APOCALIPSUR

APOCALIPSUR

Director: Javier Mejía

Colombia, 2007

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In 1991, Medellin is a dangerous place to live. Rules have changed and even the police have a price on their heads. Death threats on his mother, force “El Flaco” to flee to London. Before he leaves, his friends and girlfriend, Malala, throw a going-away party, complete with a rock’n’roll band...
LETTERS FROM EL GORDO

LETTERS FROM EL GORDO

Director: Darío Armando García "Dago", Juan Carlos Vásquez

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Carlos Julio, or “Chubby”, has dedicated his life to his friend Alfredo, “Skinny”. They grew up in the same neighborhood and were playmates during childhood, but life separated them and took them to different worlds. However, a bittersweet circumstance changes their paths once again, and thrugh Chubby’s unquestionin...
AT THE END OF THE SPECTRUM

AT THE END OF THE SPECTRUM

Director: Juan Felipe Orozco

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Vega is forced to spend some time away from her work and social life after a traumatic experience triggers a crisis of agoraphobia. Following her father’s recommendation, she moves to a new apartment where she begins to live like a hermit. Her life changes radically. She starts seeing things that cannot be explained and listening to voices...
EL COLOMBIAN DREAM

EL COLOMBIAN DREAM

Director: Felipe Aljure

Colombia, 2006

120 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Dos jóvenes con más ambición que sensatez se lanzan a la delincuencia en esta comedia negra colombiana. Pepe y Enrique son hermanos gemelos enamorados de la misma mujer, Rosita. Con la esperanza de dejar su pequeño pueblo y llevarse a Rosita con ellos, los hermanos buscan la manera de enriquecerse rápidamente. ...
A TON OF LUCK

A TON OF LUCK

Director: Rodrigo Triana

Colombia, 2006

100 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

“Shit! We are rich!”, Perlaza screams when he finds a bag with over 46 million dollars from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) buried in the middle of the jungle. A true story based on actual events in Colombia in May 2003. The story describes the dreams and adventures of Porras, Venegas, Lloreda and Perlaza, four sold...
MARINA, THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE

MARINA, THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE

Director: Carlos Hernández

Colombia, 2009

13 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Marina, a fisherman’s wife of 38, lives in a humble house besides the sea in Nuquí, a small town in the Colombian Pacific Coast. One day she wakes up saddened by a dream she had and decides to go to the open sea, alone, amidst the rain, taking with her just a small boat and the fish her husband had caught that day. She puts them bac...
PEQUEÑAS VOCES

PEQUEÑAS VOCES

Director: Jairo Eduardo Carrillo

Colombia, 2003

19 minutes - Animación / Animación, Documental / Todas

Synopsis

SMALL VOICES is a short film made with and about the children displaced by the violence in Colombia. It narrates true stories of children using their voices and drawings. The result is a powerful hybrid between documentary and computer animation....
LA CERCA

LA CERCA

Director: Rubén Mendoza

Colombia, 2004

21 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Francisco, now forty, was raised in the middle of the infamous period in the history of Colombia known as “La Violencia” (“The Violence”), a civil war of unprecedented brutality. His father, Juan Cristo, was a farmer who abandoned his family to become became a murderer in the name of a party he did not even know very well. T...