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
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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.
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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...
TUMACO PACÍFICO
Director: Samuel Córdoba
Colombia, 2008
90 minutes - Documental / Todas
Synopsis
Daily life in a city standing on stilts over the ocean, and struck by a tsunami of violence. Tumaco natives Junior, Carmen Julia, Doña Eduarda and Don Carlos, share their life stories and their most profound reflections about a world both absurd and beautiful, which stands over an ocean of rubbish....
LA VIDA "ERA" EN SERIO
Director: Mónica Borda
Colombia, Venezuela, 2011
90 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
Life Was for Real is the story of an escapade. Gabriela, successful businesswoman and mother, but also overburdened with her multiple roles, decides to assume an alternative identity. She becomes Luisa, her liberated employee and friend, in order to live new experiences. What starts as a harmless game evolves into and absurd, fun and dangerous a...
THE PASION OF GABRIEL
Director: Luis Alberto Restrepo
Colombia, 2009
86 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
Gabriel is a priest in love with life, with a women, and obsessed with justice. He lives in a lost corner of Colombia in the midst of the ongoing conflict between guerrillas and the army. Bent on saving his village, he ends up at odds with its inhabitants, the woman he loves, the church, the guerrillas, the army, local politicians, and is finall...
THE CAPTURE
Director: Darío Armando García "Dago", Juan Carlos Vásquez
Colombia, 2012
90 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
After capturing one of the country’s most wanted delinquents, Lieutenant Rudas is rewarded with a transfer to San Javier county to perform a mission: to capture Alvaro Salcedo, a local criminal legend. What starts as a routine assignment, becomes an obsession for the Lieutenant. After three years of searching, a telegram informs him that t...
JARDÍN DE AMAPOLAS
Director: Juan Carlos Melo
Colombia, 2014
88 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
In Colombia cultivating poppies (Amapolas) is a dangerous, but lucrative business. Farmer EMILIO and his 9 year-old son SIMON, are exiled by rebels and find refuge in Cousin WILSON’s home. Emilio is forced to work in the Amapola crop while Simon befriends LUISA, a girl of his age. She is obsessed with playing with a puppy dog she can't...
Wake Up and Die (Flashback)
Director: Miguel Urrutia, Miguel Urrutia
Colombia, 2012
86 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
Camila wakes up next to Darío, a perfect stranger that could be the ideal man if it weren’t for a minor detail: he kills her. Camila gets trapped in a loop returning to the moment just before she dies, and experiencing her morder over and over again. In order to save her life, she must get into her killer’s mind. What drives s...
IN COMA
Director: Juan David Restrepo, Henry Rivero
Colombia, 2011
90 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
Omar, a hitman from Medellín, encounters something stronger and more dangerous than a bullet: Love, represented in the sensual tenderness of Ilana, a prostitute. Together, they will give up everything to start a new life, but ghosts from the past will hunt them. Living under extremely difficult circumstances they barely manages to survive...
OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS
Director: Hilda Hidalgo
Colombia, Costa Rica, 2010
97 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
During a time of inquisition and slavery, Sierva María wants to know what kisses taste like. She is 13 years old, daughter of aristocrats but raised by their African slaves living in colonial Cartagena de Indias. When a rabid dog bites her, the bishop declares she is possessed and entrust Cayetano his pupil, ...
PARAÍSO
Director: Felipe Guerrero
Colombia, 2006
55 minutes - Documental / Todas
Synopsis
Paraíso is a poetic evocation of a country and its historical memory, an intimate portrait of modern Colombian life. Within the soft grain of Super 8, throbs the reality of a country wrapped up in its own, unending war.
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FORTY
Director: Carlos Fernández de Soto
2011
77 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
One day, Gus leaves behind all that his life has been so far—work and the city—and goes to his parents’ old house on the mountain. The house has been a place of reference throughout his life and that of his two lifelong friends: it is there where they first saw a naked woman; where they forged thei...
CONTRACORRIENTE
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Alemania, Colombia, Francia, Perú, 2010
100 minutes - Ficción / Drama
Synopsis
The very religious inhabitants of Cabo Blanco, a Peruvian fishing village, have a tradition: when someone dies, the closest male is to claim the body, carry out funeral rites, and cast the body into the sea –lest the soul should wander restlessly-. Miguel is a handsome and popular fisherman confused and divided between his love for his wif...