Proimágenes Colombia

APAPORIS, IN SEARCH OF ONE RIVER

Director: Antonio Dorado Zúñiga

Colombia, 2012

74 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Following the steps of the ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, as described on a travel diary from Mitú to the Apaporis river, the millenary secrets of how to revive the dead are revealed. A documentary that questions the displacement of war to the indigenous communities; of how communities are besieged by the death and disappearance of...

ADIÓS AL CHOLERO

Director: Carlos Mario Urrea, Carolina Arango

Colombia, 2008

95 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In an effort to be universal, two Colombian filmmakers pretend to understand the reality of Bolivian popular culture through the eyes of Andrés Huaquipa, singer and miner from Potosí. But the college-educated team finds itself surpassed by their character, and hence forced to reassess the traditional attitudes of documentary films abo...

EL ARRIERO

Director: Guillermo Calle

Colombia, España, 2009

93 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

My name is Ancízar López, Colombian. But I am not a drug smuggler, I am a cocaine exporter, which is something entirely different. My Herat belongs to two women who were once my glory and are now my disgrace. ...

I LOVE YOU ELISA

Director: Antonio Dorado Zúñiga, Robinson Díaz

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

A new heroine, without powers but with values, is forced to live with her brother, a fool that lives off the cunning. A exciting adventure in which she has to duel with her criminal relatives, and overcome numerous and brutally funny situations to achieve her dream of graduating as a doctor. ...

AMAR A MORIR

Director: Fernando Lebrija

Colombia, México, 2009

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Alejandro Vizcaino, a rich playboy, is being torced by his family into a marriage of convenience. An act of defiance places him at the center of a tragedy, forcing him to flee Mexico City. He gets lost on his way to Puerto Vallarta and ends up in a remote seaside village on the Pacific together with a tribe of surfers. Alejandro meets Nick, a ha...

BLOOD AND RAIN

Director: Jorge Navas

Argentina, Colombia, 2009

110 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Jorge and Ángela, two solitary night owls, meet “by chance” and fate one rainy night along thedark and violent streets of Bogotá. Jorge, a young taxi driver, emotionally destroyed because of his brother’s recent death in the hands of a gang, against whom he vows revenge, and Angela, a beaut...

EL MAN

Director: Harold Trompetero

2009

90 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

Felipe de las Aguas is a big city taxi driver. Tired of the injustices around him, he accepts to become “El man”, a real-life superhero. With persistence, cleverness and an empirical sense of justice, Felipe helps others with his unique super power: faith. ...

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP

Director: Ricardo Coral

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Comedia, Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Rubén’s avoidance of commitment is the cause of many arguments with his girlfriend, Isa. One day, a young woman, Marcia, knocks at his door claiming to be his daughter. She is welcome into the house but stays longer than expected. When Marcia discovers her father’s intentions to commit a robbery, she is not shocked. Instead, M...

HELENA

Director: Jaime César Espinosa Bonilla

Colombia, 2007

85 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Sometimes it is better to live the present in the middle of amnesia because the past is a box full of fears. This seems to be the rule that Helena follows. But as a final lesson she needs to recognize her past, awaken her memories, and rewrite those moments that have fueled her insomnia and frustration. Two men, Francisco -Helena’s husband...

EL AÑO DEL CERDO

Director: Claudia Calderón (Puerto Rico)

Colombia, 2007

9:30 minutes - Ficción / Comedia

Synopsis

IMPECABLE

Director: Cuatro Mamíferos (Muyi Neira - Colombia, Carlos Flete, Huy Nguyen, Marcello Álvarez)

Colombia, 2007

Animación 3D / Todas

Synopsis

MIGRACIÓN

Director: Marcela Gómez

Colombia, 2008

24 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

DE PASO

Director: Andrés Baiz

Colombia, 2008

10 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

SIN DECIR NADA

Director: Diana Montenegro

Colombia, 2007

13:48 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

BAJO EL MISMO CIELO

Director: Gerson Aguilar Guerrero

Colombia, 2008

15:40 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

EN LEGÍTIMA DEFENSA

Director: Carlos Serna

Colombia, 2008

15:20 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In Self-Defense is the story of Joel, a soccerplaying boy that lives in the slums of Bogotá. He must confront himself after having saved the life of Vizcaino, a thief who, as he later finds out, is Joel’s eldest brother’s murderer. From that moment on, Joel is torn between the hunger of revenge and the desire to move on with his ...

PVC-1

Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos

Colombia, 2007

85 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

A woman and her family became the victims of an unusual act of terrorism. Unable to pay the ransom, a mother of three is turned into a human time bomb and is confined to a physical and mental trap from which she and her family try to break free. ...

EN AGOSTO

Director: Andrés Barrientos, Carlos Andrés Reyes

Colombia, 2008

14 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

In the month of August, an old man and a young indigenous woman in the city of Bogotá simultaneously anticipate the arrival of the end of the world, but at different points in time: the old man in the present; the young woman, in the distant future....