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COLOMBIAN VIEW

“ Colombian View” offers a window into Colombia's vibrant and dynamic film scene. Through a variety of genres and styles, this category highlights the stories and voices of Colombian filmmakers, exploring themes ranging from the personal and local to the universal. It is a celebration of national cinema and its ability to connect with global audiences.

A cronopio's story

A cronopio's story

Director: Juan David Vargas Producers: Iván Rodriguez, Juan David Vargas With: Margarita Portillo Colombia / 2024 / 1'13 An adaptation of Cortazar´s short story. Tell the story of a little character who needs a key to leave home. Being actually an introspective travel.

Bitter Bunde

Bitter Bunde

Director: Juan Gordon Producer: Daniela Galvis Colombia / 2023 / 2'59 Based on the poem "black woman from the bitter bunde" by Miguel A. Caicedo, this film portraits the current state of Quibdó, Colombia 2023 as we listen to a woman's voice that recites the bunde ("Boon.de" a Pacific coast chants) over a lo-fi hip hop beat by Dj113. A dreamy journey to this town abandoned by the government that invite us to visit this beautiful place with big and honest smiles

La Suprema

La Suprema

Director and writer: Felipe Holguín Caro, Andy Sierra Producers: Maria Teresa Gaviria, Diana Perez, Ivan Luna With: Elizabeth Martinez, Antonio Jimenez, Pabla Florez, Ana Victoria Rodriguez Director of photography: Mauricio Vidal Editor: Etienne Boussac Colombia / 2023 / 80'30 In La Suprema, a town erased from the maps, where there’s not even electricity, Laureana, a young afro-colombian, dreams of being a boxer. When she finds out that her uncle will be boxing for the world title...

La Mamuncia

La Mamuncia

Director and writer: Juan Fernando Uribe Producers: Juan Fernando Uribe, Andres Benavidez With: Nidia Sofia Gongora Colombia / 2022 / 12'16 From Cali, the voice of Nidia Góngora, a peaceful Timbiquireña, unleashes a musical lullaby that captivates the world. Blending the vitality of the city with the richness of Timbiquí, Nidia, an ambassador of traditions, fills the planet with her cultural essence, creating a vibrant echo from the heart of the metropolis.

Camino al cielo

Camino al cielo

Director and writer: Miguel Vargas Producer: Mónica González With: Mairen Ibargüen Colombia / 2024 / 17'30 Mairen is an afro eight months - pregnant woman who is going into labor in a depopulated zone and, in an unexpected way she have to give birth in a White waggon that is well know cause people who get in there they´ll never see alive again.

Comadreando

Comadreando

Director and writer: Sarmiento Gómez Daniel Francisco, Ortiz Carlos Mario Producer: Asociación Movimiento Feminista Por La Paz Ruta Pacífica De Las Mujeres With: Palacios Parra Claudia Patricia Colombia / 2023 / 29'55 Multiple voices of women peacebuilders in their Chocoan territories. A cinematic journey spanning 27 years of resistance. 'Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres' unveils a mosaic of stories woven along the Chocoan rivers.

Bajo la arena

Bajo la arena

Director and writer: Alvaro D. Ruiz Producee: Camilo Sanabria, Alvaro D. Ruiz, Diego Silva Ardila With: Aroha Hafez, Obeida Benavides, Camilo Sanabria Colombia / 2023 / 17'14 A Spanish woman living in Colombia’s coastal city of Santa Marta and a local woman. Two lonely women, their love for the same dog, and the impossibility to express pain and grief. Based on the National Literature Award winner short story "Much to be Done" by Carlos Franco.

Degenere

Degenere

Director and writer: Sara Asprilla Palomino Producers: Karol Mora Albarracín, Sara Asprilla Palomino, Sinsonte Estudio With: Misael Córdoba Sánchez, Doroty Palmers (R.I.P.) (Q.E.P.D.) Colombia / 2023 / 18'56 Doroty's dream was to dance and be recognized as the woman she was but death came first. Her best friend Misael, a 60 year old gay man, will make it happen. Misael forms the first diverse folk dance group, questioning traditions that are defended by cultural values in order to erase their

El olvido

El olvido

Director and writer: Robert Brand Ordóñez Producers: Robert Brand Ordóñez, Cristian Hidalgo López With: Albeiro Leitón, Edwin Ordóñez Colombia / 2022 / 30' High up in a lonely mountain of the Colombian Andes, Gerardo a farmer who waits for his son´s return finds a coffin with the corpse of a young man inside. He takes him home and adopts him as a relative, to reconcile through it with his own son who vanished without a trace and to give him a name and the burial he deserves.

Esto se calento

Esto se calento

Director: Carlos Gabriel Vergara M. Writers: Jairo Estrada, Carlos Gabriel Vergara M. Producer: Carlos Gabriel Vergara M. With: Orlando Liñán, Laura Rodriguez, Julian Díaz, Luz Mary Baquero Colombia / 2024 / 90'50 The unusual passage of an iceberg along the colombian coasts, as a result of climate change, and the madness that this produces in its inhabitants, at the style of orson welles and the war of the worlds, is the backdrop on which a young journalist is chosen, so to say, to experience..

Itzia Tango & Cacao

Itzia Tango & Cacao

Director: Flora Martinez Writers: Jose Reinoso Producer: Jose Reinoso With: Flora Martinez, Gerardo Romano, Hermes Camelo, Julián Diaz, Jose Acosta, Carmiña Martínez Colombia / 2023 / 88'58 Itzia, a deaf woman, claims she can listen to a peculiar music that always comes from the same cardinal point: the south. Her family question her sanity, but she is determined to prove them wrong and affirm her sanity. Leaving her cacao farm farm behind, she embarks on a journey to find the music's source.

La casa de mama incha

La casa de mama incha

Director: Oscar Molina Writer: Gustavo Vasco, Oscar Molina, Brenda I. Steinecke Soto Producers: Brenda I. Steinecke Soto, Oscar Molina With: María Dionisia Navarro, Epifanía Ortiz, Michelle Ángela Ortiz, Gustavo Niño, Alberto Niño Colombia / 2020 / 85'20 Decades earlier, Mama Icha moved to the United States to help her daughter with the care of her grandchildren. However, she never lost sight of her hometown of Mompox, spending years sending money to build her dream house there...

La massacre del billar

La massacre del billar

Director: Diego Casseres Writer: Influencers Étnicos Producer: Ashanty Lawhier Colombia / 2024 / 14'34 22 años después de una masacre que conmocionó un pueblo entero, aún quedan secuelas que torturan a la juventud, esta es una historia que manchó el futuro de toda una generación, nunca antes se había contado de esta forma, nunca se había contado desde el punto de vista de la juventud.

Lumbalu Agonia

Lumbalu Agonia

Director and writer: Jorge Pérez, Jorge Pérez Producer: Jorge Pérez, MIN Company With: Catalina Herrera, Malka Cassiani, Rosalina Cañate, Jose Perez Colombia / 2020 / 14'30 Facing the ruin that invades her house, the dying state of Felipa, and the constant visits of Juan's soul in pain, Filomena makes Eva realize the mistake she made in refusing to perform Juan's Lumbalú when he died.

Unless we dance

Unless we dance

Directors: Hanz Rippe Gabriele, Fernanda Pineda Palencia Writers: Hanz Rippe Gabriele, Fernanda Pineda Palencia, Daniel Alberto Sánchez Producer: Fernanda Pineda Palencia Colombia / 2023 / 14'34 Jonathan (Bonays), an Afro dance teacher, undertakes an initiative to rescue young people from the crime that stalks Quibdó, a city with the highest homicide rates in Colombia. This is how Black Boys Chocó emerged, a dance company where hundreds of young people face brutal destinies through a passion.

Puentes en el mar

Puentes en el mar

Director and writer: Patrcia Ayala Producer: Margarita Herrera With: Jailer Cortes, Pedro Luis Dajome Colombia / 2023 / 89' Alicia knows that misfortune has arrived when her adolescent son does not arrive from school on time. Michael has taken a wrong step in a place surrounded by dangerous powers, a leap into the void that completely transforms their lives.

Thread of return

Thread of return

Director and writer: Erwin Goggel Producer: Erwin Goggel With: Paola Baldión, Julián Román, Indhira Serrano Colombia / 2020 / 82'47 A tropical storm unleashes an avalanche in a poor neighborhood of Bogotá, destroying the house where Marina lives and forcing her to journey back to the home she left behind...

Del Palenque de San Basilio

Del Palenque de San Basilio

Director: Erwin Goggel Writer: Esperanza Biohó Producer: Erwin Goggel With: Paulino Salgado Batata III, Totó La Momposina, Petrona Martínez Colombia / 2004 / 85' Featuring the descendants of the fugitive slaves who escaped from Cartagena de Indias some three hundred years ago, From The Palenque Of San Basilio lets us experience the torn chants of the Lumbalú, the cheeky, catchy sway of the Bullerengue, the joyful waggle of the Son, and the extraordinary warrior dances.

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