Festival de Cortos de Bogotá / Short Film Festival

Black shadows around the home, Camila (38) receives a visit from a medium friend. A dead owl in the garden. Could it be a sign of bad omen? The director and his family are immersed in a strange and dark world, where superstition, prayer and indigenous rituals seem to be the only thing that can save them from the curse brought by a country plunged in violence. This film is a self-portrait of a family that wants to free itself from the ghosts of its past.

Where do memories of sexual abuse go? How to be sure of what we have experienced? In an attempt to rebuild the foggy space of memory, a woman returns with a film crew to the house where she was assaulted. In the gap between reality and fiction, she finds a multiplicity of voices that seek meaning where there is none.

Gregorio is an old man who finds in his son forgotten video camera an opportunity to get out of the routine, relive moments of intimacy and confront the past.

Local elder Don Facundo Rodriguez attempts in vain to recall the story of the day he discovered a human skull in his backyard which was later revealed to belong to the earliest known inhabitant of the Americas.
In Manuel Correa’s odd chronicle of rumors and distant memories, questions and answers play tricks on each other - All of this invites us to ask, how much of our own history is fiction?

The word Yvuuhza means people of adornment, of tranquility, of peace. The people will dance to receive a brother who returns to the territory after living for a long time in the city. A dance that connects with the spirits of nature and drives away the horrors that lie in wait for the human world.

Grandfather José Agustín embarks on a journey through the world of dreams, wandering the landscapes of his longed-for Guajira. This journey is a glance towards his inner self, he reconciles with the pains of his past and prepares himself for his death. On the other side, the figure of his mother awaits him, she guides and accompanies him.