Colombian Cinema Takes the Stage at International Film Festivals

Productions that will have their world premiere, that are in the post-production phase and are looking for help to see the light or that are still on paper, ready for someone to fall in love with them and make them come true. Colombian cinema arrives anyway at the most important festivals in the second half of the year. Toronto International Film Festival (from September 7 to 17) and San Sebastián, in Spain (between the 22 and 30 of the same month), are the next appointments.

(We suggest: The 90s, the blackout, the arrival of the devil and the sexual awakening in a movie)

Fifteen projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Spain will participate in the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum from September 25 to 27 in the 71st edition of San Sebastián. There is the Colombian-Italian Daniela Abad Lombana —daughter of the writer Héctor Abad Faciolince and remembered for the documentaries Carta a una sombra and The Smiling Lombana—, who will defend her third feature film project, entitled All this were manga.

In the same contest, six more projects in the post-production phase from Argentina, Chile and Colombia will compete in the WIP Latam forum, which will be held from September 25 to 27. Colombian Camila Beltrán aspires to win the award with her first feature, Una bestia, shot last year in Bogotá and which combines her adolescent emotions from the 1990s: the blackout (the famous electricity rationing), the ‘Gaviria hour’ (when the clock was moved forward one hour to take advantage of more daylight), theories about the end of the world, the coming of the beast and an upcoming total eclipse of the Sun.

‘The other son’, by director Juan Sebastián Quebrada.

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To close the national participation in San Sebastián is the film by director Juan Sebastián Quebrada, produced by Evidencia Films, by producer Franco Lolli.
El otro hijo will have its world premiere at the festival in the prestigious new directors category, in which it will compete for the Kutxabank award.

More titles to Toronto

At the beginning of September, the 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will take place, where La Suprema, by director Felipe Holguín, will debut.
It is the story of Laureana, an Afro-Colombian teenager who lives in La Suprema, a small coastal town, and who dreams of being a boxer. The story mixes drama and humor to highlight the courage and persistence of a community that fights for better conditions and even to appear on the map!
The film will be part of the Official Discovery Selection and will compete for the People’s Choice Award and the Platform Prize Award, awarded by the jury.

Finally, La perra, a short film directed by Carla Melo Gampert, will have its North American premiere in Toronto’s Short Cuts section, after being an Official Selection at the last Cannes Film Festival.

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2023-08-15 04:24:19
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