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Jorge Forero’s Violencia opened the Split Festival (Croatia) and Diego Guerra’s Banished will be at Cinanima (Portugal)

Four features and one short film represented Colombia at the World Film Festival

The 33, starring Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, and Colombian actor Juan Pablo Raba, directed by Mexican Patricia Riggen, has opened in Colombian theaters. With an over six billion peso (US$1.9 million) budget for investment in Colombia, the film was shot in the salt mines of Zipaquira and Nemocon, with production services from the Colombian film services company Dynamo Producciones

Colombia will take part in two of the world’s preeminent film festivals, with three films in Toronto, as well as three films at Horizontes Latinos and three projects at the Co-Production Forum in San Sebastian

In August, various Colombian film productions received seven awards at major festivals in Locarno, Lima, Gramado, and Sao Paulo

The Colombian shorts Sara by Ingrid Pérez, Becerra by Jerónimo Atehortúa, and Niño de Metal (Metal Child) by Pedro García-Mejía were screened at the festival’s 26th edition