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The new film by Alejandro Landes took the Special Jury Award for Originality in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Lapü by Juan Pablo Polanco and César Alejandro James and Birds of Passage by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra rounded out the Colombian fare at the festival.

Calls for applications for the various sections of the tenth edition of BAM will be open until March 18. All companies, professionals, and creatives are invited to apply with their projects to participate in the Bogotá Audiovisual Market that will take place July 8-12, 2019.

Four films, four Colombians at the Talents Campus, and Luis Ospina’s thespian turn were Colombia’s contribution in the sixty-ninth edition of the Berlin International Film Festival—Berlinale. El tamaño de las cosas by Carlos Felipe Montoya received the Generation Kplus Special International Jury Award for Best Short Film.

Four Colombian co-productions were featured in the programming of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

Somos Calentura: We Are The Heat and Coffee Break were part of the Official Selection of the Warsaw International Film Festival, while Tropical Virus, The Sacrifice (Siete cabezas), and El mito de los caídos were screened at Sitges Film Festival.

The Colombian director’s new film Wandering Girl (Niña errante) had its world premiere in Estonia as part of the Official Selection of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.