Cartagena Film Festival: Best Films
El Festival internacional de cine de Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena International Film Festival) takes place annually in Cartagena (Colombia) since 1959. It rewards the best film presented since 1961. Some years the award was not given (non-consecutive years will be indicated in notes).
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- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsMaría FélixDolores Del RíoEmilio FernándezThe Cucaracha is a brave woman soldier who leads a group of similar women into the fray against the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta.1961
- DirectorAnselmo DuarteStarsLeonardo VillarGlória MenezesDionísio AzevedoA simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?1962
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsWalter VidarteGraciela BorgesNora CullenFernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams...and her family.1969
- DirectorRaúl de la TorreStarsPepe SorianoJulia von GrolmanMilagros de la VegaAn exploration of an unhappy marriage and the reasons that led to it.1972
- DirectorArmando Robles GodoyStarsMiguel Angel FloresHelena RojoHernán RomeroA young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioAfter committing a fraud in the company where he works, a man meets a strange character who will introduce you to a group a terrorist attack plot.1974
- DirectorJosé Luis BorauStarsLola GaosOvidi MontllorAlicia SánchezAngel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.1976
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománEric HeresmannAn epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.1977
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsHilda VeraMiguel Ángel LandaOrlando UrdanetaA handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.1979
- DirectorSergio GiralStarsMiguel BenavidesAlina SánchezRamón VelozBased on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint.1980
- DirectorFina TorresStarsDoris WellsDaniela SilverioRafael BriceñoA young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana1985
- DirectorLisandro Duque NaranjoStarsMarcela AgudeloArmando GutiérrezGellver De CurreaVisa USA tells the saga of a raunchy young man called Adolfo from a little town who is searching the "american dream". In order to achieve his goal he needs to obtain the American Visa. Amid his problems and inconvenients he knows and fall in love with the little town rich girl who is ready to go to New York for a vacation period. The visa document is denied for Adolfo and in a desperate effort to go to New York with his girlfriend he buy a fake visa from delinquents. The history turns in problems with airport police who wants capture Adolfo. He finally did a spectacular scape from the airport and when is returning to the hotel finds his girlfriend wich is waiting for him in the street.1986
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsLissette CabreraRossana IturraldeVerónica GarcíaThe wild and wanton Francisca, known as the "The Tigress," is the eldest of three sisters, who are bosses of a farm in Ecuador. A medicine man tells Francisca and Juliana that their youngest sister Sara must remain a virgin to protect their land. A travelling salesman, engaged to Sara, tells the police that she is being kept locked up by her older sisters.1990
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsAssumpta SernaDominique SandaHéctor AlterioThis fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself as an important New World philosopher, poet, playwright and early feminist. When Sor Juana comes under the scrutiny of a vicious archbishop (Lautaro Murúa) for her unconventional ways, she must appeal to a powerful political connection -- the Viceroy's scholarly wife.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsVictoria AbrilMarisa ParedesMiguel BoséA singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.
- DirectorJosé Antonio GarciaStarsAntônio FagundesMarieta SeveroCláudia JimenezXavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
- DirectorJuanma Bajo UlloaStarsKarra ElejaldeAna ÁlvarezLioA criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, the daughter has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home.1994
- DirectorJuan José JusidStarsMiguel Ángel SoláFederico LuppiOmero AntonuttiA Mayor has been sent to Patagonia to investigate the murder of a soldier. When the military seized power, he is forced to abandon the case. With the restoration of democracy, the case is reopened with a few consequences.1998
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsAntonella CostaCarlos EchevarríaEnrique PiñeyroIn the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One of the tenants, Felix, has a non-corresponded crush on Maria. When the teenager is abducted in her house by the Argentinean army accused of subversion, her mother seeks her out in the 23rd Precinct where one of the military without uniform tells her that they are heading with Maria. While Diane desperately tries to find information about her daughter, Maria is submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo.2000
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsToni GarridoPatrícia FrançaMurilo BenícioIn a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.2000
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsRegina CaséLima DuarteStênio GarciaA true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
- DirectorLuiz Fernando CarvalhoStarsSelton MelloRaul CortezJuliana Carneiro da CunhaA young son who ran from his dominant family descends into decadence, then returns to the nest. Tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts, and an intense visual style to match.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsEnrique DiazWagner MouraCaio BlatStories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.
- DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsJuan Carlos UribeFabio RestrepoFredy York MonsalveDuring the 1980s in Medellín, Santiago, an engineer, gets involved in drug traffic to make a quick buck.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsAymann AbuloffTamara AcostaAlejandro GoicPalestine 1914. One morning in July, Soliman, a young Palestinian Christian, and Jacob, his Jewish friend, begin to build a house in Beit-Sajour, in the Judean hills, with stones brought from Beit-Yala, while the apparent stillness of the place is interrupted by bursts of violence that anticipate the future days of the war.
- DirectorPavel GiroudStarsMercedes SampietroIván CarreiraSusana TejeraA drama about grandmother-grandson relationships.
- DirectorCarlitos Ruiz RuizMariem Pérez RieraStarsLuis GuzmánTeresa HernándezFernando TarrazoA three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
- DirectorFernando EimbckeStarsDiego CatañoHector HerreraDaniela ValentineA story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.
- DirectorAdrián BiniezStarsHoracio CamanduleLeonor SvarcasNéstor GuzziniA chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersJaime VadellIn Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
- DirectorSantiago MitreStarsEsteban LamotheRomina PaulaRicardo FelixRoque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ideals than by a wish to get close to Paula, an attractive young teacher heavily involved in internal university politics.
- DirectorMiguel GomesStarsTelmo ChurroMiguel GomesHortêncílio AquinaA restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
- DirectorRubén MendozaStarsRichard CórdobaGabriel MejíaAlma RodríguezIn his twilight years, Silvio Vega, a child of the destitution and violence of Colombia's countryside, takes a trip with his two grandchildren to force them to kill him instead of dying of old age.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroyMaría TelónManuel AntúnOn the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsJuliano CazarréMaeve JinkingsJosinaldo AlvesIremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorNelson Carlo de Los Santos AriasStarsVicente SantosJose CruzYuberbi de la RosaAn Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.