1. Scenes from Travel in Colombia
A sampler of the lives, places, and events which make up present-day Colombia, South America. Provides insights into the look and feel of Colombia, as well as Latin America as a whole.
2. Abortion: Stories from North and South
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.
3. Backlights (A Contraluz)
While directing an anthology of short films through different regions of Colombia Helena and her director of photography, encounter through intense creative differences.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. Falsos Positivos
The "Falsos Positivos" scandal that exploded on October 2008 revealed how and why ranks of the Colombian Army started to kill innocent people. Lured by money prizes given by the President Uribe's policy called "Seguridad Democratica", the Colombian Army dressed the bodies in military fatigues to claim the rewards for the fight against the FARC guerrilla. "Falsos Positivos" follows the trip of two families to retrieve the rests of their beloved, along with shocking interviews to activists, a former General, political analysts and witnesses of this huge scandal.
5. Con su Música a otra parte (Con su Música a otra parte)
A young balladeer raised in the United States returns to Colombia to continue her career. Her plans do not align with her mother's, a famous singer of tropical music, and their clash is inevitable. The girl flees her home and frequents the spaces of musicians and artists with revolutionary tendencies.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
6. Frío en la montaña (Frío en la montaña)
(Frío en la montaña)
7. Es mejor ser rico que pobre (Es mejor ser rico que pobre)
(Es mejor ser rico que pobre)
8. Petecuy, La Película (Petecuy, La Película)
(Petecuy, La Película)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
9. Dangerous Play (Jugada peligrosa)
Copa Libertadores, 1989. A true story about football, corruption and the power of Pablo Escobar and his cartel, told by its protagonists: five referees who resisted the dramatic weight of an era.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
10. Pimpi (Pimpi)
The anecdotes lived with Pimpi conclude in a tragic experience for his family. The story takes place in a small town in the middle of the Colombian Pacific jungle. Past and present mix to form a story where the town and its inhabitants are witnesses of the struggle of black people.
11. The Quiet Maid (Calladita)
Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summers. The young woman works tirelessly and without a contract, under the promise of decent conditions at the end of the summer, if she remains obedient and discreet.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
12. Welcome Back (Welcome Back)
After being deported to Venezuela, one of the most dangerous countries in the world, Rosa and her daughter must find a way to escape to Colombia.
13. Mariposas S. A.
The story of seven prostitutes traveling in a truck, town to town, selling their show in local festivities inside an old circus tent. The authorities demand bribes in order to keep the order in town.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
14. Esmeraldero (Esmeraldero)
The true story of the rise of a Japanese businessman from Los Angeles named Eishy Hayata from an Airline engineer into the legend of the Emerald world -- the Emerald Cowboy
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
15. Terminal (Terminal)
(Terminal)
16. Missing
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
It has an average vote of 7.47 on TMDB.
17. Cartagena (L'Homme de Chevet)
Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. Initially out of his depth, Leo slowly wins Muriel's trust. As Muriel teaches him to read, he forces her to confront the joys beyond her window.
It has an average vote of 5.602 on TMDB.
18. Dejen quieta la Iguana (Dejen quieta la Iguana)
(Dejen quieta la Iguana)
19. Diamond Tongue
Lengua de diamante submerges into the past, present, and future life of Elsa Riveros, Colombia’s First Lady of Rock. Long after her iconic career as a fierce 80s rock singer, Elsa now seeks to reinvent herself as a political painter in northern Virginia, where she raises her son.
20. I'm not speak english (I'm not speak english)
With analog and digital material collected during her stay on a "Work Trip" taking care of children in an American kindergarten as a migrant. I'm not speak English proposes —as a visual autobiography— to make visible a phantasmagorical light as a metaphor for the sudaca's bodies that work in invisible care task. Migrant bodies who bear as an imperceptible force the North American Nation.
