Documentary

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NOT ALL IS A VIGIL

NOT ALL IS A VIGIL

Director: Hermes Paralluelo

España, Colombia, 2016

98 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Antonio and Felisa have been living together their whole life, in a little village of the province of Teruel. Now that their health is more fragile they are afraid of not being able to take care of each other. On the horizon the prospect of having to go into a retirement home appears as a threat. Not All Is Vigil portrays love in old age, tossing-a...
H2O

H2O

Director: Alejandro Calderón , Jean Loui Camacho

Colombia,

15 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Short film that tells us the cycle of water from condensation in heaven until further rainfall in the desert of Chingaza: majestic place, that also supplying 80% of the water that arrive in Bogota, encompasses a wide diversity of animals and creature....
WATER PATH

WATER PATH

Director: Carlos Montoya

Colombia, 2015

8 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Nicole is a 6-year-old girl who lives with her mom in the middle of the Páramo (a kind of moorland in the Andes). One morning, the mother asks Nicole to go and find some water. She tells the girl to take the water from the spring where it is pure and warns her not to take it from the pond, where it is murky and might bring along foreign bodi...
DIGGY UP, THE WILL OF THE BLOOD

DIGGY UP, THE WILL OF THE BLOOD

Director: Luis Montealegre

Colombia, 2012

13 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Due to the constant rains, the rivers up the mountains overflow sweeping along with them everything that stands in their way. This is the story of Alirio, an old peasant that makes a mysterious trip to the city in search of a carpenter who manufactures a giant coffin.  Back with this weight on his shoulders, he walks into a reflection on the b...
THE TRAP

THE TRAP

Director: Ferney Noé Iyokina Gittoma

2024

13 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR

THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR

Director: Juliana Zuluaga Montoya

Colombia, 2023

11 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

People wonder where the birds go to die. My grandmother's village had a lighthouse among the mountains, a forest full of creatures and an echo that sounded at night like the warm wind. That's where the birds went to die. THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR is a fantastic tale that uses archival material to construct the story of Luz Emilia Garc&iacut...
Lemebel

Lemebel

Director: Joanna Reposi Garibaldi

Chile, Colombia, 2019

96 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

MY MOTHER'S PAIN

MY MOTHER'S PAIN

Director: Juliana Erazo Gómez

Holanda, Colombia, 2021

6 minutes - Animación / Animación, Documental / Todas

Synopsis

This animated documentary and visual essay, tells the story of three generations of mothers and daughters in the same family. Their struggles and growth and how they worked to make their children's life better than their own....
STRANGERS TO PEACE

STRANGERS TO PEACE

Director:

80 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

If you’re Colombian and younger than 52, you’ve never lived in a country without war. The conflict between leftist-guerrillas, right-wing paramilitar-ies, and the government left 220,000 dead and displaced millions. The FARC were the largest guerrilla army in this war, and their tactics included drug trafficking, kidnapping, and the rec...
¿QUIÉN SOY?

¿QUIÉN SOY?

Director:

2021

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Calaguala

Calaguala

Director:

2018

14 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

TRASTEO

TRASTEO

Director: María Matiz Borda, Juana del Carmen Sánchez Ramírez

2021

12 min. minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Este ensayo surgió del amor: entre nosotras, entre hermanas, entre amigxs. También partió de la rabia contenida y de la necesidad de reivindicarla. Esta propuesta busca hacer audible una cotidianidad que, aparentemente, no ofrece mucho qué contar. Ahí, en lo que nos han pedido no enunciar porque importa poco, enco...
Las Gardenias

Las Gardenias

Director: Federico Ahumada

2021

78 minutos minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Jessica Northam, an American drama-therapist, visits Las Gardenias, a social interest housing complex in Barranquilla (Colombia) in order to do a research with displaced women from Colombian armed conflict....
SAAKHELU KIWE KAME(OFFERING TO MOTHER EARTH)

SAAKHELU KIWE KAME(OFFERING TO MOTHER EARTH)

Director: Mateo Leguizamón

Colombia, 2019

24 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In the framework of the Colombian post-conflict, the Nasa indigenous people have been one of the peoples most affected by the war that has lived for more than fifty years in their territory. Conflict that has driven them little by little to forget and abandon their ancestral knowledge and ancient spiritual practices. Today it is a desire for them t...
APRIL 9

APRIL 9

Director: EDGAR HUMBERTO ÁLVAREZ

Colombia, 2016

15 minutes - Animación / Animación, Documental / Todas

Synopsis

An April 9 ... is a memory experiment, an animated journey through representative images of the Bogotazo. The images expressed here are those of our collective unconscious reinterpreted with the flexibility of plasticine and flowing with the unpredictable rhythm of memories. It is an exorcism that releases the ghosts of a country that is easily for...