Discoveries from Colombia World Cinema

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Colombia could lose all its glaciers in thirty years if current emission rates persist. Fernando, the first Colombian to touch the summit of Everest, and Beto, an environmentalist and climber, are on an expedition with other mountaineers searching for the last glaciers in Colombia.

This documentary from Señal Colombia takes viewers on a journey through Colombia's badlands, showcasing the beauty of these unique ecosystems and the practices of the U’wa people that live there and envision sustainable development that opposes the harmful mining practices that threaten the natural balance.

In a humid region of Colombia, Emilio is a 16 year old boy who, due to uneasiness and lack of opportunities, has no other choice but to join the paramilitary

In Colombia, many people living with HIV experience jaundice–the yellowing of the eyes and skin–as a side effect of the low cost antiretroviral drugs supplied by the government. Los Amarillos is an experimental video addressing the alienation and hypervisibility that the artists have faced as a result of this side effect.

San Andres is the scene of a very particular tradition: horse racing on the shore of the beach. A unique competition that brings together all the inhabitants. On this occasion, two of the most popular specimens face each other. In the end, the fastest team will take all the glory.

Alexánder Ruiz Morales was born in Salento. After several years he returns to the municipality of Quindío, but he finds it different: more complex, chaotic and explosive. His perception is different, because although he does not see, his other senses tell him how the most touristic municipality of Quindío is.

Raquel, as an indigenous authority, suffered threats against her life and had to leave the country. Upon her return, she faces the dilemma of resuming her leadership or looking for other directions. She will play an important role in the struggle for the labor rights of indigenous women.

Four actors go down the Magdalena River with the purpose of locating the scenes in which a play will take place. It seeks to narrate the story of a sentimental relationship established in 1812 between Simón Bolívar, then 28 years old, and Ana Lenoit, a 17-year-old Frenchwoman, living with her parents in a small town on the banks of the Magdalena.

It's Christmas and Ana is alone; Manuel is gone. The Christmas lights invade the gloom and the neighboring parties postpone the hours of sleep. In the silence, Ana finds something else that won't let her sleep: a leak, a leak. But it's Christmas and no one seems to care. "Wait until Monday" they tell him

Bogota Colombia. Year 2032. In the big cities, the government implants a chip to make the working class more efficient in exchange for protection and well-being. Julio, a lonely electrician, repairs security cameras locked in his own house. His son Miguel, who is part of a rebel group, arrives trying to save his father's life, meanwhile, Julio tries to get his son to stay to form his long-awaited family again. Both face authority challenging their freedom in the midst of technological chaos.

District of El Salado, Ibagué Tolima, in the fifties. Lucila Perdomo arrives in the sector fleeing from violence and a dark past. Her knowledge of traditional medicine, added to a rumor of abortion practices and witchcraft, would soon become recognized in the sector, condemning her to isolation and loneliness.

Upon the arrival at her grandparents' house, Ana María begins a discovery of the countryside through a meeting with Pacho, her grandfather. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Rosalba, anguished by the conflict in the village, will be forced to make a crucial decision about the fate of her family.

Yurani try to make a living with a couple of friends in the midst of Venezuelan migration to Colombia.

Documentary about the exploit of oil and it's impact in the eviroment.

Short educational documentary about the teaching of the basics to elderly people.

Fishermen are disappearing from a small coastal town in Colombia. One of the missing is Antonio’s brother. Convinced that the sea is exacting revenge for everything that has been taken from it, Antonio fears for his life if he goes out fishing again, but he has no choice: it is his only way of life.

Stop motion short film

Pablus Gallinazo shares with us the experience of his voluntary confinement while a large part of the population tries to get used to this new way of life, which is demanded by the spread of the pandemic. For Pablus is something normal, he had already got used to go out only once a week for the very necessary, his house is that space where he allows himself to live what interests him most; from there he writes a novel and now works with his wife and the symphony of the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, in the arrangements of several of his songs that aim to preserve his legacy and make known to other generations one of the most important artists that has had the department of Santander.

Liminal: It is a state of transience between something that has gone and something that is yet to come.

Vincho, a street dweller, collects and sorts all kinds of waste to use in his creations. Now it is the turn to make his masterpiece: The Sistine.

They have let go of fear and judgement to embrace sex as a space of exploration that makes them feel so alive, free and empowered. Sex as a place to meet and find themselves.

In this DVD you will find excerpts from the best Stand Up Comedy Shows of 2009: "En edad de Merecer" by Alejadro Mejía; "La comedia Malparada" by Gonzalo Valderrama; "Wachendó, el show" by Pasus3 (Anibal Baeza, Juan Buenaventura y Julian B

Despite the incomprehension and rejection he suffers, Jesús Emilio "Chure" assumes his female personality under the name of Stefany, a transvestite who faces his homosexuality in a closed, homophobic and marginalized environment in the region of Chocó, Colombia. The documentary narrates Stefany's difficult story, in first person, in intimacy, with her faith, her pains and loneliness, in a macho environment in which she must overcome her condition of "black, poor, transvestite and ugly", and break with cultural prejudices. In the midst of praises, prayers, songs, music and alcohol, a space of encounter, socialization and recognition opens up in rites of death that for her, paradoxically, are of life.

We all have a fire that sometimes burns us and sometimes elevates us. Fuego en la habitación speaks of the discontent, love and freedom of a teenager who is discovering his sexual identity. This is a piece that speaks about the warmth of love without any pretext, excuse or exclusion.

On November 22, 2000, one of the most brutal massacres in the history of the armed conflict in Colombia took place. In Nueva Venecia (Magdalena), 37 people were killed. This is a tribute to the victims and to all the inhabitants who, in the face of such adversity, decided to return.

Reuse, mend and repair are Arantxa's goals. In her task of giving a new life to objects, she involves: a fashion designer, a repairman and an artist who builds spellbinding artifacts.

A girl travels through an abandoned world full of shadows and ghosts. She tries to discover the reason why her world has vanished and how this is linked to her own past.

Dance-performance by Margarita María Milagros, "describe[s] the longing to be somewhere else [...] a reflection of real displacement, caused by material facts (violence, poverty, desire for freedom, desire to discover) and symbolic experiences (vital states, feelings, crises, and values)."

This work was filmed on a smart phone March 25, 2019 in an area of metro Bogotá known as Ciudad Bolívar. The occasion was a circus performance put together by and for the barrio's youth.

After several years in prison, Neider receives a 72-hour release to share time with his daughter and family. This limited opportunity to experience fatherhood raises hope of change in Neider, but also the fear of not being able to achieve it.

In the Serranía de la Macarena, in the north of the Colombian Amazon, lies “Río Rojo”, a mythical river that runs through the middle of the forest, also called “the river of the seven colors”. Young Oscar, grandmother Doña María and the Indian Sabino live peacefully in the region, in communion with nature. But this area, once preserved by the conflict with FARC, is now victim of its beauty and threatened by the arrival of new visitors…

Elías works in a funeral home making up corpses from which he steals things of value, every time he has a need. Until one day he steals the shoes of Belisario, his eternal rival, who has always courted Esther, the mother of his son.

The modern inquisition is not now a thing of Oscurantism. In fact, it just reborn... A man decides to buy a kit "Pecadometro THX1138", a special team to detect sinners and convert them in parishioners or destroy them.

A young Venezuelan immigrant comes to Colombia to sing on public transport in order to help his mother who is still in Venezuela, with whom he maintains a purely telephone relationship. He lives with Gustavo, a Bogotano musician, who helps him achieve this goal by giving him lodging in his home, between them a sentimental relationship is forged that is abruptly interrupted due to the fact that his mother becomes seriously ill, for which they are forced to separate in the hope of meeting again.

Negra, a young afro-descendant girl, arrives at her house near the sea with news that could change her life and Vieja's one, her adoptive mother.

Three former child soldiers face retribution, anxiety, and danger as they attempt to rebuild their lives after fighting in Colombia's bloody civil conflict. Strangers to Peace intimately captures the personal stories of Dayana, the market vendor navigating her new identity as a trans woman; Ricardo, the young father secretly clinging to his communist ideology; and Alexandra, the indigenous child soldier who left her family behind in the Amazon Jungle. Can these former guerrilla fighters, seen by society as terrorists, redefine their futures?

The sequel to "El vecino". Javier and Andrés are two young Barranquilla residents who are trying to get ahead despite their day-to-day dilemmas. While one of them concentrates on finishing his studies to become a doctor, the other chooses to become an actor, trying not to fall into the temptations of a world that will test his spirit and his loyalty.

Today, HIV is a different lifestyle some must come to terms with; AIDS is no longer a death sentence. The real disease is stigma and discrimination. Mila is the tattoo of three real-life stories rolled into one.

In the middle of the war, anything can happen. The psychological battles that Pablo and Camilo will have to fight will lead them to coexist and be on the edge of love.

Samuel, a piano student, enters a piano competition. At a party, he meets Camilo, a carefree guy. Camilo will inspire Samuel to play his instrument in a different way... That journey will make him discover more important values.

On the foggy slopes of mysteriously deserted roads, Deivis, an isolated teenager finds an injured body. A young man that belongs to the world of the dead, will be the only bridge to find a group of people that will put an end to his loneliness. The longing for a new family as a dream of times gone by.

Emma, a 6-year-old girl, gets up one morning and discovers that a sheep has escaped from her dreams and is jumping on her bed. Emma and the sheep become great friends and spend the days playing, while they ignore that everything around them has been changing since the day the sheep arrived. Emma will have to discover a way to find the planet where the sheep lives and the dreams are born, to try to get everything back to normal.

Pellito lives in a small caribbean town in Colombia. Abandoned by his wife, with no job or money, he lives “cursed." On his 63rd birthday, Antonia, one of his neighbors, buys him a ticket for the fortune’s raffle, an almost surreal lottery that comes into town with all sorts of items: a stove, a fridge, a tv, a pressure cooker, a fan, two rocking chairs, bottles of rum and two chickens. To his and everyone in town´s surprise, Pellito´s ticket is the winner. The neighbors organize a big party and pellito celebrates the return of his luck, but after much celebration, dance and drinks, he will confirm the saying: from luck and death no one is safe.

Diana always has been a little different from the other people in her dance class. But one day one of her friends discovers why.

The film is based on the material filmed by the director's grandfather in the terrible days of the outbreak of the Bogotazo (to understand us, and saving all distances, something like the Civil War for the Spanish), some images that by themselves justify the existence of the documentary, and that at some point they come to shudder. The horrible night ceased (title extracted from the Colombian national anthem) manages to catch the viewer with his warm portrait of the figure of the father and, above all, his remarkable ability to evoke a seemingly idyllic but that ends up revealing in his interior an uncontainable fury and destructive Frankly, we thought that this documentary essay would take some prize, and we are sure that it will be like this in the near future, because it has something, in its images and in the way of treating them, that remains in the memory.