Proimágenes Colombia

PLAYING LECUONA

Director: Juan Manuel Villar, Pavel Giroud

Colombia,

Documental / Todas

Synopsis

A journey through the work and living spaces of pianist and composer Ernesto Lecuona, considered the most universal of Ibero-American pianists. Three outstanding Latin Jazz piano players will guide us in this odyssey: Chucho Valdes in Lecuona’s native Havana fuses jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms; Michel Camilo in New York creates elegant soundsc...

THE SQUATTERS OF THE DEVIL´S HOUSE

Director: Iván Reina Ortiz

Colombia, 2015

87 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

"The squatters of The Devil's House" is the polyphonic portrait of 'Fercho', 'Devil' and 'Hippie', the accidental owners of a no-man's land, perhaps, the only place in the world they can call their own. The ruins shelter their shattered days, allowing them to overcome time and become a little family. With v...

ANTHROPOS

Director: Alejandro Aguilar, Alex Castro, Alvaro Ruiz, Ana Maria Cabrera, Andres Gomez D, Andres Posada, Angie López, Carolina Santos, Daniel Angarita, Daniel Brito, David Curto, David Ortiz, David Samaniego , Esteban Zuluaga, Felipe Perea, Felipe Plazas, Felipe Ríos, Javiera Valenzuela, Jeztoo Gvolk, Juan Camilo Garcia, Juan Charry, Juan Diego Cruz, Juan Gordon, Juanita Arias, Juan Sebastián Parra, Julian Riveros, Laura Gonzalez, Leandro Hernandez, Leidy Gomez, Lina Trujillo, Luis Fernando Muñeton, Lulu Salgado, Miguel Gonzalez, Paloma Rincon, Santiago Buendía, Santiago Caicedo, Sergio López, Vida Torrez, Willi Mora

Colombia, 2015

Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Disclaimer:  Even though ANTHROPOS tells the story of a centenarian character from his birth to his death, the Exquisite Corpse's creative format will not allow the story to be synthesized into a synopsis between the opening to the closing.   ...

THE CONFIDANT

Director: Luis Villegas

Colombia, 2015

Documental / Todas

Synopsis

“The Confidant” is a thriller-documentary that analyzes the problem of drug trafficking in Colombia through the experiences of Gustavo Salazar, "the attorney of the mafia," a contradictory and controversial man, a paradigm of contemporary Colombian history. ...

WOUNDED NIGHT

Director: Nicolás Rincón Gille

Colombia, Bélgica, 2017

86 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Fleeing the countryside, Blanca lives with three of her grandchildren on the Bogotá border. In full adolescence, Didier, the eldest, decides to abandon her. In the distance Blanca tries to protect him by invoking the blessed souls, while reinforcing his attention on the two youngest, Camilo and John, for fear that they will also be lost. It ...

MARÍMBULA

Director: Diana Kuellar

Colombia, 2017

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Marímbula narrates the story of Andris and Gabriel's trip to Africa. Those young maroon musicians from San Basilio de Palenque have been planning the way to accomplish their ancestors longing, the same than theirs: coming back to their land. However, arriving into Senegal Andris is deported. Gabriel will find himself alone in a stranger ...

JERICÓ, EL INFINITO VUELO DE LOS DÍAS

Director: Catalina Mesa

Colombia, Francia, 2016

78 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

ATI Y MINDHIWA

Director: Claudia Fischer

Colombia, 2016

71 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

FOUR MEN ALONE

Director: Francisco Schmitt

2016

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In this shivering documentary, Francisco Schmitt García portrays the lives of four fishermen whose days pass among the indifferent flow of the Magdalena River, their work and getting drunk on guarapo. Life has offered these men little and they have resigned themselves to a hopeless existence and even fewer hopes of transcendence. This melanc...

HOME - THE COUNTRY OF ILLUSION

Director: Josephine Landertinger Forero

Colombia, Portugal, 2016

85 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Portugal is Lilia’s last home, a 67-year old Colombian woman, whose life is marked by continuous migration. Josephine, the director of the documentary, offers her mother an instrument, cinema, to put together the story of a fragmented life. Through careful observation, Lilia’s loneliness becomes visible, but also her mysterious strength...

ISOLATED

Director: Marcela Lizcano

Colombia, Ecuador, México, 2016

73 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

540 people inhabit an island the size of a city block. Isolated takes us to the most densely populated artificial island in the Colombian Caribbean. There are no police here; no priests, or doctors, or armed conflict; just 97 houses for 18 families, a school, a restaurant-cum- harbor, and a small square with a cross in the center paying tribute to ...

CHASING AFTER THE WIND

Director: Juan Camilo Olmos

Colombia, 2016

60 minutes - Documental / Todas

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PATIENT

Director: Jorge Caballero

Colombia, 2016

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

"Patient" is the word used for those following medical instructions or for the moment we need to calmly wait. In Colombia, the country's pitiless health system forces its users to confront absurd bureaucratic obstacles in order to obtain services. Patient refers not only a person who suffers an illness and hopes for recovery, but also...

IT ALL STARTED AT THE END

Director: Luis Ospina

Colombia, 2016

208 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

IT ALL STARTED AT THE END is the self-portrait of the “Grupo de Cali”, also known as “Caliwood”, a group of cinephiles, who in the midst of the wild partying and the historical chaos of the 70s and 80s, managed to produce a body of work now considered a fundamental part of Colombia’s film heritage. It is also is the cl...

THE INFLATED JUNGLE

Director: Alejandro Naranjo

Colombia, España, 2016

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

The Colombian Amazon region is suffering a series of suicides amongst the young indigenous people that belong to its ancestral communities. The city arrived to the thick green of the rainforest, along with its light skinned men and their capital. Different cultures in the frenetic friction of our times, we see a generation of young ones born form t...

PARADOR HÚNGARO

Director: Aseneth Suárez Ruiz, Patrick Alexander

Hungría, Colombia, 2015

80 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

My name is Patrick Alexander. In Bogotá I meet Gyuri Villas, the owner of the Parador Húngaro, wich became my favorite place to hanf out. Gyuri was a soldier who escaped from Communist Hungary in 1957 and never returned. I grew up on U.S military bases in West Germany and the United States, necer staying in the same place for more tha...

PORRO HECHO EN COLOMBIA

Director: Adriana Lucía

Colombia, 2015

77 minutes - Documental / Todas

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A MATTER OF LAND

Director: Patricia Ayala Ruiz

Colombia, Chile, 2015

78 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

From start to finish, Un asunto de tierras draws a horrendously perfect circle: the orb of a change that the Colombian Government enshrined in 2011 law without allowing its implementation. Patricia Ayala Ruiz could well have filmed the large-scale return of lands to Colombia’s victims of violence as four million rural smallholders were concer...