Andrés Restrepo
Directing
Biography
Andrés Restrepo Gómez (Medellín, Colombia, 1996). Audiovisual producer, screenwriter, narrator and poet. He graduated from Eliseo Subiela's Professional Film School, where he teaches Screenwriting I and II. He currently holds a Master's Degree in Playwriting from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, where he also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Writing Arts. He directed and wrote the short films "Muerte, no seas mujer" (2018), "El corazón es la cuarta pared" (2019), "Muhamab el zurdo" (2021) and "Los novios" 2023), with which he participated in various international festivals. In 2020 he published in Medellín his first book of poems: "La bohemia que pagaron mis padres", with Vásquez Editores. He worked as a collaborator and assistant to screenwriter Leo Calderone for the writing of the feature film in development "Jaque mate", produced by Patagonik Films. In January 2022 he was runner-up in the XXIV Certamen Literario de Relato Breve "Villa de Colindres" with his short story "El proceso", a free rewrite of Kafka's novel of the same name.
Known For
In a small Catholic village, the community stands against the local priest when the latter refuses to offer a funeral mass for a suicide victim. In reprisal, the priest denies the sacraments to the entire town, until the family of the deceased remove the body from the catholic graveyard.
The Bribe of Heaven
Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about her work and her relationship with Lucas, her husband. Sara, through the force of the sea, wants to achieve spaces of freedom. The encounters with a Caribbean woman, Rosa, and an enigmatic man from the city, Virgilio, will be decisive in resolving her personal dilemmas and better understanding the meaning of justice in a society indifferent to the most marginalized people and with enormous inequality.
Sara, the force of the sea
Miguel returns to his homeland with anticipation, ready to showcase a film he stars in at a local film festival. His heart yearns for the thunderous applause of adoring fans, yet reality may paint a different picture. In this poignant essay, we delve into the nuanced shapes of loneliness, even amidst company.
The Stranger (or El Pamperon't)
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Talento millonario
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Muhamab el zurdo
Felipe, a young lazy and insensitive stock trader, begins to see subtitles of the people he talks to: the subtext of what they really mean. Sara, his best friend, a young translator, is the only one whose words he cannot see subtitled, perhaps because she truly understands him and speaks to him with transparency. To stop seeing the subtitles, Felipe must learn to truly listen to the language of others.
The Subtitles
A pair of ex-lovers argues in bed about their past relationship. They reminisce as each image from their memory comes alive as if it was happening right there. A conversation, banal in its nature, with hints of a video-essay and meta-cinema, ends up exploring the different ways in which we can recall love.
The Heart is the Fourth Wall
Henry and Román discover they are two supporting characters in the story of Flore where they are her sisters’ “boyfriends.” Both of them return to the story again and again in order to boycott it and, at least once, get to be the protagonists.
The boyfriends
Azul is caught between childhood and adolescence. At the beginning of secondary school, she meets Nico, with whom she will share a small act of rebellion: building an escape route through the bars of the schoolyard. She observes and explores the world. Little by little she penetrates it, facing an unexpected turning point in her journey.
Mientras todo pasa
During the Argentine dictatorship of the eighties, two gravediggers are in charge of burying all the N.N. that arrive at the cemetery. One afternoon they bring the corpse of a beautiful girl whom they both fall in love with. That rainy night will be the excuse for a reflection in candle on the friendship, the old age and the bitter beauty.