Proimágenes Colombia

PORFIRIO

Director: Alejandro Landes

Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, España, Francia, 2012

101 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Confined to a universe that stretches only from bed to wheelchair, Porfirio - a man in diapers who sells call time on his cell phone in a faraway city on the outskirts of the Colombian Amazon - dreams that he can fly. ...

BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ ¿POR QUÉ LLORA SI YA REÍ?

Director: Diego García Moreno

Colombia, 2011

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

ENTRE NOS

Director: Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte

Colombia, Estados Unidos, 2008

80 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Shortly after she totes her two children from Colombia to reunite with her husband in Queens, New York, Mariana's (Paola Mendoza) life is devastatingly turned around when he abandons her to fend for herself in a hard-knock new country. Mariana desperately searches for work against the unwieldy city landscape, but she and her kids can't h...

LESSONS FOR A KISS

Director: Juan Pablo Bustamante

Colombia, 2011

100 minutes - Ficción / Comedia, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Lessons for a Kiss is a romantic comedy that tells the story of Alejandro, a teenager from Bogota who has been forced to live in Cartagena de Indias where his mother has opened a restaurant. When he falls in love with the astonishing María, he decides to do whatever it takes to get a kiss on the lips from her....

LA SIRGA

Director: William Vega

Colombia, Francia, México, 2012

89 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Alice is abandoned. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a decadent hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes, which belongs to Oscar, the only family member alive, an old solitary hermit. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she wil...

SALWA, LA TURCA

Director: Sara Harb

Canadá, Colombia, Cuba,

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

LITTLE VOICES

Director: Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Oscar Andrade

Colombia, 2011

75 minutes - Animación / Animación, Animación 3D / Todas

Synopsis

Little Voices is an animated documentary about how children perceive tha armed conflict in Colombia ...

ILEGAL.CO

Director: Alessandro Angulo

Colombia, 2012

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Illegal.co explores the reasons why prohibitionist policies and the war against drugs have not, and never will, eradicate the drug-trafficking problem and the consumption of narcotics, and suggests that it is time to think of new strategies. We promote a debate from an economic viewpoint through interviews with thinkers on this topic such as Eth...

WHITOUT TITS THERE IS NO PARADISE

Director: Gustavo Bolívar

2010

108 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Catalina, a poor girl, sees how her peers with ample bosoms are more likely to flourish by attracting drug dealers. To enter this “heaven” and escape a destiny of waitressing, she seeks Yessica and other silicone-breasted friends who, acting as pimps, hook her up to parties where sex and drugs are the rule. But Catalina has one probl...

PORTRAITS IN A SEA OF LIES

Director: Carlos Gaviria

Colombia, 2010

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

After the death of their grandfather in an avalanche, Jairo, an itinerant photographer, and his mute and amnesic cousin, Marina, decide to recover the land from which she was displaced years ago. During the trip, the story of her past starts to unfold. But upon reaching their hometown they realize nothing has changed. Paramilitaries kidnap them ...

RAGE

Director: Sebastián Cordero

2010

96 minutes - Ficción / Drama, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

José María is a builder; Rosa, a live-in housekeeper. They’re South American immigrants working in Spain and have been together for a few weeks. When Rosa’s employer take a trip, José María comes to spend a few days with her. He fantasises about their life together. José María has an argument...

THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN

Director: Carlos César Arbeláez

2011

94 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

The Colours of the Mountain is a presentday portrait of everyday life in a rural area somewhere in the mountains of Colombia. This film is told from the point of view Manuel and Julian, two children whose innocent and poetic perspective provides a vivid contrast –sprinkled with irony- to the irrational and sometimes cruel world of adults. ...

UN TIGRE DE PAPEL

Director: Luis Ospina

Colombia, 2007

114 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Pedro Manrique Figueroa, Colombia’s pioneering collage artist, has never had a biographer. The reason is simple: his life, like an adventure novel, is both incomplete, contradictory, and constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Framed around Manrique Figueroa’s life and work, the film takes us on a journey thr...

TUMACO PACÍFICO

Director: Samuel Córdoba

Colombia, 2008

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Daily life in a city standing on stilts over the ocean, and struck by a tsunami of violence. Tumaco natives Junior, Carmen Julia, Doña Eduarda and Don Carlos, share their life stories and their most profound reflections about a world both absurd and beautiful, which stands over an ocean of rubbish....

LA VIDA "ERA" EN SERIO

Director: Mónica Borda

Colombia, Venezuela, 2011

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Life Was for Real is the story of an escapade. Gabriela, successful businesswoman and mother, but also overburdened with her multiple roles, decides to assume an alternative identity. She becomes Luisa, her liberated employee and friend, in order to live new experiences. What starts as a harmless game evolves into and absurd, fun and dangerous a...

THE PASION OF GABRIEL

Director: Luis Alberto Restrepo

Colombia, 2009

86 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Gabriel is a priest in love with life, with a women, and obsessed with justice. He lives in a lost corner of Colombia in the midst of the ongoing conflict between guerrillas and the army. Bent on saving his village, he ends up at odds with its inhabitants, the woman he loves, the church, the guerrillas, the army, local politicians, and is finall...

THE CAPTURE

Director: Darío Armando García "Dago", Juan Carlos Vásquez

Colombia, 2012

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

After capturing one of the country’s most wanted delinquents, Lieutenant Rudas is rewarded with a transfer to San Javier county to perform a mission: to capture Alvaro Salcedo, a local criminal legend. What starts as a routine assignment, becomes an obsession for the Lieutenant. After three years of searching, a telegram informs him that t...

JARDÍN DE AMAPOLAS

Director: Juan Carlos Melo

Colombia, 2014

88 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In Colombia cultivating poppies (Amapolas) is a dangerous, but lucrative business. Farmer EMILIO and his 9 year-old son SIMON, are exiled by rebels and find refuge in Cousin WILSON’s home. Emilio is forced to work in the Amapola crop while Simon befriends LUISA, a girl of his age. She is obsessed with playing with a puppy dog she can't...