Discoveries from Colombia World Cinema

"Childhoods without Borders: Voices in Motion" is a documentary in which migrant boys and girls narrate the experiences and challenges they have faced in search of a better life.

Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.

Matías, a 10-year-old boy, runs away from home in a rage and ends up getting on a bus to anywhere, until he is found by Rogelio, a 40-year-old man who works as a restaurant clown.

Aurora is a young Colombian who, forced by circumstances, decides to emigrate to New York in search of a better future for herself and her family, working and sending newspapers money to her home. But when her mother falls ill, she must choose between returning to her country of origin and what this entails, giving up returning forever since she is undocumented, or staying and enduring the plight of her loved one from a distance and thus helping financially with her medical emergency. But this help that will represent so much effort will have an unexpected and painful fate in the hands of his brother.

Laura, a young and talented journalist, seemingly has it all: a loving and attentive husband and a passionate career. However, something prevents her from feeling truly happy. A mysterious dream haunts her, awakens her desires, and leaves her uneasy. What she doesn't know is that a surprise her husband plans for her birthday will drastically alter their destinies. Also known as The Night of the...

The true story of the rise of a Japanese businessman from Los Angeles named Eishy Hayata from an Airline engineer into the legend of the Emerald world -- the Emerald Cowboy

Metal detector in hand, the Hunter roams through forest and city in search of treasure. It is his way of life, his calling: the summons of Lord Gold.

Carlos reads a book, goes to a museum and climbs a hill. His interest in the view of the city is interrupted by an attractive young man from the capital.

Milena and her companions have acquired good taste for classic films by working in an independent movie theater; as always, after closing, they take the place to celebrate another clandestine Tuesday. When the owner of the cinema, a dedicated film buff, discovers them using the room without his permission, Milena will try to save her job and that of her colleagues by showing him that, despite their very different lives, they are united by the same passion for cinema.

Paola Baldíon and Jamie Toll embark on a journey through the United States performing free DNA tests on those who cross their path. Its mission is clear: raise awareness about the true nature of migration and challenge the media narrative that presents it as a threat. Through stories and test results, they seek to demonstrate that, deep down, we all share a migratory past and that migration is an integral part of human identity.

This documentary chronicles Diomedes Díaz's rise as one of Colombia's most iconic singers, and his downfall after being accused of killing a fan.

A famous comedian will do everything in his power to rescue his wife from a trafficking ring that kidnaps chubby women for a peculiar Arab sheik.

This time, Gorda Fabiola and Polilla's witty banter moves to the city of sin, Las Vegas. Juancho decides to avenge the death of his policeman father and learns that the murderer is in town. To do so, he will have the help of Polilla and his adopted son Pachuco, who at all times will try to hide the truth of his trip from Fabiola.

There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts with a flight in a ramshackle plane to Guyana. Then the refugees travel to Colombia where they cross the jungle to arrive in Central America, from where they hope to reach the promised land of America—a hard and dangerous journey. Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán visits them in a refugee camp in Panama, where one of the residents gives him an idea. Many people here have filmed their journey, she says, and these videos tell their real story. These jerky, shocking videos are interspersed with Beltrán’s footage of the camp, tangibly illustrating the difference between the hectic pace of the journey and the insecure life at the reception center.

Ten-year-old Joaquín observes the feminine and masculine world around him wordlessly. On the eve of Mother's Day in 2000, his teenage sister runs away from home, upsetting the fragile balance of the household. Perplexed, Joaquín wonders what his place is in this family reconstruction.

Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about her work and her relationship with Lucas, her husband. Sara, through the force of the sea, wants to achieve spaces of freedom. The encounters with a Caribbean woman, Rosa, and an enigmatic man from the city, Virgilio, will be decisive in resolving her personal dilemmas and better understanding the meaning of justice in a society indifferent to the most marginalized people and with enormous inequality.

A film about a zookeeper and his renewed relationship with his estranged daughter is fragmented and interrupted by the filmmaker’s own voice, reading an email to his sister about the roots of this story in their own shared history with an absent father. Through memory, dreams, and fiction, (No Subject) probes the various ways of representing the past in order to process and break free of it.

A couple of farmers have been displaced from their land, a jungle area, isolated from the world, where lived his childhood and youth, and was brutally thrown to face the streets of an unfamiliar city, huge and ruthless.

A humble Merengue performer falls in love with the mayor's niece, facing the opposition of her family and his rival.

Jaime Flórez, a shrewd provincial, has a stroke of luck when he is treated as a king in a town that confuses him with an important international diplomat.

Between 2002 and 2010, more than 10,000 civilians were killed by the Colombian army and thrown into mass graves—with the aim of demonstrating the success of the offensive against the FARC. Felipe Monroy offers a voice to the families of the victims of this unpunished state crime, thereby creating a heartrending film that stands against the worst crime of all: oblivion.

Full HD portrays a female universe where dance, dreams and friendship resist adversity and death in one of the most violent and complex neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia. Meeting Nikol and Erika is an exploration of the struggle between reality and dreams, hope and the ability to overcome ourselves. Resist through the body and dance the “worthy rabbi”.

A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not belong to him.

Elena travels to her childhood beach house in a remote region of Colombia. There, she meets Teo, a 3-year-old boy, who disappears at sea just hours after their meeting. Haunted by the event, Elena returns to the city, forced to face her crippling doubts about becoming a mother.

It’s November 5, 1985. At 9:45 p.m., Miguel, a 22-year-old man, receives an unexpected visit from Paulina, a 70-year-old woman who claims she needs to use a phone. But as the minutes pass, Miguel realizes that Paulina is hiding a secret—and that their meeting is no coincidence. Their fates are bound by a dark and inevitable future.

Two villages nine kilometers apart and a fierce rivalry. On the Brazilian side, the inhabitants of Belezura, a small town that lives off jobs in the furniture industry, are about to face two events that will change their lives: the closing of the factory and the last football match against the arch-rivals of the neighboring town, which for all of them becomes the last football match before the end of the world. And on one point everyone agrees: you have to win.

In a small hamlet in the Colombian mountains, a newly appointed padre Father Gabriel finds himself torn between his spiritual calling and his desires for a young woman named Silvia, while also trying to protect his congregation from being drawn into the increasingly violent battles between the government military and rebel forces that surround the town.

A young balladeer raised in the United States returns to Colombia to continue her career. Her plans do not align with her mother's, a famous singer of tropical music, and their clash is inevitable. The girl flees her home and frequents the spaces of musicians and artists with revolutionary tendencies.

With a short life expectancy, a young woman uses faith and her vivid imagination to navigate adversity and create a story that impacts around her.

With the VHS images of his childhood, Miguel tells Fábio a particular story of his experience as a Colombian child and of the first manifestations of Satan in his life.

Sergio Evangelista is a private investigator who while recording everything on video, solves cases from his particular office: a park in the city. One day, he will be commissioned to find the whereabouts of Gabriel Insuasti, a young man who has been missing for months. As he makes his inquiries and the facts become clear, will discover that the truth behind it all could become creepy.

Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these “vampire” filmmakers feeding off the misery of their marginal subjects.

Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.

A story that moves between reality and fiction, in which a family event unleashes a curse that falls on the three main characters. Insomnia, madness and an enigmatic character guide the outcome of this illusion.

Two childhood friends (Rivera and Mendoza) re-encounter when one of them, a famous soccer player who didn't have time to hang out with the other, gets injured.

Tomás, desperate, knocks insistently on the door of a lonely house. Nobody opens it. When he leaves the place, he sees some bushes moving and goes into a wooded path. Along the way, from his memories, he faces several episodes of fear in his life until he reaches the exit of the path, which takes him back to the door of the house. Tomás enters and talks with a woman (who represents death), at which point he decides to face his fears.

Wednesday, December 20, 1995. Cali dresses up to celebrate Christmas and the beginning of the Feria. American Airlines Flight 965 from Miami, carrying 155 passengers and 8 crew members, is scheduled to land around 9:30 pm; but a chain of navigational errors causes it to never reach its destination. The aircraft crashes into a hill, leaving the wreckage in an area of impossible access, dense fog and controlled by guerrillas. A group of rescuers from Cali, including Dr. Quintero, paramedic Perdomo and firefighter Galvis, are the first to react and try to reach the crash site, where they find a big surprise: miraculously. there are passengers who have survived the initial impact and the sub-zero temperatures. The rescuers will have only a few hours to reach them and save them, facing all kinds of obstacles and difficulties.

A theater group made up of various actresses and a male director are rehearsing a play when several cases of invisible abuse and homophobia begin to occur. The women begin to talk to each other and discover that they all have a painful story to tell.

The story of legendary Colombian actor Hernando "El Culebro" Casanova, told by his youngest son Nicolás Casanova, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.

Maria del Rosario Duran, a human rights attorney investigating the participation of a top ranking military man in the disappearance of a group of young civilians, is mysteriously murdered. Detective Jorge Salcedo who was working with her on the case, gives himself to the task of discovering who's behind this crime, at risk of becoming the next victim.

Caracas Avenue tells the story of four children from the 1980s, who suffer rejection by their parents for their sexual orientation.

Santo fights diamond smugglers.

El Flaco returns to Medellin after hiding for some months in London because he was threaten. Things did not change much.

Elba is an indigenous woman who has lost her roots. She is 63 years old and lives alone in a humble peasant house located inside a forest. She spends her days between her house and the forest. She fulfills her needs partially with what she finds along the paths she takes every day through the woods, that is where she gets seeds and plants. Elba is a hermit consumed by her own life. She lives obsessed with a picture hanging in her room; a photo of an indigenous girl on the day of her First Communion. The day arrives when Elba must battle her own delusions, revive them and expel them. This may or may not help her rediscover herself, her essence, her roots.

In San Andresito, anything can be found: From trendy shoes or expensive perfumes, to cellphones, candies and movies. In this place, Agent Wilson Tenorio is falsely accused of murder and must prove his innocence to save his life.

Based on the story "The monster in my room" by Miguel Angel López, a girl recounts living with her mother and a monster that stalks her at night.

Thirteen-year-old Bobi lives in a small town in southern Chile. He was born with a strange condition: from the waist down, he has dog legs. His life is turned upside down when he meets Carlos, a man in his fifties who has recently lost his son and suffers from mental health issues.

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

“Coming to Movistar F*cks News” takes us behind the scenes of an unprecedented event, showcasing the emotion, chaos and humanity of its creators, Camilo Pardo and Camilo Sánchez. As they prepare to fill the Movistar Arena with their irreverent show, F*cks News, the documentary reveals the balance between their meticulous preparation and creative chaos. It highlights the backstage moments, the energy of the audience and the surprises that make this event a cultural phenomenon.

Three young people experience some surreal adventures in a neighborhood in the city of Bogotá

Margarita seeks freedom in a place that judges those outside the norm when her path crosses with Liana’s, a deaf tourist, between the vibrations of congas and bongos.

The film tells the story of José Prudencio Padilla, a sailor of humble origins who becomes one of the great heroes of independence in the Caribbean. Thanks to his talent and bravery, he leads the decisive Battle of Lake Maracaibo, helping secure the region’s freedom.