At the end of 1989, the United States invaded Panama, an event whose realities have been distorted by those on both sides of the conflict. The motivations, facts, and figures remain an invisible history that is rarely revisited. Invasion does not recount the attack as it happened but as the people of Panama remember it, allowing individual memories to create a compelling collective narrative. Director Abner Benaim confronts the reliability of nonfiction storytelling—both behind the camera and in front of it—raising questions of documentary form, the nature of perception, and even the audience’s own role in the propagation of the past. Through striking personal accounts that culminate in elegant, painterly imagery, the silence of the Panama invasion is finally given a voice, one that resolves cacophony into clarity. North American premiere co-presented with the Miami Int’l Film Festival(DK)