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- "The Black Widow" is based on the life of Griselda Blanco. This Colombian novela walks you through the life of the infamous Griselda Blanco, a Cocain Kingpin in the early 1980's.
- Blue Family is the story, inspired by actual events, of three women kidnapped and held captive in a basement for years, fighting for freedom with immense hope and faith even when it seemed impossible.
- After her cop father is killed, a woman earns a spot in special forces and is soon tasked with taking down a drug dealer in a dangerous neighborhood.
- A fiery young couple may be as hot for each other as they are ill-suited. An astute look at the stormy passions and knotty intensity that make some relationships alluring to the point of being unbearable.
- Amparo flees the convent and lands in a marginal neighborhood at her sister's house. Cousin Libardo becomes infatuated with Amparo, forcing her to live under his roof; the Animal's family, witness to her captivity. The community, threatened by Libardo, doesn't intercede. Forced to become the Animal's wife, Amparo cannot escape bearing his child. Will she, through love and temperance, survive and save her daughter; bringing an end to the cycle of violence her mother also was a victim of?
- Aspiring teen thieves learn what it takes to be successful pickpockets on the streets of Bogota from a master in the art of trickery and deception.
- Blanca finds herself captured by a bloodthirsty Colombian cartel...
- Laura and Ramon spend one last meaningful afternoon together before signing their divorce papers.
- In a timeless México where women are disappearing, a girl called Huck wears a mask to hide her gender. She helps her dad, a tormented addict, to take care of an abandoned baseball camp where the narcos gather to play. The father tries to protect her as he can. With the help of her friends, a group of lost boys who have the power of camouflaging themselves in the windy desert, Huck has to fight to overcome her reality and to defeat the local capo.
- The life of singer Galy Galeano.
- After the death of her husband, a grieving elderly woman is enlisted by a coterie of gossipy elderly women in her neighborhood to plan and create custom funerals.
- Camilo, Mechas, Manu, Ana and Pipa are five friends going through that blended trance of intense unrest, astonishment, contained tenderness and manifested rage that is typical of the end of adolescence. They survive at the edges of a city, Medellin, that simultaneously attracts and excludes them, that lure them with promises but rejects them with hostility. Nevertheless, they want to embrace the city and fight against its logics of fear. Music, street art and friendship are their weapons of resistance, hoping for a rite of passage that could transform them into someone else.
- Ras is a construction worker and graffiti artist in his neighborhood of east Cali, Colombia. After he loses his job he sets off on a journey across the city to find another graffiti artist.
- This is the story of Val and Clare: a mother and a daughter. After the tragic death of her eldest daughter, Val left her kids and family behind and escaped into the Colombian jungle in order to search for her identity. Clare was only 11 years old when her mother left and couldn't understand what she was looking for. A son who became an addict, three break-ups and a fractured family remained behind. Now Clare is pregnant and decides to confront her mother, heal the wounds of the past and try to define motherhood on her own terms. Together they go on an intimate journey exploring the boundaries between responsibility and freedom, the power of love and the meaning of family.
- A documentary made by Luis Ospina, the last one of Caliwood, the name of a group of three friends that used to make movies in Colombia in the 60-80's years.
- Isolated takes us in a journey to the most highly populated artificial island in the Colombian Caribbean while it muses on the role of men in society and uses this island as a metaphor of our planet.
- A homicide detective traumatized by the death of his father has to investigate a series of strange murders, while the hit man responsible for them confesses to a priest that he will be his next victim.
- A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not belong to him.
- Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Othello, La Palabra de Pablo (Pablo's Word) tells the story of a broken contemporary Salvadorian upper middle class family - struggling with jealousy and revenge.
- Leonidas Pinzon used to have a restaurant years ago but now he spends his time playing billiard. One day he is asked by the Police department to receive an outsider in his house and sell him breakfast, lunch and dinner. Soon several murders in the neighbor towns warn Leonidas about his visitor.
- When DEA agent James Terry Watson is assassinated, Police Colonel Juan Carlos Delgado is called in to take on an unauthorized mission. Although the case belongs to the UIC, in the face of the imminent diplomatic crisis, the Police undertake a confidential mission. The Colonel calls his best agents who are infiltrated in other cases. Time is against you. They have 48 hours to solve a case that is already in all the media and they have alerted the criminal gang of their search. Furthermore, the UIC does everything possible to stop the investigation of the Colonel and his team. Its Director, Angela Rojas, realizes that there is no way for them to solve it without the help of the Colonel. Thanks to their audacity, the team manages to capture the 7 members of the band specialized in millionaire walks and deliver them for extradition in record time.
- An astonishing documentary about a woman who is looking about her aunt past during Pinochet's period in Chile.
- 16 year-old Andrea leaves her neighborhood in the hills of Medellin to attend a downtown casting call for a porno film.
- At the end of the 80's, by the creeks of the Arauca river, near the Colombian-Venezuelan border, two men survived the brutality of a shooting in which 14 of their mates were killed. They claimed to be mere fishermen, but the Venezuelan army accused them to be guerrilla fighters, intimidating them in every possible way and even attempting to remove them from the cell where they were guarded by a policeman. Their neighbors prevented their transfer, but the pressure they faced to give in and submit the official version was overwhelming.
- Without a doubt, Ricardo Ray and Bobby Cruz Ware the most representative musicians of the Salsa sound next to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco and Hector Lavoe, among others. In the Sixties Richie and Bobby established a before and after in Latin music: Richie, a pianist born in Brooklyn and Bobby, a singer born in Puerto Rico. Together they began one of the most fruitful collaborations in the music history of the Caribbean.
- An American contractor wakes up in the middle of the jungle. The kidnappers ask for the password, the problem is: if he give it to them, dies. And if not, dies too.
- Celeste is a widow living a tranquil, unadventurous existence in Havana, fulfilling her daily shifts as a tour guide at the local planetarium. One day when several "Cubans" mysteriously vanish into thin air, the government announces that aliens have been living in Cuban society disguised as humans, and that these foreign guests are now returning the favor by inviting humans to visit their far-away world. It all makes perfect sense to Celeste - she had always thought that her "Russian" neighbor Pauline was eccentric, but now learns she was truly from another planet. Celeste discovers that Pauline has left her a personal invitation to join her and joins the government preparation program to journey to the far unknown.
- Willington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to his cousin. While Willington tries to get her back, the rumor of a thief in town and a series of violent murders remind them of a fearful past, that will endanger Mariana.
- On the remote island of Fårö in Sweden a woman experiences the death of her mother. "As she died, my dream was born, for her return". In Colombia a mother attempts to soothe her spirit by attending healing workshops with other women. In Canada a mother prepares to become a grandmother for the second time. Reenacted memories of the two directors and twisted realities of the main characters real lives are playfully weaved together in a fictive movement from darkness to light, from death to life.
- During school holidays at her grandma's house, Camila (10) discovers that the women of her family are cursed and they don't even care about what really worries her: her parents' violent relationship. Taking an important topic as a reference, Montenegro used it as a starting point for describing a matriarchal saga, a feminine universe escalated on different generations that will enlighten us with their stories, rituals and daily endearing activities.
- Conflict escalates between a small community and a Catholic priest who refuses to allow a person who died by suicide to be laid to rest on church grounds.
- Diciembres centres on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and a reconciliation among survivors a decade later. Ten years after the brief but brutal US military invasion of Panama on December 20th, 1989, three estranged survivors are nudged towards an intimate reconciliation by the person they lost in common that ruthless night.
- Pedro is one of the vampires of underdevelopment who works between aisles full of garlic, fruits, herbs and crucifixes in the Paloquemao Market. However, on May 28, 2016, when the largest blood trafficking network in Bogota is dismantled, his dealer Harbey escapes and takes refuge in the market, threatening his relationship with Angie, the girl he is in love with.
- Elias ran away from his village at the age of 13. Time has passed and he is now a doctor with a wife and son, who is also now 13.Miracles do not exist. The day that souls are reunited has come.
- When "Tropical Hits" premiered on December, 2015, on Caracol Television, it became the highest-rated documentary ever on Colombian television, with over 4 million viewers. "Hits from yesterday, today and always" is probably one of the most popular phrases known by Colombians, and its one of the phrases that follows the release of the popular December album, 14 cañonazos bailables ("14 dance music hits"), a music compilation that for 54 editions has become the thermometer of Colombian popular music. In 1960, "Discos Fuentes", the oldest record label in Colombia, decided to bet on a new way of producing music, releasing the first mixed album that combined the most important songs of the year. That first album marked a new era in the music production industry in Colombia. "It was like bringing home the disco every Christmas". Since then, the "Hits" have been a mandatory purchase every December.
- Casiano and Blacina, an old coupe, live in the mountains, far away from civilization. Their life, based on modest everyday rituals, has turned into unhurried waiting for death. Abandoned by the closest family, they have learnt to enjoy what is left and face imminent death full of peace and fulfillment. Inspired by a true story, Tribiño Mamby's film presents death as a transfer to a different, better world.
- A Matter of Land recounts the first year of application of Colombian's Land Restitution Act from the perspective of a community who decide to engage with the process. The film explores the tensions that arise when such communities come face to face with the complex institutions responsible for enforcing the law. The result of these tensions is a narrative worthy of Kafka, in which a doorway to justice is opened for the sole purpose of demonstrating that no one can pass through it.
- 'Gentle Breath' portrays a current family in the city longing for a better tomorrow.
- A man looks for his lost father but suddenly an accident leaves him injured and stranded in the desert. Cared by a couple in the middle of nowhere will find what he was looking for.
- A young boxer Cal and his trainer Ray go to dive bars, where Ray bets on Cal to beat any challenger-man or woman, drunk or sober-foolish enough to take him on. There's no losing or forfeiting for Cal because Ray only goes home with winners. "the good boy" opens with Ray and Cal at the Trash Bar, where Cal accepts a bet to fight a big man named Quinny, only to discover that Quinny has the mental capacity of a child. Will Cal forfeit the fight and his relationship with Ray? Or will Cal inflict on Quinny the punishment needed to win the fight?
- In a motel room in Cali, different people arrive with their own lives on their backs, finding a short rest. These people have no intention of leaving anything behind but there is something left from them printed on the soul of this place.
- Alcides and Georgina are two old people forgotten by the world who live in Ciudad Bolívar, in the suburbs of Bogotá. The woman lives her day to day in the company of her neighbor Guiselle, a beautiful 12-year-old girl who is mistreated daily by her father Facundo. After a violent argument with Facundo, Georgina dies, and since Alcides wants to provide her with a dignified funeral, he undertakes a pilgrimage through the city, with her corpse in a cart, in search of the resources to bury her. During his journey, the old man encounters many obstacles, especially the indifference of most people. Through his journey, Alcides learns to live without Georgina and changes his indolent way of seeing the world.
- Miguel, a 38-year-old hunter and taxidermist who uses his unusual vocation to create a museum which allows blind children to safely learn to live with and respect animals.
- Juancho, a farmer's son, spends most of his days in search of birds, much to his family's disapproval. However, when his father is approached by an animal smuggler offering a large sum of money for the capture of the elusive tourpial, Juancho is sent on a hunting adventure that eventually leads him to discover the true value of freedom.
- Addiction becomes like a shadow. You know?
- Searching for the Animal unveils a profound secret about gender violence during the past five decades in Colombia, through Victor Gaviria's creative process in making the fictional film The Animal's Wife.
- Jacinto is a deer hunter and farmer who faces a terrible pain thanks to breach of political promises; his little child died because of the absence of a health center at his region. Any hunting day, in the middle of a new election season, Jacinto finds himself face to face with the man that causes his suffering.