Fiction

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JUANA HAD GOLDEN HAIR

JUANA HAD GOLDEN HAIR

Director: Luís Fernando “Pacho” Bottía

Colombia, 2007

74´ minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

A magician reveals the existence of Juana, a girl who lives in the town of Ciénaga and who has the particularity of having her hair of pure gold. A journalist, who by chance witnesses the spectacle, decides to seek her out and publish her story. Authorities and local dignitaries struggle over her custody, until the bishop prevails. Juana ...
ACTORS IN CONFLICT

ACTORS IN CONFLICT

Director: Lisandro Duque

Colombia, 2008

100 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Three theater actors –two Colombian men and the Venezuelan girlfriend of one of them– are asked by their sponsor to keep some boxes for him while he is away for three months. However, shortly alter their benefactor leaves, they find out that he has been imprisoned in Europe for money laundering and drug dealing, and that he will appa...
APOCALIPSUR

APOCALIPSUR

Director: Javier Mejía

Colombia, 2007

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In 1991, Medellin is a dangerous place to live. Rules have changed and even the police have a price on their heads. Death threats on his mother, force “El Flaco” to flee to London. Before he leaves, his friends and girlfriend, Malala, throw a going-away party, complete with a rock’n’roll band...
LETTERS FROM EL GORDO

LETTERS FROM EL GORDO

Director: Darío Armando García "Dago", Juan Carlos Vásquez

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Carlos Julio, or “Chubby”, has dedicated his life to his friend Alfredo, “Skinny”. They grew up in the same neighborhood and were playmates during childhood, but life separated them and took them to different worlds. However, a bittersweet circumstance changes their paths once again, and thrugh Chubby’s unquestionin...
AT THE END OF THE SPECTRUM

AT THE END OF THE SPECTRUM

Director: Juan Felipe Orozco

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Vega is forced to spend some time away from her work and social life after a traumatic experience triggers a crisis of agoraphobia. Following her father’s recommendation, she moves to a new apartment where she begins to live like a hermit. Her life changes radically. She starts seeing things that cannot be explained and listening to voices...
EL COLOMBIAN DREAM

EL COLOMBIAN DREAM

Director: Felipe Aljure

Colombia, 2006

Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Two young men with more ambition than sense turn to a life of crime in this dark comedy from Colombia. Pepe and Enrique are twin brothers who are both in love with the same woman, Rosita. Hoping to leave their small town venid and bring Rosita along with them, the brothers are looking for a way to get rich quick. In their neighborhood dealing drugs...
A TON OF LUCK

A TON OF LUCK

Director: Rodrigo Triana

Colombia, 2006

100 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

“Shit! We are rich!”, Perlaza screams when he finds a bag with over 46 million dollars from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) buried in the middle of the jungle. A true story based on actual events in Colombia in May 2003. The story describes the dreams and adventures of Porras, Venegas, Lloreda and Perlaza, four sold...
MARINA, THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE

MARINA, THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE

Director: Carlos Hernández

Colombia, 2009

13 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Marina, a fisherman’s wife of 38, lives in a humble house besides the sea in Nuquí, a small town in the Colombian Pacific Coast. One day she wakes up saddened by a dream she had and decides to go to the open sea, alone, amidst the rain, taking with her just a small boat and the fish her husband had caught that day. She puts them bac...
LA CERCA

LA CERCA

Director: Rubén Mendoza

Colombia, 2004

21 minutes - Ficción / Fiction

Synopsis

Francisco, now forty, was raised in the middle of the infamous period in the history of Colombia known as “La Violencia” (“The Violence”), a civil war of unprecedented brutality. His father, Juan Cristo, was a farmer who abandoned his family to become became a murderer in the name of a party he did not even know very well. T...