Festival de Cortos de Bogotá / Short Film Festival

1996. As Colombia descends into a bloody insurgent war, a family must travel along a rural road to visit their ailing grandfather. To avoid a potential kidnapping they must change their identities, bringing their youngest son, Alvaro 8, into a world of violence, fear and anger that will irreversibly transform him.

The machinery burns. A tormented teenage girl, along with a crew of young men, have teamed up on a discreet mission to dig through the remains of a recently abandoned mine, searching for scraps of a gold lode that could change their lives. The reverie erodes her sense of reality, opening the door to a phantasmagoric universe guided by the glow of precious stones. Dreaming of a different future with her elusive lover, far away from the flames.

Ramiro is fired from his job after 19 years. As he goes through his solitary days, he meets three unemployed men like him who get together to hang around and keep each other company, while they fantasize about taking revenge on their former employers, hoping to find their happiness one small triumph at a time.

Johana (Marcela Benjumea), a taxi driver, an absent mother and in debt, goes out to pick up passengers. A criminal gets into her taxi and abandons a LP worth millions that has just been stolen from Franklin, a wild record addict who kills for his beloved LP. Johana, seeing the opportunity to relieve her debts and get closer to her family, looks for buyers without suspecting that there are several people behind the same thing.

Eva and Jacobo are on their way to the hospital to have their first baby, the birth is imminent. The couple is in a strong dispute because Jacobo has been absent for days. Eva reproaches him for his disappearance amidst increasingly frequent contractions. Jacobo drives at full speed with anger and anxiety.