A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogota, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.Read More »
Colombia
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Memoria (2021) (HD)
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Laura Mora Ortega – Matar a Jesús AKA Killing Jesus (2017)
2011-2020ColombiaCrimeDramaLaura Mora OrtegaPaula, a 22-year-old student, witnesses the murder of her beloved father, a popular political science professor at a public university in the city of Medellín. From a distance, she catches a glimpse of the killer as he speeds away on a motorbike. Devastated by grief in the aftermath, Paula and her family will have to face official indolence. The authorities will make no effort to clarify what happened and the case will soon be shelved and suspended.
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Theo Montoya – Anhell69 (2022)
2021-2030ColombiaDocumentaryDramaTheo MontoyaColombian filmmaker Theo Montoya opens his latest doc, Anhell69, with an extreme juxtaposition. There is grainy video footage of politicians signing the landmark peace agreement in 2016, which meant years of civil violence would be put to an end. But we also see an image taken in a car, something so dark it’s unclear to understand precisely what it is. After a few moments it becomes clear it is an open casket, and we see the face of a corpse.Read More »
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Andrés Baiz – La cara oculta AKA The Hidden Face (2011)
2011-2020Andrés BaizColombiaMysteryThrillerSynopsis:
Adrián, a talented orchestra conductor, receives a video message from his beloved Belén, telling him with tears in her eyes that she is leaving him, and that she cannot carry on with him anymore. Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up and puzzled by Belén’s inexplicable decision, Adrián gets help from the local police to solve this mysterious case of disappearance; however, as there is still no news of Belén, a new woman will appear in his life. In the end, with no progress at all in Belén’s baffling case, who would think to look beyond the facts, as truth often lies hidden in the most unusual of places?Read More » -
Ruth Caudeli – Segunda estrella a la derecha AKA Second Star on the Right (2019)
2011-2020ColombiaComedyQueer Cinema(s)Ruth CaudeliA 30-something bisexual actress who is trying to fit in her friends ‘perfect’ world.Read More »
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Simón Mesa Soto – Madre AKA Mother (2016)
2011-2020ColombiaDramaShort FilmSimón Mesa Soto16 year-old Andrea comes down from her poor neighborhood in the hills of Medellin to attend a downtown casting call for a porno film.
«Madre» premiered at Cannes Film Festival (Short Film Competition) in 2016.Read More »
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Simón Mesa Soto – Amparo (2021)
2021-2030ColombiaDramaSimón Mesa SotoIn 1998, single mother Amparo races to save her teenage son after is he drafted and deployed by the Colombian army.Read More »
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Memoria (2021) (HD)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul2021-2030ColombiaDramaSci-FiA Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogota, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.Read More »
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Sergio Cabrera – La estrategia del caracol AKA Strategy of the Snail (1993)
Comedy1991-2000ColombiaPoliticsSergio CabreraQuote:
La Estrategia del Caracol (English: The Strategy of the Snail) is a 1993 Colombian comedy-drama film directed and produced by Colombian filmmaker and director Sergio Cabrera. The film is starred by Frank Ramirez, Florina Lemaitre, Humberto Dorado, Fausto Cabrera and Carlos Vives. The film is a winner of the Berlin International Film Festival and the Biarritz Film Cinema Festival of Latin America. The film deals with the hardships of low income class families in Bogota. The breach between rich and poor and their interactions in a highly stratified social system.Read More »