{"id":5195,"date":"2026-07-30T12:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:38:29","slug":"italy-based-lights-on-snags-colombias-in-all-my-journeys-i-am-returning-ahead-of-its-locarno-bow-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5195","title":{"rendered":"Italy-Based Lights On Snags Colombia\u2019s \u2018In All My Journeys I Am Returning\u2019 Ahead of Its Locarno Bow (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tBoutique Italian sales agency Lights On has picked up international sales rights to the debut feature of Colombian Manuel Ponce de Le\u00f3n\u2019s \u201cIn All My Journeys I Am Returning\u201d (\u201cTodos mis viajes son viajes de regreso\u201d) ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5193\">\u2018Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u2019 Celebrates 10 Years as Longest-Running Two-Part Play in Modern West End History \u2013 Global Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s an exceptionally bold and distinctive first feature film that we\u2019re confident will resonate with audiences around the world,\u201d\u00a0said Flavio Armone, co-founder &amp; managing director at Lights On, who expressed the company\u2019s delight at returning to Locarno\u2019s Filmmakers of the Present competition for the fifth consecutive year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThis film has been a long and deeply personal journey and I am very happy to have found a team that understands its sensibility and the spirit in which it was made,\u201d said Ponce de Le\u00f3n, who studied filmmaking in Berlin aside from art history and philosophy in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSet in early 19th-century Colombia, \u201cJourneys\u201d follows a young Swedish couple as they navigate up the Magdalena River in search of a fabled gold mine. As they drift through a war-scarred landscape, time fractures, memory overtakes reality and history becomes fluid. Their voyage transforms into a haunting meditation on exile, longing and the elusive promise of belonging.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOstensibly, Ponce de Le\u00f3n\u2019s studies in philosophy inform his work as does his interest in poetry and particularly that of Colombian 20<sup>th<\/sup> century poet Le\u00f3n de Greiff whose line \u2018All journeys are journeys of return\u2019 has haunted him since his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPoetry and rivers run through his feature debut as they do in his two previous short films.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe figure of the river is an element that, at first, I wasn\u2019t even consciously aware of. It was very intuitive, until one day a colleague asked me, \u2018Why is there always a river? What\u2019s the story with the river?\u2019 And I thought, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s true\u2014I hadn\u2019t realized it,\u2019\u201d he told <em>Variety.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThere is clearly a recurring presence of the river: the river as a space of memory, as a place where different times converge, almost like a path or a vehicle through time itself,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5191\">AMC Global Media Streaming Revenue Rises 6% in Q2, U.S. Ad Sales Down 11%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cMy father is a poet and I think poetry has always been present in my work as well. So, poetry and literature have always been part of my creative universe. They continue to be a source of inspiration and a way of approaching cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe shot his drama, filmed in evocative sepia tones by his long-time collaborator Angello Faccini, along Colombia\u2019s Magdalena River, which was a fundamental commercial trade route throughout the country\u2019s history. The colonial-era town of Honda, known as the City of Bridges due to its more than 40 bridges, was his base. \u201cThe short film I made before this one, \u2018Beyond the Night,\u2019 was filmed on the banks of the river, very close to Honda. I don\u2019t really know why I\u2019ve ended up making so many projects in Honda\u2014I\u2019ve developed a very strong creative relationship with the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFinding his Swedish actors was serendipitous and as extraordinary as his story. As he cast his net across social media and other means, he heard from a Camila Bejarano Wagner who wrote that she was Swedish but with a Colombian mother and that she\u2019d be visiting her grandmother In Colombia so she could audition then.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cDuring her stay, Camila was living with her aunts in Colombia. They asked her what the film was about and she explained that it was inspired by the poet Le\u00f3n de Greiff\u2014a name she herself hadn\u2019t known before. That\u2019s when her aunts told her something extraordinary: the grandmother she had come to visit had once been de Greiff\u2019s lover,\u201d he related. \u201cCamila ended up discovering postcards and handwritten love letters signed by de Greiff himself\u2014remarkable letters addressed to her grandmother. There were also personal keepsakes, including the Scrabble set de Greiff had given her, the very one they used to play together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever, what really drew Ponce de Le\u00f3n to Camila wasn\u2019t just her story, but what she brought to the role. \u201cNostalgia is one of the film\u2019s central themes\u2014it lies at the heart of the characters\u2019 emotional conflict. From the very beginning, I felt that, although Camila had been raised in Sweden her entire life, she carried a deep longing for her Colombian roots. She was intensely curious and genuinely eager to reconnect with her mother\u2019s Colombia, with that distant part of her own past. That made her an especially compelling fit for the character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo find Camila\u2019s counterpart, Fredrik Lundin, Ponce de Le\u00f3n met him in Stockholm after having traveled to a tiny village called Gunnarskog, north of the Arctic Circle, where every year, the village hosts a festival in honor of de Greiff and one of his fictional alter egos, Gaspar de la Noche. \u201cIt\u2019s a remarkable thing\u2014a remote Swedish village celebrating a Colombian literary figure.\u201d Renowned French indie actor Denis Lavant plays a pivotal role in the film where the dialogue is in Spanish, Swedish, French and Polish.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIn All My Journeys I Am Returning\u201d is produced by Ponce de Le\u00f3n\u2019s Los Ni\u00f1os Films with Daniela Rocha Giraldo, Ana Winograd and H\u00e9ctor Ulloque producing alongside him.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5189\">\u2018The Walking Dead\u2019 Franchise to Stream on Both Netflix and AMC+ Beginning in 2027 Under New $500 Million Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 79<sup>th<\/sup> Locarno Film Festival runs over August 5-15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boutique Italian sales agency Lights On has picked up sales rights to Colombian drama \u2018In All My Journeys I Am Returning.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2609,4120,1906],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-colombia-2","tag-lights-on","tag-locarno-film-festival-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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