An outcast looks for a glass of water in the house of a single woman, he notices that she is industrious yet repulsive and resolves¸ under the guise of love¸ to exploit her as a servant. After some drunkenness and beatings¸ the woman decides to take revenge; taking advantage of one of these...
The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo
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Freely expressing his loves and hates, controversial Colombian and openly gay writer Fernando Vallejo (living in Mexico) breaks with an ingrained literary tradition: that of the omniscient writer who sees and knows everything. The film covers his literary output and his many interests: film, music,...
A 13 minute glimpse of the Feria de Cali celebrated between Christmas and New Year… A carnival of commodity fetishism, red devils and white indians that will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the surrealist ethnographies of Michael Taussig.
Documentary about the effects of the VI Panamerican Games in the city of Cali, seen from the point of view of the people that couldn't get into the stadiums.
Between 2014 and 2017, Luis Ospina and Lina González made a series of travels through some Asian countries; perhaps the antipodes of their symbolic world. These travels started a series of records, articulated in a kind of travel log in the style of a modern Marco Polo. This film moves between...
Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF ‘MARIA’ combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to rescue the memory of a lost film.
'A Ballad for dead children' is a tribute to Andrés Caicedo and Cali and it's group, as the seed of a cinematographic phenomenon, but it goes one step further. Testimonies and fragment readings compose, together with a very powerful archive material, the story of a story that has a deep sense and...
The documentary Sin Telón celebrates the national artistic values of Teatro La Candelaria, recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the leading Latin American experimental theater groups. The film highlights the extensive career of Santiago García while also portraying the...
An encounter, in Lisbon, with Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina (1949- 2019). He talks about the troubled modern history of Colombia, while remembering his life and work: his childhood, the early affinity with cinema, his time in the United States, his comeback to his birth country, and the...
The taxi drivers of Cali, both those working the day shift and those working the night shift, talk about work, customers, and violence, revealing their vision of the city, real or fantasized. Third installment of the crafts trilogy.
Memories from the neighborhood theaters in Cali, spaces that each summer occupied an important place in the heart of the people. In the neighborhood theaters, among others, Mexican cinema was widely exhibited, which incorporated Cali fashions and even strongly influenced the work of various local...
