Discoveries from Colombia World Cinema

Ofelia, an innocent rural woman, fights against time for her life after a group of common criminals place a bomb collar on her to extort her husband for an insignificant sum of money.

During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides’s Electra.

Teenager Ángela meets her three adult step-sisters for the first time when their father dies. Fearing that Ángela will end up in state custody, the sisters embark on a 900-mile journey across Colombia to leave the young girl with an aunt she doesn't even know. During this journey, Ángela will discover what it means to be a woman.

Two teenagers, an orphan hen who loves reggaeton music and the son of a champion fighting-cock, will live an adventure in which they will learn to accept themselves, alongside a great lesson in tolerance and nonviolence.

Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a young boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.

Anna is a young woman living in Paris, daily struggling with her emotional frailty. She tries to spend more time with her ten-year-old son, Nathan, but Philippe, her former husband, does not trust her anymore and threatens to take full custody of the child. Having no other choice, she convinces her boyfriend Bruno to help her, and the three of them fly away to Colombia. During this journey, Anna will strive to build a new family, and will face the difficulty of being a mother.

Unwilling to let his daughter attend a high school trip unsupervised, a protective father and his charismatic mother-in-law show up to crash the party.

A hearse cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells his story in this city marked by conflicts, violence and paradoxes. He remembers his childhood and the discovery of his sexuality.

Itzia is a deaf woman who claims to have started hearing a peculiar music that always comes from the same cardinal point. In the village where she lives, people believe she is going crazy and try to convince her to see a doctor. But Itzia is certain that these melodies are not a product of her imagination. To prove she is not insane, she will have to embark on a journey to find the source of the music.

Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin prepares for his 2019 homecoming concert amid intense political turmoil.

A hug, not a kiss. A hug, almost a kiss. A hug as a kiss.

A group of Colombians from different social backgrounds began work in a gospel choir for a prominent singer.

A journalist documents the experiences of three different people who lived through the tragic Salvadoran civil war of the 1980s, which lasted twelve years.

Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival

A black office comedy about a head of human resources who threatens to run away with his wife's best friend to escape the insanity around him.

In this poetic, richly allegorical debut by Colombian director William Vega, a teenage girl flees to a rundown inn after being driven from her home in the Andean highlands by civil war, as the violence engulfing the country creeps ever closer to her remote refuge. (TIFF)

A man catches his girlfriend cheating on him with his boss, and gets fired because of this. When he finds his boss cheating on his ex-girlfriend, he blackmails him, but things will end up upside-down, when a murder shows up

Driven by the music and dancing that she finds along the way, a teenager leaves home and not minding the consequences, is willing to try everything that this provocative and tolerant city has to offer.

Antonio tries to show his friend Carlos that his wife cheats on him. As he tries to make his friends see the truth, a number of different people and funny situations come up.

Abelardo and his brother Raúl face a dilemma when the match that could qualify Colombia for the World Cup coincides with Laura’s wedding—Abelardo’s daughter, marrying the team’s star player. With a bet on the line and two critical events, they’ll do everything to stick to their plans amidst hilarious situations, until the final whistle decides it all.

Amparo, a submissive young woman, tries to escape from her strict convent school but falls into the hands of “El Animal,” a violent and abusive man who forces her to become his wife. Trapped by fear and constant mistreatment, she clings to her love for her daughter and her hope for a better life. However, her strength and dignity may not be enough to stand against the cruelty of the ruthless Animal.

A young humble soldier writes a letter to his family without knowing about the sufffering of their own war.

An archeologist becomes obsessed with an inexplicable finding that shakes the world. He discovers the shape of a contemporary astronaut in an ancient archaeological site.

When a mysterious train accident forces a man to change his plans, he is confronted with a series of choices. Each decision he makes leads to a different scenario, each one filmed by a different director with a different cast.

In a comedy set during the Christmas novena of a company, Piquiña, an ugly and boastful man, tries to conquer Liliana, the woman desired by all. Convinced of his charm, he goes after her, but Liliana rejects him with a blunt phrase: she would only be with him if he were the last man on Earth.

An Argentinean anthropologist makes an amusing analysis of the Colombian society taking the spectator by graceful situations in which are seen personages of our country being very "OriYinales". Starring Julian Arango, Paola Turbay, Diego Trujillo among others, this film is a single laugh.

Brasília. Vital is a Brazilian federal police deputy who leads a special investigation group that aims to capture the international drug trafficker Beque Batista. Three other officers make up the group: Dani, Rock and Lua. In parallel, Vital need to take care of Leila, his pregnant wife, and does everything so she does not participate in the violent world in which he lives.

Carlos lives in a boarding school in the centre of Bogotá and longs to spend Christmas with his family. The circumstances around him force him to assume the male stereotype, in open contradiction to his true being. In private, Carlos acknowledges his sensitivity, his fragility and moves towards other forms of masculinity. At his 16 years of age, Carlos explores his sexual identity, discovers his fears, his desires, and all the things that real men never show.

Joaquin Lara, a successful businessman, is going through the best moment of his life; however, while dining at a prestigious restaurant in the city, he runs into his ex-girlfriend Nina Nadal, who will soon leave the country to start a new life abroad. The encounter is peaceful until Joaquin receives a series of mysterious text messages, demanding that he publish some evidence at that location and thus expose some dark secrets of certain people present there as well. Otherwise, he is warned that the woman accompanying him "Nina" will be killed once she leaves the restaurant if he does not fulfill the objective. Thus begins a sordid game in a confined public place where everyone's life is at risk.

Damián, Facundo, Luciano and Marcelo have been friends since childhood and they share the passion for classic rock and roll on vinyl records. Their relationship is also marked by other big subjects: friendship and girls. When one of them decides to get married the four lives stir up.

In a family party that is respected, good music, fun, love, drinks and why not, even a dead person should never be lacking. The Matayana family will experience a rumba on the birthday of the head of the household, Doña Matilde, until they realize that an inheritance is at stake.

In Panama City, a Colombian immigrant employed as a home health aide, who harbors a secret, develops a touching and unexpected bond with a strong-willed, wealthy businesswoman struggling with encroaching dementia.

A 62-year-old woman, trapped in a life of empty privilege, becomes pregnant by her driver. Facing rejection from her family and society, she decides to fight to bring to life a baby that seems impossible at her late age, regardless of the consequences.

A road, an accident, a fatal decision are enough for Carlos Luna to change the course of his life completely. Now Carlos Luna has a secret. A secret that begins to reveal itself through strange events that turn his life into a roulette wheel. The police suspect him and what he has done, but the mysterious disappearance of the plane where his wife and daughter were traveling makes him fly to Colombia. There, Carlos will become the toy of his own destiny. Strange apparitions haunt him day and night. His happy life is over, his family is gone, and fear has become his very breath. Carlos Luna has entered a dangerous labyrinth where running away is not an option.

Sara and Óscar, a couple going through a marital crisis, decide to spend a week in a remote country cabin with their two children, Alicia and Tomás. The family tries to have a quiet time, but something strange happens there. There is a woman who prowls through the forest and cries uncontrollably looking for a baby she has just lost. This deeply affects the family who will have to stay together to survive this nightmare.

Set in Bogotá in 1996. In the darkness caused by power outages, the townspeople are terrified of the arrival of the antichrist. Thirteen-year-old Ana is deeply tormented by this rumor that secretly invades her daily life, by the existential crises of her school’s priest or by the animistic superstitions of the maiden.

Documentary filmed in 1965 by two journalists in the remote town of Rio Chiquito, Colombia, a self-proclaimed communist "republic." The film shows the live of villagers and guerilleros before and after an attack by Colombian government forces.

At the edge of the Tequendama Falls, María Prieto uncovers the tragic story of her namesake — a woman who, heartbroken, ended her life at that very cliff. Two lives separated by a century, intertwined by coincidence, love, and a waterfall.

Dr. Rafael invites one of his patients, a man incapable of physical contact with others, to a card game.

The underserved Bogota neighborhood of La Estrella was only recently mapped on Google’s Street View. The residents share what that means to them.

Two sets of identical twins switched at birth in Colombia explore their complex history and new identities in this captivating documentary.

"Transmission" is an experimental short film that blends home recordings and digital rituals. A host begins receiving messages from entities in the metaverse, triggering a dreamlike journey where his identity fragments between the real and the virtual.

A young peasant woman moves to Bogotá in search of work and ends up as a domestic servant for a middle-class family, where she witnesses the breakdown of a conflict-ridden marriage. At the same time, she faces the aftermath of rural violence while trying to adapt to life in the big city.

Starting her senior year in high school, Sara doesn't have many friends and is caught between an overbearing mother, and a more understanding father. With uneasiness at school and tension in the household, Sara escapes to smoke in a little alley alone – that is – until Andrea, a new classmate, arrives. A close friendship develops to all that can see, but behind closed doors, an intimate relationship unfolds, which, when discovered, throws everything into disarray.

A beautiful young woman, aware of the doors that her beauty and ambition have opened for her, gets fully into the world of drug trafficking. In this way he manages to enter the inner circle of a powerful drug trafficker and his wife.

A forty-year-old poet wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed. Accused of his mother's murder, he claims it was an act of love: a plan to aid his mother's death and end his own life at the same time.

Piroberta wants to fulfill the American dream and live in the United States, to achieve this she plans to leave on her new motorcycle. Unfortunately the motorcycle is retained by the police and she doesn't have the money to get it back, so she turns to the witch Dioselina, who recommends certain types of jobs with which she makes a profit.

Piroberta comes to live in a house that her aunt inherited, but in that house lives an evil spirit, and along with her friends, and the sorceress Dioselina, they will have to get out of there alive.

Julian has always admired his grandfather's power. He grows up with his best friend, Felipe Molina, and a group of boys destined to live with all the advantages of a privileged class. But violence and a mafia mentality transform society, including the habits of Julian and his friends. His games with weapons, seemingly harmless amusements, become a collective nightmare.

Fran and Serendín are brothers and live in the Gran Arrabal. They both dream of one day leaving their town and traveling to The Kingdom, a paradise on earth sheltered behind great walls.For that they will have to ride The Beast, a huge creature that merchants use to transport goods to The Kingdom. An unexpected situation complicates Fran and Serendín's plans, separating them.Sister and brother will embark on an adventure to meet again and at the same time find themselves, in a fantastic world divided by visible and invisible borders.

Juan Pablo, upon learning that he was going to die, decided to steal from the mafia and spend every penny in Europe with Javier, his only friend. Thus, these humble employees embark on a costly and fun journey, with the complicity of Monica, their co-worker.

The employees of the Industrial Zone Branch of Banco Nacional Obrero, after a long vacation, must return to work and resume their routine, something that will not be easy, because the bosses came up with the idea of conducting a work climate survey, which will reveal the true personalities in the office. This and many more funny situations will happen to the poor employees.

Daniela is a teenager who lives with her father in the countryside following the recent death of her mother. After taking a pregnancy test, she must find her boyfriend Darío to tell him the news.

Ángel Romero, a child separated from his mother after the earthquake in Mexico City, believes that the only way to reunite with her is to contact the pope. To achieve this, he embarks on a journey to Colombia, where he will rely on the help of an unemployed woman and other unexpected allies.

A homicide detective traumatized by the death of his father has to investigate a series of strange murders, while the hit man responsible for them confesses to a priest that he will be his next victim.

A controversial TV host and comedian who has built his career on sexist humor is forced to assume a woman's identity to elude a relentless drug dealer.

When a newly single photographer is forced to work with a longtime rival, the battle of their egos turns into a chance for love.

The Encanto resort once again hosts four couples —among them a liar, a sex addict and a thief— who come looking to improve their relationships.

A sequel to more traditions of a typical Colombian family, this time we will see a bachelor party, Halloween, a heartbreak and much more.