Unless We Dance

2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival

Duration: 15 min

Synopisis

Bonays, an Afro-dance teacher, undertakes an initiative to rescue young people from the crime that stalks Quibdó, a city with the highest homicide rates in Colombia. This is how Black Boys Chocó emerged, a dance company where hundreds of young people face brutal destinies through a passion. UNLESS WE DANCE portrays union and dance as the greatest expression of shielding the Afro people, it is a tribute to their act of resilience and to all the lives that have been lost along the way.

Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025

Production Team

Hanz Rippe Gabriel: Film director and cinematographer. As co-founder of Páramo Films, he is dedicated to producing documentaries in Latin America, highlighting the region's realities and social, cultural, and humanitarian issues.

Fernanda Pineda Palencia: Graduated from the Cinematographic Research Center, Argentina. She is a photographer, director, producer, and Co-director of Páramo Films. With more than 8 years of experience in documentary, she has approached indigenous, Afro, and rural communities, telling stories in the context of the Colombian conflict and post-conflict.