Friday 1st July
6pm
SINOPSIS:
During the day Ras is a construction worker and after work he paints graffiti on different walls of his neighborhood at the east of Cali. One day Ras loses his job after stealing several jars of paint that he had been using to paint a great mural in the adjacent lot of his house. With no money in his pocket to help his mother, Ras goes in search of Calvin, another young graffiti art student. The boys go aimlessly around the city, like souls who want to get lost and never return. Along the way, as two fungi, they will pollute the environment of immense freedom.
Duration: 95 min.
Year: 2014
Language: Spanish, English subtitles
Director: Óscar Ruiz Navia
Producers: Gerylee Polanco Uribe –
Diana Bustamante – Óscar Ruiz Navia
Co-producers: Guillaume de Seille – Nicolas Avruj – Titus Kreyenberg
Contravía Films & Burning Blue (Colombia), Arizona Production (Francia), Campo Cine (Argentina) y Una Film (Germany).
Oscar Ruiz Navia is a director, producer, and founder of the film production company Contravia Films, known for Siembra (2015), Los hongos (2014), Solecito (2013), La Sirga (2012) and El vuelco del cangrejo (2009). He is one of the leading voices of the contemporary Colombian film industry. His works as director and producer have been domestically and internationally distributed, as well as selected in major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, San Sebastian, and Rotterdam, among others.
ORANGES
Iván Gaona / Colombia / Fiction / 2014 / 14 min
SINOPSIS:
For Rosa, a peasant woman rooted in rural life, learning to drive a car at 55 years old is somewhat complex, but now the hassle is not to start, but where to go.
Awards: Best Short at Palm Springs Film Festival
Iván D. Gaona was born in Güepsa (Santander, Colombia) in 1980. After finishing his civil engineering studies, he studied films and television at the National University of Colombia. He has worked as assistant director in films such as The Wind Journeys (2009) by Ciro Guerra and Playa D. C. (2011) by Juan Andrés Arango Garcia. He currently prepares his first feature film with his production company La Banda del Carro Rojo Producciones.
