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At the FICG, one of the most important festivals in Latin America, Colombia was on the screen at the official section of the Ibero-American Fiction Feature Film Competition with Las tetas de mi madre (My Mother’s Tits) by Carlos Zapata, as well as the co-productions Liveforever by Carlos Moreno (Colombia, Mexico), Venecia (Venice) by Kiki Álvarez (Cuba, Colombia), and NN by Héctor Gálvez (Peru, Colombia). The Ibero-American Feature-Length Documentary Competition featured the film directed by Hermes Paralluelo, No todo es vigilia (Spain, Colombia) and Persiguiendo al dragón (Chasing After the Wind) by Juan Camilo Olmos. Likewise, the Ibero-American Short Film section hosted Alejandra Arboleda Tilano’s Una gallina.
 
Colombian cinema’s accolades in these categories included the Best Cinematography Award for Juan Carlos Gil’s work in Liveforever, and the Best Ibero-American Female Actor Award for Claudia Muñiz, Marianela Pupo, and Maribel García Garzón in Venecia (Venice).
 
At the same time as the 30th FICG, a host of Colombian films took part in activities aiming to strengthen the film industry at the 11th Co-Production Meeting: Cansado de ser feliz by Mauricio Montes, produced by Pilar Quinche; Cuando se silencien los fusiles, directed and produced by Nathalia Isabel Orozco Rojas, which received the Equipment and Film Design award; El Paraíso by Roberto Flores Prieto, produced by Diana Lowis; Los Balantas: Cinco Siglos en la Historia de una Familia Afrocolombiana (Colombia, Senegal) by Lucas Fabricio Silva, produced by Christian Bitar Giraldo; and Sastre by César Heredia, produced by Maria Fernanda Barrientos. Finally, the Mezcal Award went to the co-productions El aula vacía (The Empty Classroom) by Gael García Bernal, Flavia Castro, Mariana Chenillo, Pablo Fendrik, Carlos Gaviria, Tatiana Huezo, Lucrecia Martel, Nicolás Pereda, Eryk Rocha, Pablo Stoll, and Daniel and Diego Vega (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, El Salvador); and to El ruiseñor y la noche: Chavela Vargas canta a Lorca (The Nightingale and the Night) by Rubén Rojo Aura (Mexico, Spain, Colombia).
 
Meanwhile, at the 32nd MIFF, a festival screening more than a hundred films in competition, short films, and experimental films, Colombia participated with Todos se van (Everyone’s Leaving) by Sergio Cabrera and the co-production Playing Lecuona (Colombia, Spain) by Pavel Giroud and Juan Manuel Villar in the Cinedowntown Galas section. The Knight Competition category included Fungi by Oscar Ruiz Navia and La vida es sagrada (Life is Sacred) (Colombia, Denmark, Ireland, Norway) by Andreas Dalsgaard, Viviana Gómez, and Nicolás Servide; Life is Sacred also took part in the Knight Documentary Achievement Award section, along with Playing Lecuona. This edition of the festival also featured Ciudad Delirio (Colombia, Spain) by Chus Gutiérrez and Venecia (Venice) (Colombia, Cuba) by Kiki Álvares in the Cinema 360° category; and the project Días extraños (Argentina, Colombia) by Juan Sebastián Quebrada in the 2015 Encuentros section.