Proimágenes Colombia

HELENA

Director: Jaime César Espinosa Bonilla

Colombia, 2007

85 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Sometimes it is better to live the present in the middle of amnesia because the past is a box full of fears. This seems to be the rule that Helena follows. But as a final lesson she needs to recognize her past, awaken her memories, and rewrite those moments that have fueled her insomnia and frustration. Two men, Francisco -Helena’s husband...

PVC-1

Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos

Colombia, 2007

85 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

A woman and her family became the victims of an unusual act of terrorism. Unable to pay the ransom, a mother of three is turned into a human time bomb and is confined to a physical and mental trap from which she and her family try to break free. ...

LA MILAGROSA

Director: Rafa Lara

Colombia, 2008

106 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Eduardo, a young upper-class Colombian, is on a roadtrip with a friend when he is kidnapped by a group of guerrillas and held for ransom. After a long journey into the jungle, his kidnappers come under fire and he finds himself trapped in a long-standing feud between the military, paramilitary and the guerrillas who kidnapped him. Consumed at times...

OTHERS

Director: Oscar Campo

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Cali, Colombia, 2002. José González, a systems engineer in his middle age, discovers in his skin the symptoms of “litomiasis”: a obscure disease that according to media reports has arrived from the Amazon jungle. Whoever is attacked by the virus, dies a few days following the complete engulfment of the body by a second ...

CHRISTMAS EVE

Director: Camila Loboguerrero

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

December 24th dawns on “La Alsacia”, the De La Concha family estate. Sofia, the clan matriarch, has invited her extended family to celebrate Christmas. The gathering includes her son Bernardo, the unscrupulous stock trader; his sister Rosario, the anachronistic Marxist figure; their brother Alvaro, the jolly drunkard, and Esmeralda, ...

CRIMSON DAWN

Director: Luís Hernán Reina

Colombia, 2008

90 minutes - Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

Three friends, actresses from Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba, first met while acting in a soap opera. Years later, they meet again for vacation in a farm in eastern Colombia, a region with a fascinating cattle ranch culture. Sitting around a bonfire and thanks to the arrival of an unknown cowhand, they begin to tell stories. The first one, tol...

THE STOPLIGHT SOCIETY

Director: Rubén Mendoza

Alemania, Colombia, España, Francia, 2010

108 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Stoplights are living tombs for thousands of displaced peasants who, forced out of the Colombian countryside, must beg to survive in the big city. Among the displaced we find Raul, a recycler alienated by stubbornness, unrestricted freedom and drug abuse. He’s determined on using his limited knowledge and a few ingenuous devices to alter a...

SAUDÓ LABERINTO DE ALMAS

Director: Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza

Colombia, 2016

82 minutes - Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

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GREETINGS TO THE DEVIL

Director: Juan Felipe Orozco

2011

90 minutes - Ficción / Acción, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Ángel and his daughter are kidnapped by the powerfull Léder. Twenty years earlier it was Léder who was kidnapped at the hands of Ángel and his accomplices. At that time, Léder lost mobility on his legs. Now it’s time for Léder to take revenge with the help of his sister Helena. The terms are simple...

GARCÍA

Director: José Luis Rugeles

Brasil, Colombia, 2010

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

García has managed to fulfil the wedding promise he made to his wife Amalia: to buy her a house. But life takes a turn when Amalia is kidnapped and in exchange he is ask to Hill a woman. Seeking out Amalia kidnappers, García finds himself in an unknown world full of druglords, violence, sex and alcohol. ...

THE WIND JOURNEYS

Director: Ciro Guerra

Alemania, Colombia, Holanda, 2009

117 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Ignacio Carrillo travelled all his life throughout villages and regions of northern Colombia, carrying music and traditional songs. His instrument, the accordion, is said to be cursed because as legend goes, it once belonged to the devil. As he became older, he married and settled in a small town, leaving his nomadic life behind. When his wife s...

CRAP TRAP

Director: Oscar Ruiz Navia

Francia, Colombia, 2010

95 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

At La Barra, an isolated village on the Pacific Coast of Colombia, Cerebro (Brain), leader of the native Afro-Colombian community, is at odds with El Paisa (The White Man), a landowner who wants to build a resort on the beach. All this while Daniel, a strange and silent tourist, awaits for a boat to take him out of the country ...

SCARED TO DEATH

Director: Harold Trompetero, Jairo Eduardo Carrillo

Colombia, 2007

Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Amparo brings Lucía’s “dead body” to a funeral home, and offers a large sum of money for its cremation. The next day, Ancísar and Ovidio, owners of the place, discover that the body has disappeared. Nevertheless, they honour the deal by producing ashes, as arranged. But the two men don’t know that this will ...

THE INMORAL MINISTER

Director: Julio Luzardo, Celmira Zuluaga Aparicio, Celmira Zuluaga A

Colombia, 2007

106 Minutos minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Gilma Zuleta, the successful secretary, has everything in life except love. At the peak of her career, a lithium deficiency drives her to depression, and ultimately to consider taking her life away. But she is not able to do it herself, so she contracts an assassin to kill her. ...

IT SMELLS (LIES)

Director: Jorge Alí Triana

Colombia, 2007

Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Based on actual facts, It Smells (Lies) is a passionate story of seduction, lies and infidelity. Nothing exposes the secret life of Ricardo Caicedo, a successful business man, until the tragic night of a bomb explosion at the prestigious social club El Nogal. From that moment on, everything collapses in the life of Ricardo. He will have to e...

BETWEEN THE SHEETS

Director: Gustavo Nieto Roa

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

A film about love at first sight. Paula and Roberto first meet in a crowded disco. The attraction and curiosity for each other is so intense that without uttering a word they agree to go to a motel room to have passionate sex. The encounter gives them the opportunity to know each other for a few precious hours before they return to their respect...

DOG EATS DOG

Director: Carlos Moreno

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

Set in the Colombian crime world, Perro come perro (Dog Eat Dog) depicts a brutal universe where gangsters are as vicious as rabid street dogs and voodoo reigns as the supreme form of punishment. El Orejón is a violent and agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartme...

PARAÍSO TRAVEL

Director: Simón Brand

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Adapted from Jorge Franco’s acclaimed novel, Paraiso Travel (which has broken box-office records in Colombia) is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian, who motivated by his girlfriend Reina, leaves his confortable life in Medellín and travels with her through Guatemala and Mexico, to enter illegally into the United States. Mar...