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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.
Jan 2005
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
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.
Jan 2019
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.
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
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.
Jan 2018
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.
Jan 2007
Ines takes driving lessons with an instructor that rapidly loses his patience and underestimate her abilities. Nevertheless, as they learn more about each other’s life, an unexpected friendship will begin.
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
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
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
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
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.
Jan 2010
Oct 2024
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
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
Erasmo y Estela, are an old couple that rarely go out of their house, one day they decide to take out an old disk player, clean the dust away and play some music. When they realise that the disk player is broken, they decide to get out of their home and face a whole new world.
On the eve of her First Communion, Rocío finally gets to pick up her dress. While her mother disapproves of the girl's flighty impatience, her father gives her a knowing glance. One fleeting moment and the child's world is turned upside down.
Sep 2024
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
Hector is an employee of an office that functions in a gigantic building where hundreds of persons live their daily routine. However, his gift for curiosity makes him realize that the building where he has always lived and worked has an exit. A series of procedures, obstacles and adversities will put to test Hector's patience.