Eight Colombian productions will participate in the next edition of the Sao Paulo Short Film Festival (Brazil), which is coming this year to its 34th edition, which will take place between August 24 and September 3.
Organized by the Kinoforum Cultural Association, the São Paulo International Short Film Festival – Curta Kinoforum (SPFF) is one of the largest events dedicated to the short film format in the world.
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Held since 1990 in the city of São Paulo, every year, the festival selects around 200 productions from a wide range of countriesseeking to represent the diversity and variety of short film production in the world, and to broaden the dialogue between international audiovisual productions and Latin American production.
In the Mostra Latino-Americana category, the following will participate: ‘La perra’, a short film directed by Carla Melo Gampert and produced by Evidencia Films and June Films, beneficiary in the Short Film Production category of the Fund for Cinematographic Development, production that competed for the Palme d’Or at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival and was part of the official selection of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
Colombian productions at the festival in Brazil
‘The cracks are coming’ by Daniel Mateo Vallejo, is the Colombian production selected as part of the Refresh Vol. 4 catalog, which participated in the official selection of the 52 Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR),
Dublin International Film Festival, 37 Friborg International Film Festival, 12 Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, the Ciclo Rosa – National Short Film Festival, the 23 Korea Queer Film Festival, the Gaze International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, among others, explore identity and the way in which artistic institutions they appropriate and deny the expression queer.
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In this same category is the Colombian production ‘Black the Sea’ by Juan David Mejía Vásquez and which was part of the official selection of the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. Arnaldo has music in his blood, as well as the bohemian life. He barely survives in the midst of an incredulous community.
Caught between the need to get money for his daughter with whom he does not live and his desire to seek other horizons, Arnaldo ends up leaving him. everything and try to cross the sea that separates him from his new life.
Diego Cortés, Daniela Briceño and Blanca Castellar are the directors of ‘Gloria’, with whom they participated in Bogoshorts and at the Panorama de Cine Colombiano in Paris.
The film uses the stop-motion technique to create a silent story. Gloria, in her body tired of her, goes slowly between her thoughts, the mirror, the siphon and the light in the bathroom. Between pains and pleasures, what he carries inside grows like a weed without being able to contain himself any longer.
‘Bajamar’ directed and produced by Juana Castro, a short that participated in the official selections of the Festival Huesca International Film Festival and in Bogoshorts, tells the story of Luisawho falls in love for the first time with his neighbor Anna while spending summer vacation at the beach with his family.
At the same time, Luisa will realize that her parents’ relationship is more complex than she thought, which it will make you question your ideals of love and inevitably grow.
In Refresh Vol.3, ‘Zarzal’ by Sebastián Valencia Muñoza short film that participated in the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival, the Buenos Aires International Film Festival, the Chicago Latino Film Festival, Busan International Short Film Festival, BuSho Film, Concorto Film, among others.
In Colombia, beginning of the 90s, Jacobo accompanies his father on long journeys by car. At five years old, everything is a game for him. He is unaware of the true search for his father, despite the stories that constantly cross his path about the missing and dead. This autobiographical portrait also refers to one of the most terrifying and bloody decades of the armed conflict.
Another Colombian production at the Mostra Horizontes will participate in ‘Unless we dance’ by Fernanda Pineda and Hanz Rippe Gabriel, produced by Páramo Films, which received the young jury award for Best Documentary at the 69th edition of the International Oberhausen.
The film addresses the story of Black Boys Chocó, a group of young people who, through dance and music, aspire to positively change the community of El Reposo, one of the most violent neighborhoods in Quibdó.
Finally, the Mostra Internacional will present the French film, ‘À Beira do Delírio’, directed by the Colombian Maria Claudia Blancoand produced by the Superior National School of Image and Sound Trades.
In this story, a disagreement between two passengers on a subway car quickly turns into hostility. The protagonists of this public altercation are three complete strangers whose lives have been brought to the brink. delirium due to the Covid-19 health crisis.
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