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MEMENTO MORI
A beheaded corpse goes down the Magdalena River and runs ground in Puerto Berrío; there, it is buried as N.N. It’s a corpse attributed to war; thus, everybody avoids its tomb. One man has the courage to write on the tombstone “chosen one”: a promise that will take him to hell to find the head and return the body’s dignity.
Fiction. 109 min Colombia
Production Company: Fidelio Films
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MATRIOSHKA
Ana goes to Colombia unexpectedly for a few days to spend the weekend with her grandma Lucia in the country house. Julia, Ana's mother, a writer in her sixties with whom she has never had a good relationship, greets her there.
Fiction. 87 min Colombia
Production Company: Marginal Cine y Blond Indian Films
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THE KINGS OF THE WORLD
“One day all men fell asleep. They stopped fighting. When the new kings woke up, there was a place. Dreams finally turned into reality. They were true...” Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano, five street kids from Medellin, five kings without a kingdom, with no law and no family, looking for The Promised Land. The five will embark on a trip to claim a piece of land that Rá inherited after a long process of land restitution. The Kings of the world is a subversive tale about a savage and lovely clan that transits between reality and delirium. A Journey to nowhere where anything can happen.
Fiction. 115 min Colombia
Production Company: Ciudad Lunar - La Selva Cine
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BRIDGES OVER THE SEA
Alicia and Michael, her teenage son, live in a palafitic neighborhood in Tumaco, an area in the Colombian Pacific that concentrates all the beauty and also the terror of this country. She knows that the armed group, which controls her neighborhood, can recruit her son at any time. It is why she guards him, watches over him and protects him. But one day, Michael does not return from school and she begins a frantic search that will lead her to face her worst fears, finding the way out in the love and solidarity of her people.
Fiction. 100 min Colombia
Production Company: Pathos Audiovisual
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CAVEWOMAN
A female resistance fighter during the German invasion of Greece, embarks a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides' masterful tragedy Electra.
Fiction. 90 min Colombia
Production Company: Candelaria Cine
Candelaria Cine:
It is a Colombian Film Production Company whose credits include the production of the documentaries: BLINDFOLD, VOCES DE VEREDA (2019), the omnibus AMAZONAS (2016) including its segment KILLING KLAUS KINSKI (2016), selected in Competition at Clermont Ferrand.
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BACK TO THE SEA OF MY DEACEASED
In this road movie, Chico (11) and his grandmother Ismelda (71) ride a horse-drawn cart across the Colombian Guajira desert to bury the bones of Chico’s mother Sarah. Elderly Ismelda gradually loses her memory during their trip, and enters into a deranged reality. Chico discovers that what his grandmother sees is real, and plunges into a mythical reality he had refused to accept. A journey of reconciliation with his past and rediscovery of his roots.
Fiction. 90 min Colombia
Production Company: Galaxia 311 y Cinema226
Galaxia 311:
Production Company. Galaxia 311 seeks to support filmmakers, by providing global specialists from its extensive database. Production, socialization, project distribution, and knowledge regarding movies, television, publicity, and new media are its main goal. Always under the premise of contributing to project developments that don’t necessarily fit into a traditional production mold.
Ivette Liang
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ANA ROSA
All I knew about my grandmother was that she was a pianist and that she was lobotomized. When I learned her eldest son, the “anti-psychiatrist” I admired, authorized this treatment: it was a shock. I want to understand who Ana.
Documentary 90 min Colombia
Production Company: Perrenque Media Lab
Perrenque Media Lab:
We are a collective of Producers, filmmakers, writers, photographers, musicians and actors. Passionate about audiovisual work. Our Partners and allies have experience in cinematography, literature, television, photography, ATL, BTL advertising, creation, script of contents, law and finances. In PERRENQUE we have successful experiences providing services for national and international clients, using colombian film law 1556 and 814.
Federico Nieto
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LOVING MARTHA
After 39 years of being married to an abusive man, my grandmother Martha gives me a journal and four audiotapes containing the painful moments of violence she lived next to my grandfather Amando. In doing so, she has only one purpose: that I do not repeat her story.
Documentary 75 min Colombia
Production Company: Ruido Audiovisual
Ruido Audiovisual:
Ruido is a Colombian production company dedicated to the development and making of independent film projects characterised by a strong auteur perspective and a commitment to social issues. We focus on fiction and documentary narrative projects that portray our context from unexplored landscapes.
Sara Naclares