Invasion

Director Abner Benaim's ambitious project to recreate the 1989 invasion of Panama through personal recounts and fictionalised reconstructions confronts the reliability of non-fiction filmmaking as well as questioning human remembrance and the collective memory of a country.

When the US invaded Panama to depose dictator Manuel Noriega, leaving an unknown number of civilians dead in their wake, they transformed the identity of the country. By handing the control of the narrative back to his fellow Panamanian people, Benaim explores the pain, doubt and confusion left behind by the atrocities as well as interrogating the way that we construct our own history.