Proimágenes Colombia

LA VIDA "ERA" EN SERIO

Director: Mónica Borda

Colombia, Venezuela, 2011

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Life Was for Real is the story of an escapade. Gabriela, successful businesswoman and mother, but also overburdened with her multiple roles, decides to assume an alternative identity. She becomes Luisa, her liberated employee and friend, in order to live new experiences. What starts as a harmless game evolves into and absurd, fun and dangerous a...

THE PASION OF GABRIEL

Director: Luis Alberto Restrepo

Colombia, 2009

86 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Gabriel is a priest in love with life, with a women, and obsessed with justice. He lives in a lost corner of Colombia in the midst of the ongoing conflict between guerrillas and the army. Bent on saving his village, he ends up at odds with its inhabitants, the woman he loves, the church, the guerrillas, the army, local politicians, and is finall...

THE CAPTURE

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

Colombia, 2012

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

After capturing one of the country’s most wanted delinquents, Lieutenant Rudas is rewarded with a transfer to San Javier county to perform a mission: to capture Alvaro Salcedo, a local criminal legend. What starts as a routine assignment, becomes an obsession for the Lieutenant. After three years of searching, a telegram informs him that t...

JARDÍN DE AMAPOLAS

Director: Juan Carlos Melo

Colombia, 2014

88 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

In Colombia cultivating poppies (Amapolas) is a dangerous, but lucrative business. Farmer EMILIO and his 9 year-old son SIMON, are exiled by rebels and find refuge in Cousin WILSON’s home. Emilio is forced to work in the Amapola crop while Simon befriends LUISA, a girl of his age. She is obsessed with playing with a puppy dog she can't...

Wake Up and Die (Flashback)

Director: Miguel Urrutia, Miguel Urrutia

Colombia, 2012

86 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Camila wakes up next to Darío, a perfect stranger that could be the ideal man if it weren’t for a minor detail: he kills her. Camila gets trapped in a loop returning to the moment just before she dies, and experiencing her morder over and over again. In order to save her life, she must get into her killer’s mind. What drives s...

IN COMA

Director: Juan David Restrepo, Henry Rivero

Colombia, 2011

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Omar, a hitman from Medellín, encounters something stronger and more dangerous than a bullet: Love, represented in the sensual tenderness of Ilana, a prostitute. Together, they will give up everything to start a new life, but ghosts from the past will hunt them. Living under extremely difficult circumstances they barely manages to survive...

OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS

Director: Hilda Hidalgo

Colombia, Costa Rica, 2010

97 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

During a time of inquisition and slavery, Sierva María wants to know what kisses taste like. She is 13 years old, daughter of aristocrats but raised by their African slaves living in colonial Cartagena de Indias. When a rabid dog bites her, the bishop declares she is possessed and entrust Cayetano his pupil, ...

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...

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...