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Flying Low

Volando bajo
Diego Piñeros García, Elkin Calderón Guevara
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Colombia
2020
24 minutes
English captions
Subtitles: 
None

In the global North, the DC-3 is regarded as a vintage plane and tourist attraction. In Colombia, however, it is still used as an airliner and serves as the only link to the outside world for remote villages in the Amazon region. The history of the former “Raisin Bomber” reflects economic and hegemonic conditions. Now the DC-3 raises its voice in an entranced cinematic journey through time and space to talk of dangers, sensual experiences – and a mystic passenger.

Annina Wettstein

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Director
Diego Piñeros García, Elkin Calderón Guevara
Cinematographer
Calderón & Piñeros
Editor
Calderón & Piñeros
Producer
Calderón & Piñeros
Sound
Eduardo Cote
Score
Juan Carlos Arrechea
Filmstill Motorrodillo

Motorrodillo

Motorrodillo
Alba Jaramillo
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Colombia,
France
2022
30 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

In rural northern Colombia, where the railway has long been discontinued, people help themselves with a fleet of “Motorrodillos” – motorcycle-driven miniature trains. Every day, Dolly and her colleagues take school kids, goods and travellers on rugged routes from village to village. If you meet oncoming traffic on the way, you get off the rails. If you find holes in the rails, you mend them yourself. The affectionate portrait of a self-organised transport system.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Alba Jaramillo
Cinematographer
David Horacio Montoya
Editor
Francine Lemaître
Producer
Qutaiba Barhamji, Marie-Odile Gazin, Alba Jaramillo
Sound
Andres Acevedo, Manuel Vidal