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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.
Oct 2017
Omar, a construction worker, receives a strange voice message on his cell phone; even though no one speaks in the message, he hears the melody of a song amidst the noise of the recording. From that moment on, he begins a search to find the name of the song.
Jun 2013
Henry Forero, a boy of only twelve born in a pop district of Bogotá, is the new global transportation visionary, but Henry’s revolution will be more powerful and more striking: thanks to him Colombian cars will reach the whole world. Henry is a child who teaches that sometimes in life in order to get to the top you have to go downhill.
Jan 2014
It is the year of grace of 1950. Ignacio (11) is celebrating his First Communion, a step that, according to catholics, puts him closer to God and opens up a space for him in the believers community. Communion implies, he will have enough grace to go to Paradise one day. It is also the day he is declared as a “conscious” person. However, from long time before, his tutor, sister Josefa, and the priest of the church, have said terrible things about his dead father, a communist that by now, as they say, should be burning in hell’s fire.
Jan 2015
Andres arrives at a forgotten town looking for his brother. A picture is the only clue of his whereabouts. He finds a place ruled by violence and silence. Indifference marks his route towards finding his brother.
Nov 2013
Francine, a foreign actress who is touring her new film, is confronted by her dubbing actress, Ursula, who suffers a crisis upon learning of Francine's retirement from acting.
Jan 2019
Before leaving to Europe to continue his career as a musician, Ariel decides to spend his last day in Bogotá with Lorenzo, his baby son. In the brief encounters with his family and friends, Ariel begins to learn the meaning of being a father, a few months later the illusion collapses.
Jan 2016
After time, what remains in the journey of a relationship that is on its way to its end? A final conversation will always be missing while crossing the tunnel before reaching the end.
Dec 2016
At the outskirts of town, there is a communitary laundry where Ángela and her neighbors talk while they do their laundry. Just at the moment when the water service starts to work at everyone's house, Ángela finds the value of the little ritual that is disappearing little by little.
It's the 16th of July Virgin del Carmen´s day, and Salomé, a beautiful 14-year-old girl, is celebrating the first anniversary of her beloved father’s death. While everybody is partying, her Grief contrasts with the festivity environment, forcing her to confront her pain, her own believes, her myths and even her most precious childhood memories and illusions to be able to understand imminent death and finally get some closure.
Jan 2012
Leonardo and his son Joaquín, 5 years old, travel to an out-of-town marriage, Joaquín does not know that who will marry is his own father, and with a woman who is not his mother, the difficult revelation will bring problems to the connection between father and son, but it will also question Leonardo's decision to marry.
Jan 2018
Covering news of impact in Bogotá has become a personal race between Roco and Matías, two contemporary journalists who are reaching their fifties, determined to be the first to get red notices for their editors. 30 years dedicated to competing for the most macabre news, they are driven to cross paths through death, in a desolate and hostile city that offers them no shelter or company.
Jan 2005
Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers of Middle Eastern descent, who live with their mother in a social housing complex, known as Housing States, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. While Ali, the older brother suffers from heroin dependence, Syed, the youngest, tries to make a different life from his brother and finds a means of escape in urban poetry.
Nov 2006
Alvaro Rodriguez, an old swindler, owes a lot of money to a dangerous moneylender. To pay off the debt, he proposes to the man, who is also his boss, to finance one of his businesses. In the end, the 'indigenous malice' wins out and he ends up cheating his boss.
Dec 2018
An adult male struggles to reconcile with life while sheltering at home with his teenage sister. His constant attempt to hide from a threat that lies beyond the property line, further complicates his relationship with reality.
Jan 2021
Martillo, tells the story of Pablo’s sexual awakening, a student at a boys' school where Sister Edwin teaches discipline with an iron hand. At home, Pablo lives in a different world. His father is a plastic surgeon and shamelessly exposes him to his sexual world and that of his lover. His mother is dead and Albina, his nanny, takes care of him like a son. At thirteen, Pablo is confused. When he discovers Sister Edwin's secret, he will leave his innocence behind.
A boy spends the day by a river with his family. His mother, who emigrated to Spain and sends him money, is the only family member missing. The boy’s relationship with his family is complicated because to them he represents a source of income. An unexpected call from his mother pushes him to rebel against this abuse.
Genaro is a farmer who has been ordered by the paramilitary to deliver the dead bodies of their combatants and envelopes of money to the mothers of the deceased. He appears immune to the pain of death. His job has ripped his soul apart and now he hopes for only one thing: to find a very specific body among the dead.
Feb 2017
An uninterrupted journey through a Street in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. The film explores the different moods, rhythms, faces and voids that coexist in close proximity within the prismatic space of the street which at the same time is the time of a whole generation.
Nov 2019
Alan and Adriana are taking everything from their home, to let it empty. They try to take out a double bed from their room and it gets stuck between them, pull them apart and block the view. As they can´t see each other, they find the possibility to talk and give each other reasons why they are stopping living together.
Dec 2020