Discoveries from Colombia World Cinema

Since I was six years old, I’ve lived in a deviant body. One day someone came along who transformed me completely… after meeting them, I lost my body and everything I once was.

From Tumaco, Marea Producciones intertwines audiovisual art with "Décimas Cimarronas", a traditional form of local poetry, to narrate the social and armed conflict from the voice and perspective of Afro-descendant communities.

Eight-year-old Rocío dreams of having a friend, so she buries her doll in her garden, hoping it will come back to life.

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The formative years of artist Fernando Botero, in Medellín between the 1930s and 1940s until 1952, when he won second prize at the National Salon of Colombian Artists and when, with the money he earned, he boarded a Bonaventura ship bound for Europe at just 20 years old. What were the young Luis Fernando Botero like, that talented and intelligent young man with an unwavering vocation, and the Medellín through which he walked, filled with dreams? A small city, ever present in the background of his work.

There is a mermaid under the bed (2018) At 11 pm Diana found out that Manuel has to go to school in a jellyfish costume. Between heated discussions, gossips and memories from the past, the women of the house stay up late a making it.

In a room isolated from the real world, Juan, a 10-year-old boy, lives with his grandparents. His grandfather has a strange disease that causes him to expel large amounts of matter, and because of this, every night they are visited by apparitions that feed on his rotten flesh. The grandmother tries to hide what is happening from the boy, but one night Juan decides to sneak out and approach the apparitions.

In the Sibundoy Valley, Mercedes Cuatindioy cultivates her chagra as an act of resistance and remembrance. Between seeds and polyculture practices, her life embodies the transmission of indigenous knowledge threatened by oblivion.

Is it possible to inhabit the jungle and protect it? From the immensity of the Amazon, a peasant leader, an indigenous leader, and a traditional Afro-Colombian doctor explore the Colombian Amazon as a diverse and cultural space through memory. Economic booms since the 19th century, armed conflict, inequalities, and structural violence threaten this sacred territory. Their voices reveal the struggle for climate justice and environmental resistance in search of a hopeful future.

Gabriela, a young indigenous woman belonging to a lineage of taitas (shamans) from the Colombian jungle in Putumayo, decides to abandon the path of traditional medicine, Yagé (Ayahuasca). After a ceremony she misses, the spirits will take her to the páramos: the sacred place of origin of her Kamánú Biyá culture, where her ancestors await her.

In a classical art museum where paintings come to life at night, a frustrated Black painter working as a custodian must decide whether to intervene when a new acquisition depicts the rape of a slave.

Teresa, a 23-year-old pregnant woman, lives with her husband, Diógenes, 26, in a village in the Sincelejo district. When she goes into labor, the midwife visits her, as is traditional in her community. However, upon examining her, the midwife realizes she will not be able to give birth there and must travel to a hospital in the city for surgery. Diógenes, knowing the difficult access to the area, asks his brother and cousins ​​for help to carry his wife out in a hammock.

Inspired by the childhood of maestro Cocha Molina.

Gabriela, a young cyclist in the city of Medellin, faces street harassment and work challenges. When she meets Pablo and his group of urban artist friends, she discovers a new way to express herself and connect with the city. Together, they intervene in urban spaces and explore the city, strengthening their sense of belonging and freedom.

Promotional video for a touristic trip in the Magdalena River by Naviera Fluvial Colombiana.

The traveling circus as a symbol of freedom and nonconformity.

In the film, the spirit of the old Guatavita, which also inhabits the new one, is materialized in the form of a peasant woman who sees how the old city is sinking under the waters, only to resurface through a ballet in traditional costumes that moves through the spaces of the new city.

A humble recycler finds what he believes to be an ancient treasure of great value. With no answers in his small town, he decides to embark with his best friend on a journey to the big city, dreaming of selling it and changing his life.

A family decides to go for a walk in the forest to enjoy the contact with nature. They enter a thick forest that slowly absorbs them without realizing it.

A young woman flees the armed conflict in the Montes de María, while a strange melody plays in the background. The young woman walks towards the music without knowing that she is about to discover something that will change her destiny.

In conservative Sincelejo at the end of the 19th century. Pola Becté, a woman who some call “ahead of her time” defies social norms with an overwhelming personality and an indomitable spirit.

This short film is based on the real life of the African character and leader Benkos Bioho who rebelled against slavery and founded the Palenque, the first free people of America. This audiovisual highlights the life, and the struggle for civil rights and freedom of Afro-Colombian people in Colombia.

Laura after a long time in the city returns to her hometown, but this time arrogant and with a cell phone addiction, ignoring her family and the beautiful landscapes of Tierralta.

In the forgotten corners of our Colombian Caribbean region, where the sun breaks the earth and the wind whispers ancient stories, lives Don Angel Toribio Ramos: an old singer-songwriter, accordion player and weaver of mats. This documentary is an intimate journey into his world, when the melodies of the vallenato sabanero folklore and the fibers of the reed intertwine to narrate the memory of a people.

Maca means well, but stealing is not going to get him anywhere, as his son keeps telling him and his mother. Sometimes you need to hit yourself hard to open your eyes. Inspired by real events.

The short film tells the story of a boy who, marked by the violence of the armed conflict, finds in pain a reason to fight for peace.

Lara, a young indigenous woman from the Amazon, is guided by the spirit of the jaguar to defend the jungle from Kid Bololo, who is destroying the environment in his quest for wealth.

Countdown portrays a love story unfolding to the rhythm of a ticking clock. In a fast-paced world where relationships expire, a couple's romance is told in reverse-from the spark to the goodbye. As one connection ends, another begins.

Joel (33) walks through life as a loser, receiving ridicule from his coworkers and contempt from the world in general, which makes him feel frustrated and full of anger, which he takes out by hitting and mistreating his young daughter (10). Through the voice of the narrator (who is also a girl), we learn about daily life in Joel's home and how his daughter is in turn becoming a cruel person who harbors desires for destruction against her own family and the world. The narrative also explores Joel's past, showing how the bullying he suffered as a child has marked him for life, turning him into the violent person he is today.

This story depicts the creation of the earth according to the traditions of the Desana community, located on the banks of the Vaupés River, and other indigenous communities that have preserved the cultural heritage of Chiribiquete.

El Flaco Duberney, a former FARC-EP guerrilla, to whom he gave 14 years of his life, never imagined himself returning to civilian life, until the signing of the 2016 Peace Accords changed his destiny.

In 1987, Ana's life changed tragically when her father was murdered in Colombia and no one was found guilty. Three decades later, Ana decides to confront her past and searches for the exact location of the crime, hoping to find answers that will allow her to close that painful chapter of her childhood.

The film brings together fragments of press images related to the phenomenon known as "false positives" in Colombia. The video shows the bureaucratic action of stamping seals with the plus sign (+), which has the meaning of "positive." Newspaper clippings depicting victims and perpetrators of extrajudicial executions, on which red ink stamps are printed, flash by as the audio presents fragments of testimonies from perpetrators, some of whom acknowledge committing the crime while those most responsible persist in denying what happened and even justifying the murders committed against defenseless people. However, the documents and traces of the crimes (bodies, remains of objects or clothing belonging to the victims, testimonies) prove the perpetrators' responsibility, revealing the complex artifice they deployed to falsify their supposed efficiency at the expense of the defenseless population.