Documentary

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Jaguar voice of a territory

Jaguar voice of a territory

Director: Simón González Vélez

2021

72 minutos minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Jaguar voice of a territory is a colombian production that took a decade to complete. It talks about love, affection, respect, humility, temperance and courage. It talks about balance with oneself and the other. It is the voice of a territory and a tradition where the jaguar dwells and seeks to be heard. It is a tour through the mountains, jungles...
DOPAMINE

DOPAMINE

Director: Natalia Imery Almario

Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, 2020

86 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

12 years ago, Ricardo, Natalia's father, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease; With this condition, Dopamine is stopped, a neurohormone responsible for the movement on the body and the feeling of happiness. During those years they had a very strong family crisis, Natalia also told her parents that she liked women. She could not understand...
MUTE FIRE

MUTE FIRE

Director: Jerónimo Atehortúa, Federico Atehortúa

Colombia, 2019

83 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

On March 6, 1906, four people were executed in the streets for the attempted assassination of the then president of Colombia, Rafael Reyes. The tradition gathers the representation in images of this event as the beginning of the cinema in Colombia. While a director makes a film on this subject, suddenly his mother suffers an episode of mutism: with...
FAIT VIVIR

FAIT VIVIR

Director: Oscar Ruiz Navia

Colombia, Canadá, 2020

76 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

“Dancing, singing and partying was once forbidden in a lost tropical town” This is how the show MAKONDO begins. Makondo was created by GKO Orchestra, an original company of musicians, dancers, actors and circus artists based in Montreal and coming from many different places around the world.  FAIT VIVIR tells us the myth of this, o...
SUMERCÉ

SUMERCÉ

Director: Victoria Solano

Colombia, Reino Unido, 2020

83 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In a town in central Colombia offered 150,000 dollars for the head of a peasant leader. Not far from there, an uneducated farmer of 70 years old begins a legal battle against the government to defend their land. Meanwhile, a young peasant looks like the dream of helping his family vanishes when a smoke grenade explodes in his face. Don Eduardo, C&e...
LAPÜ

LAPÜ

Director: César Alejandro Jaimes, Juan Pablo Polanco

Colombia, 2019

75 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Doris, a young Wayuu woman, awakes worried in her hammock in the Guajira Desert. She has had a dream that she does not know how to interpret and when telling her grandmother and the traditional doctor of the town she understands that her cousin, who has died several years ago, is asking her to exhume her remains and to bury her again in the cemeter...
The Path of the Anaconda

The Path of the Anaconda

Director: Alessandro Angulo, José Varón

Colombia, 2019

73 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

La travesía de dos viejos amigos que exploran una de las zonas más recónditas de la selva amazónica. Wade David y Martín Von Hildebrand recorren está región a lo largo del río Apaporis donde se encuentran con diferentes comunidades que por más de 500 años se han resistido a los c...
HOMO BOTANICUS

HOMO BOTANICUS

Director: Guillermo Quintero

Francia, Colombia, 2019

88 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Fifteen years after abandoning his studies as a botanist, Guillermo Quintero visits his old professor Julio Betancur. With him and his new disciple, the young Cristian Castro, he returns to the Colombian tropical forests to explore once again his old passion. Following their work in this expedition we understand the importance of legacies and th...
GANGES

GANGES

Director: Roberto Restrepo, Talía Carolina Osorio

Colombia, 2019

75 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis