COL Shortlist 2023
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- DirectorTeresa SaldarriagaCarlos ForeroStarsOscar Hernan AlzateMario Alberto AriasDeisy Camila BuitragoSIMONA AMAYA, a young woman from Boyacá who is around 20 years old, rebellious and daring, decides to dress as a man to be accepted into the patriotic ranks and thus be able to fight for the liberation cause. She achieves her goal and, upon joining the revolutionary ranks, she meets Antonio Arredondo, a 28-year-old young man, a colonel of the Cazadores battalion, to whom she has been assigned as he, known as SERGEANT AMAYA to everyone. Adopting the male identity forces Simona to hide her female condition as well as her feelings in the face of love insinuations from Colonel Arredondo, so as not to be discovered, which would lead to her immediate discharge from the liberation ranks.
- DirectorTheo MontoyaStarsAlejandro HincapiéCamilo MachadoAlejandro MendiganaA funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.
- DirectorFlora MartínezStarsJosé AcostaJulián DíazPatricia ErcoleItzia is a deaf woman who stars listening a mysterious music coming from the south. Villagers think she is losing her mind.
- DirectorSebastian EslavaCamilo Molano ParraStarsSara CasasnovasSebastian EslavaValeria GalvizA man who forged his character in the bullring of life, accomplishing glory and becoming a legend, only to die on the horns of his greatest enemy: his own self-destructive instinct.
- DirectorFabian HernándezStarsDilan Felipe Ramírez EspitiaJesus Alberto CueroDiego Alexander MayorgaCarlos lives in a youth shelter in the center of Bogota, a kind of refuge trying to mitigate the harshness of life. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alfa 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them. While deep inside him, he must face decisions, contradicting these expressions of masculinity.
- DirectorCarlos R. Lopez ParraStarsIrene AriasJonatan Camero GutiérrezManuel Antonio GómezManuel, a 70 year old man and his son Simon, a 30 year man with a profound cognitive disability, live isolated in a small town in the Colombian countryside. For both of them, home comforts are minimal due to their physical problems, the long distances they must travel to get food and the dangers of the region, which are the arising violence of the 50's. Loneliness is not significant for Manuel, however, the current state of his health is a major concern; the appearance of a lump in his abdomen, the presence of an invasive cancer, greatly worries Manuel. The old man does not fear death, what he fears is his departure and leaving his son alone and helpless, afraid to trust something as fragile as the life of Simon to hands that are not his. Due to the circumstances, Manuel begins to consider assisted suicide and the death of his son as a possible alternative to their problems. However, the old man is incapable of hurting his son, even though he is convinced about the relentless stalking of the disease and the vicissitudes that his child will have to endure without him. Uncertainty seems to gain ground in the old man's house until unexpectedly, the arrival of a fugitive, a victim of the Colombian conflict, seems to shed new light. Manuel protects the man, he hides him, and heals his wounds, he saves his life, provided that this individual is convinced of the reasons that move the old and have the fugitive kill him and his son, before the illness does. To achieve this goal, Manuel will have the difficult task of turning a harmless and peaceful man, into a pious executioner.
- DirectorJuan Sebastián QuebradaStarsMiguel GonzalezIlona AlmansaJenny NavarreteA teenager who after the sudden and unexpected death of his younger brother, falls in love with his deceased brother's ex-girlfriend and, through that love, finds the strength to fight on.
- DirectorJulian Diaz VelosaStarsLiliana CalderónJuan Sebastián CasanovaFelipe CorreaThe conflict crosses destinies, SEebastian, a young rebel who dreams of being an artist, is forced to go to the army, where he meets ANDRÉS, a young guerrilla who is infiltrated.
- DirectorMarco Vélez EsquiviaStarsSantiago CottoneAna Isabel CastilloIsabela CordobaA film editor receives a proposal to edit a new film without knowing that he is going to become so obsessed with the project that he will do whatever it takes to save the protagonist from her death in the story.
- DirectorDiego Felipe GuzmanStarsFabian BlancoSergio BorbosaJessica HerreraA dialogue-free futuristic film, an intriguing trip through a hallucinatory world.
- DirectorRuth CaudeliStarsSilvia SantamaríaRuth CaudeliAna María OtáloraHave you ever met a throuple? We are opening our home's doors to show you how our life is, how we, as a women's throuple, live with the absence of one of us. This real-life fiction shows us how we deal with loneliness, jealousy, and how we have to adapt ourselves when three become two.
- DirectorJosephine Landertinger ForeroCristian, an Afro-Colombian millennial from the Caribbean island of Tierra Bomba, must decide whether to continue acting or drop all his masks, and overcome his own fear to live his identity freely. Josephine, the director, follows Cristian for seven years across different countries during this quest for freedom.
- DirectorNicolas van HemelryckClare WeiskopfTen young women reside in a home for girls from the streets of Bogotá. They talk about their roommate, Alis. She is a collective invention and at the same time a protected space that makes it possible to express painful truths.
- DirectorDavid DavidStarsAlejandro AguilarNelson CamayoSheila MonterolaAmid a political crisis, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, an Andean woman, her husband, and brother live on looting travelers. However fate pushes her to the brink of illusion and getting lost in mysterious dreams.