A group of employees from the Central Worker's Bank become heroes when they prevent a robbery. Their reward: a trip to Melgar, all expenses paid. This trip will reveal joys, griefs and other feelings that perhaps only appear after a few shots.
Anna is a young woman living in Paris, daily struggling with her emotional frailty. She tries to spend more time with her ten-year-old son, Nathan, but Philippe, her former husband, does not trust her anymore and threatens to take full custody of the child. Having no other choice, she convinces her boyfriend Bruno to help her, and the three of them fly away to Colombia. During this journey, Anna will strive to build a new family, and will face the difficulty of being a mother.
7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.
Through three generations of women in her family, the director reflects on the joys of women’s bonds and resilience but also on the devastating impact of traditional gender roles, gender violence and the suffocating weight of religion.
In the middle of the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen from the Emberá tribes. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in their unique world - an aesthetic and spiritual universe in which documentary and fiction merge into a transcultural narrative. Enchanted by the beauty and power of their jais (spirits), Aribada decides to join Las Traviesas in creating their own trans*futurist community.
Amidst the Colombian Andes, a group of trans women from the Embera Chami community make their way into the international fashion scene, empowered through artistic collaboration and creation while preserving their spiritual heritage and ancestral connection to their territory.
3 Feet is the adventurous journey of Gonzalo, an imaginative and tenacious 10-year old facing the most difficult task of his life: get to school with clean shoes in order to prevent being separated from his best friend (his soccer ball), until the end of the year.
A turtle lives peacefully at the bottom of the sea, until an apparatus accident forces him to fight to survive and undergo the physical and environmental changes that human unconsciousness has produced.
A man in chains, a young man who dreams of being part of something, to become a militant for an armed group who must wield a cruelty in which he may not believe in. The characters, each voluntary or involuntary part of a mechanism that overcomes them, reveal their greatness or misery in the “minimum” tasks that they perform to survive. From that sometimes morbid poetry of the everyday and the irrefutable truth of the details, we see a country whose social body is sick and injured.
After a call announcing the visit of a church delegate to San Luis de Frá, a town as ordinary as it is absurd, Jose María Marín, the parish priest in charge, knows that the time has come to be responsible. He and his old sacristan will have to find a corpse and inaugurate the cemetery at any cost.
Elías works in a funeral home making up corpses from which he steals things of value, every time he has a need. Until one day he steals the shoes of Belisario, his eternal rival, who has always courted Esther, the mother of his son.
Without knowing the secret that its inhabitants keep, a couple of journalists visit a fishing village, La Almeja, to investigate the strange death of a little girl.
Belisario's wife is very sick, a healer comes to meet her and gives him the mission to climb the Andes mountains to bring back an object buried in the snow to try to save her.
The youngest daughter of a family of sloths reconstructs their story. A metaphor about the sometimes wild nature that inhabits family environments.
Amidst fireflies and mangroves, the musician Papámarimba narrates the legend of El Libertario. A story about a ghost ship, a slave rebellion and the eternal struggle for freedom. But his son Canchimalo no longer believes in these stories. He thinks they are just superstitions, keeping his people in backwardness. A challenge that will bring him face to face with the spirits of his ancestors.
Audiovisual Communicator of the Colombian Polytechnic Jaime Isaza Cadavid. Scriptwriter and director of several audiovisual projects, among which the documentary Barrio Cine and the fiction short films Luzy, The birds fly two, the three winners of the Creation Scholarships of the Mayor's Office of Medellín, stand out. He has produced three short films and has also edited four documentary short films. He has participated in several directing workshops with filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami, José Luis Guerín, Luis Ospina, Oscar Campo, Rubén Mendoza, Jacques Toulemonde and Franco Lolli. He currently directs the narrative, documentary and audiovisual montage subject of the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication of the Politecnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid.
