TOWER

Sebastian Munera

Behind the immobile shelves that make up the largest photographic archive in the country, a wall collapses for the remodeling of the Pilot Public Library of Medellín. Three characters reveal, clean and build like ghosts among the dusty corridors. Epic music and a theatrical air intervene in their daily trades while a photograph is revealed: the rubble of the same building after a bomb explosion in 2004. Preserving and destroying coexist in the making of memory.

THE LAST MARCH

John Martinez / Ivo Aichenbaum

It is not an ordinary day, now John shoots the camera and not the rifle. Now he is aiming not at the enemy but at his comrades with whom he is marching towards the imminent laying down of arms. Jhon portrays the last day of the FARC as no other photographer could, as a combatant: from intimacy and camaraderie. As he releases the shutter, he recognizes the uneasy expressions on those familiar faces and understands in each one the melancholic details of their farewell.

WE ARE NOT THE SAME

Errata Collective

What is this thing called colombianity? Where does it come from? A collage of hegemonic discourses and failed images of our folklorism, tries to give an answer that reveals more ruptures than paths. The voices of those who have occupied the media and power are contrasted with the silence of critical thought and memory that offer a polysemic response to our identity. The film shows how national history changed the future of these peoples and, even so, how we occupy a multicultural territory where it is difficult to say that we are the same.

I CAN NOT FIND IT

Mariana Jimenez Velez

Mariana looks at the videos of her childhood and, unable to evoke those moments in her memory, wonders who those memories belong to and how her life story reflects the missing fragments instead. What is the difference between memories, dreams, inventions and videos? The cassette images seem objective but she instead finds them false. True memories are blurry as seen through a window: aged voices and brick walls. Submerged in oblivion, Mariana looks for answers in the forest, the mirror and the defect, but even so she cannot find the lost memory.

PANDEMIC

Manuel Garcia Silver

Pandemic comes from the Greek word pandêmon nosema, which means: disease of an entire people. What is our society suffering from? Especially today, will we come to realize our reality?

UFOs: THE FURY OF THE REAL

Camilo Montoya Grajales

Fidel Castro's revolution left a certain skepticism in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba. Raising the existence of an extraterrestrial presence, it delves into the daily life of the region and the absence of its own beliefs. Like The War of the Worlds, this short film demonstrates the documentary's ability to invent reality.

ROUTE 60

wilson argangol

In the nineties, Route 60 that connects Medellín and Bogotá was a scene of terror and death. The archival material makes us feel the dystopia: kilometers of burned cars and a burlesque staging of a massacre. Even when things have changed, fear is still present among the population and the most atrocious facts remain hidden. The documentary undertakes a journey spinning the memory of those who lived through the armed conflict at the foot of the highway and dared to return.

SAVAGE

David Quiroz / Ángela Gómez (Director) / Diego Blanco (Director) / Fabián Hernández (Director)

Civilization has been built trying to give order to nature. But there is a power that is revealed both inside and outside, which heralds by tearing down walls and houses. Traversed by the organicity of the film material, this short film reminds us that things return to their original state, to wild time.