Tag: Colombian Cinema
2024 TIFF Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for César Augusto Acevedo’s ‘Horizonte’
Today marks the world premiere of Colombian filmmaker César Augusto Acevedo's sophomore feature at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery section selection). Nearly...
A Male (Un Varón) | Review
Wild in the Streets: Hernandez Explores Toxic Trifecta of Violence, Masculinity and Poverty in Dour Debut
With a streetwise miserabilism as virile as anything from...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #61. Camila Beltrán’s Mi Bestia
Mi Bestia
Programmers will want to keep tabs on this new voice in Colombian cinema. A filmmaker who saw her shorts compete in Clermont-Ferrand and...
Interview: Laura Mora – The Kings Of The World (Los reyes del mundo)
In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I chatted with Laura Mora, whose latest film The Kings of the World is Colombia’s official...
Into the Thick: Netflix Bets on Laura Mora’s Golden Shell Winner “The Kings Of The World”
The film that Toronto and Venice programmers (might have) passed on while the San Sebastian folks were all too happy to nab the world...
Lunar Lunacy: Camila Beltrán Begins Production on “Mi Bestia”
A Colombian filmmaker we've been keeping track of every since she grabbed some production fund coin (winner of the Arte Kino Prize) at the...
La Jauría | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Beasts in the Jungle: Pulido Suffers the Children in Sinister Debut
At the bizarre intersection of a walkabout and a penal colony is La Jauría...
Birds of Passage | Review
Wayuu of the Gun: Greed’s No Good in Guerra & Gallego’s Ganja Saga
Crime doesn’t pay, at least not for the indigenous Wayuu people in...
Video Interview: Laura Mora – Killing Jesus
They say write what you know, but to what degree and to what depths is a whole other issue. Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora's second...