Proimágenes Colombia

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...

CARTA A UNA SOMBRA

Director: Miguel Salazar, Daniela Abad

Colombia, 2015

73 minutes - Documental / Todas

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THE ACCORDION'S JOURNEY

Director: Rey Sagbini, Andrew Tucker

Colombia, Alemania, 2015

79 minutes - Documental / Todas

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'The Accordion's Journey' narrates the story of three Colombian musicians. Year after year they participate in the world's largest competitive accordion festival, held in Valledupar, Colombia. But they never win. One day a letter arrives, inviting them to play alongside the legendary Hohner Accordion Orchestra in Trossingen, Germany...

MONTE ADENTRO

Director: Nicolás Macario Alonso

Colombia, Argentina, 2015

79 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

MONTE ADENTRO explores the universe of one of the last muleteer families in Colombia and follows the mule train and lives of two brothers, "the Gypsies". Alonso, one of them, now forced by the illness of their mother to live in a city, attempts to start a new life while accompanying his mother who the doctors won’t allow to return t...

INFIERNO O PARAÍSO

Director: Germán Piffano

Colombia, 2014

99 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Nothing could have predicted that José Antonio, a Spanish engineer from a stable middle class family, would end up homeless, a crack addict, and living in the infamous death alley in the Cartucho neighborhood in Bogotá. José Antonio is filmed throughout his delirium, full of poetry and clarity, during a time when dozens of fami...

INÉS, MEMORIAS DE UNA VIDA

Director: Luisa Sossa

Colombia, 2013

67 min minutes - Documental / Todas

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DON CA

Director: Patricia Ayala Ruiz

2013

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

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Camilo Arroyo Arboleda has been a schoolteacher, sailor, taxidermist, butterfly collector, hunter, fur trafficker, dog psychiatrist, gold miner, tree sawyer, dentist, blacksmith, pharmacist, and for a while, even the white monster in the eyes of black children. Destined for success and glory, he was seduced by the backwoods and ended up living amid...

THE ETERNAL NIGHT OF TWELVE MOONS

Director: Priscila Padilla

Colombia, 2013

87 minutes - Documental / Todas

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CORTA

Director: Felipe Guerrero

Colombia, 2014

69 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Corta is a film about the hypnotic extenuation generated by the body movements of sugar cane cutters in the Valle del Cauca (Colombia). Corta is a contemplation film of the gestures of hand labour while the surrounding plantations disappear, a pure cinematic experience about the natural and everyday ritual of a timeless world....

SINS OF MY FATHER

Director: Nicolas Entel (Argentina)

Colombia, Argentina, 2009

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

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BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ ¿POR QUÉ LLORA SI YA REÍ?

Director: Diego García Moreno

Colombia, 2011

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

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ILEGAL.CO

Director: Alessandro Angulo

Colombia, 2012

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

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Illegal.co explores the reasons why prohibitionist policies and the war against drugs have not, and never will, eradicate the drug-trafficking problem and the consumption of narcotics, and suggests that it is time to think of new strategies. We promote a debate from an economic viewpoint through interviews with thinkers on this topic such as Eth...

UN TIGRE DE PAPEL

Director: Luis Ospina

Colombia, 2007

114 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Pedro Manrique Figueroa, Colombia’s pioneering collage artist, has never had a biographer. The reason is simple: his life, like an adventure novel, is both incomplete, contradictory, and constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Framed around Manrique Figueroa’s life and work, the film takes us on a journey thr...

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

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

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....