Trendy Tropics Colombia

Trendy Tropics, the new series of films that confronts a simple paradox: Europe loves to talk about the Global South but rarely listens to it. Social media feeds overflow with opinions, outrage, and trending solidarities. Yet behind these circulating images, real lives remain abstract, distant, almost fictional. We want to reverse the gaze. Films from Africa, Latin America and Asia speak back not as case studies, not as moral lessons, but as lived realities, contradictions and all that comes with it. Ventilator wants to invite audiences to step beyond the comfort of “awareness” and into the unsettling space of genuine encounter. With screenings, live music, shared food, and an open space for confrontation, Trendy Tropics merges art and activism not to make us feel better about the world, but to see it more clearly.

19.00 Door Open

19.45 Cineconcerto: Bicentenario (2020, Pablo Alvarez-Mesa) meets Band Photo

21.00 DJ set buenosdiaz

Bicentenario (2020), On the 200th anniversary of Simon Bolivar’s liberation journey across Colombia, Bicentenario reflects on the far-reaching consequences of the liberator’s legacy, a legacy kept alive through a wide range of intentional and unintentional rituals of remembrance. Summoning Bolivar’s spirit in the exact landscapes that witnessed the battles, Bicentenario reveals the contemporary social rituals that perpetuate the ongoing violence residing deep within the social and political unconscious. Two hundred years after his campaign, Simon Bolivar’s spirit has become a mix of political mysticism, unquestioned doctrine, and enigma—or perhaps a curse that has fixed itself in the collective imaginary of an entire continent. It is this curse that Bicentenario seeks to invoke and perhaps exorcise. (Pablo Alvarez-Mesa)

buenosdiaz is an Amsterdam-based colombian DJ  

Gabo is going to prepare some delicious snacks for us.

Tickets can be bought at the bar before the film starts.