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DON CA

DON CA

Director: Patricia Ayala Ruiz

2013

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Camilo Arroyo Arboleda has been a schoolteacher, sailor, taxidermist, butterfly collector, hunter, fur trafficker, dog psychiatrist, gold miner, tree sawyer, dentist, blacksmith, pharmacist, and for a while, even the white monster in the eyes of black children. Destined for success and glory, he was seduced by the backwoods and ended up living amid...
CORTA

CORTA

Director: Felipe Guerrero

Colombia, 2014

69 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Corta is a film about the hypnotic extenuation generated by the body movements of sugar cane cutters in the Valle del Cauca (Colombia). Corta is a contemplation film of the gestures of hand labour while the surrounding plantations disappear, a pure cinematic experience about the natural and everyday ritual of a timeless world....
SINS OF MY FATHER

SINS OF MY FATHER

Director: Nicolas Entel (Argentina)

Colombia, Argentina, 2009

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

ILEGAL.CO

ILEGAL.CO

Director: Alessandro Angulo

Colombia, 2012

70 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Illegal.co explores the reasons why prohibitionist policies and the war against drugs have not, and never will, eradicate the drug-trafficking problem and the consumption of narcotics, and suggests that it is time to think of new strategies. We promote a debate from an economic viewpoint through interviews with thinkers on this topic such as Eth...
UN TIGRE DE PAPEL

UN TIGRE DE PAPEL

Director: Luis Ospina

Colombia, 2007

114 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Pedro Manrique Figueroa, Colombia’s pioneering collage artist, has never had a biographer. The reason is simple: his life, like an adventure novel, is both incomplete, contradictory, and constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Framed around Manrique Figueroa’s life and work, the film takes us on a journey thr...
TUMACO PACÍFICO

TUMACO PACÍFICO

Director: Samuel Córdoba

Colombia, 2008

90 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Daily life in a city standing on stilts over the ocean, and struck by a tsunami of violence. Tumaco natives Junior, Carmen Julia, Doña Eduarda and Don Carlos, share their life stories and their most profound reflections about a world both absurd and beautiful, which stands over an ocean of rubbish....
PARAÍSO

PARAÍSO

Director: Felipe Guerrero

Colombia, 2006

55 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Paraíso is a poetic evocation of a country and its historical memory, an intimate portrait of modern Colombian life. Within the soft grain of Super 8, throbs the reality of a country wrapped up in its own, unending war. ...
EN LO ESCONDIDO

EN LO ESCONDIDO

Director: Nicolás Rincón Gille, Nicolás Rincón Gille

Colombia, 2007

78 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In the darkness of the country night in Colombia, an invisible world of all sorts of beings takes over. So one better stay at home and listen: halfhuman and half-beast, something is wandering in the dark. Only some are able to confront it. Throughout her life, Carmen has been one of the brave few....
BAGATELA

BAGATELA

Director: Jorge Caballero Ramos

España, Colombia, 2008

74 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Even though the majority of cases presented to judicial offices in Bogotá are misdemeanors resulting from an abject social reality, government officials have sought to overly prosecute such crimes. To sell pirated CDs, to steal a cell phone or, simply, to sleep on the streets may cost a particular individual a multi-year prison sentence. ...
APAPORIS, IN SEARCH OF ONE RIVER

APAPORIS, IN SEARCH OF ONE RIVER

Director: Antonio Dorado Zúñiga

Colombia, 2012

74 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

Following the steps of the ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, as described on a travel diary from Mitú to the Apaporis river, the millenary secrets of how to revive the dead are revealed. A documentary that questions the displacement of war to the indigenous communities; of how communities are besieged by the death and disappearance of...
ADIÓS AL CHOLERO

ADIÓS AL CHOLERO

Director: Carlos Mario Urrea, Carolina Arango

Colombia, 2008

95 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis

In an effort to be universal, two Colombian filmmakers pretend to understand the reality of Bolivian popular culture through the eyes of Andrés Huaquipa, singer and miner from Potosí. But the college-educated team finds itself surpassed by their character, and hence forced to reassess the traditional attitudes of documentary films abo...
MOSCÚ DIVERSO

MOSCÚ DIVERSO

Director: Mónica Cifuentes Toro

Colombia, 2008

24 minutes - Documental / Todas

Synopsis