Short-Films

We’ve compiled an extensive Colombian film industry database ready for consultation. You’ll find information on features and short films in every genre and stage of development, and you can check the data sheets, synopses, cast and crew, related news, clips, audio and trailers for Colombian films.

CUANDO VUELVA A LLOVER

CUANDO VUELVA A LLOVER

Director: Carlos R. López

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Hopeful with the illusion of going to Bogotá for the first time, Carlitos, a country boy of ten, waits patiently for his parents to wake up and start the trip. But what the boy ignores is that his parents have been murdered. The boy will spend two days alone without food, taking care of his dead parents, and ignoring the nightmare that lurks...
LEIDA

LEIDA

Director: Jorge Valencia Vélez

Colombia, 2005

7 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Leida lives on her own. Nobody visits her. When somebody knocks at the door, she thinks it’s by mistake. She opens the door to find a handsome man before her. He says he comes to fix the stove. She watches him doing his job for a long while. She offers him a cup of coffee but he says he’d rather have a shot of eau-de-vie. An hour later,...
EL MARINERO

EL MARINERO

Director: Álvaro Bautista Díaz

Colombia, 2004

24 minutes - Animación / Animación

Synopsis

The captain of a ship leads his vessel in search of for a shipwrecked man lost many years ago. In this trip the captain only find his own memories and dreams....
EL DRAGÓN DE KOMODO

EL DRAGÓN DE KOMODO

Director: José Luis Rugeles

Colombia, 2007

15 minutes - Ficción / Drama macabro, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

The story of a boy who finds his sister buried in the vegetable garden of an old lady who lives with a cat and a boy with Down’s syndrome. The woman nourishes the tomatoes with the blood and fluids of the bodies of children, of whom she also fries the fingers to eat them. A journey guided by the child’s orthopedic shoes, from the doo...
DOLORES

DOLORES

Director: Tatiana Villacob Meléndez

Colombia, 2009

13 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

It is the year of 1953 in the village of San Jacinto, Colombia. Dolores Salinas is a 60 year old woman who makes her living out of praying in the funerals of the dead people left by the colombian political war period who fought in the lines of the conservative party. Now the body of her son arrives, who was killed during this war but fighting for t...
1000 PESOS COLOMBIANOS

1000 PESOS COLOMBIANOS

Director: David Aristizábal

Colombia, 2005

24 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

A forged 1000 pesos coin goes from hand to hand. Suddenly it comes back to the counterfeiter who forged it. At the end we find out his plans of cheating at cockfight gambling. ...
EL AÑO DEL CERDO

EL AÑO DEL CERDO

Director: Claudia Calderón (Puerto Rico)

Colombia, 2007

9:30 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

IMPECABLE

IMPECABLE

Director: Cuatro Mamíferos (Muyi Neira - Colombia, Carlos Flete, Huy Nguyen, Marcello Álvarez)

Colombia, 2007

Animación 3D / Todas

Synopsis

BAJO EL MISMO CIELO

BAJO EL MISMO CIELO

Director: Gerson Aguilar Guerrero

Colombia, 2008

15:40 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

EN LEGÍTIMA DEFENSA

EN LEGÍTIMA DEFENSA

Director: Carlos Serna

Colombia, 2008

15:20 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In Self-Defense is the story of Joel, a soccerplaying boy that lives in the slums of Bogotá. He must confront himself after having saved the life of Vizcaino, a thief who, as he later finds out, is Joel’s eldest brother’s murderer. From that moment on, Joel is torn between the hunger of revenge and the desire to move on with his ...
EN AGOSTO

EN AGOSTO

Director: Andrés Barrientos, Carlos Andrés Reyes

Colombia, 2008

14 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

In the month of August, an old man and a young indigenous woman in the city of Bogotá simultaneously anticipate the arrival of the end of the world, but at different points in time: the old man in the present; the young woman, in the distant future....
DEFECTUOSO

DEFECTUOSO

Director: Juan Sebastián Díaz Santaella

Colombia, 2008

10 minutes - Animación / Animación

Synopsis

Defective is about the loss of personal identity and what leads us to adopt conducts without question. In a mechanized environment, a sudden outburst of “art, sensibility and originality” threatens the control systems. This individuality is frowned upon and seen as a defect, which must be eliminated at all cost to preserve an establishe...
NO TODOS LOS RÍOS VAN AL MAR

NO TODOS LOS RÍOS VAN AL MAR

Director: Santiago Trujillo

Colombia, 2008

25 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

When a letter arrives from Hassan, a boy from the Middle East, Yenny and Esmeralda’s relationship is altered. The two sisters are recent arrivals to a refugee slum at the outskirts Bogotá. Esmeralda, the older sister, is able to attend school, where she participates in a pen-pal program. The letter exchange inspires Yenny, the younger ...