The Diplomat in Spain

Instituto Cervantes and Instituto Caro y Cuervo commemorate, this afternoon at 18:30 hrs, at the headquarters of the first (49 Alcalá), the twenty-fifth anniversary of the premiere of the film The strategy of the snail, one of the big successes of the Colombian cinema, awarded in several international film festivals.

The film shows the fight of a community of neighbors, made up of very different characters (a lawyer, a transvestite, an old anarchist, lay sisters of strong religious faith…), trying to avoid being evicted from their homes as a consequence of a municipal urban reclassification. As a response, the community decides to follow the strategy of the snail –carry their house-, and turn the fight into something deeper, in a fight for their own dignity.