Works produced between 2023 and 2025. A selection of national authors, creators, and/or collectives with a recognized trajectory, who were born in Colombia. Films that challenge the boundaries of audiovisual language, using sound to question, construct, and engage with the image: films that explore how sound influences the temporality of images through song, soundscape, and voice.
Dreaming a serpent
Maria Carolina Ardila, Liliana Patricia Correa
2025
Medellín
14:00:00
A young taxidermist who has grown up surrounded by fossils and museum displays comes across a photograph that changes everything: in it, her mother—still young—holds the gaze of a snake with an intensity that borders on the ritual. From that moment on, reptiles begin to infiltrate her life in ways she cannot explain. First as an obsession, then as an inevitable presence that permeates her work, her body, her desire. There is something primal and voracious in that attraction—a force that drives her to entwine the figure of the snake with motherhood in a single vital impulse. Her personal story, her lineage, and the enigma of the ophidian become tangled in a spiral of instincts, revelations, and transformations that pull her toward a territory beyond the human.
Filomancia (national premiere)
Mercedes Gaviria
2025
Medellín
08:50:00
On a film set by the Argentine coast, a sound engineer and an actress listen to the wind. In its whips, what seemed like mere noise transforms into signals: echoes of another time intervening in the future. A kiss between friends erupts into the world and restarts it.
A trail of sliiime announces the rain (national premiere)
Mariana Moyano
2025
Cali
10:47:00
In this jungle, a trail of slime announces the rain. It is the footprint of a snail that does not know it is a snail, or that knows, but in any case does not want to be one.
This animation is a visual poem. In it, a snail lives the metaphor of the threshold it must cross to incarnate its own place in the world. It is innocent and does not know that it is a victim of its fantasies, and the frustration it feels with its own nature leads it to want to play with the blurry shadows of the large and dangerous animals of the jungle, leaving all its vulnerability spilled behind it.
Ma-quina [quinine machine]
Sebastián Wiedemann
2024
Medellín
08:15:00
Colonial ghosts do not stop h(a)unting and devouring vegetalities. For centuries they have made the world work for the sake of a single world/ing, while others are ab/used and annihilated. The quinine pharmacy is an example of the strength of their machinery. Fever of conquest contrasted to a feverish state and a trance of perception; feverish images contrasting a world that burns, a quinine machine. Archival malaria, the quinine in constant variation, the plant in constant differentiation, the Bora and Uitoto conjuring, the cosmos reclaiming. Ma-quina.
The Fire Outside (national premiere)
Mónica Bravo
2025
Cali
17:46:00
The Fire Outside portrays the feeling of being a woman pushing forwards towards what she desires, but being pulled back by what she traditionally represents: nourishment, care, devotion, HOME.
Among Whispers and Stones
Carolina Acevedo
2025
Bogotá
05:15:00
This animation explores the body as a place of transition between internal and external, visible and shadow. Through minimal gestures and fading lines, it weaves a wordless narrative where the body dissolves and reintegrates with earth, water, and memory. The inner voice becomes echo, root, and breath, unfolding like a ritual, an endless becoming.
This is not your Garden
Angélica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia
2025
Bogotá
12:53:00
Rooted in wetlands, páramos and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide. A temporal journey in the highlands of Bogota, Colombia, which follows the last 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience of the flora that has historically inhabited this territory. Beginning in the pre-Columbian period of equilibrium between flora and other beings, this anti-anthropocentric report narrates in an expressive and abstract way the effects of colonial deforestation, the drying up of the land, the industrial flattening and the slow cracking of the contemporary city by the flora that has survived.
Relatives of the Luminous Valley
Juan Francisco Rodríguez
2025
Bogotá
11:36:00
In a climate of grief, a child’s play, the gardeners’ rest, and the company of luminous mountain beings conjure a strange air of supernatural tenderness. Different cosmic and spiritual forces reveal a web of caring relationships between the living and the dead.
A night in the mountains I heard a light roar
Andrés Jiménez Quintero
2025
Medellín
14:45:00
After being shot, Pollux, a youthful hitman,roams the realm of the deceased until he encounters Castor, his closest friend in life. Together, they must purge a past marked by betrayal and violence.
When they left, all that remained was a small noise in the mountain
Laura Dávila Argoty
2024
Pasto
17:31:00
In the heart of the Andes of Nariño, the old textile factory in El Contadero lies in ruins. Through the memories of Estela, a woman who worked there in her youth, we glimpse the factory’s early days, her camaraderie with colleagues, and her apprenticeship in traditional guanga weaving. The film revisits the remnants of this failed modernization attempt, as well as the fragile survival of this craft.
AtmoSphaira
Sandra Rengifo
2024
Bogotá
12:00:00
Unprotected by an atmosphere, life ceases. This thin gaseous varnish, a compound of ἀτμός (vapor or air) and σφαῖρα (sphere), allows us to exist as we float in infinity. This is from where this film departs with the recorded chant of the last surviving – and now extinct – Hawaiian Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird.
AtmoSphaira is subdivided into epistolary chapters, into travel logs or letters of confrontation with human and non-human nature. Each segment weaves the sonorous and visual warp of two cyclops, who, from their spherical point of view, grant us – sometimes abstractly, others frontally and very often silhouettedly – a glance into their worlds. From the Andean moors to the Mediterranean Sea, this film guides us with photosensitive textures and superimposed layers through a multiverse evoking a nostalgia of better days, extinction of and within bodies, the ampliation of our conception of events in space and time, and physical as well as immaterial memory. The subjects of this piece are insignificant controllers, facing a finite flow in their expiring bodies, excreting crunchy, perfect images… megapixels that show nothing.
AtmoSphaira invites us to traverse this landscape, confronting us with our vital myopia: We are screen cyclops. It invokes the contradiction in our bodies – ephemeral and on the borderline between the analog and the digital –, overcoming the visible and wrapping us in the sensitive. Here, we become a nebula, a flash of light fertilizing the experience of a tremulous reality, revealing the sacredness of tangible impurity – and confirming that it is truly human to err.
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Iron Furrow
Jesús Torres Cely
2024
Boyacá
16:54:00
Iron Furrow is about the relationship between industry and rurality along the 35km route of a freight train that is more than 60 years old. In this space-time reality has dizzying alterations.
