Proimágenes Colombia

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. ...

FORTY

Director: Carlos Fernández de Soto

2011

77 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

One day, Gus leaves behind all that his life has been so far—work and the city—and goes to his parents’ old house on the mountain. The house has been a place of reference throughout his life and that of his two lifelong friends: it is there where they first saw a naked woman; where they forged thei...

CONTRACORRIENTE

Director: Javier Fuentes-León

Alemania, Colombia, Francia, Perú, 2010

100 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

The very religious inhabitants of Cabo Blanco, a Peruvian fishing village, have a tradition: when someone dies, the closest male is to claim the body, carry out funeral rites, and cast the body into the sea –lest the soul should wander restlessly-. Miguel is a handsome and popular fisherman confused and divided between his love for his wif...

CHANCE

Director: Abner Benaim

Colombia, Panamá, 2010

90 minutes - Ficción / Comedia, Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Toña and Paquita work as maids at the Gonzales-Dubois home, an aristocratic Caribbean family. The family prepare their weekend shopping trip to Miami. However, Paquita and Toña have a different plan for them: to hold them hostage in their own house, and ask for a large ransom. After interrogations, they discover the great family se...

APATÍA, UNA PELÍCULA DE CARRETERA

Director: Arturo Ortegón

Colombia, 2012

93 minutes - Ficción / Road movie

Synopsis

Holy Week starts with two friends parting in the quest for relief from their respective pains. One seeks the girlfriend who abandoned him, while the other seeks to abandon everything. One travels the roads of Colombia in the company of two adolescents, discovering that their country is more than what the news portray; the other, seeking a conclu...

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....

BAGATELA

Director: Jorge Caballero Ramos

España, Colombia, 2008

74 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Even though the majority of cases presented to judicial offices in Bogotá are misdemeanors resulting from an abject social reality, government officials have sought to overly prosecute such crimes. To sell pirated CDs, to steal a cell phone or, simply, to sleep on the streets may cost a particular individual a multi-year prison sentence. ...

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