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MEMORIA
Jessica begins to hear the loud ‘bang’ at daybreak. Since then, she is unable to sleep. At a hospital, she befriends Agnes who is studying the human remains found in a tunnel construction site in the mountain. Jessica visits Agnes at the tunnel construction site in a small town. By the river, she encounters Hernan, a fish scaler who holds a wealth of memories. As the day comes to a close, Jessica’s sense of sound.
Fiction. 120 min. Colombia
Produced by Burning (Colombia)
@ Cannes 2021: Diana Bustamante (Producer), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Director), Tilda Swinton (Actress).
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AMPARO
After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find out her children are not there. Her eldest son Elias failed to pick up his little sister Karen from school. Elias is a troubled young man, he didn’t study and doesn’t work. While searching for him, Amparo soon finds out that he has been drafted as a 'regular soldier' during an army raid and will be sent to the front in a feared war zone, far from the city. His fate is doomed.
With only a single day left until his departure, Amparo manages to contact a man who offers to change his exam results and get him out, but the money he asks is well beyond her means.
With nothing much on her side, Amparo decides to embark on a journey against time in a society ruled by corrupt and insensitive men, well aware that the task at hand is an almost impossible undertaking. In the end, she must decide how far she is willing to go in order to keep her family together and her son away from war.
Fiction. 90 min. Colombia
Produced by Ocúltimo
@Cannes 2021: Simón Mesa (Director), Juan Sarmiento (Producer), Sandra Melissa Torres (Actress).
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ALIS
How do you build a “new life” when you are born without opportunities? Can you change despair and project another destiny? Through a creative act, eight teenage girls who lived on the streets give life to a fictional classmate. As reality prevails and fiction fades, the innocent game becomes a descent into hell where their luminous faces guide us to the depths of the dark world they once inhabited. How to imagine a different life, break the cycle of violence and embrace the future?
Documentary. 75 min. Colombia
Produced by Casatarántula
@Cannes 2021: Clare Weiskopf (Director-Producer), Nicolás van Hemelryck (Producer)
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JOSEPHINE LANDERTINGER
She is a member of the Colombian Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (ACCAC) in the specialty of Directing, member of Dones Visuals, European Women’s Audiovisual Network, CIMA and Girls Club Women & Hollywood. She is the founder of the production company Global Eyes Production and creator of the first online directory of organizations working on gender equality in Ibero-American cinema: Accionmujeres.com.
GUEST OF HONOR AT THE PRODUCERS NETWORK.