Luis Ospina
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Biography: Luis Ospina (14 June 1949 – 27 September 2019) was a Colombian film director. He is one of the founders of Caliwood film movement along with Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Cali, Colombia
Adult: No
Birthday: June 14, 1949
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 2019
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Bloody Flesh
Overview: August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years had kept the secret stories of their inhabitants.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-12-25
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The Stillness Syndrome
Overview: In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-04-17
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The Manor of Araucaima
Overview: In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-24
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Our Film
Overview: Faced with his imminent death from AIDS, Colombian artist Lorenzo Jaramillo looks back on his life and work through the five senses.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-06-05
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Ospina Cali Colombia
Overview: An encounter, in Lisbon, with Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina (1949- 2019). He talks about the troubled modern history of Colombia, while remembering his life and work: his childhood, the early affinity with cinema, his time in the United States, his comeback to his birth country, and the foundation of Grupo de Cali, alongside Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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In Search of Maria
Overview: Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF ‘MARIA’ combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to rescue the memory of a lost film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-06-16
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Self-Portrait (Asleep)
Overview: Experimental film inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Sleep'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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It All Started at the End
Overview: An intimate portrait of the pioneering artistic collective Grupo de Cali, whose work is now considered a fundamental part of Colombia’s film history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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Holy Beasts
Overview: Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-07-11
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Jairo’s Revenge
Overview: Jairo José Pinilla Téllez is the pioneer of suspense and science fiction in Colombian film. Pinilla was the first to use special effects in Colombian film and now, at the age of over 70, he is working to finish his last film. This documentary follows Jairo’s footsteps through Colombian film.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-03-08
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Video (B)art(h)es
Overview: Split screen experimental film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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A Ballad for Dead Children
Overview: 'A Ballad for dead children' is a tribute to Andrés Caicedo and Cali and it's group, as the seed of a cinematographic phenomenon, but it goes one step further. Testimonies and fragment readings compose, together with a very powerful archive material, the story of a story that has a deep sense and cinematographic interest: the story of Andrés and his eternal fascination with horror literature and cinema b, the of the boy who was born to write, that of the young man who decided to mock death by planning his own ending. A film that tries to maintain the difficult balance on the fine line that separates and unites the two: man and work, work and man, in an eternal and indissoluble way.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-03-13
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Cines de Barriada
Overview: Memories from the neighborhood theaters in Cali, spaces that each summer occupied an important place in the heart of the people. In the neighborhood theaters, among others, Mexican cinema was widely exhibited, which incorporated Cali fashions and even strongly influenced the work of various local artists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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