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In a desolated world, a martyr is steered by a man giving orders from a control room. His henchmen torture the resistance fighter. Are the parts played by victim and hangman defined as clearly as it seems? Ange Leccia offers a political reflection about the power of images and their manipulative force. —ubu.com
José Cortés, a Colombian man who has dedicated his entire life to working in the fields, damaged his spine due to his work. Motivated by his love for his family, he wakes up every day to provide for them, becoming a fighter in life.
A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.
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.
Record showing an expedition to the banks of the Ortegaza and Caquetá rivers in Colombia, with a view of Cayetano Mora's San Pedro Cayetano hacienda and the indigenous communities settled on the banks.
Reflections of the people of Bogotá about the installation of a kinetic sculpture by Venezuelan artist Alejandro Otero, in the center of the city.
The impact of Andres Caicedo words and stories on the gangs of the colony of San Fernando (Cali) as told by one of his members: The Angel of the Swamp.
This film takes a forgotten technical slideshow script made by a peasant association and brings it to life through 16 mm film, music and lyrics, as a recomposition and extension of resistance against violence through historical memory.
Naranja is a woman that endures daily street harassment and catcalling; the constant sexualization and objectification of her body is reflected on the spots that these violent acts leaves over it. Naranja will have to react before the spots consume her.
Amid fragmented memories, Julian escapes into the forest one night to search for evidence and try to prove that he was abducted by aliens.
Searching for the reasons for her grandfather's depression among the paintings on the walls of his house, a young filmmaker discovers the parallel that unites them both: each works on a portrait. The young filmmaker, faithful to her craft, turns a painting that obsesses her into a tableau vivant: it is her own way of painting. There is another painting that bewitches her: it is the last one her grandfather painted, and it remained unfinished. Using her brushes, she now wants to finish what her grandfather left unfinished.
A tale of love and resilience amid the turbulence of a border crisis, Gustavo, a dedicated radio host in Táchira, Venezuela, splits his time between his job and caring for his wheelchair-bound wife. When the station’s console breaks down, he decides to cross into Colombia to have it repaired, but an unexpected border closing will leave him stranded. Desperate to reach out to his wife, Gustavo conceives a gesture both romantic and ingenious: a radio broadcast of the bolero that first made them fall in love.
Ignacio finishes school as experiences loves and new friends. However, his desires to be himself are thwarted by the strict doctrines of his father, Alfonso, a farmer and War veteran.
After the death of his mother, Mario faces an intense crisis of violence at the hands of his father. Desperate and seeking comfort, he discovers that his only way out is to connect with the memory of his mother every time he puts on her dress.
A diligent student struggles to concentrate in class, but her classmate, lost in his thoughts, creates fantastical beings that draw her into his world. In an attempt to stop him from distracting her, she creates her own fantasy.
Dieguito and Gago, passionate futbol lovers, began following their team from an early age, traveling in tractor-trailers. Many of his friends have lost their lives in accidents or confrontations with others. Erminta, Gago's mother, observes her son's life with a mixture of love and realism. A trip from Medellín to Montería will reveal their life dynamics and the deep devotion they have for their team, which they follow everywhere.
Gregorio is having a strange day. Mysterious things happen around the farm where he lives with his family and there is no explanation for any of them.
On her twentieth birthday, Adriana returns to the old family home to celebrate with her father, mother, younger brother, and aunt. The evening turns into figurative and literal torture.
Educational documentary on North American silent comedy made with archival materials.
Mario, uses his prodigious memory and discourse against technological advances to hide from his upper-middle class friends the poverty in which he lives and which does not allow him to have the same comforts as them. Everything he does creates a drama in which he is immersed and threatens to destroy his image and the group of friends in which he grew up.
In a context where the role of a queer person is seen as painting nails and cutting hair, Herlen and her friends Charlie and Jhoana struggle in their daily lives to challenge this prejudice. Through provocative performances, they confront outdated ideas and attempt to create a space where diversity is accepted.
In the heart of the Darien forest, newly elected Embera indigenous governor Morelia must confront both male resistance to her leadership and the haunting echoes of her past.
Kevin grew up in the absence of a guerrilla mother and with the constant hope that the conflict would one day come to an end. But the war was getting closer every day and displacement, pain and death were the constants of his badly wounded childhood.
Sixteen years ago my brother was one of the 11 scouts in the Pirsas group who died in an avalanche on the Nevada del Ruiz volcano. My family fell to pieces, nobody knew how to go about mourning and I was left completely alone. Sixteen years later, the reconstruction of the climb up to the Nevada and investigation into the pain suffered by my family is the path to building a personal and intimate story about death, mourning and emotional adaptation. This return only seeks answers that give me some kind of hope.
Ferley was a child when he decided to join the FARC guerrillas motivated by revenge. A testimony to know the different faces of the armed conflict.
Upon the announcement of the signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the guerrillas in 2016, Germán Gutiérrez went to film in one of the last FARC camps. There he met ex-combatants, many of them women, Afro-Colombians, and indigenous people, all from the poorest strata of society. It is to them that he wanted to give a voice. For six years, he was on the front lines of this crucial historical period for Colombia, which would end with the election of Gustavo Petro, an ex-guerrilla of the M-19, as president of the country in June 2022.
A man search for his spiritual self while confronting love and chaos of everyday's life.
Dora, a young aspiring hairdresser from Colombia living in Queens is suddenly faced with the grim uncertainties of the pandemic’s epicenter.
A classic fifty-two pages norma notebook was given to every artist as part of a collective project by La Ramona Proyectos called Dibujo libre (free drawing). Twenty one artists from South America participated, most of them from Bogotá. The notebooks have been exhibited in Argentina, México and Perú. This is Camila Garcia's notebook.
Faces, bodies and actions are juxtaposed endlessly. Fragmented pieces of the woman come together and form the volume of what has been her image in the history of cinema; one marked by the domination and exploitation of her body. A short film homage to Laura Mulvey and her contributions to feminist film theory.
In the midst of the confinement that the pandemic has brought us, those who live in family groups or in company, coexistence begins to be a time bomb where there is no space to take a breath and get rid of the pressures of life and relationships with others. The bathroom then becomes the only place where there is individual freedom to unburden oneself, to dream, to cry, to keep secrets and intimacies of the life one led in the times before confinement.
The plan is simple: lock Potro's dad in the bathroom, steal the car and record a video clip of one of his most punk songs to apply for a seat at the most important concert in the city. Not everything goes as they want, past resentments, passions, egos and the consequences of their decisions get in their way.
After falling from a tree, Lea, a lonely and sturdy feral cat, is cared for by Ciro, a rag doll, who takes her home and introduces her to his family of repaired things.
Captured entirely on phone footage, a group of Cuban artists risk everything to document their uprising against a government trying to silence them.
Banned languages, books telling stories of alien children, and strange sculptures that resemble spaceships. The history of the suppression of the Basque language during Franco’s dictatorship opens the door to the invisible.
Filming of the documentary began on the very day news broke of Camilo Torres’s death on February 15, 1966. It captures the reactions of the university student movement (protests, clashes with the police, symbolic burial), footage of the places where Camilo Torres served as a professor in the Sociology Department at the National University and as its chaplain, as dean of the Higher School of Public Administration, at the offices of his newspaper Frente Unido, and shots of news reports regarding his death “somewhere in Santander.”
Two sisters say goodbye to the only house they have ever lived in. This house is a refuge, but also a burden and a weight. It is memory, but also a wound. Through dance, words, and movement. The House Left Empty is a farewell ritual to a space that became too heavy to inhabit.
On the magical island of Korinco, where animals have human souls, a Colombian bear, a Korean tiger, and an Indonesian Komodo dragon seek traditional games from their countries to help the depressed monkey president.
Set in a distant galaxy, a strange humanoid creature called Hunter X must fight against a dozen robot lizards to retrieve a peculiar disk-shaped device.
On a December night, the sound of motorcycles and fireworks fills the streets of Medellín, as the improbable connection between two young men from almost opposite worlds unfolds through a conversation that lays them bare, along with the labyrinthine streets they wander. Both face the constant threat of death and oblivion; at every stop, they pause to observe the city, holding on to that fleeting moment amidst the uncertainty.
After fleeing violence at age 15, Pacho spends four decades away from Anserma. Now a photograph sparks a desire to return, and on his journey home —imagined as an interstellar voyage— he searches for what he left behind. The lingering traces of death intertwine with a landscape of rural expressionism, memory, and history
At sundown, Hector’s home becomes a place of excess. There, the day dissolves into a ritual of rest where the community’s stories and mysteries are shared freely, without order, tracing an intimate silhouette of the whole territory. This film is about this necessary waste of gossip.
In the largest mass kidnapping in Colombia’s history, a conflicted young man forges unexpected bonds with a desperate mother and a forcibly recruited guerrilla soldier only to discover the true meaning of forgiveness and empathy.
Isabel settles down far from prying eyes with her very young daughter. She is fleeing a tumultuous past that, barely revealed, weighs heavily on her. In their little cabin, she hopes that a simple daily life will be enough to make her forget the shadows and protect her child....
Twenty years after her mother’s death, Laura returns to the family home in Cauca, Colombia. Born from an absence, the film moves through women’s voices, silences, and echoes of the past. A gesture of remembrance, between lingering light and the darkness of oblivion.
In the waters of Colombia’s Pacific coast, life is celebrated through a particular kind of song: the Arrullos. This music honors life in a territory marked by violence and armed conflict, where enslaved people once found refuge at the end of colonial rule. In these same waters, each year, thousands of whales arrive from Antarctica to give birth. Pacífico weaves a polyphonic narrative around birth in an aquatic space where body, territory, and memory are deeply intertwined.
“How many are we?” (as written, with only a single question mark at the end and without the accent mark prescribed by the Academy) is a short promotional and educational sound film that sought to prepare the population for what would become the 1938 census, known as the “first modern census” of Colombia. The images of Bogotá, Medellín, Barranquilla, Cali, Cartagena, and Quibdó reaffirm the quality of framing and composition that the Acevedo family left as the hallmark and legacy of their cinematic work. This short film is not referenced in the publications that have been produced about these pioneers of national cinema; it was only rediscovered in 2012 thanks to the work carried out by the Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano within the framework of the Colombian Audiovisual Heritage Strengthening Program.
"At 105, Sixto Muñoz, known as 'the last Tinigua man', left his home for one final journey into the Amazon and disappeared. Following his trail along the Guayabero River, the film retraces his fading world and the extinction of an entire culture."
A triangle of odd personalities. Each with their own obsessions. Bumping against each other’s lives. Black rain. A mysterious disappearance. Two bodies. The future of the world... Plot TBC
Two brothers communicate using a tin can phone, even when one of them is in the afterlife.