The Land of Water

Nicolas Ordonez / Colombia

On board a Colombian Navy ship, a group of scientists ventures into Cayo Serrana, one of the keys of the remote Sea Flower nature reserve, which covers 10% of the Caribbean Sea, contains 77% of the Colombian Coral Reefs and constitutes the third largest barrier reef on the planet. With high-tech resources, they seek to find the nesting spots of some elusive vulnerable turtle species and dive to the bottom of one of the most diverse seas in the Colombian Caribbean to understand the species that threatens it: the lion fish.

White socks

Andres Isaza / Colombia

Ignacio, barely a man, has left home to study at the university. Lost in everyday life, he wants his white stockings to look white again. White Stockings is a fictional short film about everyday life, separation and boredom. Formally related to contemporary Latin American cinema and especially to New Argentine Cinema, it is a minimalist proposal with a realistic staging. The camera plays with the character as if it wanted to condemn him to his own unease and his inability to adapt to the world that now assails him outside his mother's bed. A minimal story that makes sense not only in the universality with which the character's conflict can be understood, but also in its fresh formal and narrative game.

Shadows have no Face

Jhon James Gutierrez Ocampo / Colombia

Shadows Have No Face is a short film that tells a story of revenge to portray problems typical of the city of Pereira such as the phenomenon of 'drop by drop' lenders while weaving a plot that takes elements of thriller and neo- noir with a certain Creole flavor using characters typical of the urban coffee imaginary, with dialogues full of local expressions and using an atypical narrative for cinema from the Risaraldense region. Despite the fact that the short film appropriates noir, it is more than a genre exercise since it brings to the table topics of discussion such as the futility of violence, inequality and justice into one's own hands. Shadows Have No Face is the winning project of the scholarship for the creation, co-production and circulation of fiction short films in the Sixth Municipal Call for Incentives from the Pereira Department of Culture. It is produced by Bloody Shotgun Productions, a Pereiran audiovisual collective that since 2014 has made several fantastic and/or horror genre filmminutes and documentaries focused on alternative music, and co-produced by La Hermandad.

Aleph . 0

Rossana Uribe, Miguel Isaza, Camilo Tamayo & Jaime Zapata / Colombia

It is a work that evokes, through audiovisual explorations and distortions of matter and sound, expansions of conscious perception. Through the use of metaphors and poetic word plays, a cinematographic narrative is interwoven that portrays sonic and pictorial chimeras, constituting an ethereal universe: the work is projected as the result of an alchemy of the cosmos explored through virtuality and creativity. combination of sounds, words and images. The sounds, the images, the words, spring from the silence. The sounds, the images, the words, ethereal movements. The perfume of echoes scattered over the earth. The sudden pulse of a sleeping orchestra. Sound, visual cataclysm. Contemplate the ethereal. Being an invisible dream. The universe inhabits each body.

Our Land - Namuy Nu Piro

Jose Antonio Dorado Zuñiga / Colombia / Netherlands

A young indigenous Misak (Guambiano) who has migrated from his community to the city of Cali (Colombia), is about to finish his university studies. In the young man, through his photographic task, he shares a portrait of his family and reflects on collective work (minga), the impact of religions against their ancestral gods, women and the trade of the loom and weaving, the cooking and the training of children, the relationship with the elderly as bearers of memory and knowledge, the historical struggles of a Misak leader, who led by blood and fire the recovery of their lands that were usurped by the landowners. The young Misak also shares his relationship with the West, as a university student of Modern Languages and Social Communication.

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Monica Bravo & Andrea Serna / Colombia

(Lucila, Andrea's mother is schizophrenic. This makes Andrea, who is pregnant, wonder if she is crazy and if her son could be. The answers she finds are not reliable because there is always fear: Is Lucila the crazy one or is she?What if madness is not rather a contemporary disease of the spirit that, invisibly and silently, affects us all to different degrees although we tend to ignore it consciously or unconsciously?Lucila is a retired bacteriologist, lonely and dedicated to Christian cult where she seeks meaning for her life. Andrea is a writer, married and expecting a baby in which she begins to discover another meaning for her life. Lucila is Andrea's mother. In 2004 Lucila was diagnosed with schizophrenia paranoid but Andrea suspects that her mother has suffered from this since before and that perhaps this disease reveals something beyond a simple mental condition.

Window

Andres Castillo / Colombia

Rafa is a boy from Sinu who wants to play soccer, go to school and eat cotton candy. However, for fear of losing him, his mother, Gertrudis, has kept him locked up in the room he shares. Rafa has only seen the outside world through the window, a portal where his dreams mix with reality. This is how he meets Liliana, a girl who will provide him with friendship and the impulse he needs to get out of confinement and break his ties.

Orange

Hanna Isua Barrantes & Luisa Fernanda Abril Martinez / Colombia

Naranja is a woman who lives daily harassment; the sexualization, qualification, and objectification of her body is reflected in the stains that these forms of violence leave on her. Orange will have to react before these spots consume her.