
Sofia Oggioni
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Biography
Sofía Oggioni Hatty was born in Cali. She is a Social Communicator - Journalist from Universidad del Valle (Colombia). Since 1998 she has participated in different audiovisual productions in the area of photography and in some occasions as a director. She is the director of photography of the three feature films that Contravía Films has released to date, El vuelco del cangrejo (2010), La Sirga (2012) and Los hongos (2014).
Known For

Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.
Tragic Jungle

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 even know. During this journey, Ángela will discover what it means to be a woman.
Wandering Girl

Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, he will look for Calvin, another popular urban artist. Both will circulate through the streets without a fixed destination, spreading their art to every corner.
Los Hongos

In this poetic, richly allegorical debut by Colombian director William Vega, a teenage girl flees to a rundown inn after being driven from her home in the Andean highlands by civil war, as the violence engulfing the country creeps ever closer to her remote refuge. (TIFF)
The Towrope

Nuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.
The Silences

Carlos lives in a boarding school in the centre of Bogotá and longs to spend Christmas with his family. The circumstances around him force him to assume the male stereotype, in open contradiction to his true being. In private, Carlos acknowledges his sensitivity, his fragility and moves towards other forms of masculinity. At his 16 years of age, Carlos explores his sexual identity, discovers his fears, his desires, and all the things that real men never show.
A Male

From the land of narco-violence to the land of displaced persons. The documentary Guerras Ajenas ('Wars of Others') explores the consequences of the war on drugs in Colombia, and one of its main tools: aerial spraying.
Foreign Wars

A young girl is recruited to be a child soldier in the Colombian jungle and copes with her circumstances by using her imagination to journey to a magical realm.
Alix

A man lives in the forest, in the midst of a pack of dogs. He feeds them, cleans them and takes care of them as if they were his own. When, one day, one of them disappears, the man has no choice but to go out and look for it.
Pack of Dogs

Composed by six films about the Amazon rain forest and its inhabitants, the high stakes, and the challenges they face. Each film presents a different perspective on a specific aspect of Amazonian culture.
Amazonas

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 metaphor about a dark past, buried deep within the soul, where old war wounds heal with the infinite passage of time.
Invisible River

In the early 2000s, Dutch graduate Tanja Nijmeijer managed to rise to the top of the Colombian guerrilla group FARC, before Interpol issued an arrest warrant for her. Later she campaigned for peace. Who really is this woman?
Tanja: Up in Arms

A drama set in the black communities of Colombia's Pacific coast, where a man looking to flee the country by boat encounters a local fisherman.
Crab Trap

In northern Peru, deep in the Amazonian jungle, Amadeo is the last Taushiro. He is old, his body is tired, he knows he will die soon. We follow him in his solitude and his rituals. He uses his native language to talk to the trees, to the spirits of the animals he hunts and to his brother who died a few years ago. By taking a close look at Amadeo’s daily life, the film questions bigger issues : the destruction of the Amazone, the disappearance of indigenous people and cultures.
The Disappearance

Valeria arrives at her aunt's house in a big city to spend some time and starts working taking care of a small child. The only memory he has of home are some seeds that his mother sent to his aunt as a gift. Valeria is pregnant, and her family doesn't want anyone to find out.
Flores
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Nelsa

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Firelighters: Fire is medicine
In the city of Cali (Colombia), the Pacific community gathers every year for the Petronio Álvarez Pacific Music Festival. One of the participating delegations is from Timbiquí, a town located on the banks of the river of the same name. This town, nestled in the middle of the Pacific rainforest of Cauca, will be represented by three groups at the eighth edition of the festival. Two of the groups are in Timbiquí and are getting ready for the trip. The third, made up of young people, decides to leave their village to settle in the city and make a living from music. For all three groups, this event is an opportunity not only to showcase the folklore of their land, inherited from their ancestors, but also to fulfil their dreams.