Movies: Rubén Mendoza

Francisco Maldonado is sadly involved in a series of dreams that have tormented him, in which generally he, wielding multiple weapons (the machete, the shotgun, his own mother) attacks his father, with whom he has lost intense contact since the death...

Teenager Ángela meets her three adult step-sisters for the first time when their father dies. Fearing that Ángela will end up in state custody, the sisters embark on a 900-mile journey across Colombia to leave the young girl with an aunt she doesn't ...

Santuaryo is a movie that centers on the unfolding narration of a young man named Archie (Basti Romero). Archie went looking for a lost treasure when he came into the possession of an ancient map left by an old adventurer. His journey left him batter...

The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when...

A grandfather, in the final stage of his existence, asks two of his grandchildren to kill him because he wants to die by the hand of someone who bears his own blood. However, the young children discover a truth that will make them take the opposite d...

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On a journey through the interior of the earth, we learn about the life and dreams of a swiss explorer who searches for caves and underground rivers in a sector marked by violence and armed conflict in Colombia. This underground labyrinth is a metaph...

The last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life....

María Luisa is a transgender woman living in a staunchly catholic town. The horrors of rural life in Colombia with all its morality have done nothing but increase the power of this solitary soul. Shunned from birth, from the womb, she has found in th...

A dark night of 1985 a huge avalanche mixed, in only one mass, children, women, elderly, animals, tractors. More than 25,000 people and an entire village were buried in only 15 minutes. It was an announced tragedy....

This room which no longer exists, was the one i share with my girl cousins......

By applying all his knowledge in electricity and electronics, Raúl Tréllez, a bum who lives in the downtown streets of Bogotá, struggles to control the time of a red light so that jugglers, cripples and other homeless people can achieve longer shows ...

Images of life in Bogotá, from sunrise to sunset. By showing human behaviour, social differences, architecture, landscapes, public transportation, love and loneliness, filmmaker Jorge Espíndola Carvajal invites you to feel and to live a day in the ca...

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In 2008 The stoplight society (LSD.S, colombian film) was, as a project, Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival (L’atelier), which organized more than 40 meetings to finalize production deals for the film. We started each meeting with this....