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- During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
- A young woman spends a night trapped inside a laundromat with a serial killer.
- The great Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist, Hermeto Pascoal, known as "O Bruxo" (The Wizard) talks about his musical evolution, his search for sounds in unconventional instruments, and his days playing with Miles Davis. Hermeto's personal charisma mixed with the improvisation and crafted arrangements, that took place in the only concert in Bogota, became an unforgettable experience.
- Karen discovers, after 10 years of marriage, she has left behind her dreams devoting herself to home chores and realizes it has been a mistake that cost her her youth. She decides then to separate and go in search of a life of its own. With her savings she rents a room in the center of Bogota and tries to get a job, but her age and inexperience makes it difficult. Karen will have to decide between returning to the stability of a relationship or facing life for herself.
- A trio of actors and theater mimes - made up of two Colombian boys and a young Venezuelan girlfriend of one of them - are commissioned by a supposed theater patron to keep boxes of books for him while his absence from Colombia lasts for three months. Shortly after the patron's trip - the three actors learn that he has been imprisoned in Europe for laundering dollars in addition to other drug trafficking offenses - and that he will be sentenced to several years in prison. The three actors¸ then¸ decide to open the boxes that they have kept for the man¸ assuming they will find dollars or cocaine. But what they find are very sophisticated weapons¸. Harassed by the economic situation¸ they make the crazy decision to pretend that they are guerrillas who want to reinsert themselves and hand over their weapons. To do this¸ they travel to a conflict zone and from there they contact the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace. The only thing they ask in exchange for their "reintegration" ¸ is a safe-conduct to seek asylum in Spain and start a new life there. To achieve this goal¸ the three friends would also solve¸ their old dream of going to venture to the "mother country." Obviously¸ this mischief puts them to face hazardous situations with the actors of the armed conflict in Colombia: the army¸ the paramilitaries¸ the guerrillas and the drug traffickers. As the girl is Venezuelan¸ and the relations between Colombia and that country go through moments of tension due to the supposed "alliances" between President Chavez and the Colombian guerrilla¸ the vicissitudes of the three young men are further aggravated. If this objective was achieved¸ the three friends would solve¸ also¸ their old dream of going to venture to the "mother country". Obviously¸ this mischief puts them to face hazardous situations with the actors of the armed conflict in Colombia: the army¸ the paramilitaries¸ the guerrillas and the drug traffickers. As the girl is Venezuelan¸ and the relations between Colombia and that country go through moments of tension due to the supposed "alliances" between President Chavez and the Colombian guerrilla¸ the adventures of the three young men are further aggravated. To achieve this goal¸ the three friends would also solve¸ their old dream of going to venture to the "mother country." Obviously¸ this mischief puts them to face hazardous situations with the actors of the armed conflict in Colombia: the army¸ the paramilitaries¸ the guerrillas and the drug traffickers. As the girl is Venezuelan¸ and the relations between Colombia and that country go through moments of tension due to the supposed "alliances" between President Chavez and the Colombian guerrilla¸ the vicissitudes of the three young men are further aggravated.
- On 10 October 1868, the slave bell at the La Demajagua sugar mill in Cuba was rung by the mill's owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes to announce to the enslaved workers that they were free and to invite them to join the fight for independence from Spain. However, as Fernando Ortiz points out in his 'Cuban Counterpoint', the bell was later on "replaced by the steam or electric whistle that now stridently calls the workers to duty in the batey, like the whistle of a monstrous foreman made of steel." On the background of slavery and (de)colonisaion, this film, shot in Colombia and Cuba, explores sugarcane production and railways as the machinery necessary for exploitation. With 'piecework' referring to employment forms, in which workers are paid for each unit produced or action performed, regardless of time, the film is, more than anything, meant as a tribute to land and iron workers, to sugarcane harvesters and railway workers.
- In 'The Secret Genie of the Spyglass (Kikkertens Hemmelighedsfulde Aand)', disturbing, suggestive, and demanding images result from the expansive repertoire of visual operations set in motion. However, this complexity is not associated with unfounded intellectual scaffolding, but rather arises from the cumulative weight of the visual cues that make up the narratives and arguments posted, suggested in a passage in one of the letters that Søren Kierkegaard wrote to Regina Olsen and which is the central reference for this film: "Thus, in the midst of a friendly chat about the view of the ships, one sees or thinks that one sees, or hopes to see, or wishes to see, or despairs of seeing that which the secret genie of the spyglass reveals to him who understands how to use it correctly. Only in the proper hands and for the proper eye is it a divine telegraph; for everybody else it is a useless contrivance." (Søren Kierkegaard, Letters, no.17)
- Love is an animal capable of adapting to the most arid mountain of hatred
- The great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus, in Colombia also known as María Mulata) is a highly sociable bird that has also appropriated Caribbean cities as a new habitat. In this video, images of María Mulatas have been transformed into synthesized sound and video sequences via PixelSynth. Thus, the creation of audio topographies from sonograms won out of images leads to a discretization of the original image, with the result alienating itself more and more from the original condition.
- A documentary about the internment of German, Japanese and Italian residents of Colombia during World War II.
- This film makes a tour around Montes De María. By the hands of it's protagonists shows the cultural revival fostered by Expedición Sensorial, an initiative that allows the inhabitants of this region to rediscover their traditions.
- The essence of the Chicago Blues told through the music and passionate testimonies of Billy Branch, master of the harmonica, and Carlos Johnson, left-handed guitar virtuoso. The Sons of Blues at the top, captured live for this documentary, is an emotional and intimate celebration of the blues.
- A reconstruction of the journey of the first radio taken to Colombia's hinterland via rivers and train tracks that once connected regions and ports as artificial rivers, in search of the traces left on the ground by old railroad ties and those of a collective history born as ballast in Colombia. The title refers to the historic 'March of silence', impulsed by presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán a few months before his murder in 1948, after which the country got immersed in a war that tore it to the core and, despite efforts as the agrarian reform of 1961, violence always prevailed. Through photography, video and performance, "March of Silence" creates a contemplative experience with an audio undertone of historic radio excerpts of key speeches in the country's tortuous past. The images of decrepit railroads and train stations in Colombia, in stark contrast with the image of the main performer wandering the train tracks of the first world, shape a nostalgic yet critical portrait of a country that is still struggling to come out of a permanent crisis.