Colombian films vie for Oscars and Goyas



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The Colombian Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences announced the list of films that will seek to represent the country at the 33rd Goya Awards and the 91st Oscars. The members of this body must choose by vote the four postulates on August 29th.

Among those recorded is Candelaria of Jhonny Hendrix, A 90's history in Cuba between blockades, hunger, tobacco and rum. In this landscape, the lives of Candelaria (64 years old) and Víctor Hugo (63 years old), a couple always united by inertia, turn around when a Hi8 camera is found in a hotel. With this foreign object, the two return to look, touch and love.

It is also The day of the goat of Samir Oliveros. After accidentally hitting a goat with his father's truck, two teenage brothers with incompatible personalities embark on an adventure of reconciliation. Corn and Rita will have to find a way to repair the truck before the arrival of tourists who will stay at the family hotel.

The work of Anna Eborn and Óscar Ruiz, Epiphany, was also selected. On the distant Swedish island of Faro, a woman faces the death of her mother. In Colombia, a mother attends a spiritual healing workshop with several women. In Canada, a mother prepares to become a grandmother for the second time. & # 39; Epiphany & # 39; is a movement that goes from darkness to light, from death to life.

Laura Mora made a complete tour of the world's major film festivals with her feature film Killing Jesus, where a young woman meets her father's hired killer. From then on, she will be forced to define the limits of her own humanity

Ciro Guerra co-directed with Cristina Gallego Pájaros de verano, premiered in the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival where they received the best comments. During the years of marimbera bonanza, a period of wastage and violence in which marijuana began to be sold in Colombia, Rapayet and his family, Wayúu native, are involved in a war for control of the enterprise that ends by destroying their lives and their

Sal of William Vega tells the story of a man who embarks on a journey in search of the ideas of his father gone. There, on the lonely road of an immense desert, life escapes through an abyss. A couple finds him and takes care of him. They feed him with cacti and treat his wounds with salt. But his wounds are just signs of his torn soul and that's only when he controls his inner turmoil that he can return to the path.

Señorita María of Rubén Mendoza, takes place in Boavita Peasant people, conservative and Catholic. There lives the Miss Maria Luisa, aged 45 and born as a child. What seemed to be another life more embedded in gender and identity conflicts, hides a dark family history.

We are in 1985 and as the country focuses on the victories of the Tour de France's national cyclists, Elvis Antonio changes his life at a glance, after the "superposition" of the clbad to watch the television. Now you have to start a fun trip that takes you to discover the biggest secret that your family keeps. This is the story of Gustavo Torres's film, on wheels.

We are the fever of Jorge Navas is a story that combines the sounds of the Colombian Pacific with Hip-Hop, demonstrating the strength and talent of the youth of Buenaventura , a region that has been stigmatized by violence for decades, but which is also recognized by the joy and hope of its inhabitants who fill their entire stage with their enthusiasm

On Good Friday. In the year 2020, Isabel and Jesús María, inhabitants of the Blessed Sacrament, live their own ordeal in search of relief for their daughter's illness; the mother appeals to the religiosity organizing the viacrucis, the dad to politics, after the money promised, without imagining that in this day they will receive the greatest lesson of their lives. It is the history of Via Crucis of Harold de Vasten.

The list ends the work in the format of animation Santiago Caicedo, Tropical Virus, ] with the story of Paola, who was born in a traditional Colombian family, or at least that's what they're trying to fake. The father is a priest, the mother is a seer and the sisters are not exactly what their parents expected.

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