Documentary

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IN THE STUDIO

IN THE STUDIO

Director: Ana María Salas Vega

Colombia, 2018

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Based on my close relationship with my father, the Colombian abstract painter Carlos Salas, I suggested to him the idea of making a film about the process of creating an enormous circular painting. The artist seems to struggle or enter into dialog with his painting, until he finds his way and completes it. His work is influenced by everyday events ...
MISS MARÍA, SKIRTING THE MOUNTAIN

MISS MARÍA, SKIRTING THE MOUNTAIN

Director: Rubén Mendoza

Colombia, 2017

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Boavita is a rural, conservative, and Catholic village embedded in the Andes and frozen in time: in the foothills of these mountains lives Miss Maria Luisa. She is 45 years old and was born a boy. Behind what appears to be just another life mired in gender and identity conflicts lies a bitter, unimaginable family history, its deepest roots seasoned...
AMAZONA

AMAZONA

Director: Clare Weiskopf

Colombia, 2017

82 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

This is the story of Val and Clare: a mother and a daughter. After the tragic death of her eldest daughter, Val left her kids and family behind and escaped into the Colombian jungle in order to search for her identity. Clare was only 11 years old when her mother left and couldn't understand what she was looking for. A son who became an addict, ...
NOT ALL IS A VIGIL

NOT ALL IS A VIGIL

Director: Hermes Paralluelo

España, Colombia, 2016

98 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Antonio and Felisa have been living together their whole life, in a little village of the province of Teruel. Now that their health is more fragile they are afraid of not being able to take care of each other. On the horizon the prospect of having to go into a retirement home appears as a threat. Not All Is Vigil portrays love in old age, tossing-a...
H2O

H2O

Director: Alejandro Calderón , Jean Loui Camacho

Colombia,

15 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Short film that tells us the cycle of water from condensation in heaven until further rainfall in the desert of Chingaza: majestic place, that also supplying 80% of the water that arrive in Bogota, encompasses a wide diversity of animals and creature....
WATER PATH

WATER PATH

Director: Carlos Montoya

Colombia, 2015

8 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Nicole is a 6-year-old girl who lives with her mom in the middle of the Páramo (a kind of moorland in the Andes). One morning, the mother asks Nicole to go and find some water. She tells the girl to take the water from the spring where it is pure and warns her not to take it from the pond, where it is murky and might bring along foreign bodi...
DIGGY UP, THE WILL OF THE BLOOD

DIGGY UP, THE WILL OF THE BLOOD

Director: Luis Montealegre

Colombia, 2012

13 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Due to the constant rains, the rivers up the mountains overflow sweeping along with them everything that stands in their way. This is the story of Alirio, an old peasant that makes a mysterious trip to the city in search of a carpenter who manufactures a giant coffin.  Back with this weight on his shoulders, he walks into a reflection on the b...
THE TRAP

THE TRAP

Director: Ferney Noé Iyokina Gittoma

2024

13 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR

THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR

Director: Juliana Zuluaga Montoya

Colombia, 2023

11 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

People wonder where the birds go to die. My grandmother's village had a lighthouse among the mountains, a forest full of creatures and an echo that sounded at night like the warm wind. That's where the birds went to die. THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR is a fantastic tale that uses archival material to construct the story of Luz Emilia Garc&iacut...
Lemebel

Lemebel

Director: Joanna Reposi Garibaldi

Chile, Colombia, 2019

96 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

MY MOTHER'S PAIN

MY MOTHER'S PAIN

Director: Juliana Erazo Gómez

Holanda, Colombia, 2021

6 minutes - Animación / Animación, Documental / Todas

Synopsis

This animated documentary and visual essay, tells the story of three generations of mothers and daughters in the same family. Their struggles and growth and how they worked to make their children's life better than their own....