Features Documentaries

Features
La defensa del dragón (The Dragon
Defense)
Venecia (Venice)
Dir. Kiki Álvarez
Feature 74 min. Color. 2014.
Cuba.
World Premiere TIFF 2014.
Postproduction Prize
Nuestra América Primera Copia.
KA, Galaxia 311 & Largasluces.
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Dir. Natalia Santa
Feature. Color. 90 min. Development.
Colombia.
Tribecca, Encuentros Cartagena, Ibermedia,
Cinescope, FDC Script Prize & FDC Production Prize 2014.
Galaxia 311
A chess player who lives of gambling, a
watchmaker who refuses to close his workshop, and a Basque homeopath whose
vocation is poker, spend their days in downtown Bogotá, as refugees in the safety of their
worlds. Life will teach them that is never late
to risk losing.
A rare independent film from Cuba, this
charming and tender portrait of female
friendship follows three hair-salon employees
as they hit the town looking for excitement in
those parts of Havana that tourists rarely see.
www.veneciapelicula.webs.com
https://vimeo.com/99866579
www.facebook.com/VeneciaFilm
https://vimeo.com/67236176
Jirafas (Giraffes)
Looking for Desire
Dir. Kiki Álvarez
Feature 94 min. Color. 2012.
Cuba.
World Premiere Rotterdam 2013. Spirit Award
Blooklyn Film Festival.
KA, Galaxia 311, Largasluces & Open Road
Media.
[email protected]
Dir. Kiki Álvarez
Feature 100 min. Color. Advanced
Development & Production
Cuba / Colombia.
KA, Galaxia 311
[email protected]
Ocho actores habaneros reciben un monólogo inspirado en el personaje de Stella en Un
tranvía llamado deseo, para el casting de una
obra de teatro dirigida por Kiki Álvarez. Sus
vidas, su relación con la actuación, son tan
apasionantes, o quizá más que la ficción.
Lía and Manuel live illegally in a closed house.
Tania, trying to regain the rights over the space
that her uncle left her, intends to evict them.
But the couple is not ready to leave and Tania
decides to dig in the upper floor of the house.
This war will end bringing them closer to each
other.
www.jirafaspelicula.webs.com
https://vimeo.com/38999863
www.facebook.com/Jirafaspelicula?fref=ts
Documentaries
Sady González: una luz en la memoria
(A light in memory)
Nombre de guerra: Alias Yineth
(War Name: Alias Yineth)
Dir. Margarita Carrillo & Guillermo González
Doc. Color / B&W. 52 min.
Colombia.
World Premiere Cartagena (FICCI), 2015.
Galaxia 311 & El ala de arriba.
Dir. Daniela Castro & Nicolás Ordóñez
Doc. Color. 80 min. Production.
Colombia.
Galaxia 311 & Rhayuela Films.
[email protected]
This documentary tells for the first time, the
story of this enigmatic photojournalist who knew
how to portray with his camera five decades of
history of Colombia. He and his wife Esperanza
gathered, protected and preserved an archive
of over 300,000 negatives. Consolidate business and pioneered the graphic reporting and
archival art. This documentary is committed to
the rescue of historical memory and is a journey through t he life of the 30s, 40s & 50s in
Colombia.
War Name: Alias Yineth tells the history of
war in Colombia through the eyes of Yineth, a
peasant girl who was recruited by the guerrilla when she was 13 years old. Fifteen years
later, she works on government programs for
guerrilla demobilized. For her, these last years
have meant a complete change from life in the
jungle to the intention to create her own space
in civil society”.
www.aliasyineth.webs.com
https://vimeo.com/85603711
https://vimeo.com/91378555
Las aventuras alucinadas de Jairo
Pinilla
(The hallucinatory adventures of Jairo Pinilla)
Dir. Simón Hernández
Doc. Color. 70 min. Development.
Colombia.
La popular, Galaxia 311 & Timbo Estudio.
[email protected]
This film follows film director Jairo Pinilla, in
his creative process and financial struggle in
the production of his latest movie, The Shadow of Death, the first Colombian terror movie in 3D. Pinilla is the precursor of terror and
Science Fiction (B movie series), in Colombian
cinema (10 feature films directed). After 10
more years, Jairo is back to prove why he is
the master of terror, in one of the most terrorific countries in Latin America.
https://vimeo.com/94257704
Natalia Ponce: Beauty in Darkness
Aterciopelados: Life Score
Dir. Catalina Flórez & Nicolás Ordóñez
Doc. Color. 70 min. Development.
Colombia. Germany.
Galaxia 311 & Soil Films.
Aterciopelados: Life Score is the intimate
portrait of two famous artists and their band.
Singer, ceramist, pacifist and feminist, mother
and Colombian environmentalist, winner of
Grammys, Andrea Echeverri is a revolutionary
Rock Star. Hector Buitrago, su compañero de
mil batallas ha sido uno de los más influyentes
creadores culturales de su tiempo. Esta
inollvidable pareja de la música en Colombia
ha dejado una huella en varias generaciones.
Aterciopelados: Life Score cuenta esta historia
a partir de las canciones que los inspiraron
desde la infancia hasta la actualidad. Es la
banda sonora de sus vidas y de su banda.
https://vimeo.com/94460279
Ballena blanca (White Whale)
Dir. Nicolás Ordóñez & Juan David Hernádez
Doc. Color & B/N. 90 min. Development.
Colombia / EEUU.
Galaxia 311 & Bones
Dir. Nicolás Serrano
Doc. Color. 80 min. Development.
Colombia.
Galaxia 311
Natalia Ponce fue víctima de un ataque de
ácido hace menos de un año. Desde la
soledad de un nuevo cuerpo, hoy su única
meta es luchar por todas aquellas personas
que como ella han tenido que renunciar a la
belleza física. Este documental hace parte
de una campaña mundial en contra de los
ataques de ácido.
El cineasta busca al abuelo, a quien nunca
conoció. El abuelo fue uno de los más grandes
arquitectos del siglo XX en Colombia. Inventó la
modernidad en Bogotá. Hoy sus enormes obras,
sus ballenas blancas, son habitadas por inusitados
personajes. Lo que fuera un gran club de la alta
sociedad, hoy es un cine porno gay. El cineasta
descubre que las obras del abuelo aún viven.
https://vimeo.com/94460279
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