
Víctor Gaviria
Directing
Biography
Víctor Manuel Gaviria González (born January 19, 1955, in Liborina, Antioquia, Colombia) is a film director, writer, and poet. His four feature-length films are highly acclaimed and have won many international awards. He is the first Colombian filmmaker to be featured at the Cannes Film Festival in France. He is often recognized as the most influential and well-known filmmaker to come out of Colombia, often being considered an exception to Colombian Cinema.
Known For

An aging poet finds purpose mentoring Yurlady, a talented teen, though exposing her to the poetry scene might be unwise. His own poetic pursuits led nowhere, leaving him a stereotypical obscure writer.
A Poet

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.
The Rose Seller

A hearse cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells his story in this city marked by conflicts, violence and paradoxes. He remembers his childhood and the discovery of his sexuality.
Anhell69

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.
Rodrigo D. No Future

Amparo, a submissive young woman, tries to escape from her strict convent school but falls into the hands of “El Animal,” a violent and abusive man who forces her to become his wife. Trapped by fear and constant mistreatment, she clings to her love for her daughter and her hope for a better life. However, her strength and dignity may not be enough to stand against the cruelty of the ruthless Animal.
The Animal's Wife

One of the most important Colombian films of the last years revives. With 'The Rose Seller' we learned about the most painful side of addictions: lost youth. What happened to its protagonists? How, against all odds, did they make such a powerful tale? Erwin Goggel's 'Making birds act' is a return to that universe, a look at the most melancholic, surprising, and bleak past from 20 years ago, or a look at today, 20 years after its birth.
Making Birds Act
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Duni

Cinema is a historical, social and cultural document that allows us to understand how a society perceives and defines itself. A documentary in which filmmakers, actors, historians and theorists explore Colombian identity through its cinematography.
Memorias de un País Filmado

A look at the notorious Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Former coke addict has built a new life as contractor, but cannot shake off his past on drugs.
Addictions and Subtractions
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Sosiego

Harassment, kidnapping, isolation, submission, hunger, humiliation, infidelity, psychological manipulation and incest are some of the themes that are the focus of this documentary based on true stories and the work of natural actors who suffered abuse and are marked by abandonment. Made during the filming of "La mujer del animal" by Victor Gaviria.
Searching for the Animal

Moving and poetic images of the daily lives of blind children at a school in Medellín.
Buscando tréboles

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La Vieja Guardia
A gang intends to rescue a friend from a mental hospital, moving around Medellin by bicycle and communicating through a radio program known as "The Inhabitants of the Night".
Los Habitantes de la Noche

At the end of the 1940s, when the worst of the Partisan Violence began to worsen in the fields and towns of Colombia, a popular music duo, in search of work, walked the road from the town of Sucre to the town of Liborina. One of them, Cesáreo, is blind, but the other, Antonio, seems to suffer more from the inclement weather of the route.
Los Músicos
Simon is a naughty and dreamer boy who lives with his older brothers, his religious mother and the hard hand of his father. He goes to school, plays with his friends in the town and fulfills the duties of the home as any of the neighbors of his age. However, his story changes course when he decides to become a true magician and learn to fly after hearing from the lips of the black Fruits the fantastic stories of myths and legends of the Antioquia region. Adaptation of the homonymous story by Tomás Carrasquilla. From OtraParte
Simón el mago

After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the place of women in the film world, which is still strongly ingrained with a patriarchal mindset.
The Calm After the Storm

Documentary film about young people in Medellin, Colombia, interviewing actors who appeared in the film Rodrigo D: No Futuro.
Yo te tumbo, tu me tumbas
Adaptation of the story "Que pase el aserrador" (Let the sawyer come) by Jesús del Corral. The story happens near the Cauca River. Simón is a musician and a pawn, but he pretends to be a sawyer to get a job at a hacienda.
Que pase el aserrador

Documentary on nadaist poet Darío Lemos.