Directed by Santiago Posada
Written by Alonso Torres (‘Perro come Perro’, ‘Matar a Jesus’)
Set in Chocó, Colombia.
Adapted from the original novel by acclaimed Colombian author Tomas González, and based on true events in the author’s own life, PRIMERO ESTABA EL MAR is a taut psychological drama set in a remote, dramatic stretch of the Colombian coast in the late 1970s