Discoveries from Colombia World Cinema

Alex Peinado decides to takes his family on a road trip to Cartagena after 11 years of continuous work. But he also has a secret plan at the same time.

A group of teenagers have to struggle against their social environment, looking for a better future and the chance to go to the sea.

After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father’s pick-up truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a journey of reconciliation.

With her girlfriend lying comatose in the hospital, after having found her lifeless body in the bathtub, Clara starts the path of physical and psychological transformation with the goal of possessing her girlfriend again in some way.

Garu and Ponki, rebellious and cynical cousins, face consequences for their ruthless behavior. Banished to El Olvido, they encounter supernatural challenges. After a change of heart, they become guides for new patients, hoping for collective freedom.

In the vibrant and contradictory world of the Barranquilla Carnival, Your Queen tells the story of Alondra, a trans woman who becomes a leading contender for the gay pageant, a space for expression, identity, and resistance. Amidst the celebration, music, and color, her life intersects with that of a man haunted by his past, sparking an unexpected relationship that will test his prejudices, fears, and desires for redemption. The film explores, through thriller and human drama, themes such as identity, freedom, and the search for recognition in a society still grappling with tensions surrounding diversity.

“Negotiators, how to make peace” is a documentary that takes a penetrating look at the identity and evolution of people who seek solutions to armed conflicts in places such as Colombia, Mexico, South Sudan and the Balkans.

At millenium's end, a psychopath is terrorizing a major Latin city. This unusual thriller skillfully blends the thriller and romance genres.

In the depths of the Colombian jungle, the skeleton of an immense abandoned cement bridge is tucked away. It has turned into a delusional tourist attraction.

Young Patricia returns from studying in Europe and finds her mother has married to a man named Jaime. The young woman falls in love with him, who has also seduced a servant who still loves him.

A man passionate about rumba learns its history — and lessons on love — by dancing his way through various genres, from merengue to reggaeton.

After an extensive immersion work on abandoned childhood, Ciro Durán presents, from his point of view, the life of street children, who have broken all family ties and have regrouped to survive in the concrete jungle.

El Pescador is an intimate portrait of the Caribbean through the lives of those who devote themselves to the sea. From the voice of a Puerto Rican fisherman to the bond between a father and his son in Colombia, the film reveals how fishing both unites and distinguishes, portraying a legacy shaped by tradition, struggle, and hope. Filmed in La Parguera, Lajas, Puerto Rico and Palomino, La Guajira, Colombia.

After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.

August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years had kept the secret stories of their inhabitants.

The story of an upperclass guy that finds himself singing popular music in a reality show against his friends and family's endorsement.

At the height of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, Cuban boxing champion Horacio's punishment for failing a drug test is to watch over the brash, combative Daniel, a patient in a sanatorium where HIV patients are compulsorily confined. The two collide as Daniel yearns for freedom while Horacio dreams of returning to the ring.

In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood on the Bogota suburbs.

The naughty and funny witch Dioselina provides esoteric services to her neighbors helping them with rituals and ridiculous oddments, until her success falls apart when Dr. Sarmiento, a corrupt politician closes her business. This situation motivates her to want to unmask the intentions of the politician, uniting with her neighbors in a campaign to give her her due.

No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Three charismatic women living in an intimate, passionate partnership must learn to navigate the shift in their dynamic when one lover is called away for a long-term project.

An elite military unit ventures into the South American tropical jungle on a mission to eliminate an enemy target. What begins as a tactical operation quickly turns into a nightmare when they encounter supernatural forces emerging from the depths of the jungle. Five hundred years earlier, a Spanish conquistador expedition was consumed by the same relentless force. Separated by centuries but connected by the same hostile territory, both incursions discover something hidden in the jungle: an ancient presence that cannot be controlled.

Paola grows up in a Colombian family full of appearances: her father is a priest, her mother a psychic, and her sisters don’t live up to their parents’ expectations. She seeks independence in a world full of stereotypes and learns to live on her own terms, as a series of experiences gradually shape her personality.

While playing games on the edge of naivety and vandalism, two teenagers burst into El Edén, a health resort abandoned in the midst of a thick vegetation. They play with a scorpion, with a gun, and swim in the stagnant water of the pool. The frontier between everyday life and violence can be easily crossed.

Four children, the oldest 12 years old and the youngest 11 months old, are traveling in a small plane with their mother, when due to technical failures the pilot has to try to land on the Amazon jungle of the Colombian Guaviare. The small plane falls headlong into the trees, dying. the mother and the pilot, but the children remain completely unharmed, suddenly finding themselves alone and unprotected in the middle of the jungle. With the idea of ​​returning home, they begin to walk without knowing where to go exactly. They have no food or help of any kind. Groups of indigenous people begin to look for them as well as members of the Colombian army without knowing if they are alive or have perished. After forty days, an indigenous search group finds them and hands them over to the authorities (based on a true story).

Meet Cheo Martinez, the neighbor you do not want to have and whose time has come when his neighbors, tired of putting up with him, hire Carolina Rico, a beautiful and audacious escort, to make him fall in love and get him out of the building. What will happen when Cheo falls into the tricks of love and Carolina’s dark past reaches her?

In a town erased from the maps where there is not even electricity, a teenage girl dreams of being a boxer. When she learns that her uncle will box for the world title and the event will be broadcast live on television, she and the community will go out of their way to watch the fight, while fighting for her dignity and against oblivion.

Three different stories, one only true name: they born the same day, at the same time and on the same city... When they found each other at 18, an unexpected fate awaits them. (Video Resume shown in two videocassetes)

After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search to rediscover him, through an intimate narrative that explores the past, the new facets and the silences of a man who is no longer the same.

Gregório is a rustic and idealistic peasant who lives frustrated in the village of Rosillas. Arrogant and bold, he wants to recover the waters of the family's old dam, which were diverted by Colonel Igrejas, an Argentinean farmer who acts in collusion with the town's mayor to benefit the cultivation of his own vines. In the midst of all this, Gregório will have to face the contempt of the residents, the corruption and the socioeconomic power of the elite, leaving aside the love for his little son Olegário, the care for his elderly parents and the love of Paula, the teacher at the school who insists that he go live in the city. How does the one who stays on the land that everyone has decided to leave survives.

An amateur comedian who tries to make a name for himself doing Stand Up Comedy in several bars in Bogota, with no money and still living with his parents, pretends to be someone with money to meet his better half, without knowing that she also hides some secrets.

Romantic melodrama set on a Colombian coffee plantation.

Four mismatched couples meet at an exclusive resort in search of new adventures to improve their relationship. All of them will do their best to find the balance with their better half, but to achieve it they will have to overcome the difficult tests that love poses.

A wise old man embarks on his final journey, entering the Colombian jungle to find a place to die. But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.

A fun story that combines comedy, drama and romance with a plot raising several reflections on social prejudices, appearances and class differences.

Lila, a character in a children's story book, suddenly falls out of her paper world and becomes trapped in a world where she doesn’t belong and discovers that only Ramón—the now–grown owner of the book who no longer believes in fantasy—can save her. With the help of her new friend Manuela, Lila tries to convince him of her situation, and together they embark on a risky journey to the Desert of Lost Memories to recover her lost book.

Malorie escapes a mental facility with no recollection of why she was sent there. She ends up at Fortuna Lake where she will try to avoid the visions that are hunting her, while she attempts to solve the mystery of her blackout.

Cali, Colombia. 2002. José, a systems engineer discovers in his skin the signs of 'lytomiasis' a non yet classified mysterious disease where the body is totally covered by a second skin of voracious bacteria. Horrified José discovers 'replicas' of himself, as if his burst sick ego had multiplied itself ad infinitum. All the replicas are infected with the same virus and equally intent on a merciless pursuit of each other and as decisively intent on killing.

A writer, seeing how his acclaimed soap opera loses audience to the competition, is pressured by the channel managers, actors, and people.

Karol Sevilla and Pipe Bueno talk about their on-screen chemistry and the challenge Pipe faced when taking on a lead role. Christian Tappan talks about how he took on the challenge of representing his character. Exclusive off-screen material, videos recorded by the actors themselves on their phones, and records of castings and rehearsals will be unveiled.

Rogelio, teacher Alba Luz, and Father Alberto try to build a new school in their neighborhood by organizing the first “Tejolympics,” an international tejo tournament. However, things get complicated when undercover CIA agents and a corrupt mayor get involved, putting the project at risk. Only the unity of the community can save their cause.

Everyone wants to find a suitcase that the sons of El Patrón had the night when the where killed. La Lectora is kidnapped, by El Patrón guys, to read a Journal in German where they hope to find the clue the get to the mysterious suitcase.

Old DC-3s are the lifeline for residents of the Colombian Amazon. The film crew joins one of the planes on a flight to remote settlements. But this connection is under threat, and without it communities will face total isolation.

While abroad Colombians are the bad guys, in Colombia foreigners are the kings. And Vigo, a Swede who arrives to Colombia, will be no exception: he will be received as a prodigal son. He will soon discover that even with so much human warmth, in the country of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, magical realism is lived in the midst of chaos, impetus and thoughtlessness, which between tears and laughter blurs the fine line between good and evil.

Anna pays a surprise visit to her grandmother's country house, hoping to spend the weekend with her. Her mother, Yulia, is also there. But Anna was raised by her grandmother and is not close to her mother. The three of them live together in this quiet country house, where long-standing conflicts become invisible and hidden secrets and traumas are uncovered.

A mother, who no longer remembers anything, and her son attempt to reconstruct her present together. A journey into the depths of memory, using photographs which speak of freedom, independence, neglect, teen motherhood and being a woman.

In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.

Amparo, a mysterious woman, offers a large payment to quickly cremate a young woman named Lucia. When the funeral home owners refuse, they later discover the body has vanished and, in panic, give Amparo another person’s ashes instead. She pays and leaves, unaware that this mistake will lead the undertakers into the worst trouble of their lives.

Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers of Middle Eastern descent, who live with their mother in a social housing complex, known as Housing States, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. While Ali, the older brother suffers from heroin dependence, Syed, the youngest, tries to make a different life from his brother and finds a means of escape in urban poetry.

When his father dies, Eliécer is left in charge of his half-sister. The decision not to take responsibility, forces him to the mission to take the girl to the capital to find her mother who abandoned her when she was a baby.

The remains of a male body that disappeared during the years of political violence have been exhumed, but nobody claims them. Now the only clue to his identify is the picture of a smiling girl found in his shirt pocket. Only a blurred photograph, a snapshot of a time and a memory…

Four men and two women illegaly board a cargo ship from Buenaventura, Colombia to New York. All their dreams and frustrations confronts them while they attempt not to be discovered by the ship crew. They all seek the "American Dream".

One elderly couple decides to seek assisted death because of the fear caused by the absence of the other. However, before ending their lives, they make a final visit to their village to say goodbye to their childhood friends.

Mudos testigos is a cinematographic collage made from all the surviving material of Colombian silent films, re-editing the images in such a way as to create a single imaginary film: the impossible love story of Efraín and Alicia that traces the convulsive first half of the twentieth century in Colombia. Compiled by the late Luis Ospina and finished posthumously by Jeronimo Atehortúa.

Irene, a young singer who works at the fruit market, and Joaquín, a poor and hungry mechanic new in town, fell in love and struggle against violence in cold Bogotá.