SHORTFILMS PROGRAM # 2

Sun May 19 2024 at 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm UTC-04:00

Quad Cinema | New York

The Colombian Film Festival
Publisher/HostThe Colombian Film Festival
SHORTFILMS PROGRAM # 2
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About this Event

Resolution. Director Ricardo Fernández Jiménez

Atormentado por los vídeos de la videocámara de su hija fallecida, y tras recibir una caja con información sobre el responsable de su muerte, un hombre está resuelto a vengarse.

Haunted by the videos from his deceased daughter's camcorder, and after receiving a box containing information about the person responsible for her death, a man is resolved to take revenge.


La perra. Directora Carla MELO GAMPERT

Ser hija, ser madre, ser perra. Volverse mujer. 


Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman. 


Disfonías. Directoras:  Manuela Giraldo, María Camila Pulgarín

En su pequeña finca, Juan se ve interrumpido por el inusual canto de un pájaro barranquero, que anuncia una premonición de muerte. El infortunio se cumple con la pérdida de su voz. Manuela, su hija, emprende una búsqueda por redescubrirlo, mediante una narración intimista que explora el pasado, las nuevas facetas y silencios de un hombre que ya no es el mismo.


On his small estate, Juan is interrupted by the unusual song of a motmot bird, which announces a premonition of death. The misfortune is fulfilled with the loss of his voice. Manuela, his daughter, embarks on a search to rediscover him through an intimate narrative that explores the past, the new facets and silences of a man who is no longer the same.


Yolanda camina sola. Director : John Agudelo Suárez

Yolanda, viaja de su pequeño pueblo a la ciudad más grande del país. Va sola y ligera, lo único que la acompaña es una caja de madera que mandó a hacer para guardar allí los restos recién hallados de su hija asesinada y desaparecida 10 años atrás.

Yolanda travels from her small town to the largest city in the country. She goes alone and light; the only thing that accompanies her is a wooden box that she had made to store the newly found remains of her daughter, who was murdered and disappeared.


Purgatorio.  Directores: Sergio Romero Ocampo & Juan Blanquicet


Beatríz (Gloria Gómez) recibe una inesperada carta de la “Búsqueda de la Verdad”  una comisión encargada de hallar la verdad en el conflicto armado del país y a brindar reparación a las víctimas de la toma paramilitar que dejó desaparecidos a su esposo e hijo. Ahora Beatriz, después de reprimir este terrible suceso, deberá viajar de regreso a Campoalegre, Huila, sin saber que deberá ver frente a frente a uno de sus victimarios para conocer lo que realmente le pasó a su familia y esclarecer los hechos que cambiaron el rumbo de su vida


Beatríz (Gloria Gómez) receives an unexpected letter from "Search for the Truth," a commission in charge of finding the truth in the country's armed conflict and providing reparations to the victims of the paramilitary attack that left her husband and son missing. Now Beatriz, after repressing this terrible event, must travel back to Campoalegre, Huila, unaware that she will have to come face to face with one of her perpetrators to find out what happened to her family and to clarify the events that changed the course of her life.


We are Almost there. Director Carlos Prias


En 1931, Charlie, un hombre afroamericano, su hermana Odetta y su novia Belinda emprenden un viaje a Atlantic City. En la carretera, una parada de tráfico de rutina por un oficial de policía caucásico escala rápidamente convirtiéndose en una situación que pone en riesgo la integridad del grupo. La situación termina obligando a Charlie a elegir entre la no violencia para proteger a su hermana o enfrentar la injusticia, arriesgando su propia vida para defender a su novia.
In 1931, Charlie, an African-American young man, his younger sister, and his girlfriend embark on a journey to Atlantic City. A routine traffic stop by a police Officer escalates into a tense situation, forcing Charlie to choose between non-violence to protect his sister or confronting injustice, risking his own life to defend his girlfriend.


Bogotá Story. Director Esteban Pedraza


Pilar, una joven madre en Bogotá, recibe una oportunidad de pasantía en los EE. UU y su esposo, Alejandro, no está dispuesto a dejar el país. Ambientada en 1992, mientras Colombia enfrenta una era de narcoviolencia, coches bomba y cortes de energía diarios, Pilar y Alejandro lidian con sus deseos contrarios, el peligro, la oscuridad que los rodea. En tres días, Pilar debe decidir entre mantener a su familia o continuar su sueño profesional.

Pilar, a young mother in Bogotá, receives an internship opportunity in the States, but her husband, Alejandro, is unwilling to leave the country. Set in 1992, as Colombia faces an era of drug violence, car bombs, and daily power outages, Pilar and Alejandro must contend with their opposing desires and the danger and darkness around them.



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Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, New York, United States

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