Proimágenes Colombia

LESSONS FOR A KISS

Director: Juan Pablo Bustamante

Colombia, 2011

100 minutes - Ficción / Comedia, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Lessons for a Kiss is a romantic comedy that tells the story of Alejandro, a teenager from Bogota who has been forced to live in Cartagena de Indias where his mother has opened a restaurant. When he falls in love with the astonishing María, he decides to do whatever it takes to get a kiss on the lips from her....

ASUNTO DE GALLOS

Director: Joan Gómez

Colombia, 2009

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

LA SIRGA

Director: William Vega

Colombia, Francia, México, 2012

89 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Alice is abandoned. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a decadent hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes, which belongs to Oscar, the only family member alive, an old solitary hermit. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she wil...

SALWA, LA TURCA

Director: Sara Harb

Canadá, Colombia, Cuba,

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

EL ELEFANTE ROJO

Director: Ana María Hermida

Colombia, Estados Unidos, 2009

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

CUANDO VUELVA A LLOVER

Director: Carlos R. López

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Hopeful with the illusion of going to Bogotá for the first time, Carlitos, a country boy of ten, waits patiently for his parents to wake up and start the trip. But what the boy ignores is that his parents have been murdered. The boy will spend two days alone without food, taking care of his dead parents, and ignoring the nightmare that lurks...

LEIDA

Director: Jorge Valencia Vélez

Colombia, 2005

7 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Leida lives on her own. Nobody visits her. When somebody knocks at the door, she thinks it’s by mistake. She opens the door to find a handsome man before her. He says he comes to fix the stove. She watches him doing his job for a long while. She offers him a cup of coffee but he says he’d rather have a shot of eau-de-vie. An hour later,...

EL MARINERO

Director: Álvaro Bautista Díaz

Colombia, 2004

24 minutes - Animación / Animación

Synopsis

The captain of a ship leads his vessel in search of for a shipwrecked man lost many years ago. In this trip the captain only find his own memories and dreams....

EL DRAGÓN DE KOMODO

Director: José Luis Rugeles

Colombia, 2007

15 minutes - Ficción / Drama macabro, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

The story of a boy who finds his sister buried in the vegetable garden of an old lady who lives with a cat and a boy with Down’s syndrome. The woman nourishes the tomatoes with the blood and fluids of the bodies of children, of whom she also fries the fingers to eat them. A journey guided by the child’s orthopedic shoes, from the doo...

DOLORES

Director: Tatiana Villacob Meléndez

Colombia, 2009

13 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

It is the year of 1953 in the village of San Jacinto, Colombia. Dolores Salinas is a 60 year old woman who makes her living out of praying in the funerals of the dead people left by the colombian political war period who fought in the lines of the conservative party. Now the body of her son arrives, who was killed during this war but fighting for t...

1000 PESOS COLOMBIANOS

Director: David Aristizábal

Colombia, 2005

24 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

A forged 1000 pesos coin goes from hand to hand. Suddenly it comes back to the counterfeiter who forged it. At the end we find out his plans of cheating at cockfight gambling. ...

LITTLE VOICES

Director: Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Oscar Andrade

Colombia, 2011

75 minutes - Animación / Animación, Animación 3D / Todas

Synopsis

Little Voices is an animated documentary about how children perceive tha armed conflict in Colombia ...

ILEGAL.CO

Director: Alessandro Angulo

Colombia, 2012

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Illegal.co explores the reasons why prohibitionist policies and the war against drugs have not, and never will, eradicate the drug-trafficking problem and the consumption of narcotics, and suggests that it is time to think of new strategies. We promote a debate from an economic viewpoint through interviews with thinkers on this topic such as Eth...

WHITOUT TITS THERE IS NO PARADISE

Director: Gustavo Bolívar

2010

108 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Catalina, a poor girl, sees how her peers with ample bosoms are more likely to flourish by attracting drug dealers. To enter this “heaven” and escape a destiny of waitressing, she seeks Yessica and other silicone-breasted friends who, acting as pimps, hook her up to parties where sex and drugs are the rule. But Catalina has one probl...

PORTRAITS IN A SEA OF LIES

Director: Carlos Gaviria

Colombia, 2010

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

After the death of their grandfather in an avalanche, Jairo, an itinerant photographer, and his mute and amnesic cousin, Marina, decide to recover the land from which she was displaced years ago. During the trip, the story of her past starts to unfold. But upon reaching their hometown they realize nothing has changed. Paramilitaries kidnap them ...

RAGE

Director: Sebastián Cordero

2010

96 minutes - Ficción / Drama, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

José María is a builder; Rosa, a live-in housekeeper. They’re South American immigrants working in Spain and have been together for a few weeks. When Rosa’s employer take a trip, José María comes to spend a few days with her. He fantasises about their life together. José María has an argument...

THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN

Director: Carlos César Arbeláez

2011

94 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

The Colours of the Mountain is a presentday portrait of everyday life in a rural area somewhere in the mountains of Colombia. This film is told from the point of view Manuel and Julian, two children whose innocent and poetic perspective provides a vivid contrast –sprinkled with irony- to the irrational and sometimes cruel world of adults. ...

UN TIGRE DE PAPEL

Director: Luis Ospina

Colombia, 2007

114 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Pedro Manrique Figueroa, Colombia’s pioneering collage artist, has never had a biographer. The reason is simple: his life, like an adventure novel, is both incomplete, contradictory, and constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Framed around Manrique Figueroa’s life and work, the film takes us on a journey thr...