The Plastic Turtle 2019
A turtle lives peacefully at the bottom of the sea, until an apparatus accident forces him to fight to survive and undergo the physical and environmental changes that human unconsciousness has produced.
A turtle lives peacefully at the bottom of the sea, until an apparatus accident forces him to fight to survive and undergo the physical and environmental changes that human unconsciousness has produced.
Leonardo and his son Joaquín, 5 years old, travel to an out-of-town marriage, Joaquín does not know that who will marry is his own father, and with a woman who is not his mother, the difficult revelation will bring problems to the connection between father and son, but it will also question Leonardo's decision to marry.
Ricardo Zanabria is a 27 year old young man who works in a car workshop. He began to consume bazuco and for this reason he frequents ‘El Bronx’, the most dangerous neighborhood in Bogotá. One day in this place, he hears screams coming from a house; he decides to enter, ignoring that he will not be able to escape from this 'hell', on May 28, the day of the Bronx raid.
Two humble fishermen who live in a forgotten hamlet near to the Cauca river, discovered that a dead body had been tangled in their cast net. Failing to give notice to the authorities, they decided that it would be more humane to bury him, so they start dragging the dead body towards the jungle.
Martillo, tells the story of Pablo’s sexual awakening, a student at a boys' school where Sister Edwin teaches discipline with an iron hand. At home, Pablo lives in a different world. His father is a plastic surgeon and shamelessly exposes him to his sexual world and that of his lover. His mother is dead and Albina, his nanny, takes care of him like a son. At thirteen, Pablo is confused. When he discovers Sister Edwin's secret, he will leave his innocence behind.
Alvaro Rodriguez, an old swindler, owes a lot of money to a dangerous moneylender. To pay off the debt, he proposes to the man, who is also his boss, to finance one of his businesses. In the end, the 'indigenous malice' wins out and he ends up cheating his boss.
Covering news of impact in Bogotá has become a personal race between Roco and Matías, two contemporary journalists who are reaching their fifties, determined to be the first to get red notices for their editors. 30 years dedicated to competing for the most macabre news, they are driven to cross paths through death, in a desolate and hostile city that offers them no shelter or company.
After a call announcing the visit of a church delegate to San Luis de Frá, a town as ordinary as it is absurd, Jose María Marín, the parish priest in charge, knows that the time has come to be responsible. He and his old sacristan will have to find a corpse and inaugurate the cemetery at any cost.
Ines takes driving lessons with an instructor that rapidly loses his patience and underestimate her abilities. Nevertheless, as they learn more about each other’s life, an unexpected friendship will begin.
Pedro is one of the vampires of underdevelopment who works amidst aisles full of garlic, fruits, herbs and crucifixes in the Paloquemao Market. However, on May 28, 2016, when the largest blood trafficking network in Bogota is dismantled, his dealer Harbey escapes and takes refuge in the market, threatening his relationship with Angie, the girl he is in love with.
It is the year of grace of 1950. Ignacio (11) is celebrating his First Communion, a step that, according to catholics, puts him closer to God and opens up a space for him in the believers community. Communion implies, he will have enough grace to go to Paradise one day. It is also the day he is declared as a “conscious” person. However, from long time before, his tutor, sister Josefa, and the priest of the church, have said terrible things about his dead father, a communist that by now, as they say, should be burning in hell’s fire.
Julio, a blind coffee vendor, recounts his relationship with Daniel, a 9-year-old boy whom he rescued from a life in the streets and raised as his own. After an unfortunate encounter with a social services worker, Julio will have to fight to protect Daniel and keep their relationship strong.
Vicente is an old rooster who has a good chicken in the red, and the plant to play, but his rival, the only one who stands in the way of silver, is Ricardo, his own 18 year old son. Ricardo, tired of the life he has led with his father, has everything arranged to win. The old man's life is on hold.
It's the 16th of July Virgin del Carmen´s day, and Salomé, a beautiful 14-year-old girl, is celebrating the first anniversary of her beloved father’s death. While everybody is partying, her Grief contrasts with the festivity environment, forcing her to confront her pain, her own believes, her myths and even her most precious childhood memories and illusions to be able to understand imminent death and finally get some closure.
After time, what remains in the journey of a relationship that is on its way to its end? A final conversation will always be missing while crossing the tunnel before reaching the end.
Lucy is the most gossipy lady in town. Her greatest pleasure is walking through the streets observing and listening to other people’s conversations and then meeting up to gossip with her friends Olga and Adelma. In this Macondian village, gossip becomes happiness and happiness becomes music.
Alan and Adriana are taking everything from their home, to let it empty. They try to take out a double bed from their room and it gets stuck between them, pull them apart and block the view. As they can´t see each other, they find the possibility to talk and give each other reasons why they are stopping living together.
Before leaving to Europe to continue his career as a musician, Ariel decides to spend his last day in Bogotá with Lorenzo, his baby son. In the brief encounters with his family and friends, Ariel begins to learn the meaning of being a father, a few months later the illusion collapses.
Laura eventually works for a group of obscure characters with whom she must settle an outstanding account, her activity is to leave some recorded messages to some numbers that they dial, the situation becomes complicated when she arrives home and finds that one of the messages that caused her great impact by recording it, was directly to her partner.