Ángela Carabalí
Directing
Biography
Ángela Carabalí is an Afro-Colombian documentary filmmaker and university professor with an honorary master’s degree in Documentary Film and a master’s degree in Documentary Photography. I Dreamed His Name (2026) is her first feature film; it was awarded Best National Feature Film at the Cali International Film Festival (FICCALI), received a Special Jury Mention at the Hot Docs Festival and the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and won Best Ibero-American Feature Film at the Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival. She served as assistant director on Ser o No Ser (2018) by director Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza, and was production manager on A Mother (2022) by director Diógenes Cuevas. She is the director, screenwriter, and co-producer of the internationally acclaimed interactive documentary Pregoneros de Medellín (2014). She is a fellow of the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, American Film Showcase, and Solutions Storytelling Project:LATAM, where she created the short documentary The Echo (2025).
Known For
Alejandro, the youngest of his recently deceased father's two sons, is brimming with anger, upset that his father and older brother have for so long committed his mother to a rural Colombian mental asylum. He's convinced that the place for his schizophrenic mother is at home with her loved ones, not in an institution. While on an unannounced visit, he kidnaps his mother to take her home with him once and for all – but Alejandro is soon overwhelmed by his mother's mental incapacities as they embark on a journey of love and commitment, of emotional and physical extremes.
A Mother
Thirty years after his forced disappearance, the filmmaker’s Afro Colombian father comes to her in a dream, asking her to find him. With her sister, she sets out on a journey of discovery across Colombia’s painful history, reconnecting with their father and his activism.
I Dreamed His Name
In Medellín, Cuchas, a Queer punk band, challenges a scene that claims to be rebellious but rejects new forms of dissent. Through their music and daily lives, the documentary follows their journey of identity and resistance in an environment that makes their existence uncomfortable.
We All Are Cuchas
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Antes que se nuble
In Buenaventura, the main port city on Colombia's Pacific coast, a young Afro-descendant social leader uses rap as a tool to build peace and confront violence, challenging the social complexity caused by drug trafficking and the wealth of natural resources in his environment.