Proimágenes Colombia

ANINA

Director: Alfredo Soderguit

Colombia, Uruguay, 2014

78 minutes - Animación / Comedia

Synopsis

Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old schoolgirl. As her names are all palindromes, she has become the laughing-stock of her classmates, and especially of Yisel, whom Anina sees as a sort of elephant. One day, fed up with all the taunting, Anina starts a fight with Yisel during recess. The incident ends with the principal punishing the girls and c...

PESCADOR

Director: Sebastián Cordero

Ecuador, Colombia, 2013

96 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Blanquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns upfilled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the ...

SANANDRESITO

Director: Alessandro Angulo

Colombia, 2012

90 minutes - Ficción / Acción, Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

In Sanandresito, a renowned commerce zone in Bogotá, you can find anything: fashion shoes, expensive perfumes, mobile phones, candy and movies. Anything you seek, you will find, as Wilson Tenorio, a spontaneous police officer that works there, can testify. He craves for a promotion in his institution but is not willing&...

MI GENTE LINDA MI GENTE BELLA

Director: Harold Trompetero

Colombia, 2012

90 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

While Colombians abroad are outcasts, foreigners in Colombia are kings. And Vigo, a Swede who arrives in Colombia, is no exception. Received like a true prodigal son, he soon discovers that even with so much warmth in the country of the Sacred Heart, magical realism exists in the midst of such chaos, momentum and thoughtlessness that between lau...

CHOCÓ

Director: Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza

Colombia, 2012

80 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Chocó is a black woman farmer in her mid- twenties, displaced from her land by violence. She carries the weight of her family of three children, of ages nine and younger, and Everlides, her musician husband, who only knows how to play the marimba, drink “guarapo”, and play domino. Forced to struggle to survive, Chocó, w...

LA PLAYA D.C.

Director: Juan Andrés Arango

Colombia, Francia, Brasil, 2012

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country`s Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces the dificulties of growing up in a city of exclusion and racism. When Jairo, his younger brother and closest friend disappears, Tomas is forced to leave his home too look for him. With the help form his older brother Chaco, Tomas plunges in the stree...

FAT, BALD SHORT MAN

Director: Carlos Osuna

Colombia, Francia, 2012

89 minutes - Animación / Animación, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Antonio Farfán is a 46-year-old man working in a notary’s office who has always believed that his personal and professional failure is the inevitable result of his looks: he is bald, short and fat. Though his mind is never silent, his life goes almost uneventfully until the new notary arrives: a fatter,...

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....

The Hidden Face

Director: Andrés Baiz

Colombia, España, 2012

103 minutes - Ficción / Drama, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

The Hidden Face is a psychological thriller that explores the limits of love, jealousy, and treason. Adrian (Quim Gutierrez), directs the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, and is very much in love with his girlfriend Belén (Clara Lago). But Belén disappears without a trace as soon as she begins to question if he is being fait...

MOTHER, EAT YOUR SOUP

Director: Mario Ribero Ferreira

Colombia, 2011

96 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Mother, Eat Your Soup, tells the story of an old, bald man, who carries a simple and comfortable life next to his "Mommy", Berta. His only concerns are passing the time with his friends and inventing imaginary business ventures. With the arrival of Cristina, the owner of the new beauty salón, Vicente´s life turns into chaos. ...

THE SOAP OPERA WRITER

Director: Felipe Dothée

Colombia, 2011

90 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Writing the soap opera with the worst ratings,losing his job, or having his girlfriend, a famous actress, betray him with him boss, will prove nothing to renowned writer Gerardo Olarte compared to the life that awaits him when in the blink of an eye the fantasy of his soap operas becomes the most real of his nightmares. Gerardo will discover tha...

SILENCE IN PARADISE

Director: Colbert García

Colombia, 2011

93 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

The reality of poverty and war hangs over the lives of the young men of El Paraiso (Paradise), a poor neighborhood with a privileged view over the city of Bogotá. Ronald, 19, rides around the dusty streets on a pimped-up bike advertising by megaphone for clients ranging from the seamstress to the modest motel...

COLOMBIAN POSTCARDS

Director: Ricardo Coral

Colombia, 2011

94 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Three middle-class women—Piedad, Caridad and Fanny—intellectual, feminist, professional, and autonomous, are reunited one night to share their experiences, memories and views. Little do they know that the three seemingly normal men they have just crossed will ultimately become their executioners, as the ...

THE SQUAD

Director: Jaime Osorio Márquez

Colombia, España, Argentina, 2011

100 minutes - Ficción / Fiction, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

A special high-mountain command composed of nine experienced soldiers is sent to a military base in a desolate high-plains moor of Colombia, with which contact was lost several days ago and believed to be the target of an attack. Upon their arrival, they discover only one mysterious survivor. Gradually, the isolatio...

PÓKER

Director: Juan Sebastián Valencia

Colombia, 2011

76 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Five strangers on the brink of despair agree to meet and wager big money in a poker game in which only one can be the winner: Rafael (Juan Sebastian Aragon), a priest whose vices are in conflict with his principles; Santiago (Luis Fernando Hoyos), a man in love who has committed his life to buy the happiness of his&...

WHIT LOVE AND WITHOUT LOVE

Director: David Serrano

2011

100 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Madrid wine shop owner Claudia (Angie Cepeda), is beautiful, successful in business and love, with a handsome husband and an even better-looking lover, Pablo (Quim Gutierrez). When Pablo grows tired of having to share Claudia’s affection, he leaves her for a new woman, Elena (Miren Ibarguren), and high-tails ...

LUNATICS

Director: Harold Trompetero

2011

72 minutes - Ficción / Comedia, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

When Eduardo arrives at a mental hospital to perform some building repairs, he falls in love with one of the patients, Carolina, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Eduardo decides to abduct Carolina, and carries her off to live with him. But as he soon discovers that their love outside the mental institution i...

KAREN CRIES ON THE BUS

Director: Gabriel Rojas Vera

Colombia, 2011

98 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

After ten years of living in a golden cage and devoting herself completely to her husband, Karen realizes what she has left behind. Sick of it all, she decides to leave-off. With her savings she rents a room in the center of Bogotá and tries to get a job, but her age and inexperience make it impossible. Soon she has to decide between goin...