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If you ask a good reader what he thinks of the film that has the same title as the book he has in his hands, he will surely answer nothing to do! A tough trial for a production that takes so much effort and which also awards it as “Best Ibero-American Fiction Film” in an important event such as the Platinum Awards, being one of the five statuettes that won. In addition to the nomination for Best Ibero-American Film at the Goya Awards 2021.
We are talking about the film “The oblivion that we will be”. Based on the book by Hector Abad Faciolince about his father the doctor, professor and human rights activist Hector Abad Gomez killed by right-wing paramilitaries on August 25, 1987.
Under the direction of Fernando Trueba, the script by David Trueba and the production by Dago García, in addition to the dedicated work of photographer Sergio Ivan Castano to reliably transfer the viewer to the stages of the time.


The story touches on universal aspects of the love of a father and his son, and perhaps that is why it is not essential to read the book first to understand the film, and although the narratives in different presentations if there is a common denominator, the author's gaze in two stages, and not precisely using colors or absence of it, to indicate certain historical moments, rather it is about his experience firsthand and then the ways to share so many affections, Hector son is really the guiding thread of all this work .

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