Dualities, chaos and poetics

Cinemaattic invites you to explore, once again, one of Latin America’s most prolific short film producers through a programme that embraces the nation’s contradictions and poetics in tension through classical short films and new voices.

📅 26th October, 7.30pm (screening starts at 8pm)

📍 St Peter’s Church, Lutton Place, Newington, Edinburgh, EH8 9PE

This screening will be accompanied by food from SABOR al TOQUE, a family business offering the best of traditional Colombian food.

Recommended for audiences 15+. Contains references to sex and violence.

Programme:

Searching for Clover (Buscando tréboles)
Víctor Gaviria
Colombia | 1980 | 10’

84
Daniel Cortés
Colombia | 2020 | 13’

In 1984, Álvaro Ulcué Chocué, a Colombian Catholic priest and indigenous rights activist, was shot dead. The incident looms against the backdrop of a collage of two archive images from the same year. Documentary footage and fictional gangsters capture the state of a country dominated by drug cartels and social unrest.

Bogotá Story
Esteban Pedraza
Colombia | 2023 | 15’

In 1992, as Colombia faces an era of drug violence, car bombs, and daily power outages, a young mother in Bogotá receives an internship opportunity in New York and eventually must choose between her family and her dreams.

Desasir
Daissy Pérez Ospina & Elizabeth Pérez Ospina
Colombia | 2022 | 7’

A woman sheds a fear symbolized by water that engulfs her; she flees through a dark corridor, passing through portals of light that guide and protect her path to freedom.

Junior tu papá
Daniel Díaz
2024 | UK, Colombia | 16’

Phone calls, fútbol heroes, and Colombian history meld together in this rumination on family ties, cultural memory, and diasporic connection.

Between You and Milagros (Entre tú y milagros)
Mariana Saffon
Colombia | 2020 | 20’

At fifteen, Milagros’ world still revolves around her mother’s affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship, her privilege and her own existence.

The Trap (La Trampa)
Ferney Iyokina Gittoma
Colombia | 2024 | 13’

Many years ago, grandfather Noé built a fish trap. Hidden in the jungle, it is a lost legacy for the hunters of the Indigenous Okaina community. With the arrival of a mysterious jaguar, Noé’s ancestors take this signal and strive to rebuild what was lost.

Accessibility:

• Wheelchair accessible
• English captioning
• SDH captioning