Proimágenes Colombia

Following the steps of the ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, as described on a travel diary from Mitú to the Apaporis river, the millenary secrets of how to revive the dead are revealed. A documentary that questions the displacement of war to the indigenous communities; of how communities are besieged by the death and disappearance of...

In an effort to be universal, two Colombian filmmakers pretend to understand the reality of Bolivian popular culture through the eyes of Andrés Huaquipa, singer and miner from Potosí. But the college-educated team finds itself surpassed by their character, and hence forced to reassess the traditional attitudes of documentary films abo...

In the impoverished Japan of the twenties, Juzo Takeshima, discovers the Jorge Isaacs novel, Maria, without imagining the effect it World have on the lives of hundreds of Japanese –especially his. Takeshima begins to translate the novel by installments for the magazine of the University of Tokyo, where he teaches. With his disciples he gli...

SMALL VOICES is a short film made with and about the children displaced by the violence in Colombia. It narrates true stories of children using their voices and drawings. The result is a powerful hybrid between documentary and computer animation....

As third-grade students stage a musical production, we see how their daily acting is influenced when a camera records their actions. Throughout the conflicts in their relationships and in the play, we see how they try to hold their power over others and towards the camera showing us different aspects of the mise en scène....

In Bogotá, a city where the majority of inhabitants are unaware of the work done by the Fire Department, a group of young men and women begin Class 29 in the hope of becoming professional firefighters. Each one has a different idea about the job, and most are motivated primarily by the possibility of a steady job. Throughout the course, t...