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THE MARTYR OF FEAR

THE MARTYR OF FEAR

Director: DAVID HERRERA

Colombia, 2020

Documental / Todas

Synopsis

"The Martyr of Fear" is a documentary directed by David Herrera, which tells the story of Hernando, a Jesuit seminarian who was exiled from Colombia in 1992 after being blamed for holding a police inspector with a comb brush. Over the years, he has suffered an increasing deterioration in his health, due to loneliness, abandonment and hope...
UNDER SIEGE

UNDER SIEGE

Director: IRENE VÉLEZ-TORRES, SJOERD VAN GROOTHEEST

Colombia, 2020

86 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Bajo Fuego depicts the unraveling of peace for a group of coca growing peasants in the southwest of Colombia. The film takes the perspective of the ‘cocaleros’ and over a period of 3 years shows how they survive in the midst of the most difficult circumstances. The government delays in fulfilling what it promised in the agreement, econo...
BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF

BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF

Director: Irene Gutiérrez

España, Cuba, Colombia, 2020

75 minutes - Documental / Todas, Ficción / Acción

Synopsis

Immersed in the jungle of Sierra Maestra, three veterans of the Angolan War are reluctant to abandon the revolutionary spirit which brought them together as comrades over thirty years ago. Always on guard, they continue to train dressed in their old uniforms for and endless mission: a war game in where they still can feel respected, strong and, abo...
SON OF SODOM

SON OF SODOM

Director: Theo Montoya, Theo Montoya

Colombia, Argentina, 2020

15 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In August 2017 I chose Camilo Najar - who was known as 'Son of Sodom' in social media- to be the protagonist of my first feature film. That casting delved around his life, his sexuality, the future and drugs. A week later, aged 21, he died from a heroin overdose. Who was 'Son of Sodom'? ...
OUR SONG TO WAR

OUR SONG TO WAR

Director: Juanita Onzaga

2018

14 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Crocodile-men, a mystic river, some kids who like fishing and a war that is coming to an end, share the same Colombian land: Bojaya. In this place, villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the “Novenario” death ritual. This might be the beginning of a very long story, where spirits and humans meet each other to learn what is there t...
THE JUNGLE KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU DO

THE JUNGLE KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU DO

Director: Juanita Onzaga

2017

20 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Colombia is a land of ghosts. Two siblings roam these mystical landscapes in search of their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from Bogota to the Colombian jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams. Here they will find some answers and attract unexpected company....
BOGOTÁ BLUES

BOGOTÁ BLUES

Director: Miriam Cotes Benítez

Colombia, 2017

95 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

REQUIEM NN

REQUIEM NN

Director: Juan Manuel Echavarría

Colombia, 2013

67 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

ANTE MIS OJOS

ANTE MIS OJOS

Director: Lina Rodriguez

Canadá, Colombia, 2018

7 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Shot on grainy, amber-like Super 8, Lina Rodriguez’s elusive and evocative ante mis ojos offers a fragmentary glimpse of Colombia's mythic Lake Guatavita, long considered the inspiration for the legend of El Dorado....
THE TOWER

THE TOWER

Director: Sebastián Múnera

Colombia, México, 2018

78 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In 2004, a bomb exploded in the public library of Medellín in Colombia. Only one photo exists of the attack, which was never solved. You can see library staff clearing the rubble. This photo inspired Sebastian Múnera to make his first film, The Tower, a title that refers to the Tower of Babel.   This experimental black-a...
THE SCORPION IS ME – A CENTENNIAL FAMILY DANCE GROUP

THE SCORPION IS ME – A CENTENNIAL FAMILY DANCE GROUP

Director: JUAN SEBASTIÁN ALVAREZ

95 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Santos Ramírez “Santico”, the current artistic director hides behind the Carnival’s atmosphere, as he is fighting against all odds to keep El Alacrán’s poison alive. “El Alacrán” (The Scorpion) is a legendary dance group in Havana founded in 1908 by his great-grandfather who was brought to Cu...
PARALELA

PARALELA

Director: Jhan Heider Vargas

Colombia,

11 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Faced with the threat of death to my younger brother, I Heider Vargas, I acknowledge and reflect on the imminence of facing death and life itself in a neighborhood affected by the social problems of the city of Medellin....
ENLIGHTENING PATHS

ENLIGHTENING PATHS

Director: Paola Figueroa Cancino

Colombia,

16 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

A harvest, a downpour, a growing belly… a delivery. “Enlightening paths” contemplates, through the simple and ordinary things, Dona Valentina’s work, a traditional midwife peasant who with her hands helps to deliver babies in the Colombian mountains....
VÍTREO

VÍTREO

Director: Juan Pablo Areiza

Colombia, 2015

16 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Vítreo is a visual symphony, exploring the city of Medellin through different atmospheres presenting glass, as present in everyday element that arise through the observation of the creation of this material. ...