A documantary feature film.
After the death of his father, filmmaker Mauro Colombo encounters a lifeless man on a road deep in the jungle. He revives him with chest compressions—until the man’s gaze once again drifts off into the infinite.
This transient moment becomes the film´s impulse, drawing us into its exploration of the unknown.
The film invites us into a meditative and intimate journey through the fragile threshold between life and death. His path winds through remote landscapes and inner territories, guided by the eyes and stories of those who have touched the edge of what we call reality.
Rather than chase answers, the film drifts gently toward something more elusive: a felt sense of consciousness as an open, living landscape—untranslatable, vast, and pulsing just beyond the reach of language.

In his documentary feature debut, filmmaker Mauro Colombo immerses himself in the Darién Gap, a dense and mysterious jungle that divides Panama and Colombia. At the dangerous border between these two countries, guerrillas, immigrants, indigenous people, farmers, drug traffickers, local police and wild animals cross paths.
Colombo approaches the jungle and its characters from an anthropological perspective. He focuses on finding meaning in this no man´s land, as a metaphor for the wilderness within us. Tierra Adentro is an urgent, political film, recording deforestation of this area, which affects not only the people living there, but also the whole world. It transports the spectator to the heart of the conflict and allows us to experience the intensity of the jungle itself. An invitation to enter an unknown world and to find a way to relate to it.