After a call announcing the visit of a church delegate to San Luis de Frá, a town as ordinary as it is absurd, Jose María Marín, the parish priest in charge, knows that the time has come to be responsible. He and his old sacristan will have to find a corpse and inaugurate the cemetery at any cost.
An adult male struggles to reconcile with life while sheltering at home with his teenage sister. His constant attempt to hide from a threat that lies beyond the property line, further complicates his relationship with reality.
Covering news of impact in Bogotá has become a personal race between Roco and Matías, two contemporary journalists who are reaching their fifties, determined to be the first to get red notices for their editors. 30 years dedicated to competing for the most macabre news, they are driven to cross paths through death, in a desolate and hostile city that offers them no shelter or company.
Julio, a blind coffee vendor, recounts his relationship with Daniel, a 9-year-old boy whom he rescued from a life in the streets and raised as his own. After an unfortunate encounter with a social services worker, Julio will have to fight to protect Daniel and keep their relationship strong.
Alvaro Rodriguez, an old swindler, owes a lot of money to a dangerous moneylender. To pay off the debt, he proposes to the man, who is also his boss, to finance one of his businesses. In the end, the 'indigenous malice' wins out and he ends up cheating his boss.
Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers of Middle Eastern descent, who live with their mother in a social housing complex, known as Housing States, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. While Ali, the older brother suffers from heroin dependence, Syed, the youngest, tries to make a different life from his brother and finds a means of escape in urban poetry.
A turtle lives peacefully at the bottom of the sea, until an apparatus accident forces him to fight to survive and undergo the physical and environmental changes that human unconsciousness has produced.
Omar, a construction worker, receives a strange voice message on his cell phone; even though no one speaks in the message, he hears the melody of a song amidst the noise of the recording. From that moment on, he begins a search to find the name of the song.
Before leaving to Europe to continue his career as a musician, Ariel decides to spend his last day in Bogotá with Lorenzo, his baby son. In the brief encounters with his family and friends, Ariel begins to learn the meaning of being a father, a few months later the illusion collapses.
A just divorced couple makes plans to buy several materials to make a minotaur costume for their son Lorenzo. This work wakes up some old issues, but forces them to work together as a team and think about the personal idea of family.
Martillo, tells the story of Pablo’s sexual awakening, a student at a boys' school where Sister Edwin teaches discipline with an iron hand. At home, Pablo lives in a different world. His father is a plastic surgeon and shamelessly exposes him to his sexual world and that of his lover. His mother is dead and Albina, his nanny, takes care of him like a son. At thirteen, Pablo is confused. When he discovers Sister Edwin's secret, he will leave his innocence behind.
Vicente is an old rooster who has a good chicken in the red, and the plant to play, but his rival, the only one who stands in the way of silver, is Ricardo, his own 18 year old son. Ricardo, tired of the life he has led with his father, has everything arranged to win. The old man's life is on hold.
It is the year of grace of 1950. Ignacio (11) is celebrating his First Communion, a step that, according to catholics, puts him closer to God and opens up a space for him in the believers community. Communion implies, he will have enough grace to go to Paradise one day. It is also the day he is declared as a “conscious” person. However, from long time before, his tutor, sister Josefa, and the priest of the church, have said terrible things about his dead father, a communist that by now, as they say, should be burning in hell’s fire.
Paula is a young free-spirited girl who lives with her musician father in a big loud city. On the verge of leaving her teenage years behind, she’s fully exploring what life has to offer: drugs, sex, parties, friends... Social life is crucial at this point of acceptance and self-knowledge. Nonetheless, her apparent confidence tumbles when love crosses her path. When everything goes wrong, as she returns home, an encounter with her father will bring her the calm she was looking for all along.
Aurora is 25 years old. She plays frantically in an arcade in order to win a giant teddy bear that costs 3200 tickets. She can’t stop because that would bring her back to reality, to what happened the day before and the reason why she was in the hospital. If she wins the teddy bear, everything will be okay, the wound on her arm will heal and she will be safe. But denial is only the first stage.
Milena and her companions have acquired good taste for classic films by working in an independent movie theater; as always, after closing, they take the place to celebrate another clandestine Tuesday. When the owner of the cinema, a dedicated film buff, discovers them using the room without his permission, Milena will try to save her job and that of her colleagues by showing him that, despite their very different lives, they are united by the same passion for cinema.
An uninterrupted journey through a Street in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. The film explores the different moods, rhythms, faces and voids that coexist in close proximity within the prismatic space of the street which at the same time is the time of a whole generation.
Two humble fishermen who live in a forgotten hamlet near to the Cauca river, discovered that a dead body had been tangled in their cast net. Failing to give notice to the authorities, they decided that it would be more humane to bury him, so they start dragging the dead body towards the jungle.
When I was a little boy I saw the FIFA World Cup USA 49 with my father. I used to live in a conservative town, and I had my hair cut as the Roberto Baggio´s, the italian player. My father cutted my hair yelling: Cut you hair as a men! This documentary is the search, still without an answer, about what is a men's hair cut in Colombia.
