Proimágenes Colombia

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...

RIVERSIDE

Director: Harold Trompetero

Colombia, 2009

92 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

More than four million Colombians live abroad. Riverside is the story of one of tose Colombians who struggles to retunr and live his last days in his native country. ...

BLUFF

Director: Felipe Martínez

Colombia, 2007

103 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Because of his boss Mallarino, Nicolas has lost his girlfriend Margarita, and his job. One year later, after deciding and taking revenge, he tries to blackmail Mallarino with photos of him and his lover. Things get complicated when Mallarino, instead of paying, offers him more money to Hill Margarita. ...

HEAVEN

Director: Alessandro Basile

Colombia, 2009

87 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

A small town drama engulfs Salvatore, an italian priest exiled in Cartagena, who uses marihuana for medicinal purposes. The hellish cast incluyes corrupt politicians, Crazy poets, prostitutes of the underground and a black princess –Gabriela-, who in her death throes is kept secretely locked up by her parents. Salvatore wakes up innocent a...

SATANÁS

Director: Andrés Baiz

Colombia, 2007

95 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In Satanás, a beautiful young woman hustles rich men in search of a better life; a priest, passionately in love with his housekeeper, struggles under the weight of a secret he guards for one of his parishioners, and a resentful teacher and war veteran dreams of escaping the tedium of everyday life with one of his students… Their ac...

2600 METROS

Director: Roberto Flores Prieto

Colombia, 2005

Documental / Todas

Synopsis

POLVO DE ÁNGEL

Director: Oscar Blancarte

Colombia, México, 2008

105 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Sacro, a self-apointed Quixote and defender of humanity, is hired to carry out an imposible mission by the president of the successfull fase food company, Ultrasandwich. With a little help of his friend, Chaos the Angel Hunter, he undertakes his glorious adventure in the great city of Latinopolis. In the meantime, Susana and Miguel, young enviro...

THE DREAM OF PARADISE

Director: Carlos Palau

Colombia, 2007

Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In the impoverished Japan of the twenties, Juzo Takeshima, discovers the Jorge Isaacs novel, Maria, without imagining the effect it World have on the lives of hundreds of Japanese –especially his. Takeshima begins to translate the novel by installments for the magazine of the University of Tokyo, where he teaches. With his disciples he gli...

THE ACORDION`S ANGEL

Director: María Camila Lizarazo

Colombia, 2008

100´ minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In the exotic landscapes of the Colombian Caribbean Coast, Vallenato music has magic effects: it soothes crying babies, turns away the storms, increases egg production, and cheers up cotton harvesters. This is the setting in which “Poncho”, an eleven-year-old boy and talented vallenato performer, pursues two dreams in his life: ...

AMALIA

Director: Alejandro Lemos, David Rodríguez

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

JUANA HAD GOLDEN HAIR

Director: Luís Fernando “Pacho” Bottía

Colombia, 2007

74´ minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

A magician reveals the existence of Juana, a girl who lives in the town of Ciénaga and who has the particularity of having her hair of pure gold. A journalist, who by chance witnesses the spectacle, decides to seek her out and publish her story. Authorities and local dignitaries struggle over her custody, until the bishop prevails. Juana ...

ACTORS IN CONFLICT

Director: Lisandro Duque

Colombia, 2008

100 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Three theater actors –two Colombian men and the Venezuelan girlfriend of one of them– are asked by their sponsor to keep some boxes for him while he is away for three months. However, shortly alter their benefactor leaves, they find out that he has been imprisoned in Europe for money laundering and drug dealing, and that he will appa...

APOCALIPSUR

Director: Javier Mejía

Colombia, 2007

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In 1991, Medellin is a dangerous place to live. Rules have changed and even the police have a price on their heads. Death threats on his mother, force “El Flaco” to flee to London. Before he leaves, his friends and girlfriend, Malala, throw a going-away party, complete with a rock’n’roll band...