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This is a list of documentary films produced in the Colombian cinema, ordered by year and decade of release.
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This is a list of documentary films produced in the Colombian cinema, ordered by year and decade of release.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | ||||||
| El triunfo de la fe | Floro Manco | Documentary | ||||
| 1915 | ||||||
| El drama del 15 de octubre | Francisco di Doménico, Vincenzo di Doménico | Documentary | Also known as La vida del General Rafael Uribe. | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | ||||||
| Manizales City | Félix R. Restrepo | Documentary | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | ||||||
| Colombia Victoriosa | Gonzalo Acevedo Bernal, Álvaro Acevedo Bernal | Documentary | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | ||||||
| Alas de Colombia | Gonzalo Acevedo Bernal, Álvaro Acevedo Bernal | Documentary | ||||
| 1945 | ||||||
| De Cartagena a Cumaná | Gonzalo Acevedo Bernal, Álvaro Acevedo Bernal | Documentary | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||||||
| Luz en la selva | Enoch Roldán | Documentary | ||||
| 1963 | ||||||
| Rhapsodie in blue: Rapsodia en Bogotá | José María Arzuaga | Documentary, musical | ||||
| 1967 | ||||||
| Colombia, paraíso de América | Juan Ocampo | Documentary | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||||||
| Se llamaría Colombia | Francisco Norden | Documentary | ||||
| 1971 | ||||||
| Cali, ciudad de América | Diego León Giraldo | Documentary | ||||
| Planas, testimonio de un etnocidio | Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva | Documentary | ||||
| Oiga vea! | Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina | Documentary | ||||
| 1972 | ||||||
| Chircales | Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva | Documentary | ||||
| 1974 | ||||||
| Camilo, el cura guerrillero | Francisco Norden | Documentary | ||||
| 1975 | ||||||
| The Abandoned Children | Danny Lyon | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| 1976 | ||||||
| Corralejas de Sincelejo | Ciro Durán, Mario Mitrotti | Documentary | Winner of Melbourne International Film Festival. | |||
| 1977 | ||||||
| Gamín | Ciro Durán | Documentary | French-Colombian co-production. Best New Director at San Sebastián International Film Festival. | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||||
| Amazonas, infierno y paraíso | Rómulo Delgado | Documentary | ||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro | Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva | Documentary | Won FIPRESCI Prize and OCIC's Forum of New Cinema awards at Berlin International Film Festival. Golden Colon at Huelva Latin American Film Festival. | |||
| 1984 | ||||||
| Los emberá | Roberto Triana | Documentary | ||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| La guerra del centavo | Ciro Durán | Documentary | ||||
| 1986 | ||||||
| Elementos para una acuarela | Sergio Cabrera | Documentary | ||||
| Andrés Caicedo: Unos pocos buenos amigos | Luis Ospina | Documentary | ||||
| 1987 | ||||||
| Antonio María Valencia: Música de Cámara | Luis Ospina | Documentary | ||||
| 1988 | ||||||
| Amor, mujeres y flores | Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva | Documentary | Colombian-British co-production. | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||||||
| Comment vont les enfants | Lino Brocka, Rolan Bykov, Ciro Durán, Jerry Lewis, Euzhan Palcy, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville | Documentary | Colombian-French-Nigerien-Filipo-Soviet-American-Swiss co-production (UNICEF-sponsored). | |||
| 1992 | ||||||
| Un ángel subterráneo | Óscar Campo | Documentary | Won Grand Coral at Havana Film Festival. | |||
| 1993 | ||||||
| Nuestra película | Luis Ospina | Documentary | ||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| Secuestro | Camila Motta | Documentary | ||||
| A la rueda, rueda de paz y candela | Ana Victoria Ochoa, José Miguel Restrepo | Documentary | ||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| Do Wabura | Beatriz Bermúdez | Documentary | ||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| Un ángel del pantano | Óscar Campo | Documentary | ||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| Eduardo Umaña | Jairo Escobar | Documentary | ||||
| Fragmentos | Herib Campos-Cerbera, Carlos Santa | Documentary | ||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 50 años de monte | Yves Billon | Documentary | French-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Running for Bogotá | Odile Isralson | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. Nominated for Best Documentary at Cinequest Film Festival. | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| Estanislao Zuleta, biografía de un pensador | José Antonio Dorado | Documentary | ||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| Orozco el embalsamador | Kiyotaka Tsurisaki | Documentary | Japanese-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Nunca más | Fernando Restrepo, Marta Rodríguez | Documentary | ||||
| El proyecto del diablo | Óscar Campo | Documentary | ||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| Noticias de la guerra en Colombia | Óscar Campo | Documentary | ||||
| Exiliados en exilio | Rolando Vargas | Documentary | ||||
| Función de gala | Pakiko Ordóñez | Documentary | ||||
| El rostro del secuestro | Marcelo Salinas | Documentary | ||||
| Mirada de cóndor | María Cecilia de Posada | Documentary | Spanish-Colombian co-production. | |||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Tomas de guerra | Patricia Castaño, Adalaida Trujillo | Documentary | Colombian-German-British co-production. | |||
| La desazón suprema: Retrato de Fernando Vallejo | Luis Ospina | Documentary | Best Documentary at Toulouse Latin America Film Festival. | |||
| Bienvenidos a Colombia | Catalina Villar | Documentary | Colombian-French co-production. | |||
| Memoria de los silenciados: El baile rojo | Yezid Campos | Documentary | ||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Carlitos Medellin | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | Documentary | French-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Ciudadano Escobar | Sergio Cabrera | Documentary | Colombian-Spanish co-production. | |||
| Los archivos privados de Pablo Escobar | Marc De Beaufort | Documentary | ||||
| Rebel Music Americas | Marie Boti, Malcolm Guy | Documentary | Canadian-Brazilian-Argentine-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Del palenque de San Basilio | Erwin Göggel | Documentary | Best Documentary at Bogotá Film Festival. | |||
| Circo para todos | Luis Eduardo Merino Peláez, Amanda Rueda | Documentary | ||||
| La gracia de caer | Claudia Pedraza, Karolina Ramírez | Documentary | ||||
| Aguaviva: La vida en tres maletas | Mario Burbano, Verónica Marchiaro | Documentary | Argentine-Colombian-German co-production. | |||
| La tranca | Alexandra Henao | Documentary | Colombian-Venezuelan co-production. | |||
| Fidelidad | Juan Zapata | Documentary | Brazilian-Colombian co-production. | |||
| 2005 | ||||||
| La sierra | Scott Dalton, Margarita Martínez | Alfredo Aguilar, Eva Ahen, Juan Miguel Anzola | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Best Documentary at Independent Spirit Awards. Won Grand Jury Prize - Documentary Features at Miami International Film Festival. | ||
| Viajero de mí mismo | Galina Likosova, Hernán Restrepo | Documentary | ||||
| Claroscuro, la tragedia de un gran músico | Galina Likosova, Hernán Restrepo | Documentary | ||||
| Así como la guerreo | Lucas Nieto | Documentary | ||||
| Hoja de vida | Silvia María Hoyos | Documentary | ||||
| Detrás de P.: The Making of 'Perder es cuestión de método' | Margarita Jimeno | Documentary | ||||
| Lenguaje maestro | Pakiko Ordóñez | Documentary | ||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Caro es caro | Juliana Flórez | Documentary | ||||
| Ritual de vida | José Roberto Levy | Documentary | Mexican-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Paraíso | Felipe Guerrero | Documentary | Best Experimental Documentary at Barcelona Docupolis. Special Mention at Marseille Festival of Documentary Film. | |||
| El Mágico | Camilo Martin | Documentary | ||||
| Manati, retablos de un pueblo subdesarrollado y feliz | Hugo Santander | Documentary | Colombian-French-American co-production. | |||
| Con olor a melón | Mario Burbano | Documentary | ||||
| La gran Colombia | Annie Canavaggio, Gabriela Sosa, Diego Velazco, Fanny Veliz | Documentary | Colombian-Ecuadorian-Venezuelan-Panamanian co-production. | |||
| 2007 | ||||||
| El sueño del paraíso | Carlos Palau | Documentary | ||||
| Pablo Escobar, ángel o demonio | Jorge Granier | Documentary | Colombian-Venezuelan co-production. | |||
| Personal Che | Douglas Duarte, Adriana Marino | Documentary | Brazilian-American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Budapest to Gettysburg | Jake Boritt | Documentary | Austrian-Colombian-Hungarian-Romanian-American co-production. | |||
| Margem | Maya Da-Rin | Documentary | Brazilian-Colombian-Peruvian co-production. | |||
| El corazón | Diego García Moreno | Documentary | ||||
| Sunshine Swim Team | Jaime Escallon-Buraglia | Documentary | Colombian-Canadian co-production. | |||
| Hartos Evos, aquí hay. Los cocaleros del Chapare | Manuel Ruiz, Héctor Ulloque | Documentary | Colombian-Bolivian co-production. | |||
| Salvador, el fuego y los sueños | Fernando Valenzuela | Documentary | Argentine-Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America | Gabriela Bohm | Documentary | American-Israeli-Ecuadorian-Colombian-Brazilian-Argentine co-production. | |||
| Gabriel García Márquez: La escritura embrujada | Yves Billon, Mauricio Martínez-Cavard | Documentary | French-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Un tigre de papel | Luis Ospina | Documentary | 2nd place for Best Documentary at Lima Latin American Film Festival. Special Mention (Documentary Features) at Miami International Film Festival. | |||
| 2008 | ||||||
| ¡Colombia Vive!: 25 años de resistencia | Mauricio Gómez, Julio Sánchez Cristo | Documentary | ||||
| 16memorias | Camilo Botero | Documentary | Won Audience Award and Special Mention (Dox Competition) at Miami International Film Festival. | |||
| Biblioburro, the Donkey Library | Carlos Rendón | Documentary | French-Colombian-Belgium co-production. | |||
| Tumaco Pacífico | Samuel Córdoba | Documentary | ||||
| Es más vida | Amanda Robalino, Johanna García Ruiz | Documentary | Ecuadorian-Argentine-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Down the Road | Joel Christensen, Chris Gordon, Cody Shirk | Documentary | American-Colombian-Costa Rican-Salvadoran-Honduran-Nicaraguan-Panamanian co-production. | |||
| Barranquilleros, herederos de una tradición | Ika Santamaria | Documentary | ||||
| The Golden Age | Scott Duncan, Phil Tuckett | Documentary | American-Paraguayan-Ecuadorian-Colombian-Chilean co-production. | |||
| Bagatela | Jorge Ramos | Documentary | Won Human Rights Award at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. | |||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Pecados de mi padre | Nicolas Entel | Documentary | Argentine-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at Argentine Film Critics Association. Won Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize (Dox Competition) at Miami International Film Festival. Nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft (Music and Sound) at News & Documentary Emmy Award. Nominated for World Cinema (Documentary) at Sundance Film Festival. | |||
| Falsos positivos | Simone Bruno, Dado Carillo | Documentary | American-Colombian-Italian co-production. | |||
| La casa | Tayo Cortés | Documentary | Won Silver Dove (International Competition) at Dok Leipzig. | |||
| Bagatela | Jorge Ramos | Documentary | Won Human Rights Award at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. | |||
| La costura de América | Iosu López | Documentary | 15-countries co-production. | |||
| Dalai Lama, Colombia | Lina Dorado | Documentary | American-Colombian-Chinese co-production. | |||
| Robatierra | Margarita Martínez, Miguel Salazar | Documentary | ||||
| El Salado, rostro de una masacre | Antonio Rubio | Documentary | ||||
| Rosita no se desplaza | Alessandro Acito, Leonardo Valderrama | Documentary | Colombian-Italian co-production. | |||
| Babalú, la vida cantada | Jaime Dávila, Alex Toedtli Mera | Documentary | Spanish-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Sin historia no hay cámara | Patricia Boadas, Carlos Sánchez-Llibre | Documentary | Colombian-Spanish co-production. | |||
| Blas: El hombre y su leyenda | Galina Likosova, Hernán Humberto Restrepo Botero | Documentary | ||||
| Lucky 13 | David Caneva, Johanna Zuleta | Documentary | ||||
| Adiós al cholero | Carolina Arango, Carlos Mario Urrea | Documentary | ||||
| Leche brava | Ramón Jimeno | Documentary | ||||
| Garras de Oro: Mudo testigo de una injusticia | Óscar Campo, Ramiro Arbeláez | Documentary | ||||
| La virgen de la arena | Jorge Caicedo | Documentary | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| The Two Escobars | Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist | Documentary | Part of 30 for 30 documentary series. Nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay at Writers Guild of America Award. Nominated for Best International Documentary Film at Zurich Film Festival. | |||
| Pablo's Hippos | Antonio Von Hildebrand, Lawrence Elman | Documentary | British-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Apaporis: In Search of One River | José Antonio Dorado | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. Won Honorable Mention (Documentary on the Environment) at Bogota Film Festival. | |||
| Impunity | Juan José Lozano, Hollman Morris | Documentary | Swiss-French-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Open Eyes Jury Award at Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival. | |||
| Pequeñas voces | Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Óscar Andrade | Animation, Documentary | First Latin American film in 3D. Nominated for Grand Jury Prize (Knight Dox Competition) at Miami International Film Festival. | |||
| Uno, la historia de un gol | Carlos Moreno, Gerardo Muyshondt | Documentary | Colombian-Salvadoran co-production. Nominated for Grand Jury Prize (Dox Competition) at Miami International Film Festival. | |||
| My Kidnapper | Mark Henderson, Kate Horne | Documentary | British-Colombian-German co-production. Nominated for Best Documentary at Warsaw International Film Festival. | |||
| Antanas' Way | Margarita Martínez | Documentary | ||||
| Los abrazos del río | Nicolás Rincón Gille | Documentary | Belgium-Colombian co-production. Won Golden Montgolfiere at Three Continents Festival. Nominated for Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize at Yamagata International Documentary Festival. | |||
| Saving the Disposable Ones | Stuart Taner | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| Impunity | Juan José Lozano, Hollman Morris | Documentary | Swiss-French-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Open Eyes Jury Award at Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival. | |||
| Yo tengo ya la casita | Nicolás Guarín, René Palomino | Documentary | ||||
| Meandros | Manuel Ruiz Montealegre, Hector Ulloque Franco | Documentary | ||||
| La selva en blanco | Margarita Martínez | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| Pescador de lunas | Christian Bitar | Documentary | ||||
| La tierra se quedó | Juan Sarmiento | Documentary | German-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Producer Award at Potsdam Sehsüchte. | |||
| La Dany: The Diva of Bolivar Park | Jim Giles, Julie Giles | Documentary | Canadian-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Low Coal | Jordan Freeman | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Mamá Chocó | Diana Kuéllar | Documentary | ||||
| Soñadores en el hospicio: Rompiendo los muros | Roberto Niño, Arturo Roa | Documentary | Colombian-Argentine co-production. | |||
| Fanny para siempre | Daniel Álvarez Mikey | Documentary | Colombian-Spanish-Italian-French-Argentine co-production. | |||
| Dance with Destiny | Derrick Jensen | Documentary | American-Colombian-Indian-British co-production. | |||
| Beatriz González ¿Por qué llora si ya reí? | Diego García | Miller Quintero, Daniel Estrada, Carlos Bardem | Documentary | |||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Cocaine Unwrapped | Rachel Seifert | Documentary | British-Mexican-American-Ecuadorian-Colombian-Bolivian co-production. | |||
| Kingdom Come | Paiman Kalayeh, John Lyons Murphy | Documentary | American-Colombian-German co-production. | |||
| The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique | Cary Stuart | Documentary | American-Afghan-British-Moroccan-Spanish-Danish-Peruvian-Colombian-Dutch co-production. | |||
| Love Costs Everything | M. D. Neely | Documentary | American-Colombian-French-Indian-Egyptian-Iraqi co-production. | |||
| La toma | Angus Gibson, Miguel Salazar | Documentary | Colombian-French-American co-production. | |||
| Encuere | Simon Brand | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| The Dakota Hunter | Axel Ebermann | Documentary | American-Colombian-Malagasy-Thai-Dutch co-production. | |||
| Esperando el tsunami | Vincent Moon | Documentary | Colombian-French-Argentine co-production. | |||
| Putas o Peluqueras | Mónica Moya | Documentary | ||||
| 200 Kms/h | Luis Reina | Documentary | ||||
| El rayo | Laurence Salzmann | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Ser un ser humano | Abdelsallam Al-Hajj, Claudia Alves, Laura Cardona, Sreya Chatterhee, Jean Jean León, Marina McCartney, Rafael Ruíz, Helena Salguero | Documentary | Cuban-Jordanian-Spanish-Samoan-Indian-Portuguese-Colombian-Dominican-New Zealander-American co-production. | |||
| Sobre huellas | Nicolás Reyes | Documentary | ||||
| Birth Maternity Journal | Jorge Ramos | Documentary | ||||
| Tierra de negros | Víctor Agudelo | Documentary | ||||
| IMA: Territorio | Alex Rubio, Jaime Barrios | Documentary | ||||
| Tantos, tan invisibles | Victor Beltrán, Hugo Marín, Pilar Missas, Lina Vanegas | Documentary | ||||
| Eterno nómada | Ernesto McCausland | Documentary | ||||
| Neo nato: El principio de todo está en lo más pequeño | Juan Camilo Ramírez | Documentary | ||||
| Oro colombiano | Sanjay Agarwal, Iván Higa | Documentary | Dutch-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Best Documentary and Foreign Film at São Paulo International Film Festival. | |||
| Emberá | Andrés Estefan Ramírez | Documentary | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Manatí | Hugo Santander | Documentary | ||||
| Aluna | Alan Ereira | Documentary | British-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Sheffield Green Award at Sheffield International Documentary Festival. | |||
| Sonido bestial | Sylvia Vargas Gómez, Sandro Romero Rey | Documentary | ||||
| We Women Warriors | Nicole Karsin | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| The Battle for Land | Juan Mejía Botero | Documentary | ||||
| Illegal.Co | Alessandro Angulo | Documentary | ||||
| Hay algo más | Travers Nisbet | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| Corta | Felipe Guerrero | Documentary | Colombian-French-Argentine co-production. | |||
| Dalua Downhill | Rodrigo Pesavento, Tiago de Castro, Fernanda Franke Krumel | Documentary | Brazilian-American-Argentine-Australian-Canadian-Colombian-Czech-German-Italian-Peruvian-South African-Swiss co-production. | |||
| La maldición, el milagro y el burro | Ayoze O'Shanahan | Documentary | ||||
| La nuit de l'homme | François Bucher | Documentary | Swedish-Colombian-German-Egyptian-Polish-Peruvian co-production. | |||
| Espejito del Curubo | Carolina Pardo | Documentary | ||||
| Cerro rico, tierra rica | Juan Vallejo | Documentary | Colombian-Bolivian-American co-production. | |||
| Solving for X | Theo Lipfert | Documentary | American-Liberian-Guatemalan-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Nacer: Diario de maternidad | Jorge Caballero Ramos | Documentary | ||||
| Quijote | Juan Pablo Ríos | Documentary | ||||
| Habitantes de Babel | Alejandro Ángel | Documentary | ||||
| El silencio no perdona | William Torres | Documentary | ||||
| Frankenstein no asusta en Colombia!!! | Erik Zúñiga | Documentary | ||||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Sur le chemin de l'école | Pascal Plisson | Documentary | French-Chinese-South African-Brazilian-Colombian co-production. Won Best Documentary Film at César Awards. Won Audience Award (Favorite Independent World Feature) at Mill Valley Film Festival. | |||
| Mambo Cool | Chris Gude | Documentary | ||||
| Benghazi: Beyond the Front Line | Nathalia Orozco | Documentary | Colombian-French-Mexican-Libyan co-production. | |||
| Glacial Balance | Ethan Steinman | Documentary | Argentine-American-Peruvian-Bolivian-Chilean-Colombian-Ecuadorian co-production. | |||
| El viaje del acordeón | Andrew Tucker, Rey Sagbini | Documentary | Colombian-German co-production. | |||
| RUTZ: Global Generation Travel | António Caetano Faria | Documentary | Macanese-Portuguese-Argentine-Bolivian-Chilean-Colombian-Ecuadorian-Paraguayan-Peruvian co-production. | |||
| La Gorgona, historias fugadas | Camilo Botero | Documentary | Nominated for Best Documentary at Warsaw International Film Festival. | |||
| La eterna noche de las doce lunas | Priscila Padilla | Documentary | Nominated for Best Documentary at The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema. | |||
| Pepe el andaluz | Alejandro Alvarado, Concha Barquero | Documentary | Spanish- Canadian-Colombian-Polish-Argentine co-production. | |||
| Tacacho | Felipe Monroy | Documentary | Colombian-Swiss co-production. Nominated for Filmschool Award at Munich International Documentary Festival. | |||
| Global Vocals | Bryant Robinson, Jamaal Buchanan | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| No hubo tiempo para la tristeza | Jorge Betancur | Documentary | ||||
| Réquiem NN | Juan Manuel Echavarría | Documentary | ||||
| Paper People | Andrés Vásquez | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| The Duck Diaries: A Cold War Quest for Friendship Across the Americas | Matt Twommey | Documentary | American-Venezuelan-Uruguayan-Peruvian-Paraguayan-Panamanian-Nicaraguan-Mexican-Honduran-Guatemalan-Salvadorian-Ecuadorian-Costa Rican-Colombian-Chilean-Brazilian-BolivianArgentine co-production. | |||
| Open Walls | Michel Arribehaute | Documentary | French-American-Spanish-Mexican-Israeli-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Colombia invisible | Unai Aranzadi | Documentary | Spanish-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Wait | Brian Oh | Documentary | American-Peruvian-Ecuadorian-Colombian-Bolivian-Argentine co-production. | |||
| Ati y Mindiwa | Claudia Fischer | Documentary | ||||
| El charco azul | Irene Lema | Documentary | ||||
| Tales Coconuts Tell | Alejandro Jaramillo | Documentary | Colombian-German-Panamanian co-production. | |||
| One Drum | Harley van Valem | Documentary | Australian-Colombian-Brazilian-Bolivian-Belizean-American-Peruvian-Panamanian-Nicaraguan-Mexican-Honduran-Guatemalan-Salvadorian-Ecuadorian-Costa Rican co-production. | |||
| Walking on the Leaves | Tom Keith | Documentary | American-Colombian-Dominican-Malian co-production. | |||
| The Wireless Generation | Drew Gilberth | Documentary | American-Thai-Spanish-Mexican-Malaysian-Greek-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Urbílogo, Sumercé | Álvaro Perea, Carlos Jordanez | Documentary | ||||
| Retratos de familia | Alexandra Cardona | Documentary | ||||
| Apuntando al corazón | Claudia Gordillo, Bruno Federico | Documentary | ||||
| Destinos Interrumpidos | Juan Carlos Echeverria, Danny Holguín | Documentary | Best Documentary and Foreign Documentary at Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival. Won Victor Nieto Award for Best Documentary at Cartagena Film Festival. | |||
| Don Ca | Patricia Ayala | Documentary | ||||
| 2014 | ||||||
| Disruption | Pamela Yates | Documentary | American-Peruvian-Colombian-Brazilian co-production. | |||
| Infierno o paraíso | Piffano German, German Piffano | Documentary | Colombian-Venezuelan-Spanish co-production. | |||
| Life is Sacred | Andreas M. Dalsgaard, Vivana Gómez, Nicolás Servide | Documentary | Danish-Irish-Norwegian-Colombian co-production. Nominated for F:ACT Award at Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. | |||
| Memorias del calavero | Rubén Mendoza | Documentary | ||||
| Caffeinated | Hanh Nguyen, Vishal Solanki | Documentary | American-Colombian-Ethiopian-Guatemalan-Honduran-Indian-Italian-Lithuanian-Mexican-Nicaraguan-South Korean-Swedish-Swiss-Turkish-British co-production. | |||
| Parador húngaro | Patrick Alexander, Aseneth Suárez Ruíz | Documentary | Hungarian-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Otra cosa no hay | Christiana Ochoa | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Bodies at War | Emily Cohen | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Going the Distance: A Honeymoon Adventure | Mike Clear, Alanna Clear, Paul Watson | Documentary | British-Argentine-Bolivian-Canadian-Colombian-Costa Rican-Ecuadorian-Guatemalan-Mexican-Nicaraguan-Panamanian-Peruvian-American co-production. | |||
| Monte adentro | Nicolás Alonso | Documentary | Colombian-Argentine co-production. Nominated for Golden Montgolfiere at Nantes Three Continents Festival. | |||
| Persiguiendo al dragón | Juan Camilo Olmos | Documentary | Special Mention of the Opus Bonum Jury and nominated for Best Documentary Debut or Second Film and World Documentary at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. | |||
| Tranquilandia | Joel Stangle | Documentary | ||||
| Garras de Oro: Herida abierta en un continente | Ramiro Arbeláez, Óscar Campo | Documentary | ||||
| Estudio de reflejos | Juan David Soto | Documentary | Colombian-British-Spanish co-production. Nominated for Opera Prima Award at IBAFF International Film Festival. | |||
| No todo es Vigilia | Hermes Paralluelo | Documentary | Spanish-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Uncensored Documentary | Stephanie Catalina Martínez | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Caminando con música | Ronin Hsu | Documentary | Colombian-Hong Kongese co-production. | |||
| Sanctus Tatarî Âli | Lisandra Ávila | Documentary | Colombian-Turkish co-production. | |||
| Casa Margaritas | Raphaelle Ayach | Documentary | ||||
| Rosa Ventorum | Galina Likosova, Hernán Humberto Restrepo | Documentary | Colombian-Argentine-Austrian-Belgian-Danish.-French-German-Italian-Polish-Spanish co-production. | |||
| Another Type of Intelligence | Ian Palmer | Documentary | American-Argentine-Belizean-Chilean-Colombian-Costa Rican-Ecuadorian-Guatemalan-Honduran-Mexican-Nicaraguan-Panamanian-Peruvian co-production. | |||
| 2015 | ||||||
| Carta a una sombra | Miguel Salazar | Héctor Abad Gómez, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Cecilia Faciolince de Abad | Documentary | |||
| La buena vida | Jens Schanze | Documentary | German-Swiss-Colombian-Dutch co-production. | |||
| Vivo en el Limbo | Dago García, Roberto Flores | Carlos Alexander Martínez, Carlos Mario Rincón Mendoza, Hugo Luís Urruchurto Navarro | Drama, Documentary | |||
| Colombia, magia salvaje | Mike Slee | (Nature and animals report) | Documentary | |||
| Porro hecho en Colombia | Adriana Lucía | (Biographical story) | Documentary | |||
| Hombres solos | Francisco Schmitt García | Documentary | ||||
| Aislados | Marcela Lizcano | Documentary | ||||
| Parte de Lima | Santiago Andrés Gómez | Documentary | ||||
| La selva inflada | Alejandro Naranjo | Documentary | ||||
| Nuestro Monte Luna | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | Documentary | Canadian-Colombian co-production. | |||
| Entrelazado | Riccardo Giacconi | Documentary | ||||
| Todo comenzó por el fin | Luis Ospina | Documentary | ||||
| Un asunto de tierras | Patricia Ayala Ruiz | Documentary | ||||
| El valle sin sombras | Rubén Mendoza | Documentary | ||||
| Home: The Country of Illusion | Josephine Landertinger Forero | Documentary | ||||
| #artoffline | Manuel Correa | Documentary | Norwegian-Colombian coproduction. Nominated for Best Norwegian documentary and Gulluglen Award at Bergen International Film Festival. #artoffline held its international premiere as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. | |||
| Noche herida | Nicolás Rincón Gille | Documentary | Belgian-Colombian co-production. Won SCAM Award (Mention) and nominated for Cinéma du Réel Award at Cinéma du Réel. | |||
| Isolated | Marcela Lizcano | Documentary | Colombian-Ecuadorian-Mexican co-production. | |||
| The Good Life | Jens Schanze | Documentary | Colombian-German-Swiss-Dutch co-production. | |||
| Spaces and Silences | Juan David Cárdenas | Documentary | ||||
| Kome Urue, the Children of the Jungle | Carlos Felipe Montoya | Documentary | ||||
| Amazona | Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck | Valerie Meikle, Noa Van Hemelryck Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck, Clare Weiskopf, Diego Weiskopf | Documentary | |||
| El retorno | Juan Pablo Ríos | Documentary | ||||
| Behind the Red Noses | Crystal V. Lesser | Documentary | French-Colombian-Panamanian-Spanish-Venezuelan co-production. | |||
| La Siberia | Iván Sierra Sanjurjo, Gerrit Stollbrock | Documentary | ||||
| Indivisible | Hilary Linder | Documentary | American-Brazilian-Colombian-Mexican co-production. | |||
| Learning to See | Jake Oelman | Documentary | American-Colombian-Ecuadorian-Peruvian co-production. | |||
| Patient | Jorge Caballero | Documentary | ||||
| Chicas nuevas 24 horas | Mabel Lozano | Documentary | Argentine-Colombian-Paraguayan-Peruvian-Spanish co-production. | |||
| Gabo, la creación de Gabriel García Márquez | Justin Webster | Documentary | Spanish-French-American-Colombian-British co-production. Nominated for Best Documentary at Gaudí Awards. | |||
| El ruiseñor y la noche | Rubén Rojo Aura | Documentary | Mexican-Spanish-Colombian co-production. Nominated for Best Mexican Film at Guadalajara International Film Festival. | |||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Guerras ajenas | Carlos Moreno, Lilia Luciano | Documentary | Colombian-American co-production. | |||
| Rumba Calling | Oliver Hill | Documentary | ||||
| El culebro: la historia de mi papá | Nicolás Casanova | Hernando Casanova, Héctor Ulloa, Gloria Gómez, Silvio Ángel, Jimmy Salcedo, Manolo Cardona, Julián Román | Documentary | |||
| Home - El país de la ilusión | Josephine Landertinger | Documentary | ||||
| Inmortal | Homer Etminani | Documentary | ||||
| Jericó, el infinito vuelo de los días [1] | Catalina Mesa | Documentary | ||||
| 2017 | ||||||
| Señorita Maria | Rubén Mendoza | Documentary | ||||
| Damiana | Andres Ramirez | Documentary | ||||
| El silencio de los fusiles | Nathalia Orozco | Documentary | ||||
| A River Below | Mark Grieco | Documentary | American-Colombian co-production. | |||
| El fin de la guerra | Marc Silver | Documentary | ||||
| Poner a actuar pájaros | Erwin Göggel | Documentary | Nominated for Best Documentary at 7th Macondo Awards. | |||
| 2018 | ||||||
| Ciro y yo | Miguel Salazar | Ciro Galindo, Esneider Galindo | Documentary | |||
| La mujer de los 7 nombres | Nicolás Ordoñez, Daniela Castro | Yineth Trujillo Verján or others | Documentary | |||
| El Testigo | Kate Horne | Jesús Abad Colorado or others | Documentary | |||
| Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades | Abner Benaim | Rubén Blades, Sting, Residente, Paul Simon, Larry Harlow, Gilberto Santa Rosa | Documentary | |||
| Yo, Lucas | Lucas Maldonado | Lucas Maldonado, Matías Maldonado, Natalia Helo, Maia Landaburu, Lisbeth Pabón, Blas Jaramillo, Paula Ungar, Camila Loboguerrero, Soledad Castañeda, Esmeralda Pinzón, Heidi Abderhalden, Alberto Espinosa, Rafael Maldonado, Chloe Rutter, Luz Amorocho, Natalia Guarnizo, Antonio von Hildebrand, Ernesto Lleras, Moisés Rodríguez, Salomón Rodríguez | Documentary | |||
| En el Taller | Ana María Salas Vega | Carlos Salas, Olmedo Holguín, Sixta Anacaona, Hernan Sansone, Sara Salas, Paola Salas | Documentary | |||
| My way or the Highway | Silva Lorenzini | Silvia Lorenzini or others | Documentary | |||
| La Negociación | Margarita Martínez Escallón | Documentary | ||||
| 2019 | ||||||
| The Smiling Lombana | Daniela Abad | Tito Lombana or others | Documentary | |||
| Ganges | Roberto Restrepo, Talía Carolina Osorio | Documentary | ||||
| Doble Yo | Felipe Rugeles | Documentary | ||||
| Homo Botanicus | Guillermo Quintero | Documentary | ||||
| El sendero de la anaconda | Alessandro Angulo | Martín von Hildebrand, Wade Davis | Documentary | |||
| Lapü | César Alejandro Jaimes | Documentary | ||||
| La Forma del Presente | Manuel Correa | Documentary | ||||
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country mostly in South America with insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments. The Capital District of Bogotá is also the country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub, and other major urbes include Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Villavicencio and Bucaramanga. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers, and has a population of around 52 million. Colombia is the largest Spanish-speaking country in South America. Its cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by the African diaspora, as well as with those of the various Indigenous civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is the Official language, although English and 64 other languages are recognized regionally.
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and a politician, who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death—equivalent to $70 billion as of 2022—while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The Medellín Cartel was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar. It is often considered the first major "drug cartel" and was referred to as such due to the organization's upper echelons being built on a partnership between multiple Colombian traffickers operating alongside Escobar. Included were Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez, Juan David Ochoa Vásquez, José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha and Carlos Lehder. The cartel operated from 1976 to 1993 in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. At the height of its operations, the Medellín Cartel smuggled multiple tons of cocaine each week into countries around the world and brought in up more than US$188 million daily in drug profits.
Catalina Sandino Moreno is a Colombian actress. She shared the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading role in Maria Full of Grace (2004). As of 2023, she stars as Tabitha Matthews in the Epix television series From.
Cinema of Colombia refers to the film industry based in Colombia. Colombian cinema began in 1897 and has included silent films, animated films and internationally acclaimed films. Government support included an effort in the 1970s to develop the state-owned Cinematographic Development Company which helped produce some films yet struggled to stay financially viable. FOCINE went defunct in 1993. In 1997 the Colombian congress approved Law 397 of Article 46 or the General Law of Culture with the purpose of supporting the development of the Colombian film industry by creating a film promotion mixed fund called Corporación PROIMAGENES en Movimiento. In 2003 Congress also approved the Law of Cinema which helped to restart the cinematographic industry in Colombia.
The Strategy of the Snail is a 1993 Colombian comedy-drama film directed and produced by Colombian filmmaker and director Sergio Cabrera. The film stars Frank Ramírez, Florina Lemaitre, Humberto Dorado, Fausto Cabrera and Carlos Vives. The film is a winner of the Berlin International Film Festival and the Biarritz Film Cinema Festival of Latin America. The film is about a group of tenants of an old house in the center of Bogotá who face an illegal eviction by the owner, an arrogant banker. The tenants are led by an untitled lawyer and a Spanish anarchist exile. The film was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Colombia.
Embrace of the Serpent is a 2015 internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra, and written by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Shot almost entirely in black and white, the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant yakruna. It was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures.
Encanto is a 2021 American computer-animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The 60th film produced by the studio, it was directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, co-directed by Charise Castro Smith, and produced by Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer, with original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The screenplay was written by Castro Smith and Bush, both of whom also conceived the film's story with Howard, Miranda, Jason Hand, and Nancy Kruse. The film stars the voices of Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Carolina Gaitán, Diane Guerrero, and Wilmer Valderrama. Encanto follows a multigenerational Colombian family, the Madrigals, led by a matriarch (Botero) whose children and grandchildren—except for Mirabel Madrigal (Beatriz)—receive magical gifts from a miracle that helps them serve the people in their rural community called the Encanto. When Mirabel learns that the family is losing their magic, she sets out to find out what is happening, and save her family and their magical house.
