Cinema Colombiano invites you this year to travel through tropical landscapes, páramos, rivers and roads. They will take you through Visiones de la Tierra to reflect on the changes the planet and the species living in here are going through. They will present films that investigate from Colombia the destruction of the planet, in connection with the historical over-exploitation of natural resources. You will see characters who wonder whether to live in the countryside or be carried away by the city. Others who, from the millenary indigenous wisdom, resist against the destruction of ecosystems.

After the films there will be music, with guest DJs. The Dooombiamberos playing tasty cumbias in Amsterdam, and DJ Edna Martinez delighting us in Rotterdam with a mix of champeta and other tropical rhythms.

Full program in Cavia HERE

Program in WORM on Sunday: https://cinecol.nl/

CAMINOS (Roads)

Ayênan
Felipe Castelblanco, Lydia Zimmermann | 2020 | Switzerland, Austria, Colombia | 35'

‘Ayenan’ is the smallest particle in the universe that jumpstarts life. This film documents a counter-expedition that follows the upward movement of water throughout its natural cycle, going from the Andean-Amazon foothills to the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of Colombia. Along the way, the journey reveals the traces of a long-forgotten expedition in search of El Dorado and territorial philosophy of Indigenous groups from the region. Climbing up from a river in the lower Amazon to a lake in the upper Andes, members of Ñambi Rimai Media Collective come to a sacred landscape in order to plant water back into the mountain and return a long-lost treasure. Together they create an offering, a ritual, which embodies situated forms of biocultural peace-building between regions, cultures, and non-human worlds.

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Suspensión
Simón Uribe Martínez | 2019 | Colombia | 75’

In the south of Colombia, in the middle of the jungle, there is a mega concrete structure abandoned and without destination. A bridge that collides with the mountain and leads nowhere. This work symbolizes the obsession of the human being to master the impenetrable obstacles posed by nature and also the corruption that reduces this search to ashes and empty efforts. After almost a century of attempts, the dream of modern highways is blurred and the most absurd situations are erected as lost highways. Workers, engineers and tourists pass through the theater of the illusory and the diffuse; all seem stranded in time and time also allows disasters. Suspension advances along a road where the force of nature is revealed in its maximum expression, where delirious dreams and human failures create a bitter metaphor of the Colombian State.