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Confesión a Laura
The action is situated in Colombia on April 9, 1948, date in which took place the famous "Bogotazo". It is a story of love frustrated by political circumstances. Laura, a spinster schoolteacher, lives to Josefina and Santiago, public employee. The…
Confesión a Laura
The action is situated in Colombia on April 9, 1948, date in which took place the famous "Bogotazo". It is a story of love frustrated by political circumstances. Laura, a spinster schoolteacher, lives to Josefina and Santiago, public employee. The…
Rosario Tijeras
Medellín, 1989. Antonio brings Rosario to the hospital; she's shot, bleeding badly. Flashbacks, mixed with Antonio's wait at the hospital during her surgery, tell the story: Antonio and Emilio are friends; Emilio attracts women, but is never serious…
El impulso documental en el cine latinoamericano
Este curso pretende ofrecerles a los estudiantes una introducción al cine latinoamericano al trazar su trayectoria histórica desde el cine mudo al presente, al examinar diferentes contextos y modos de producción, y al analizar diferentes tendencias…
Rosario Tijeras
Medellín, 1989. Antonio brings Rosario to the hospital; she's shot, bleeding badly. Flashbacks, mixed with Antonio's wait at the hospital during her surgery, tell the story: Antonio and Emilio are friends; Emilio attracts women, but is never serious…
Los colores de la montaña
Manuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays football every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest, his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball…
Los colores de la montaña
Manuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays football every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest, his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball…
Cine latinoamericano: re-definiendo identidades siglo XXI
Un estudio del cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea.
Contemporary Latin American Film
A study of a specific group of Latin American films in relation to their specific cultural and historical contexts.
Después del cine latinoamericano: Tradición y renovación
Un estudio del cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea.
Latin American Cinema: 1930 to the Present
This course is a survey of Latin American cinema that spans from the 1930s to the present. Topics will include Mexican Golden Age cinema as well as the New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and contemporary new new waves. The course will…
Latin American Documentary
This course will investigate Latin American documentary by focusing on three important topics in Latin American cultural studies. We will screen recent and historical documentaries about (1) underdevelopment and poverty, (2) the history and memory of…
Oiga vea!
Documental sobre el efecto de los VI Juegos Panamericanos en la ciudad de Cali, vistos desde el punto de vista de la gente que no pudo entrar a los estadios. (Luis Ospina)
Agarrando Pueblo
Un grupo de cineastas contratados por un canal de televisión alemán producen una película que trata el tema de la miseria latinomericana. La película utiliza un tratamiento sarcástico para criticar la forma como los documentalistas se acercan a la…
Cine contemporáneo latinoamericano
Using methods that both embrace and critique the study of national cinemas, this course provides a survey of cinema from across the Latin American region, concentrating on the changing tropes of contemporary cinema and including screenings as part of…
Chircales
Castañeda's family, due to its extreme poverty, lives under the domination of the landowners and stewards who give shelter to its members in return for their work in the brickmaking, where everyone, even the youngest children, should make bricks.…
La vendedora de rosas
“The Rose Seller” is the second feature-length film made by Colombian poet and filmmaker Victor Gaviria. The story follows the fortunes of a group of girls in their early teens, all separated from their families and making a living for themselves in…
Introduction to Spanish-Language Film
This course is an introduction to appreciating and understanding film art as it relates to the rich and diverse cinema history of Latin America. Conducted entirely in Spanish, the course focuses on students’ acquisition of knowledge on the material…
Representation of Children and Adolescents in Argentine, Colombian and Mexican Cinema
This course explores the representation of children and adolescents in contemporary Spanish American cinema from the 1980s to the present. Young characters have been used to explore issues of identity, coming of age, social inequalities, and the…
Cine hispano
“Las películas son un mundo de fragmentos”, propuso una vez Jean-Luc Godard, el director de la Nouvelle Vague francesa. Estos fragmentos, trozos audiovisuales de la realidad, captan nuestra imaginación. El cine es un sitio interacción social, de…
Latin America through Cinema
In this course, we will explore cinema from and about Latin America to expand our understanding of this culturally diverse region comprised of more than twenty countries and territories. We will examine topics such as gender, humor, history,…
Transgressive Gazes across the Americas
By tracing a women centric social, geo-political, cultural, historical, cinematic map, we will be looking at the praxis of key women filmmakers across the Americas. From Alanis Obomsawin, to Arlene Bowman, to Ann Marie Fleming, to Amanda Strong in…
Poetry and Politics in Latin American Cinema
By tracing a Latin American centric social, geo-political, cultural, historical, cinematic map, we will be looking at the praxis of key visionary filmmakers and cinematic movements. We will examine how these filmmakers, their films, their texts, and…
El abrazo de la serpiente
As the film opens, we are gliding along the Amazon River toward someone perched along the shore. This is Karamakate [...] a shaman in the jungle, and one of the last of his people. He is being approached by Theo von Martius (inspired by Theodor…
La Sirga
Alicia está desamparada. Escapando de la violencia armada en la que perdió a sus seres queridos llega hasta La Sirga, el hostal de Óscar, el único familiar que le queda. En la Sirga a orillas de una gran laguna intentará reconstruir su vida. Pero…
Rodrigo D: No futuro
Rodrigo, a poor and troubled teenager in the barrios of Medellin, Colombia, struggles to find hope in a world ravaged by violence and chaos. An aspiring drummer in a punk band, he uses his music to try to drive the despair out of his head. Rodrigo…
Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema
This interdisciplinary course seeks to review and analyze the complexity of contemporary society through the study of Latin American and Spanish film production. We will explore topics that relates to issues of ethnicity, class representation,…
Pájaros de verano
Relata la época de la llamada 'Bonanza marimbera', cuando el lucrativo negocio de la venta de marihuana a Estados Unidos fue un presagio de lo que marcaría al país por décadas. En La Guajira, una familia wayuú vivirá en carne propia el choque entre…
Manos sucias
A desperate fisherman and a naive young man embark on a dangerous journey trafficking drugs up the Pacific coast of Colombia. Hidden beneath the waves, they tow a narco-torpedo filled with millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Together they must…
La Playa D.C.
Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country’s Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces the difficulties of growing up in Bogotá, a city of exclusion and racism. When Jairo, his younger brother disappears, Tomas plunges in the streets of…
El Dorado
The film tells the epic story of an expedition that took place between 1560 and 1561, headed by Pedro de Ursúa, in search of "El Dorado." The territory they explored subsequently became Colombia. Three hundred men sold their property and souls to…
Plan de Vida
The Misak are an indigenous people whose territory is located in Cauca, Colombia. As with many indigenous peoples in Latin America, the Misak lost large parts of their territory during colonial rule. In the 1980s, they started a process of land…
Voces de resistencia
Voces de resistencia es un proyecto audiovisual del Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos (CEAF) de la Universidad Icesi de Cali, financiado por la Fundación Ford, y realizado en alianza con el Centro de Ética y Democracia (CED), que busca visibilizar y…
Gonawindúa
Luego de una adivinación, Kankuémaku, un viejo Mama Koggi encomienda a Cenkui, su joven aprendiz a realizar un pagamento (trabajo espiritual) para cancelar las deudas con la naturaleza en la línea negra. Su camino es la manifestación del recorrido…
Lapü
On a windy night in the Colombian desert, a young Wayúu woman named Doris sleeps in her hammock and dreams of reuniting with a deceased cousin. When she awakens and shares the encounter with her grandmother, they agree that her vision suggests the…
Hispanic Film (*modified for remote learning, fall 2020)
In our Hispanic film course we examine diverse cinemas made in the region and how Latin American filmmakers represent, reject, reconstruct, maintain or challenge their realities. We look at how films are made, how they are funded, and how films…
Latin America through Cinema (*modified for remote learning, fall 2020)
In this course, we will explore cinema from and about Latin America to expand our understanding of this culturally diverse region comprised of more than twenty countries and territories. We will examine topics such as gender, humor, history,…
Representación indígena en el cine latinoamericano
El curso busca analizar las diversas formas en que han aparecido los pueblos indígenas de América Latina en las pantallas de cine, tanto de ficción como documental. Abarca un amplio periodo desde las representaciones en el cine de los primeros…
Ciro y yo
Ciro Galindo nació el 29 de agosto de 1952 en Colombia. Fuera donde fuera, la guerra siempre lo encontraba. Tras veinte años de amistad con Ciro, comprendí que su vida resumía la historia de Colombia. Como tantos colombianos, Ciro es un…
El aula vacía
Bajo la dirección creativa de Gael García Bernal, once directores retratan el impacto de la deserción escolar en América Latina a través de un largometraje maravillosamente diverso y complejo. Viaja a siete países y explora las razones por las que…
Indigenous & Afro-descendant Representation in Contemporary Latin American Film
This course serves as an introduction to film analysis by studying Latin American cinema, with a focus on Afro-descendant and indigenous communities. We will analyze the representation of indigenous people in contemporary Latin American cinema,…
Monos
Alejandro Landes’s Monos tracks a young group of soldiers and rebels who run wild in the mountains of an unspecified South American country, while keeping watch over an American hostage, Doctora. The teenage commandos perform military training…
Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro
This [...] 1982 documentary is a collaborative effort by the Colombian political filmakers Marta Rodrgiuez and Jorge Silva and the indigenous farmers of Coconuco, in the southwestern highlands [of Colombia]. Combining a Marxist cinematic visual…
Somos calentura
En el puerto de Buenaventura, donde la riqueza y la miseria se cruzan sin tocarse, las bandas criminales condenan a los jóvenes a una vida al margen de la ley. En medio de esta situación, HARVEY y sus tres amigos, campeones locales de baile,…
Miguelito: Canto a Borinquen
Miguel Ángel Gonzáles Sánchez, apodado Miguelito, era un niño de Puerto Rico que ayudó a sostener a su pobre familia cantando en las calles. Allí fue visto por el legendario productor Harvey Averne, quien contrató al niño de once años, produjo un…
Nacer de nuevo
Un retrato lleno de poesía de dos ancianos, María Eugenia Vargas (71 años) y Carlos Valderrama (75 años), damnificados de la tragedia causada por la avalancha del volcán Nevado del Ruiz. La subida del río Gualí a raíz de la erupción del volcán Nevado…
Mamá Chocó
Chocó es una de la regiones con mayor riqueza natural e hidráulica en el mundo, de ahí viene nuestro personaje: Paulina, una mujer fértil como su tierra, madre de 26 hijos, partera y artista. Una persona con una alegría y amor por la vida…
Chocó
Chocó es una mujer negra de 27 años, que lleva a cuestas una familia de dos hijos menores y a Everlides, su esposo músico que sólo sabe tocar marimba, beber viche y jugar dominó. Chocó es una mujer fuerte y luchadora. En la mañana ella trabaja…
Marímbula
En Palenque de San Basilio todos hablan de regresar a la tierra de sus ancestros. Andris y Gabriel (21 y 18 años) son los primeros palenqueros que parten a África buscando las huellas de su héroe Benkos Biohó y la cámara de Diana, la directora,…
Entre fuego y agua
Camilo es el hijo adoptivo de dos indígenas Quillasinga de la laguna de La Cocha en Colombia. Es el único hombre negro en su comunidad y siempre se ha sentido diferente. Durante años se ha preguntado quiénes son sus padres biológicos. El gobernador…