Short-Films

We’ve compiled an extensive Colombian film industry database ready for consultation. You’ll find information on features and short films in every genre and stage of development, and you can check the data sheets, synopses, cast and crew, related news, clips, audio and trailers for Colombian films.

HELICONIA

HELICONIA

Director: PAULA RODRÍGUEZ POLANCO

Colombia, Francia, 2020

27 minutes - Ficción / Aventure, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Maria is a fourteen-year-old girl who spends her days wandering in the large tropical garden of her home. One day, a noise of explosions 1995 disturbs the tranquility of her garden. María leaves her house and discovers that on the street people celebrate the New Year. She meets her brother Rubén accompanied by her friend Adri&aacut...
SON OF SODOM

SON OF SODOM

Director: Theo Montoya, Theo Montoya

Colombia, Argentina, 2020

15 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In August 2017 I chose Camilo Najar - who was known as 'Son of Sodom' in social media- to be the protagonist of my first feature film. That casting delved around his life, his sexuality, the future and drugs. A week later, aged 21, he died from a heroin overdose. Who was 'Son of Sodom'? ...
OUR SONG TO WAR

OUR SONG TO WAR

Director: Juanita Onzaga

2018

14 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Crocodile-men, a mystic river, some kids who like fishing and a war that is coming to an end, share the same Colombian land: Bojaya. In this place, villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the “Novenario” death ritual. This might be the beginning of a very long story, where spirits and humans meet each other to learn what is there t...
THE JUNGLE KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU DO

THE JUNGLE KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU DO

Director: Juanita Onzaga

2017

20 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Colombia is a land of ghosts. Two siblings roam these mystical landscapes in search of their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from Bogota to the Colombian jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams. Here they will find some answers and attract unexpected company....
EL FAROL INSOMNE

EL FAROL INSOMNE

Director: Santiago López Ortiga

Animación / Animación

Synopsis

ANTE MIS OJOS

ANTE MIS OJOS

Director: Lina Rodriguez

Canadá, Colombia, 2018

7 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Shot on grainy, amber-like Super 8, Lina Rodriguez’s elusive and evocative ante mis ojos offers a fragmentary glimpse of Colombia's mythic Lake Guatavita, long considered the inspiration for the legend of El Dorado....
DOSES OF ROGER

DOSES OF ROGER

Director: John Gutiérrez

Colombia, 2006

13 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

From his research in psychopharmacology during the 70’s, Roger, a cutting-edge scientist, discovered how to extract memories from his brain and store them as lucid experiences contained in black pills. In 1986, Roger, now a middle-aged, conflicted man, is building a library of pills, comprised of recordings of fruitless relationships and mean...
KIDNAPPED

KIDNAPPED

Director: Mauricio Vélez Dominguez

2018

10:40 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Shot in Cinematic VR, “Kidnapped” is an interactive 360 / 3D immersive experience that will transport the viewer to the haunting world of kidnapping, turning him/her into a kidnapping victim. This experience recreates the world of a person who, after being kidnapped by an insurgent group, is held captive in the jungles of Colombia and t...
OUR SONG TO WAR

OUR SONG TO WAR

Director: Juanita Onzaga

2018

14 minutes -

Synopsis

Cocodrile-men, a mystic river, some kids who like fishing and a war that is coming to an end, share the same Colombian land: Bojaya. In this place, villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the “Novenario” death ritual. This might be the beginning of a very long story, where spirits and humans meet each other to learn what is there t...
FINAL

FINAL

Director: Juan Gabriel Machado Toquica

Colombia, 2017

10:50 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

ALGUIEN MATÓ ALGO O LA ÚLTIMA INOCIENCIA

ALGUIEN MATÓ ALGO O LA ÚLTIMA INOCIENCIA

Director:

Colombia, México, 1999

27 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Heriberta is a beautiful little girl, daughter of a religiously orthodox woman and of a deceased medical doctor, from whom she inherithed an anatomy book and a fine bistoury. The mother thinks that the girl will be a medical doctor, just like her father, but what she wants to be, is a vampire. Heriberta is afraid to grow up, to get old, to be l...
Yover

Yover

Director: Edison Sánchez

2018

14 minutes -

Synopsis

RABBITS FOR SALE

RABBITS FOR SALE

Director: Esteban Giraldo

Colombia, 2015

18 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Clemencia (60) is a prudish woman living on a farm as proud and decent and poor as she is. She doesn't just make a living from her lettuce and her rabbits, she lives for them, as she protects them from the sky's constant attacks. ...
ORANGES

ORANGES

Director: Iván David Gaona Morales

Colombia, 2014

15 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

For Rosa, a peasant woman rooted in rural life, learning to drive a car at age 55 is somewhat difficult. But now, the hard part is not to start, but where to go. ...
ELEPHANT

ELEPHANT

Director: César Heredia

Colombia, 2014

13 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Andrés lives on the road, where he sells knickknacks in his car, an old Renault 4. Meanwhile, he can barely stand his father, a senile old man living in his past as a bicycle racing announcer and his family memories. ...
CARNE

CARNE

Director: Carlos Gómez Salamanca

Colombia, 2013

8 minutes - Animación / Animación

Synopsis

Audiovisual project created from a frame-by-frame pictorial reconstruction of an archival amateur video. It consists of 31 animated sequences that reveal isolated, tangential actions involving the slaughter of an animal at a rural celebration. ...