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10.000 KM
Directed by Juan Andrés Arango
Gaidaá (17) has escaped the war in her country, after spending some years in a refugee camp, a group of traffickers have convinced her mother to pay them a high sum of money in exchange for Gaidaá to reach the United States. Although she is very young, Gaidaá will soon become aware of the dark web that transports her and must leave all her fears behind to escape and start a solo journey; her dream of becoming a Youtuber will become the tool to denounce the problems of migration. Diedunnè (25) is fleeing poverty and racism. After living in Chile for a few years, he is pushed to Darien because he can no longer find work after the pandemic, being Afro and poor is a burden he has had to live with all his life, but he does not want to carry it any longer. Xing-Ping (37) is forced by a network of drug traffickers to pick up merchandise in Buenaventura and transport it overland to the United States. He is the guinea pig of a drug trafficking network that is looking for new routes and to whom he owes a favor. Although his motivation is purely economic, along the way he will find a network that supports him and at the same time he will have to decide if the merchandise he is carrying is worth more than his own life.
The journey through a Colombia full of contrasts will force these three characters to face their destiny, their fears and their demons. They will travel 10,000 kilometers to understand that the very fact of migrating is, in part, a journey inward.
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BEFORE THE FIRE
Directed by Angel Giovanni Hoyos
There was a time when only millenary trees inhabited, together with the Mapuche community in the southern hills of what is known today as Argentina. Gone were the fields free of wire fences and to the vastness of the landscape that reigns between the mountains and the steppe, came the fire. Since then, forest fires incessantly shake the Mapuche ancestral territory. This is the case of La Cuesta del Ternero, a rural area 15 kilometers from the town of El Bolsón, in Rio Negro. The Lof Quemquemtrew resists there.
Romina, El Piojo, their children Lilu and Antu. They will be the main characters of the film that will emphasize Romina (the mother) for her political skills and Lilu (the daughter) for her magical abilities. It is September 2021. Two police and military checkpoints surround the Mapuche camp in the middle of the mountains. Women and children take refuge in makeshift structures made of plastic and branches to withstand the cold. After a violent eviction they are accused of “usurpation of the land”, but they cannot leave their community, the Lof Quemquemtrew (La Cuesta del Ternero) is their home.
Days later, two armed men enter the community, irregularly trespassing police controls; they shoot and flee, leaving behind one wounded and one dead: Elías Garay. Thanks to the quick action of the community, the assassins were captured.
One year later, in the courts of Bariloche, the trial of the two accused of Elías' death begins. The prosecution calls the inhabitants of the community and members of the camp to testify. The trial is not only about the murder of Elías; it becomes a trial about the cause of the Mapuche people and the legitimacy of the recovery of a territory.
Soraya, Nestor, El Piojo and Romina, members of the community, are forced to remember the murder. At the end of the trial, the two murderers of Elías are sentenced to 6 and 12 years in prison. The Lof is located at the top of the hill, deep in the forest, between winding roads that lead to a sort of paradise. They work the land, raise animals, maintain territorial control, harvest pine trees to recover the native trees, work their weavings with ancestral techniques, harvest medicinal plants and take care of the river while practicing their spiritual ceremonies.
Through the daily life of the inhabitants, filmed over the years, the process of the recovery of the territory and the Mapuche customs are present in every shot.
BEFORE THE FIRE is then presented in a double way, the first is the recovery of the territory and the struggle that the community has to face (against the state, the trial, the difficulties of the climate, etc.) On the other hand, the conviction that the community has to recover their roots and their Mapuche identity; while seeking a fairer life.
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LA SOMBRA DE LA BESTIA
Directed by Felipe Holguín Caro
When 3 brutally murdered children are found in the small town of Génova (Colombia) in 1998, Aldemar Durán, a detective from the Armenia city prosecutor's office, witnesses the scene and becomes obsessed with the case. Dusting off archived crimes, Aldemar finds similar patterns.
After exposing to the prosecutor María Navarro and the local homicide director, Alfonso Villegas, that this is not an isolated case, he is assigned to the investigation along with detective John Suárez, with whom he has a conflictive past. With minimal resources provided by a lacking judicial system, Aldemar, like La Sombra, walks in the footsteps of La Bestia, while internally battling injustice and fear for his family.
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L A C A M I N A T A
Directed by Maria Gamboa
On the eve of Christmas Eve and after the murder of her husband, Jakie is forced to flee her homeland with her mother and daughter. Memories of her life lacerate her like the nature that seems to envelop them at every turn. Guilt torments her like the landmines that lurk. An odyssey to start anew and whose challenge is the fulfillment of a promise.
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Hernia
Directed by Jorge Andrés Botero
Where do hernias arise from? How does the pressure of an intervertebral disc relate to your relationship with your partner? Through 8mm images, marriages recorded over the years and everyday images, the director of this film seeks to delve into the idea of living together as a couple, the ways in which marriages are built and how new relationships are coupled. In this game between the search to understand where a Hernia comes from and how to have a balanced relationship, this film emerges, an essay documentary that constantly laughs at itself while searching from deep within how we can delve into our past relationships in order to understand all that we carry unnecessarily.