BOGOSHORTS Film Agency

Paula is a young free-spirited girl who lives with her musician father in a big loud city. On the verge of leaving her teenage years behind, she’s fully exploring what life has to offer: drugs, sex, parties, friends... Social life is crucial at this point of acceptance and self-knowledge. Nonetheless, her apparent confidence tumbles when love crosses her path. When everything goes wrong, as she returns home, an encounter with her father will bring her the calm she was looking for all along.

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.

The youngest daughter of a family of sloths reconstructs their story. A metaphor about the sometimes wild nature that inhabits family environments.

Vicente is an old rooster who has a good chicken in the red, and the plant to play, but his rival, the only one who stands in the way of silver, is Ricardo, his own 18 year old son. Ricardo, tired of the life he has led with his father, has everything arranged to win. The old man's life is on hold.

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.

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.

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.

Milena and her companions have acquired good taste for classic films by working in an independent movie theater; as always, after closing, they take the place to celebrate another clandestine Tuesday. When the owner of the cinema, a dedicated film buff, discovers them using the room without his permission, Milena will try to save her job and that of her colleagues by showing him that, despite their very different lives, they are united by the same passion for cinema.

Laura eventually works for a group of obscure characters with whom she must settle an outstanding account, her activity is to leave some recorded messages to some numbers that they dial, the situation becomes complicated when she arrives home and finds that one of the messages that caused her great impact by recording it, was directly to her partner.

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.

Julio, a blind coffee vendor, recounts his relationship with Daniel, a 9-year-old boy whom he rescued from a life in the streets and raised as his own. After an unfortunate encounter with a social services worker, Julio will have to fight to protect Daniel and keep their relationship strong.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lucy is the most gossipy lady in town. Her greatest pleasure is walking through the streets observing and listening to other people’s conversations and then meeting up to gossip with her friends Olga and Adelma. In this Macondian village, gossip becomes happiness and happiness becomes music.

Dreading the present, thirty-one animators entered the jungle on their imagination to honor José Eustasio Rivera’s Novel, THE VORTEX, published in 1924. Musicians, producers, and composers joined in this cacophonous journey, immersed in the gloom of The Vortex’s legacy to create the works you see in here.

When I was a little boy I saw the FIFA World Cup USA 49 with my father. I used to live in a conservative town, and I had my hair cut as the Roberto Baggio´s, the italian player. My father cutted my hair yelling: Cut you hair as a men! This documentary is the search, still without an answer, about what is a men's hair cut in Colombia.

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.