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- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaThis film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
- DirectorPatricia Ayala RuizA Matter of Land recounts the first year of application of Colombian's Land Restitution Act from the perspective of a community who decide to engage with the process. The film explores the tensions that arise when such communities come face to face with the complex institutions responsible for enforcing the law. The result of these tensions is a narrative worthy of Kafka, in which a doorway to justice is opened for the sole purpose of demonstrating that no one can pass through it.
- DirectorJairo Eduardo CarrilloOscar AndradeThis animated documentary about the vision of the Colombia war by displaced children using their original drawings and their testimonies.
- DirectorJorge Caballero RamosPATIENT is the word used for those following medical instructions or for the moment we need to calmly wait. Colombia is a country where the inclement Health System obligates its users to confront absurd bureaucratic obstacles for them to obtain service. A PATIENT is not only the person who suffers an illness hoping for recovery but also the person who provides personal care to the ill, fighting daily to warrantee what's needed for his or her loved one. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother head of family, that regardless the fear of loosing her daughter from a cancer, she manages to firmly overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System procedures, which are the only hope for her daughter.
- DirectorMiguel SalazarStarsCiro GalindoEsneider GalindoCiro Galindo was born on August 29th, 1952 in Colombia. Wherever he's gone, war has found him. After twenty years of friendship, I understood Ciro 's life sums up Colombia's history. As so many Colombians he is a survivor, who has run away from war for more than sixty years, and now dreams of living in peace. "Ciro and Me" is a journey to memory, seeking to give sorrow words; a journey, similar to that of Colombia in times of peace, in search to recover its dignity.
- DirectorRubén MendozaStarsMaría Luisa Fuentes BurgosMaría Luisa BonillaLove is an animal capable of adapting to the most arid mountain of hatred
- DirectorDaniela AbadMiguel SalazarStarsClara AbadMaryluz AbadVicky AbadIn August 1987, Héctor Abad Gómez was murdered on the streets of downtown Medellín during the darkest moments of the dirty war against the Colombian left. Why was he killed? Who could have had a vested interest in silencing a university professor, human rights activist and doctor who was a precursor of the concept of "public health" in Colombia?
- DirectorClare WeiskopfNicolas van HemelryckStarsValerie MeikleDiego WeiskopfNicolas van HemelryckThis is the story of Val and Clare: a mother and a daughter. After the tragic death of her eldest daughter, Val left her kids and family behind and escaped into the Colombian jungle in order to search for her identity. Clare was only 11 years old when her mother left and couldn't understand what she was looking for. A son who became an addict, three break-ups and a fractured family remained behind. Now Clare is pregnant and decides to confront her mother, heal the wounds of the past and try to define motherhood on her own terms. Together they go on an intimate journey exploring the boundaries between responsibility and freedom, the power of love and the meaning of family.
- DirectorSamuel CórdobaStarsDoña EduardaJuniorCarmen Julia Palacio
- DirectorCarlos MayoloLuis OspinaStarsLuis Alfonso LondoñoDocumentary about the effects of the VI Panamerican Games in the city of Cali, seen from the point of view of the people that couldn't get into the stadiums.
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsRamiro ArbeláezAlejandra BorreroBeatriz CaballeroA documentary made by Luis Ospina, the last one of Caliwood, the name of a group of three friends that used to make movies in Colombia in the 60-80's years.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaThe film depicts the struggle of Rafael Jaramillo Ullua, who in the mid-60 organized a cooperative farming community in Planas. During this process were unmasked for indigenous mechanisms of exploitation and persecution they have suffered, by settlers and landowners, from colonial times. In 1970, the army killed and tortured a group accusing members of the cooperative of guerrillas.
- DirectorCiro Durán
- DirectorNicolás Rincón GilleBlanca-a countrywoman displaced by violence to the outskirts of Bogota-is the mainstay of a now tiny family, looking after her three grandsons and doing her best to snatch them from an all too predictable fate.
- DirectorJorge Caballero RamosEvery day, in the maternity rooms of the public hospitals of Bogota, hundreds of women give birth. Case to case, childbirth to childbirth, a social reality is revealed after every individual situation.
- DirectorPriscilla Padilla12-year-old Pili is entering womanhood, and as tradition dictates, after her first menstruation, she must be isolated from all men for 12 moon cycles. During this time, she learns to weave.
- DirectorClaudia FischerStarsAti VillafanaMindiwa VillafanaTwo sisters Ati and Mindhiva; They are part of the Arhuaca tribe, a Colombian indigenous culture. Their dream is to continue with their university studies. They have no money and it is impossible for them to enter in to the National University... Nevertheless they won't give up the fight and theta will search into other forms of education. Will they be able to find the strenght to continue pursuing their dream? We will follow them into their adventure.
- DirectorAntonio DoradoThis mystical journey takes us through the untrodden, war-locked Northwest Amazon, where we discover the secret knowledge of of Cabiyari and Cubeo indigenous cultures and their insight into nature, life and medicinal and psychotropic plants. It is a window into a forbidden zone of the Amazon, patrolled by violent factions.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaA Colombian documentary that expose the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early 70s.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaStarsFernando VélezEulogio GurruteJulian AviramaThe struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
- DirectorCarlos MayoloJorge Silva
- DirectorManuel Ruiz MontealegreHector Ulloque FrancoMeanders is a visual and narrative journey along the Guaviare, a social and cultural mosaic, a stage on which the armed conflict and the drug trade unfold, revealing the perception of the indigenous and farming communities residing in the Colombian Amazon regarding their own territory. Opposing the media's narrative, which doesn't recognize the communities perception on their own lands, during this odyssey the people and the images reveal the logic of the war, the logic of illegality and the cultural thinking of the communities that live in the Guaviare. Meanders show the sinuous path that brings the communities together and sets then apart. The contradictions, the animosities and similarities across the land's cultural mosaic are allegories to each of the river's turns.
- DirectorJosephine Landertinger ForeroStarsLilia Forero ArenasPortugal is Lilia's last home, a 67-year old woman, whose life is marked by continuous migration. Lilia has lived in 8 countries and hasn't been back to her native Colombia in almost 40 years. Josephine, the filmmaker always behind the camera, offers her mother an instrument, cinema, to put together the story of a fragmented life. Josephine explores her mother's present and the discomfort with places and decisions of the past. The meeting between mother and daughter, mediated by the film device, is filled with universal meaning and becomes a revealing dialogue, opening up big questions about freedom, loneliness and the sense of belonging.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaThe documentary outlines the social features of workers at flowers plantation at Bogotá, Colombia and his claim for a better lifestyle and health conditions among the females stories of life and love.
- DirectorJorge Caballero Ramos
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsJulio ArdilaAni AristizábalCarmiña Lago
- DirectorGabriela SamperRay WitlinStarsFelipe GonzalezA picturesque portrait of the memory of a man, now with a group, of his first trip all alone, a 12 year old mule driver, climbing higher and higher through foggy mountains and encountering a deserted house and a ghost who speaks to him.
- DirectorDiana KuellarAndris Gabriel and travel to Africa for Fulfill Their ancestors' dream of returning to Their homeland. Diana follows them with her camera, wants to witness that moment and making her film. At his arrival Andris is denied entry into Senegal. Gabriel will be faced alone in an unfamiliar land.
- DirectorDaniela Castro ValenciaNicolas OrdoñezA guerrilla girl, a middle-class mom, a government executive compose the portrait and the transformations of a woman that is built over forgotten names.
- DirectorGonzalo GuillénStarsJavier Rojas UrianaDocumentary film about the water crisis that is leading to the extermination of the Wayúu Nation of La Guajira, Colombia.
- DirectorDani GoggelStarsRicardo DuqueVíctor GaviriaErwin GoggelSearching for the Animal unveils a profound secret about gender violence during the past five decades in Colombia, through Victor Gaviria's creative process in making the fictional film The Animal's Wife.
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsFernando VallejoAntonio CaballeroCarlos MonsivåisVallejo is an author from Colombia, living in exile, his most famous work is the novel Our Lady of the Assassins .
- DirectorJuan Pablo RíosStarsJairo William GutierrezThis is the story of Jairo William Gutiérrez, a peasant who travels in the midst of dramaturgy and staging, a man who as a child exchanged a handful of onions for a ticket to the circus and from that moment on, after meeting the clowns . , he could only wish to become an actor, to become a playwright. In the middle of a steep mountain in Argentina-Huila, this 50-year-old man cultivates the land, takes care of Fanny her cow, takes care of her animals and writes plays. His theater company, "Los Hijos de la Montaña", is made up of his wife Olga Lucía, his two daughters Luz Arena and Juana Paloma and some residents of the mountain.
- DirectorCiro DuránMario Mitrotti
- DirectorCiro DuránStarsCarlos MuñozDocumentary of 1977 that talks about the life of the gamines in the city of Bogotá. The gamines are children who have fled their homes in remote areas of the city or living in neighbouring districts of it and trying to survive. The film is based on three segments showing the gamines mostly displaced in the violence and their families, to live on handouts of persons, of the theft of windshield, car radios, recycling cardboard and stealing several streets but above all of the pure Centre of Bogotá to the gamines grouped in "galladas" sleep on platforms, bus stops and in the now defunct "Calle del Cartucho".
- DirectorFrancisco NordenStarsMaría ArangoJoe BroderickAntonio BustosThe story of Camilo Torres, a Catholic priest belonging to the Colombian bourgeoisie who died in 1966, in a confrontation between the guerrillas and the army.
- DirectorCamilo Botero
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsArturo AlapeJotamario ArbeláezJoe BroderickThe life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view.
- DirectorGabriela SamperStarsMarcos OlayaA documentary short subject on the conflict between traditional artistry and newer technology as seen in the process of salt extraction from the earth.
- DirectorAlejandro NaranjoA series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. THE INFLATED JUNGLE is a poetic and atmospheric film, which does not deliver any simple explanations but relies on intuitive insights.
- DirectorFélix R. RestrepoStarsGuillermo ValenciaJose Ignacio VernazaWe see different buildings gracing a bustling Andes town, called as the documentary says "the Chicago of Colombia, "on its 75th anniversary, followed by a Spanish bullfight, a colorful carnival, and a funeral procession with dance.
- DirectorVincent MoonStarsLulacruza
- DirectorRebecca PucheHernando SabogalGabriela SamperAs violence grew in 1960s Colombia, a religious sect withdraws into the Tolima mountains to do penance and to find peace there.
- DirectorJuan Manuel Echavarría OlanoRequiem NN is a film about a ritual of resistance of the people of Puerto Berrio, Colombia, who have lived continuous cycles of violence for many decades. The recovery of the bodies from the Magdalena River, their burial, the favors people ask from the souls of the NN (NO Names), the baptizing given to this unknown corpses, is the collective ritual that has taken place for over 30 years. Juan Manuel Echavarria began photographing the graves in Puerto Berrio in November 2006 and this film is one of the results of this investigation.
- DirectorFelipe Guerrero
- DirectorGabriela Samper
- DirectorRubén MendozaStarsAntonio Reyes El CuchoEdson VelandiaThe last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life.
- DirectorMarcela Gómez MontoyaHis stage name, refers to a port of the Colombian pacific named Buenaventura, where Yuri Bedoya was born and raised, a 46 years old mulatto, who in spite of being rather short and thin, says he is a 6 foot 7 inch black man deep down. Buenaventura was inhabited by Cimarrones, free slaves; being born and raised there really scarred Yuri. The sounds of the drum, marimba, the cooing of black people in the seashore and the gray sky; the forest, the Tunda and the Virgen del Carmen; the witchcraft and faith that are breathed there, gave the hallmark with which you can recognize a musician from Buenaventura.
- DirectorJuan Camilo Ramírez EscobarStarsNicna Camargo SalazarJuan Camilo Ramírez EscobarHaving a child in Colombia? Its madness! But on the day the pregnancy test came in positive, we had to start looking for new answers. from that moment we became newcomers to this asylum, but we refuse to give in, to accept it as an irrational act... We intend to account for our decision over these 9 months of development and relate how the purest, most sublime action has become 'dangerous', a situation on the verge. Our search is an ultrasound of Colombia from a poignant, critical, and emotional view which may lead us to find why it's worth, despite everything, making life prevail over all things. NEO NATAL is a nine month tour in which the future parents face their child's country and everyday culture.
- DirectorSimon HernandezStarsAntonio Navarro WolffCarlos PizarroMaria Jose PizarroThis film follows María's quest in her process to recover her identity. Her father Carlos Pizarro dedicated his life to war in search of a revolution in Colombia. Now after 25 years of his murder, she will lift the veil and make the unanswered questions of his death.
- StarsJuan Nieves
- DirectorMargarita MartinezThis is the story of the tortuous, and ultimately successful negotiations between the Colombian government and the hemisphere's oldest guerrilla movement in Havana, Cuba. But after decades of violence, making peace is harder than making war. Colombians are at a crossroads: can they win the peace? Or will the cycle of violence take yet another turn?
- DirectorSilvia LorenziniGiorgio undertakes a new adventure: a motorcycle trip from Colombia to Argentina. After 15 years apart from her father, Silvia decides to go with him with the intention of rebuilding her unusual family story.
- DirectorSebastián MúneraStarsNeyder GallegoJorge OrtizGloria González RoldanOn March 17, 2004, an explosive device was activated at the Piloto Public Library in Medellin, a place that preserves much of the photographic archive of Colombian history. A photograph is the only evidence of such barbarism...
- DirectorDaniela AbadWhat seemed like a promising young artist, Tito Lombana, and the romance with an intelligent Italian liberal, begins to drape itself in shadows.