New Venice 2016
This is a documentary film about a stilt village in the middle of Santa Marta's Marsh, and the passion pushing its inhabitants to build, on the water, a soccer field.
This is a documentary film about a stilt village in the middle of Santa Marta's Marsh, and the passion pushing its inhabitants to build, on the water, a soccer field.
"Robo", drummer of two legendary punk bands, Misfits and Blackflag, lives today in Jamundí (Valle) clinging to Lizbeth, his sick mother, whom he cares for and with whom he tries to make up for the time he spent away from his life.
Tells the story of the famous Millonarios, one of the most awarded football teams in Colombia, which, as it was stated by the press, rivals and football leagues, between 1949 and 1953, it was the best team in the world. The documentary film, which some might say, one of the most important sports film pieces in Colombia, involves the stories of fans, members, ex-players, managers, chairmen and great journalists from the world of football, telling how this team revolutionized and changed the history of Colombian football forever.
Laura and Diego are interested in meeting someone to start a relationship. Laura has never used dating platforms and Diego has decided not to go back to dating apps. They both venture to explore an application designed for this purpose.
PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, PATIENT is not only the one who has the disease, but also the one in the daily struggle ensuring that his or her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother who, despite living with the anguish of possibly losing her daughter to an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which her daughter's life depends.
A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. They are different cultures in the frantic friction of our time, it is a generation of young people born from the meeting of both cultures who are hanging before the mirages of a foreign world.
María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.
Rafa Caicedo is known in Quibdó as "the young man with the camera". This Chocoano directs and produces a successful web novel with more than 70 chapters, which portrays in its fictional stories and rhythm a little of the life of the Colombian Pacific.
Taking them down different paths and away from the place where they once dreamed they would be as women, as mothers or as professionals, a group of friends reunite a decade after graduating to learn how reality has fallen on each of them.
Every day, in the maternity wards of Bogota's public hospitals, hundreds of women give birth to their children. Case by case, birth give birth, a social reality is revealed from each individual situation. To expect, to fulfill, to want, to defend, to accept and to resist, verbs that make up this direct and demystified portrait of the hospital birth and that reflect an essential part of a country.
Los Mazamorreros is a border town between two municipalities in northern Cauca. There, among mountains and lush vegetation, machete and pole fencing academies are run by Porfirio Ocoró, a farmer who wants to become the new master of the fencing game.
Prominent scientist Rodolfo Llinás meets with his grandchildren, children, wife, childhood friends and current collaborators to investigate the great mysteries of life from the everyday and the human, in a journey from the brain to love, death, illness, art and religion.
Clara is a woman capable of everything, she can carry the world on her back and create a universe tailored to her loved ones in order not to hurt them. Clara is many women and because of that, she is willing to reveal her fears, to face the voids left by forgotten loves, to look her children in the eyes and tell them about herself, about what she has always carried trapped in her chest. Aseneth, her filmmaker daughter, holds a dialogue with Clara. They converse between the tension of revelations and direct questions. They meet again in the image of Lilia, Clara's girlfriend who disappeared from the scene years ago. Aseneth will soon become a mother and this will lead to an enlightening, challenging and loving encounter.
Through the reflections of a father and daughter about themselves and their close relationship with their natural environment and the animal world, we embark on a journey deep into the Altagracia Reserves in the Colombian Orinoco region.
A journey through the life of Jaime Garzón, a man who, beyond the media myth, was also a son, brother, lover, educator and dreamer. An approach to the origins of this indomitable character who broke all the paradigms of irreverence in Colombia and left an indelible mark on future generations.
Two groups of Venezuelan dancers, while preparing for a dance battle, survive at traffic lights in the streets of Medellín. A group reflection on love, family and identity, far from home.