Discoveries from Colombia World Cinema

A man leaves his surroundings to go die in the mountains of Los Andes in front of the eyes of two little girls and their cow herd.

An experimental short film about "the joy of living in Colombia" and Kodak films

Brigitte Baptiste is a female transgender ecologist whose groundbreaking research has challenged scientific and social conventions for years. With the help of tracking, archive footage and digital animation, the film weaves an intimate soliloquy and a richly nuanced portrait around an extraordinary protagonist, whose refreshing ideas about life, family and current issues may, perhaps, rekindle hope for the future of our planet.

Three friends at a birthday party decide to push their limits, triggering some of their sexual fantasies and deepest fears. One night, one shot, one chance to feel something different.

Sebastián, a ten-year-old boy, lives in a violent family environment, so he decides to stay inside a videotape containing family memories that presents a more beautiful, albeit fictional, reality than the one he experiences every day.

Video-survey with fixed camera about the Cali people. They are asked about different topics: happiness, money, innocence, love...

Spanning over 70 years, two women recount their experiences growing up in Colombia and immigrating to Canada. Intersecting with key moments in Colombian history, Vanishing Points is a polyphonic composition of mirrors, labyrinths, dreams, and nightmares that question the idea of perspective and the linearity of history and time.

While dealing with a strange being that lives inside her, a woman seeks to reconcile with her sister over an incident from their adolescence.

When a local community member disappears, a boy faces an early memory, seeking comfort in the Indigenous traditions, healing rituals, and guidance from his grandfather.

While imprisoned for drug trafficking in Barcelona, ​​​​Hernando Toro began his career as a photographer. For more than a decade, from a cell that was converted into a professional studio, he took thousands of portraits of those, like him, who lived behind bars. Despite the wealth of his work, much of Toro's file was forgotten once he was released.

Over eight nights in Bogotá, a young man’s connection with an elusive woman spirals into a restless obsession as he struggles to decipher the gap between the person he loves and the one he has imagined.

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 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.

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.

In the city of Ibagué, a young man named Juan Ramiro Delgadillo cleans the city's sewers. Despite the intense heat and torrential rains, his love for his hometown motivates him to voluntarily continue this work, which prevents the flooding that has occurred in the past due to clogged sewers. Although some residents are unaware of "Juanchito's" initiative, and there is no support from the authorities, his family and some pedestrians recognize the positive effects of his work on the environment, which also motivates him to educate residents with awareness messages.

A boy, with the faintest of hope, flies to France looking for answers about his past. He is desperate, restless, and blind to what is happening around him. It isn't until he slows down that he finds something even better.

Dino González has the appearance of an old-time rocker. He lives in the Chapinero area and works as a hairdresser. As fate would have it, he becomes entangled with a police sergeant who initially sees him as a delinquent and wants to send him to prison, but as time goes by she begins to change her conception of Dino.

Experimental Video Arte

María and Milena are sisters who work the land in the Montes de María region. One day, after harvesting some food, they encounter uniformed men seeking valuable information about a new armed group that is prowling around their village. After the incident, a bunch of bananas and a red cap are the only evidence of these women.

Under a full sun that turns the wide pastures and woods around a house into an idyllic playground, a boy plays with his father to be a man. In the midst of the greenery, the aggressiveness is heartwarming: the father teaches him boxing and with it, the responsibility and restraint that come with mastering one's own body; the boy listens to rap and caresses chicks. Masculinity and childhood are documented in a contradictory, sweet and incautious nature. Seen in this light, the images of upbringing can convince us: love and virtue are built and transmitted in small lessons.

The universe of bacteria and fungi is extremely diverse and peculiar. Their qualities range from infecting exploiters and dissolving racistoids, to going through various states of arousal, generating pleasurable chains and eliminating the chemicals responsible for making you feel ashamed.

Explores the boundaries between life and death, black magic and the supernatural.

Inti, the sun god, descends to earth one day to create Gal, a creature of fire, beautiful and majestic. However, Gal's adventurous and mischievous personality will end up putting humans at risk, causing the awakening of Pachamama and forcing Inti to contain Gal's energy.

Words are not needed for her to understand him... until a certain point. When is it too late to express what you feel in a relationship?

Isabel Goncourt, 38, faces an identity crisis. Her fragmented memory recalls episodes that connect her to a strange double life, leading her to recreate the exact point of her encounter with desire.

Eliseo, a 67 year old man, after a massacre that leaves no survivors in his village, reconstructs through sculptures the inhabitants who lived there, immortalizing among them his best friend and the love of his life.

After a youth marked by limitations, Vilma (45) has finally achieved the privileged life she always dreamed of. In a beachfront house located in one of Costa Rica’s most exclusive tourist areas, she waits alone for the annual visit of her American partner, who sustains this lifestyle from afar. But this year, he doesn’t show up, cuts off communication, and the money begins to run out. Amid the overwhelming tourist atmosphere, Vilma is forced to face paradise without her “Prince Charming.”

In the Páramo of La Sarna, Sebastian is getting ready to film a documentary. However, on his journey he is forced to reflect on the connection between his loss of vision and the scars of his territory's forgotten past.

In the heart of the Alta Guajira, 15-year-old Weinshi, a girl from the Wayuu people whose name means “Time”, begins to hear an ancestral calling in her dreams: the earth must be healed through her people’s sacred dance, the Yonna.

Erasmo y Estela, are an old couple that rarely go out of their house, one day they decide to take out an old disk player, clean the dust away and play some music. When they realise that the disk player is broken, they decide to get out of their home and face a whole new world.

The natural landscape of Colombia’s Río Cauca Valley, with its mountains, forests, and rivers, has been reshaped and transformed for colonial hydroelectric production. Uprooted by the pursuit of profit, a community celebrates a fascinating ritual to remember and mourn its territory, contributing its own images and sounds to the film’s visual and audio stream.

Quilla and Jacobo, although very different, are great friends: she is passionate about studying; he doesn't care much about school because he can't relate it to farm work. In the middle of the exam, Jacobo asks Quilla for a copy of the test and has them both annulled. The next day, at school, Jacobo asks Quilla for a moment to apologize. Will she listen to him?

Inside everyone of us there is a box of wishes. Most have our name on them... But the most powerful wishes are those that lie in our hearts, and yet belong to someone else. When Lulú notices a troubled bird in the city, she conjures her magical and slightly clumsy, Guardian creature Kino. Together, they explore solutions in her surreal inner world. But although things dont always go as planned, they discover that small acts of kindness can go a long way in changing the world.

A hot-headed taxi driver in Medellín has to repair his boss' AC at 5 AM. He is tested by a series of misfortunes, leading him on a self-questioning path.

Startled by the noise of disturbances in her neighborhood, Marta wakes up. Before heading to the living room for the wake of her son Javier, who died in the protests due to clashes with the police force, she silently prays in her room.

Functions without theaters, murals without walls, clothes without fabrics and students without schools says the necessary about the state abandonment and but also talent and creativity of Colombians, which it has nothing to lose. The documentary tells the story of the beginnings and resilience of several artist from Barranquilla in different disciplines in continuing to maintain and diversify the living culture, that remain to exist.

Rosa is a country girl who has managed to escape from a paramilitary massacre in which her whole family was brutally murdered. Hernando is a man in his forties who is determined to find his aunt Graciela, the only living relative whose testimony will allow him to inherit a substantial amount of money. On the contrary Alejandra, Hernando's wife, thinks that no money should justify the risk of putting themselves in the midts of a 'red zone'. Blinded by his ambition, Hernando convinces his wife to keep on with their money quest. Both the couple and the girl end up being captured by members of a local guerrilla. Finally, the gruesome Colombian conflict will decide their destinies in a totally unexpected way.

The first mountains that the Amsterdam-based Colombian artist and filmmaker Ana Bravo Pérez saw in the Netherlands were black. In this experimental work, she follows the stench of the coal in the port of Amsterdam back to its origin: an open wound in northern Colombia. The mine is located in the territory of the Wayuu and has a huge impact on the indigenous people.

A reflection on an unpunished event in recent Colombian history.

Two traditions closely linked to the intellectual and political world of the Colombian capital: the Café that houses poets and thinkers of all stripes with the memories of those who made up the select crowd of other times.

In the hands of the peasant, the countryside becomes a productive space; everything around it bears fruit, not only the land, but also the cultural expressions born from its most intimate experiences, which are expressed through tunes and songs until they turn into celebration.

Short film recorded in the Cúcuta prison.

The random encounter between two American astronauts and an indigenous inhabitant in the Colombian jungle, a starting point for a counter-history of space conquest.

Cristian, an Afro-Colombian millennial from the Caribbean island of Tierra Bomba, must decide whether to continue acting or drop all his masks, and overcome his own fear to live his identity freely. Josephine, the director, follows Cristian for seven years across different countries during this quest for freedom.

Julio, a blind coffee vendor, recounts his relationship with Daniel, a 9-year-old boy whom he rescued from a life in the streets and raised as his own. After an unfortunate encounter with a social services worker, Julio will have to fight to protect Daniel and keep their relationship strong.

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.

In this short documentary we will call “spaces of memory” the places where collective memory is a key element to form the cultural identity of the territories and the people who inhabit them.

In a large village nestled among the mountains, far from the sea, one day a man appeared on the shore carrying a canoe. "Where do you go to the sea?" he asked. "But when I was born, I knew the sea." Between jokes, he's challenged to follow the course of the waters.

Working the land always involves a mutual nurturing interaction. The body that works meets the species of the land that intervenes. A cycle of care is installed. In Miel the production of shared knowledge bee-human-earth configures a scenario of activities that is amplified in a film that walks the frictions that coexist with this community of beekeepers in the Colombian Atlantic.