Proimágenes Colombia

CUANDO VUELVA A LLOVER

Director: Carlos R. López

Colombia, 2008

Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Hopeful with the illusion of going to Bogotá for the first time, Carlitos, a country boy of ten, waits patiently for his parents to wake up and start the trip. But what the boy ignores is that his parents have been murdered. The boy will spend two days alone without food, taking care of his dead parents, and ignoring the nightmare that lurks...

LEIDA

Director: Jorge Valencia Vélez

Colombia, 2005

7 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Leida lives on her own. Nobody visits her. When somebody knocks at the door, she thinks it’s by mistake. She opens the door to find a handsome man before her. He says he comes to fix the stove. She watches him doing his job for a long while. She offers him a cup of coffee but he says he’d rather have a shot of eau-de-vie. An hour later,...

EL DRAGÓN DE KOMODO

Director: José Luis Rugeles

Colombia, 2007

15 minutes - Ficción / Drama macabro, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

The story of a boy who finds his sister buried in the vegetable garden of an old lady who lives with a cat and a boy with Down’s syndrome. The woman nourishes the tomatoes with the blood and fluids of the bodies of children, of whom she also fries the fingers to eat them. A journey guided by the child’s orthopedic shoes, from the doo...

DOLORES

Director: Tatiana Villacob Meléndez

Colombia, 2009

13 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

It is the year of 1953 in the village of San Jacinto, Colombia. Dolores Salinas is a 60 year old woman who makes her living out of praying in the funerals of the dead people left by the colombian political war period who fought in the lines of the conservative party. Now the body of her son arrives, who was killed during this war but fighting for t...

1000 PESOS COLOMBIANOS

Director: David Aristizábal

Colombia, 2005

24 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

A forged 1000 pesos coin goes from hand to hand. Suddenly it comes back to the counterfeiter who forged it. At the end we find out his plans of cheating at cockfight gambling. ...

WHITOUT TITS THERE IS NO PARADISE

Director: Gustavo Bolívar

2010

108 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

Catalina, a poor girl, sees how her peers with ample bosoms are more likely to flourish by attracting drug dealers. To enter this “heaven” and escape a destiny of waitressing, she seeks Yessica and other silicone-breasted friends who, acting as pimps, hook her up to parties where sex and drugs are the rule. But Catalina has one probl...

PORTRAITS IN A SEA OF LIES

Director: Carlos Gaviria

Colombia, 2010

90 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

After the death of their grandfather in an avalanche, Jairo, an itinerant photographer, and his mute and amnesic cousin, Marina, decide to recover the land from which she was displaced years ago. During the trip, the story of her past starts to unfold. But upon reaching their hometown they realize nothing has changed. Paramilitaries kidnap them ...

RAGE

Director: Sebastián Cordero

2010

96 minutes - Ficción / Drama, Ficción / Suspenso

Synopsis

José María is a builder; Rosa, a live-in housekeeper. They’re South American immigrants working in Spain and have been together for a few weeks. When Rosa’s employer take a trip, José María comes to spend a few days with her. He fantasises about their life together. José María has an argument...

THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN

Director: Carlos César Arbeláez

2011

94 minutes - Ficción / Drama

Synopsis

The Colours of the Mountain is a presentday portrait of everyday life in a rural area somewhere in the mountains of Colombia. This film is told from the point of view Manuel and Julian, two children whose innocent and poetic perspective provides a vivid contrast –sprinkled with irony- to the irrational and sometimes cruel world of adults. ...

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...