The Size of Things 2019
Diego lives with his father in a house with no things, no furniture or anything like it. When Diego comes across an enigmatic wooden chair in the rainforest, his simple world is transformed.
Diego lives with his father in a house with no things, no furniture or anything like it. When Diego comes across an enigmatic wooden chair in the rainforest, his simple world is transformed.
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.
Ricardo Zanabria is a 27 year old young man who works in a car workshop. He began to consume bazuco and for this reason he frequents ‘El Bronx’, the most dangerous neighborhood in Bogotá. One day in this place, he hears screams coming from a house; he decides to enter, ignoring that he will not be able to escape from this 'hell', on May 28, the day of the Bronx raid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After time, what remains in the journey of a relationship that is on its way to its end? A final conversation will always be missing while crossing the tunnel before reaching the end.
Leonardo and his son Joaquín, 5 years old, travel to an out-of-town marriage, Joaquín does not know that who will marry is his own father, and with a woman who is not his mother, the difficult revelation will bring problems to the connection between father and son, but it will also question Leonardo's decision to marry.
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.
Barranca travels with his mariachi band to a remote town with the mission of offering a serenade. With no more clue than a voice mail from the client who forgot to give him the address and the name of the woman to whom they should sing, Barranca starts a desperate search through all the village.
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.
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.
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.
Alan and Adriana are taking everything from their home, to let it empty. They try to take out a double bed from their room and it gets stuck between them, pull them apart and block the view. As they can´t see each other, they find the possibility to talk and give each other reasons why they are stopping living together.
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.
Andres arrives at a forgotten town looking for his brother. A picture is the only clue of his whereabouts. He finds a place ruled by violence and silence. Indifference marks his route towards finding his brother.
In a post apocalyptic Bogotá, a man will do anything in order to get to Arcadia, the only place alive in the planet. No matter what it takes, he will take a series of decisions to save himself, until he is trapped by his own destiny.
Henry Forero, a boy of only twelve born in a pop district of Bogotá, is the new global transportation visionary, but Henry’s revolution will be more powerful and more striking: thanks to him Colombian cars will reach the whole world. Henry is a child who teaches that sometimes in life in order to get to the top you have to go downhill.
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.