This debut feature won the Best New Director Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film deals with the issue of sociopolitical conflict in a remote mountain region of Columbia as seen through the eyes of a child. Manuel has just been given a new soccer ball for his ninth birthday. He and his friends kick the ball onto the local soccer field that has been newly mined by the paramilitary forces who are occupying his region of the country. This 2010 release is from Colombia and directed by Carlosa Cesar Arbelaez.
