Ana Rosa is the latest documentary by Catalina Villar (Bogotá, 59 years old) The film, named after her paternal grandmother, began as a family concern and ended in a shocking investigation. Villar visited specialists in France, clinics in the U.S.
and consulted experts from many places around the world. In Colombia, the bodies of the poorest women were used for psychiatric experiments such as the so-called “Asilo Locas’’ In the case of Ana Rosa, women were admitted with postpartum depression, at the time associated with madness.