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4:00 pm
September 6, 2024

Sandra, the new security guard at a shopping centre, crosses paths with a bus driver during her daily commute through Medellín. Through various experiences of desire, she begins a journey towards self-discovery and reclaiming her sexuality.

Nominated for Best First Feature Award at Berlinale, 2024.

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

6:15 pm
September 6, 2024

Director Alfonso Quijada in attendance!
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog, searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.

6:15 pm: English narration
8:30 pm: Spanish narration with English subtitles

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

8:30 pm
September 6, 2024

Director Alfonso Quijada in attendance!
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog, searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.

6:15 pm: English narration
8:30 pm: Spanish narration with English subtitles

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

2:00 pm
September 7, 2024

Repeat screening of LA SUPREMA. Preceded by the short film KUAYÉ (13 min).
A short documentary film filled with the rhythm, flavour, and joy of the music of the Colombian Pacific. Fredy “Sebastián” Cuero, charismatic artist and marimba player, guides us from Guapi, Cauca, to Cali with his contagious smile and optimism, and his dream of being one of the best players in the world.

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

4:15 pm
September 7, 2024

In Colombia, a nation marred by profound racial and socio-economic disparities, a Black woman from a rural background challenges the status quo by launching a presidential campaign. Re-appropriating the term “igualada,” Francia Márquez, catapults a movement to the upper echelons of power, by refusing to “know her place.” Fifteen years in the making, this documentary peels back the curtain on how unprecedented change can happen.

Nominee, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, 2024

Preceded by the short film THREE ROOMS (dir. Andrea López, 10 min)

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

4:00 pm
September 8, 2024

Producer Natalia Rodriguez Garavito in attendance!

The documentary PATHS OF BULLA AND TAMBÓ: The Moñitos Heritage is a compilation of portraits of Bullerengueros and Bullerengueras from Moñitos, Córdoba, Colombia. Through songs and drumbeats, it creates sensitive and musical journeys that encourage encounters and conversations among people of different ages, vocations, and social conditions.

AL SABOR AFRO unfolds the culinary history of Afro-descendant women in the municipality of Moñitos, Córdoba (popularly called “the paradise of the Caribbean”) through the eyes of Amalia, a young entrepreneur from the community.

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

5:15 pm
September 9, 2024

Directed by Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, this riveting experimental work delves deep into the misty Páramo region, into an ecosystem rich in water, but also saturated with oral narratives that populate the territory like foggy patches. Reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land, the film traverses a living and elusive archive, suspended between Simon Bolivar’s past and Colombia’s present.

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

2:00 pm
September 10, 2024

Sandra, the new security guard at a shopping centre, crosses paths with a bus driver during her daily commute through Medellín. Through various experiences of desire, she begins a journey towards self-discovery and reclaiming her sexuality.

Nominated for Best First Feature Award at Berlinale, 2024.

Cineworks

1131 Howe Street (entrance in back lane)

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

6:00 pm
September 11, 2024

Director Patricia Ayala in attendance!
Alicia and Michael, her teenage son, live in a palafitic neighbourhood in Tumaco, an area in the Colombian Pacific that concentrates all the beauty and also the terror of this country. She knows that the armed group, which controls her neighbourhood, can recruit her son at any time. It is why she guards him, watches over him and protects him. But one day, Michael does not return from school and she begins a frantic search that will lead her to face her worst fears, finding the way out in the love and solidarity of her people.

Preceded by the short film TERESA'S CHOICE with director Marlene Castaños in attendance.

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

2:00 pm
September 12, 2024

A Peruvian father labours patiently, chipping at the white volcanic stone that forms an extraordinary landscape. His son is part of the modern world: he uses cameras and drones in order to create the digital model of a church on a computer. Separated by the mysterious death of the wife/mother figure in the family, these men do not connect, and yet their paths cross in a ghostly manner.

Preceded by THE VAMPIRES OF POVERTY (1977, 28 min)
A classic film of Colombian cinema by directors Carlos Mayolo & Luis Opsina that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit misery with mercantilist purposes. It is a scathing criticism of “porno-misery” and the opportunism of the dishonest documentary making “socio-political documentaries” in the third world to sell them in Europe and win prizes.

Cineworks

1131 Howe Street (entrance in back lane)

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
September 13, 2024

Director Patricia Ayala in attendance!

Alicia and Michael, her teenage son, live in a palafitic neighbourhood in Tumaco, an area in the Colombian Pacific that concentrates all the beauty and also the terror of this country. She knows that the armed group, which controls her neighbourhood, can recruit her son at any time. It is why she guards him, watches over him and protects him. But one day, Michael does not return from school and she begins a frantic search that will lead her to face her worst fears, finding the way out in the love and solidarity of her people.

Cineworks

1131 Howe Street (entrance in back lane)

Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7