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Held at the legendary Tribeca Cinemas, the Colombian Film Festival in New York aims to build bridges to promote the Latin American film industry on an international stage. This year's festival not only hosted Colombian films, but also featured films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the United States, some of which had their locations in Colombia. The third edition of the festival had a selection of 12 fiction feature films, 14 short films, and 5 documentaries, including one dedicated to Gabriel García Márquez, along with a retrospective in honor of Colombian director Felipe Aljure.
 
The fiction feature films that participated were Three Scapulars by Felipe Aljure; Todos se van (Everyone’s Leaving) by Sergio Cabrera; the co-production Manos sucias by Josef Wladyka (Colombia, United States); Gente de bien by Franco Lolli (Colombia, France); Desde la oscuridad (Out of the Dark) by Lluis Quílez (Colombia, United States); Las malas lenguas by Juan Paulo Laserna, Before the Fires by Laura Mora; The Inquisition of Camilo Sanz by John López (United States); Uno al año no hace daño by Juan Camilo Pinzón; Fugly! by Alfredo de Villa (United States), Dos mujeres y una vaca (Two Women and a Cow) by Efraín Bahamón; and Corazón de león by Emiliano T. Caballero (Argentina). Three Scapulars won as Best Fiction Movie and its protagonist, Isabel Jiménez, received a Special Mention Jury and Dos mujeres y una vaca won 100% Colombian category.
 
The documentary section screened a film dedicated to the Nobel Laureate for Literature Gabriel García Márquez, entitled Gabo, directed by Justin Webster (Spain). This category also featured Heaven or Hell by German Piffano, Monte adentro by Nicolás Macario, Buenaventura no me dejes más (Buenaventura, Don’t Leave Me) by Marcela Gómez Montoya, and Porro hecho en Colombia (Porro Made in Colombia) by Adriana Lucia. The latter received the Audience Award; Heaven or Hell was the Best Documentary and Buenaventura no me dejes más won a Special Mention.
 
For the short film section, the Colombian Film Festival in New York asked the Bogota Short Film Festival (BOGOSHORTS) to pick the best works screened at its most recent edition. The selected films included Leidi by Simon Mesa, winner of the Santa Lucia for Best Fiction Short Film and Best Screenplay; Lux Aeterna by Triviño Mamby, Santa Lucia winner for Best Director, Best Cinematography (Alejandro Vallejo), and Best Art Director (Felipe Sanclemente); Ricardo Restrepo’s Cesó la horrible noche, Santa Lucia winner for Best Documentary Short Film; Enhebrado (Threaded) by Tatiana Pinzón and Sandra Obando, Santa Lucia winner for Best Animated Short Film and Best Sound Design (Andrés Herrera); Jaime Avendaño’s Julia, Santa Lucia winner for Best Original Score (Germán Moreno); and Elefante (Elephant) by Cesar Heredia, Santa Lucia winner for Best Actor (Juan Pablo Barragán).
 
This selection in the short film category complemented the Brazilian shorts Urbanos by Alessandra Nilo and Siempre Partir by Leonardo Remor; the Chilean shorts The Gift by Julio Pot, Memor Mortis by Sebastián Palomino, and Los trapos al sol by Ramiro Zamorano; the Argentinian short Padre by Santiago Grasso; and the Mexican short Contrapelo by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer.

In this category, Leidi won as Best Short Film and Siempre Partir received a Special Mention of the Jury.
 
Finally, the retrospective dedicated to film director and screenwriter Felipe Aljure featured his first two feature films, La gente de la Universal (The People at Universal) and The Colombian Dream, in addition to his most recent film Three Scapulars.