In the boys' words, “all the
forces that have a weapon sow
terror”, whether they have the
shield of the paramilitary
groups, the guerrillas or the
Army.
Margarita's father was
kidnapped; Pepito's family was
forced to leave their home; John
lost a hand and a leg; Juanito
tricked into fighting the
jungle. These were the
circumstances that forced them
to exile themselves from their
towns, from their land and end
up swelling the ranks of the
displaced population that ends
up in Bogotá.
The children themselves made the
colorful drawings that served as
the basis for the animation of
the film, with their different

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styles and ways of expressing
themselves. How are his
experiences that are told in a
film that tells us about his
life in the country, his
dramatic experiences, the trip,
his new world in the city, his
dreams and hopes?

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PEQUEÑASVOCES
An animated documentary film that explores
the possibilities of this format to tell
real stories and make them known to the
largest possible number of viewers in the
world, to remove these children (and their
parents, and their mothers, and their
uncles ...) of the oblivion in which they
live.

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Decades of internal war in the country, of
an armed conflict with many actors and
crossed interests, but in which the
civilian population of the countryside is
the great victim and the main victim. Their
voices are never heard. And even less the
children's voices.
They tell this story, with their drawings
and their words; It is the story of the
Colombian children to whom the war crossed
the road and in their lives. They are
talking to us. Do we hear his voice?