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TUMACO PACÍFICO

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....
PARAÍSO

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. ...
EN LO ESCONDIDO

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

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

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

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...
MOSCÚ DIVERSO

MOSCÚ DIVERSO

Director: Mónica Cifuentes Toro

Colombia, 2008

24 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

THE DREAM OF PARADISE

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...
PEQUEÑAS VOCES

PEQUEÑAS VOCES

Director: Jairo Eduardo Carrillo

Colombia, 2003

19 minutes - Animación / Animación, Documental / Todas

Synopsis

SMALL VOICES is a short film made with and about the children displaced by the violence in Colombia. It narrates true stories of children using their voices and drawings. The result is a powerful hybrid between documentary and computer animation....
EN ESCENA

EN ESCENA

Director: Camilo Palacios, Camilo Eduardo Palacios Obregón

Colombia, 2006

Documental / Todas

Synopsis

As third-grade students stage a musical production, we see how their daily acting is influenced when a camera records their actions. Throughout the conflicts in their relationships and in the play, we see how they try to hold their power over others and towards the camera showing us different aspects of the mise en scène....
CURSO 29

CURSO 29

Director: Cristian Corradine, Juan Mauricio Piñeros

Colombia, 2005

67 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In Bogotá, a city where the majority of inhabitants are unaware of the work done by the Fire Department, a group of young men and women begin Class 29 in the hope of becoming professional firefighters. Each one has a different idea about the job, and most are motivated primarily by the possibility of a steady job. Throughout the course, t...
LOS MONOS DE LOS ANDES

LOS MONOS DE LOS ANDES

Director: Talía Carolina Osorio Cardona

Colombia, 2004

65 min minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis