
Iván Gaona
Directing
Biography
Known for the feature film Pariente [Guilty Men], premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, and for his work in his hometown.
Known For

Carlos Buendía is haunted by memories of an alleged homicide that he did not commit 15 years ago. A threatening message and a terrible accident endangers his well-being and that of his family.
El laberinto

Roa is a fictionalized account, based on real facts, about Juan Roa Sierra, the supposed killer of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, Colombian politician and lawyer, dissident candidate of the Liberal Party for the 1950 Presidential elections, which he had a very high probability of winning.
Roa

After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.
The Wind Journeys

A young boy falls in love with a stunning girl, who simply ignores him. But, three men with different strategies in the art of love (romance, lies and money), come to the rescue to try to lead the young boy to his dream: a kiss on the lips.
Lecciones para un beso

For Rosa, a peasant woman rooted in rural life, learning to drive a car at 55 years old is somewhat complex, but now it is hard to start but where to go.
Naranjas

Willington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to René, Willington's cousin. While Willington is trying to get her back, a demobilization process concerning an illegal armed group is underway in the region, and new killings, besides rumors of a thief at large, will endanger Mariana's new family.
Guilty Men

Tired of his employee giving free milk to the girl he likes, Lizardo offers Completo a reward so he can ask her out on a date.
Completo

Pastor's wife Veronica has become ill in bed, so he decides to sell his musical instrument secretly in order to buy the medicines she needs. After he sells it, Pastor arrives at home heartbroken, but he finds his wife in a better health condition. Veronica asks Pastor to play her a song with the instrument, so he will do what it takes to get it back.
El Tiple

After a thousand days of civil war in Colombia in 1902, the revolutionary soldier Alfredo Duarte Amado receives a telegram with the news of the pregnancy of his brother Rodrigo's wife. Without knowing where to go, he convinces an amateur photographer in the bowels of the Chicamocha canyon to go with him searching for his brother lost in the war, but the photographer is also looking for someone – the man who killed his father.
Adios Amigo

Harold, Daniela, a couple bicycles, and a pair of shoes.
Zapatillas

Leonidas used to have a restaurant with his wife before she left him a long time ago. While playing pool -his only hobby-, a police officer asks him to receive and serve a meal to an outsider. Several deaths in neighboring towns will very soon alert Leonidas about the visitor.
Forastero

When several women from Piedecuesta and Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia gathered to protest and march on November 25 against violence against women, they never imagined that their loud and necessary voices would become a batucada. Now, through their drums and percussion instruments, they amplify their angry voices and reach many more stages of protest and social struggle. Adriana, Angie, Andrea, and 25 other women meet several times a week to rehearse and discuss how they will take part in local and national events that allow them to speak out about harassment and violence against women. All this while the camaraderie and strength of their meetings and friendship help each member of La Batucada Guaricha find a path to personal healing.
La batucada guaricha

Grandmother Verónica and her husband Pastor, without money, live in the rural area of the municipality of Güepsa, Santander. Her tragedies are minimal, but traversed by the history of violence in Colombia, while around her, her neighbors struggle to stay alive in the daily routine of the countryside.
Shorts From the South

It's Sunday, the day to shoo at the local market and Grandma Paulina wants to prepare creole hen to her husband, but the money is not enough. Without wishing it, she wins a Polaroid camera in a raffle, so, she proposes her husband to take pictures of their lives in the country. But the camera roll ends up and the hunger persists!
Portraits

Luis Alberto Gaitán "Lunga" was a photographer from Guateque, Boyacá. He is the author of the most iconic pictures of the Colombian political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, assassinated in 1948, giving birth to one of the cruellest waves of violence in the country. Since ever, Lunga's photographs have been reproduced over and over again without the proper credits. This film is a trip to the 40's and 50's Colombia's decades and it wants to give to Lunga the recognition of his work and his name in the history of Colombia as a photographer.
A la Carga Lunga!

Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country's Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces the difficulties of growing up in a city if exclusion and racism. When Jairo, his younger brother and closest friend disappears, Tomas plunges in the streets of the city. His search becomes an initiatory journey that compels him to face his past and to leave aside the influence of his is brothers in order to find his own identity. Through this journey, Tomas reveals a unique perspective of a vibrant and unstable city that, like Tomas, stands on the threshold between what once was and what might be.
La playa DC
Vercelio came to the funeral of his mama's neighbor. His mother is going to be alone in the countryside but Vercelio needs to go back to his work in the big city, not knowing that maybe there's a life for him in the country side where he grew up.
Return

Waldina, the flowers seller of the little town of Arcabuco, has died. Her son Humberto arrives from the big city and decides to make the last delivery of flowers to her clients without knowing that in one of that doors could find his happiness.
Gladiolos
They graduated from a boarding school in 1968. 50 years passed very quickly. Amelia and her classmates meet today at their old school to celebrate their past times at the boarding school, knowing that this may be the last time they see each other alive.
Golden Girls
A story of forgiveness and redemption, about a son who must forgive his father while being forgiven by his mother.