Proimágenes Colombia

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...

Wake Up and Die (Flashback)

Director: Miguel Urrutia, Miguel Urrutia

Colombia, 2012

86 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Camila wakes up next to Darío, a perfect stranger that could be the ideal man if it weren’t for a minor detail: he kills her. Camila gets trapped in a loop returning to the moment just before she dies, and experiencing her morder over and over again. In order to save her life, she must get into her killer’s mind. What drives s...

IN COMA

Director: Juan David Restrepo, Henry Rivero

Colombia, 2011

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Omar, a hitman from Medellín, encounters something stronger and more dangerous than a bullet: Love, represented in the sensual tenderness of Ilana, a prostitute. Together, they will give up everything to start a new life, but ghosts from the past will hunt them. Living under extremely difficult circumstances they barely manages to survive...

OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS

Director: Hilda Hidalgo

Colombia, Costa Rica, 2010

97 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

During a time of inquisition and slavery, Sierva María wants to know what kisses taste like. She is 13 years old, daughter of aristocrats but raised by their African slaves living in colonial Cartagena de Indias. When a rabid dog bites her, the bishop declares she is possessed and entrust Cayetano his pupil, ...

PARAÍSO

Director: Felipe Guerrero

Colombia, 2006

55 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Paraíso is a poetic evocation of a country and its historical memory, an intimate portrait of modern Colombian life. Within the soft grain of Super 8, throbs the reality of a country wrapped up in its own, unending war. ...

FORTY

Director: Carlos Fernández de Soto

2011

77 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

One day, Gus leaves behind all that his life has been so far—work and the city—and goes to his parents’ old house on the mountain. The house has been a place of reference throughout his life and that of his two lifelong friends: it is there where they first saw a naked woman; where they forged thei...

CONTRACORRIENTE

Director: Javier Fuentes-León

Alemania, Colombia, Francia, Perú, 2010

100 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

The very religious inhabitants of Cabo Blanco, a Peruvian fishing village, have a tradition: when someone dies, the closest male is to claim the body, carry out funeral rites, and cast the body into the sea –lest the soul should wander restlessly-. Miguel is a handsome and popular fisherman confused and divided between his love for his wif...

CHANCE

Director: Abner Benaim

Colombia, Panamá, 2010

90 minutes - Ficción / Comedia, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Toña and Paquita work as maids at the Gonzales-Dubois home, an aristocratic Caribbean family. The family prepare their weekend shopping trip to Miami. However, Paquita and Toña have a different plan for them: to hold them hostage in their own house, and ask for a large ransom. After interrogations, they discover the great family se...

APATÍA, UNA PELÍCULA DE CARRETERA

Director: Arturo Ortegón

Colombia, 2012

93 minutes - Ficción / Road movie

Synopsis

Holy Week starts with two friends parting in the quest for relief from their respective pains. One seeks the girlfriend who abandoned him, while the other seeks to abandon everything. One travels the roads of Colombia in the company of two adolescents, discovering that their country is more than what the news portray; the other, seeking a conclu...

EN LO ESCONDIDO

Director: Nicolás Rincón Gille, Nicolás Rincón Gille

Colombia, 2007

78 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In the darkness of the country night in Colombia, an invisible world of all sorts of beings takes over. So one better stay at home and listen: halfhuman and half-beast, something is wandering in the dark. Only some are able to confront it. Throughout her life, Carmen has been one of the brave few....

BAGATELA

Director: Jorge Caballero Ramos

España, Colombia, 2008

74 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Even though the majority of cases presented to judicial offices in Bogotá are misdemeanors resulting from an abject social reality, government officials have sought to overly prosecute such crimes. To sell pirated CDs, to steal a cell phone or, simply, to sleep on the streets may cost a particular individual a multi-year prison sentence. ...

APAPORIS, IN SEARCH OF ONE RIVER

Director: Antonio Dorado Zúñiga

Colombia, 2012

74 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Following the steps of the ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, as described on a travel diary from Mitú to the Apaporis river, the millenary secrets of how to revive the dead are revealed. A documentary that questions the displacement of war to the indigenous communities; of how communities are besieged by the death and disappearance of...

ADIÓS AL CHOLERO

Director: Carlos Mario Urrea, Carolina Arango

Colombia, 2008

95 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In an effort to be universal, two Colombian filmmakers pretend to understand the reality of Bolivian popular culture through the eyes of Andrés Huaquipa, singer and miner from Potosí. But the college-educated team finds itself surpassed by their character, and hence forced to reassess the traditional attitudes of documentary films abo...