Discoveries from Colombia World Cinema

Based on a series of episodes aimed as ensuring the director to exorcise the defects, fears and phobias circulating about the world of ordinary love. There are 35 stories developed at an average of two minutes of attempting to explain the failure of marriage in the manner of a puzzle that is organized in the course of the plot.

A Colombian boy is sent to Cuba to learn the new Cuban trova in a secret training program.

In the framework of the Colombian post-conflict, the Nasa indigenous people have been one of the peoples most affected by the war that has lived for more than fifty years in their territory. Conflict that has driven them little by little to forget and abandon their ancestral knowledge and ancient spiritual practices. Today it is a desire for them to return to walk in the footsteps of their ancestors and recover their uses and customs. Given this and their great concern for the revitalization of Mother Earth in times of climate change, they decide to re-practice one of their major rituals from their roots, whose sole objective is the offering of a sacrifice to Mother Earth, in order to connect in community with the spirits of nature, claiming for the mistreatment of man and thanking them for life. This offering is a tree called "Saakhelu".

Isabella, Mario and Cristina are trying to fill their loneliness in the wrong place.

For over 70 years Colombia has been subject to an internal armed conflict whose demarcation lines seem to have become blurred over time. An insidious creeping violence has gradually pervaded the whole of society. Impossible as it is to tell this story in one unified narrative, the history behind this violence seems to take form through a multitude of traces.

Lolita, a secretary from an estate company, must bring the contract of the sale of a new house to a very peculiar and thirsty customer.

Lorena tries to rebuild her life while her husband, a manipulative Italian-Argentinean, slowly and subtly locks her up in a psychological prison from which she must escape.

This is the incredible true story of a five year old girl and her survival alone in the jungle... and the monkeys that saved her. Marina Chapman does not know her real name or her biological family. She claims that when she was a child in Colombia she was kidnapped and abandoned in the jungle and that she survived with monkeys for five years. Now, fifty years later, Marina returns to Colombia with her daughter to try to discover the truth. Scientists will analyze her bones, test her subconscious responses, examine the inner workings of her mind, and a primatologist will try to find flaws in his knowledge of monkeys and her behavior. Who was her real family? Why was she kidnapped? Could a five-year-old girl really survive in the jungle in the company of monkeys? is it all a fantasy story? Or was she really raised by the monkeys?

A tale of irony of the everyday business of supermarket shopping. In this parody of blue detergents, soap squirts, blood dripping from bags of meat, plastic brushes, appearances of Frida Kahlo and rolls of toilet paper Rita confronts the demons that are part of her pink and complex feminine world.

A just divorced couple makes plans to buy several materials to make a minotaur costume for their son Lorenzo. This work wakes up some old issues, but forces them to work together as a team and think about the personal idea of family.

A man risks experimenting with a cataleptic effects pill that seeks faking his death and then returned from the grave to take its own life insurance. But something happens and things do not go as he planned.

This documentary unravels the surprising history that links Barranquilla with France, from the arrival of its first migrants to the palpable influence they left in the gastronomy, fashion and elegant urban landscape marked by Art Deco. Through his encounters with experts and witnesses, Julian explores the French legacy in the delicate art of stained glass and in the foundations of local education, culminating in the vibrant presence of institutions such as the Alliance Française, demonstrating that this historical connection is still alive and enriching Barranquilla's present.

Reynivellir is a representation of the transit that is generated when approaching the art work, described with visual games that can well be evoked by the same brain when witnessing the impossible figures of Jose María Yturralde. Reynivellir is also a beach in a country that is a musical sonnet, and this is so because the mental image does not always connect the articulated parts of a sensation, it is systematic, but aleatory, and it is from these notions of the field of observation, that it approaches and moves away from understanding, linking and unlinking forms, movements, sounds, sensations and knowledge.

After a terrible and devastating pandemic, the history of mankind has taken a totally different course. Survival, the new constant of life.

After the end of the world, a lonely farmer boy befriends an alien lost on earth; But when the alien begins to die, the boy must find a way to save him before it’s too late.

In the mystical jungles of Putumayo, Colombia, there is a sacred mine belonging to the land of the Panguart that is protected by a powerful Shaman called Mutumbajoy. The thirst for power of a sinister sorcerer named Cuquimbo and a ruthless emerald cutter named Tolima break the peace of the village by undertaking a disastrous plan in complicity with two traitorous natives of the Panguart clan; who, blinded by ambition, help to massacre their own people of ancient knowledge, taking their lands to exploit the mines. The brave Zumák remains alive, who will be the warrior chosen by the spirit of Mutumbajoy, who inherits his ancestral knowledge and turns it into the hope that will prevent the total annihilation of this community and preserve what remains of the jungle.

A gang intends to rescue a friend from a mental hospital, moving around Medellin by bicycle and communicating through a radio program known as "The Inhabitants of the Night".

In a Colombian city, Black Boys Chocó dance to fight back against racism, homophobia and transphobia in their community.

In Colombia, Demetrio and his father of the same name live a history of political struggle and violence in relations with a group of priests. During 40 years they'll live and act in the armed conflict between the conservative and the liberals; and pass down the acts of violence through the generations.

an AI-generated artwork directed by Jhonattan Sarmiento, combining stop motion aesthetics, tactile textures, and immersive sound design to explore human fragility in times dominated by machines, acceleration, and repetition. The audiovisual piece unfolds in three distinct moments, arranged as halls within the museum, each inviting the viewer to observe, pause, and reflect on different dimensions of modern exhaustion.

Thirty years after his forced disappearance, the filmmaker’s Afro Colombian father comes to her in a dream, asking her to find him. With her sister, she sets out on a journey of discovery across Colombia’s painful history, reconnecting with their father and his activism.

For Alonso Quijano, professor of literature and expert in Don Quixote of la Mancha, the thin line between sanity and madness snaps one day and from that day forward, his accomplice, veterinary assistant Santos Carrasco, travels through the Professor's past to discover that his madness is but an escape from pain and into the definitive refuge found in fantasy.

In the 1950s, a seasoned police detective is assigned to investigate a suspected homosexual couple, forcing him to confront the morality of his duty in a world where justice and prejudice collide.

Elcy Valencia, a traditional singer, records her first album mixing rhythms from the territories that shaped her life. During the process, she confronts painful memories and, through music, redefines the meaning of home with her daughter.

This film is a third-person diary of the encounters and disagreements between two unbelievers and a prophet. But before that, it is a crazy journey, where its brave characters will be involved in a series of (extra) ordinary events with a mysterious ball, spaceships and regional products.

Andris and Gabriel are two young people from San Basilio de Palenque who travel to Senegal to fulfill their dream of stepping into the land of their ancestors and finding themselves face to face with the historical and cultural origins of their African religion.

When couples fight publicly, leave each other and eventually reconcile as if nothing happened, their neighbors organize what is called a CACHERA, a living theatrical portrait where they disrupt the couples intimacy by reenacting their fight loudly, making noise with pots, pans, bull horns and instruments in the middle of the night. Cacheras are only known to happen in the region of Montes de Maria, Colombia and is a tradition that is being lost and displaced by modern life, technology and a transformed sense of community relationships.

Alejandra, a young middle class woman from Bogotá, in her daily routines, capturing both her moments alone and her interactions with the world. A subtle, contemplative and deeply intimate examination of the way one young woman navigates the daunting terrain of sex, desire and identity.

Miguel, a young man from Chocó who works in a gold mine is implicated in the robbery of a few grams of gold. This forces him to leave his hometown to safe his life and arrive to the capital, Bogotá to start over.

A and N, a couple of peasants create an informal metallurgy workshop in the outskirts of Bogotá in the hope of a better life. The social, environmental and organic consequences they must endure in order to adapt to the industrial capitalism that storms Latin America affects dramatically their relationship and their history.

A neglected wife finds hope in a friendly stranger, a single mother finds love in the most unfortunate of places, and a shy young wallflower gets a little closer to knowing what she wants by trying what she doesn't. A collection of five tender stories that show us, no matter where you are, Love is Never Far.

ATENTAMENTE is a film that, through the sensation of the time passing by and the presence of the death that wanders into a nursing home, allows us to feel the life through the illusion that love brings along. Libardo and Alba, a couple of elders who met each other at the nursing home where they live, they fall for, they become boyfriends and start to struggle in order to find fifty thousand pesos to rent a room for one night at a hotel so they can have a privacy moment, since at the nursing home where they live is not possible to have that. While struggling they must face each other, face their fears, their limitations, their pains, their time as well as their fragility so they can construct that moment in which they meet love. A struggle that seems to be easy, but for them is an odyssey against time, against their limitations and their own ghosts.

What is it like to be a visually impaired pedestrian in a city like Bogotá?

A provincial woman living alone in Bogotá must feign a solid and stable marriage before the impending visit of her parents, who are convinced of their daughter's condition. The charade gives rise to all sorts of dubious situations.

In Venezuelan Guayana, large gold reserves lie beneath “moriche” palms, attracting multitudes of miners from across the region. A narrator travels from far-flung mines in the jungle to the banks of the Orinoco River, trying to understand the uncertain fortune of the miner. His reflections combine illustrations and photochemical paintings to draw a map of the extraction and commercialization of gold, object and symbol through which he questions where value resides. Morichales is a journey through an occult jungle immersed in the quest for redemption.

After a chasm of over two decades, thirty-three-year-old Jacobo reignites a connection with José Luis, a fifty-year-old Catholic priest navigating the twilight of his clerical life amid swirling allegations that have cast a shadow over his sacred vows.

Don't leave us. Walk among us, it will never dawn in Chapinero. Bogota embraces you with its sidewalk. Your shoes have been stained with colors. The tense calm of the street caresses you with an unexpected and familiar desire. The hubbub becomes a party of pleasure and pain. Do not leave us.

Maya Deren is reincarnated as a young woman from the Colombian Caribbean. Images from her old films intertwine with her walks along the beaches. Gradually, the experience becomes a love poem for all amateur filmmakers and a beautiful tribute to the legendary mother of underground cinema.

In a museum where the paintings come to life inside their frames, a cleaning lady must decide whether to intervene when a new acquisition portrays the rape of a slave.

A documentary that follows the story of Aníbal, a man who, after losing his loved ones, embarks on a journey of healing through ancestral rituals and Santería. In the process, he seeks to hear the messages of his deceased relatives one last time and continue with the course of his life.

An outcast looks for a glass of water in the house of a single woman, he notices that she is industrious yet repulsive and resolves¸ under the guise of love¸ to exploit her as a servant. After some drunkenness and beatings¸ the woman decides to take revenge; taking advantage of one of these drunkenness¸ when he has fallen asleep in a hammock¸ he sews the hammock around the edges and throws a pot of boiling water on it.

Dressed In Green Many of the youths recruited by the guerrillas in the Vaupés region were taken from their schools. This is the story of one of them. She tells about the days in the camps and how the experience only gives her a feeling of hatred and revenge.

A young and beautiful woman is soon to be married. However, her plans are complicated by the attraction she begins to feel for the painter who paints her portrait, who is also a boxer.

A magical and deezing journey.

Aurora, a young woman who is part of a religious sect with her mother, doubts the veracity of the words of Bernabé, the leader, and seeks a way to make her mother and the rest of the community understand that the truth is not there. Everything becomes chaotic when Aurora begins to have connections with the sacred idol and her objective changes drastically, changing the normality of the community.

Federico Guillermo, a 7 year-old boy, gets grounded for making a mess while playing in the living room and not wearing the orthopedic shoes he's been told. Federico refuses to wear them but he just can't take them off so he decides to run away from home. His sister is just able to yell at him: 'tie your laces or you will fall!!'. In the run Federico suddenly falls down and discovers that he fell because of a fabric hole on the pavement and not for the laces. He tries to set free his foot from the threads, realizing that every time he pulls a string something is destroyed in the world. Federico starts looking for the string that will destroy his own shoes.

Ciro is a quiet and respectful young guaquero that despite his young age and his little experience becomes one of the best and most outstanding of the coffee region in Colombia. Ciro is hired by Oliver, an English adventurer man, ambitious and who goes by the world looking for luck and trying to hunt fortunes. Obsessed with a large guaca to keep filling his pockets, he plunges into the jungle of Quindío with Ciro. What they don't know or can come to what can be found in their path, through a journey in which the jungle, mysticism, tradition and ambition overflowed playing an unexpected trick.

When the waters meet

In an act of irresponsibility Jeison, a young student, takes without permission some money that his mother keeps to pay the rent and spends it on a gift for his new friend.

After the death of don Joaquín, his wife and son dispute the lands he left. At the same time, a beast stalks the farm forcing them to follow their trail into the plains and to the spirit of Don Joaquín, who refuses to leave the lands.