Proimágenes Colombia

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...

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

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....

NO TODOS LOS RÍOS VAN AL MAR

Director: Santiago Trujillo

Colombia, 2008

25 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

When a letter arrives from Hassan, a boy from the Middle East, Yenny and Esmeralda’s relationship is altered. The two sisters are recent arrivals to a refugee slum at the outskirts Bogotá. Esmeralda, the older sister, is able to attend school, where she participates in a pen-pal program. The letter exchange inspires Yenny, the younger ...

LA MILAGROSA

Director: Rafa Lara

Colombia, 2008

106 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Eduardo, a young upper-class Colombian, is on a roadtrip with a friend when he is kidnapped by a group of guerrillas and held for ransom. After a long journey into the jungle, his kidnappers come under fire and he finds himself trapped in a long-standing feud between the military, paramilitary and the guerrillas who kidnapped him. Consumed at times...