Todos tus muertos / All Your Dead Ones
Aunque es domingo, día de las elecciones, Salvador decide levantarse muy temprano y comienza a trabajar en su parcela como un día cualquiera. Es un campesino humilde, pero obstinado y escéptico, que hace poco caso de la algarabía y el alboroto que se ha armado en el pueblo alrededor de la reñida elección del alcalde. Pero su rutina cambia sorpresivamente; Durante la madrugada alguien ha entrado en su terreno y ha arrojado varios cadáveres que se amontonan macabramente en medio de sus cultivos. Salvador, lleno de preocupación y rabia, va hacia el pueblo a denunciar la masacre, pero el alcalde y el comandante de la policía, como prudentes autoridades, deciden no avisarle a nadie ni encender alarmas para no perturbar los comicios. Una vez que llegan a la parcela del campesino y enfrentan la grotesca situación se dan cuenta que están al borde de un escándalo de orden público y, en ese preciso día, de un estrépito político. Los tres hombres tienen por delante calurosas y tensas horas para decidir qué hacer con la montaña de muertos. Mientras tanto, los mosquitos, el teléfono celular, un rumor periodístico, la ira de un hacendado y el helicóptero de una misión humanitaria zumbarán con agobio en sus oídos. Una relato metafórico, simple, casi teatral, acerca de la indolencia que soportan las víctimas del conflicto armado en Colombia.
Although it is Sunday and election day, Salvador wakes up very early and begins to work on his land as any other day. He is a humble farmer, but stubborn and skeptical; who pays no attention to the noise and bustle that has been assembled in the town around the tough election for mayor. But suddenly his routine changes; during the night someone had entered his land and has thrown several corpses piled in half of his crops. Salvador, worried and angry, goes to the town to denounce the slaughter, but the mayor and the police commander, as prudent authorities, decided neither to tell anyone nor to turn alarms so it won’t disturb the elections. Once they reach Salvador’s land and face the grotesque situation, they realize that they’re on the verge of a public scandal and, in that same day, a political din. The three men have ahead of them, hot and tense hours before deciding what to do with the mountain of dead. Meanwhile, the mosquitoes, the cell phone, the rumor news, the wrath of a landowner and the helicopter with a humanitarian mission, will buzz strain into their ears. A metaphorical, simple and almost theatrical story, about the indolence the victims of armed conflict in Colombia have to bear.
Ciudad Delirio / CIUDAD DELIRIO
Javier, un médico español, en una noche mágica conoce a Angie, bailarina y dueña de una escuela de salsa, que aspira ser parte de Delirio: el espectáculo de salsa más famoso del mundo. Al volver a Madrid, Javier no se siente bien con la vida que lleva, ni en su trabajo, ni con su pareja, animado por su mejor amiga resuelve volver a la sucursal del cielo, Cali, para instalarse allí una temporada. Tan rápido como los movimientos característicos de la salsa, Javier y Angie se volverán a encontrar y vivirán entre dos culturas un romance casi imposible, lleno de tropiezos, dentro del mundo de los bailarines de salsa, en la ciudad donde bailar es la meta, es el sueño y es la vida.
JAVIER, an introverted Spanish doctor, flies to Cali to attend a medical convention. On his first night in town, he meets ANGIE (28), a beautiful charming dancer who owns a modest salsa school. Javier unexpectedly gets drunk, waking up alone in a motel without knowing how to reach her. Angie also had a good time that night, but she doesn´t need any more complications in her life. She just separated from her dance partner and father of her son. In addition, she is focused on preparing the best possible choreography with her students in order to audition for DELIRIO. DELIRIO is the most prestigious salsa dance company in the world. Each year they prepare a show and all the dance schools in Cali audition. Being admitted is every salsa dancer´s dream. Javier has an old colleague, PALOMA, who lives in Cali. She practices primary care medicine, unlike the medicine of reports and conferences that he is used to. When he goes to visit her he is forced to deal with a real medical emergency. The act of saving a young man´s life shakes up something inside of him and begins to make him question his career and the life he has been living for the past years. Back in Spain, Javier can´t manage to get back into his life. He doesn´t feel comfortable anymore with his work, his girlfriend and his life in general. Encouraged by Paloma, he decides to take some time off and return to Cali. Then little by little he starts to have more contact with patients and recovers his enthusiasm for the practice of medicine. Helped by a bunch of funny and genuine locals, he will also catch on with the festive spirit of the city and salsa music, enjoying again the simple pleasures in life. In the meantime, Angie is facing an important personal and professional challenge. She has agreed to dance once again with her ex-husband for the DELIRIO audition, but this decision ends up complicating greatly her life. On top of everything, Angie must replace the lack of resources and experience of her school with great effort and imagination. Fate, however, will bring Angie and Javier together in a series of encounters and misunderstandings, while we witness the preparation of the choreography that will open the door to the dream of being part of DELIRIO.
180 Segundos / 180 Seconds
Zico es jefe de una banda de ladrones que desea dar un último golpe y marcharse junto con su hermana Angélica del país. Para ello planifica perfectamente un atraco para llevarse un millón de dólares producto de un negocio de cambio de moneda.
La estrategia es perfecta y su equipo el mejor: Su hermana Angélica es experta en sistemas de seguridad, El Guajaro un astuto asistente y Rincón, el nuevo miembro, un tipo duro, rápido y fuerte.
Sin embargo Zico no cuenta con los detalles detrás de todo esto: un grupo de policías corruptos, al mando de Alzamendi, realiza golpes a bandas delincuenciales, infiltrando sus agentes en ellas. Un millón de dólares es nada comparado con los 10 millones en joyas de la mafia, que están en una bodega arriba del negocio que Zico va a robar.
El tiempo y el destino se juntan en 3 minutos para que todos los personajes vivan, en fracciones, los últimos segundos de sus vidas. 180 segundos en fracciones sacaran a flote lo mejor y lo peor del ser humano.
Zico is the head of the most successful and envied crime gang in the city. His robberies are committed to perfection – no bullets are shot, no casualties left – they are simply carried out without leaving a trace.
Planning their final, high-stakes job, he and his sister Angelica, hope to leave the country and start a new life with the loot. The plan is flawless and his team is the best one yet: Zico himself, as the strategist; Angelica, an expert in cracking security systems; El Guajaro, an astute and histrionic assistant and Rincon, fast and strong, the muscle of the team.
The team has three minutes to make their hit. 180 seconds will reveal some unknown details that haven’t been accounted for: an infiltrated team member, a hidden love that surfaces, a corrupt police unit that is after an even more valuable score and a soccer game that nobody will be able to see.
180 seconds that show the lives of people who laugh and love like us all, but who rob in order to embrace life.
Perro Come Perro / Dog Eat Dog
Vengar la muerte de un tal William Medina y la prisa por recuperar unos dólares perdidos son el pretexto inicial que une a los protagonistas de este relato: Víctor Peñaranda (Marlon Moreno) y Eusebio Benítez (Óscar Borda), quienes tienen que someterse a las órdenes de ¨El Orejón¨(Blas Jaramillo), un poderoso empresario devoto de la brujería, deseoso de vengar la muerte de su ahijado y obsesionado por encontrar su dinero.
Con un ¨tufo¨ de comedia negra y muchos elementos de acción, PERRO COME PERRO es un thriller que narra la historia de dos hombres unidos por su destino fatal: ambos rompen las reglas del mundo del hampa y tienen que pagar por sus faltas.
Sin conocerse, Peñaranda y Benítez son contratados para un confuso operativo del que tienen pocos detalles. Comparten la habitación de un céntrico hotel, donde deben permanecer atentos y a la espera de instrucciones telefónicas. Cada uno obedece órdenes y trata de ocultar sus culpas: Peñaranda esconde los dólares que robó hace un par de días y Benítez carga con el peso de haber asesinado a William Medina.
¨El Orejón¨, rodeado de personajes como ¨Iris¨ (Paulina Rivas), su bruja de cabecera, y ¨Sierra¨ (Álvaro Rodríguez), su mordaz y más cercano colaborador, cierra el cerco de su venganza; atormenta a Benítez hasta llevarlo a la locura y acorrala a Peñaranda cuyo botín se convierte hora tras hora en un pesado lastre.
En PERRO COME PERRO la acción se sucede vertiginosamente. En un mundo donde La lealtad es palabra muerte, la tensión de cada personaje señala que no siempre el que ríe de último ríe mejor.
In a tone of black comedy and with many elements of action, DOG EAT DOG is a thriller that narrates the story of two men with the same and fatal destiny, Víctor Peñaranda and Eusebio Benítez. Their sentence is the logical ending for having broken the rules that define the world of the underworld. It is a code that is not written anywhere, but that they accepted, just like you accept that night comes after day.
In this word the boss is El Orejón. A powerful businessman who lives in the tallest building of the city, accompanied by an extravagant amount of telescopes, who suffers from agoraphobia and who is devoted to witchcraft, and who wants them to pay for their mistakes.
Peñaranda and Benítez have been hired for an operation of which they have few details. They meet each other sharing a hotel room downtown, where they must stay attentive and waiting for telephone instructions. Both have arrived there following orders and trying to hide their blames: Peñaranda keeps, for two days, a big amount of dollars that he stole during a shady and unlawful entry. Benítez carries the burden of having killed William Medina, El Orejón’s favorite godchild and, without complaining, he suffers what seems to be a curse.
El Orejón is the owner of the money that Peñaranda hides and he is in mourning for his godchild. Little by little he corners Peñaranda as he torments Benítez until he takes him to madness.
Peñaranda feels the beat of the dollars he has hid in the ceiling of the hotel room bathroom; he is suspicious of the messy and mysterious situation that surrounds him, of the weird behavior of his room mate; he wants to run away, but too late he finds out that the deceitful mission in which he is involved, has been planed by El Orejón.
Peñaranda’s booty is now a bound of fear. His plan to escape is permanently frustrated by situations that border on the absurd. The spectral siege apparently makes Benítez not to pay attention to the ambush. The circle closes, until they are forced to go to a last operation, where they know that the only and desperate option they find is to join their scarce strengths against El Orejón.
Every instant is another step towards a vertex with no return. Under the unusual logic of Dog Eat Dog, where loyalty is a dead word, life makes sure it teaches each one of the characters of this story that he who laughs last, not always laughs best.
Matar a Jesús / Killing Jesus
Paula, una joven estudiante de 22 años, presencia el asesinato de su adorado padre, un popular profesor de ciencias políticas de una universidad pública de la ciudad de Medellín. Desde la distancia, logra ver al asesino mientras se aleja a toda velocidad en una motocicleta. Devastados por el dolor tras los hechos, Paula y su familia tendrán que enfrentar la indolencia oficial. Las autoridades no harán ningún esfuerzo por esclarecer lo ocurrido y el caso pronto quedará archivado y suspendido. A la llegada de la Navidad, un par de meses después del asesinato, Paula de manera accidental se cruzará con Jesús, el joven asesino de su padre. ¿Qué pasa entonces cuando la venganza se presenta como una posibilidad real? Paula decide acercarse a este hombre, inicialmente motivada por un instinto casi primitivo de encontrar respuestas y eventualmente de ser capaz de cruzar la línea moral y ética de matar a un hombre y así vengar la muerte de su padre.
Killing Jesus is an intimate drama that seeks to portray the tragedy of a society in conflict, through two young men who were brutally pierced by violence and questioning whether the ability to forgive, is really inherent in human beings . Inspired by true events.