10 years of CINEMA COLOMBIANO!

For a decade our festival has brought Colombian culture to The Netherlands. Celebrating what we miss, not only because it shapes who we are, but also because we honor and acknowledge Colombian culture as an act of resistance.

Since 2015 we’ve shared alternative perspectives on Colombia, woven through time, flavors, communities, and artistic expressions. Our beloved audience and us have enjoyed music, film, performance, video installations, gastronomy, and visual arts: first in WORM Rotterdam, and since 2021 also in Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam. For our Cinema Colombiano 10th anniversary, we decided to add a third location: on the 18th of September, we will open the festival in Hotel Maria Kapel in Hoorn. And as a present to you, our visitors: the opening event is gratis, and aside from films and music, there will be free empanadas as well! See the full program at https://cinecol.nl/ 

On September 20th at Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam we will present two film blocks, both with the presence of filmmakers for a Q&A. After the films enjoy a live accordion performance by Gabriel Sabor Vallenato, and our classic DJ set by Mitze Apocalipse and Chucho Vinilo. We will again transform Cavia’s hall into a dance floor!

About this edition: Cinema Colombiano is a party, but it has also been a space for collective reflection. That’s why we want to take this 10th anniversary as a chance to imagine and plant seeds for the future. We will present futuristic films, as well as communities and artists who we believe will be the protagonists of the times to come. Because without a doubt, Colombia has so much to contribute to the future we long for: one without war, decolonial, and free. Ashé!
 

Tickets per block:
7 euros / 10 euros solidario ticket
Cineville valid

(Presale tickets are available here)

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Danzan las Luciérnagas 
+ Q&A with the director

Elegua Luna Laverde | 2025 | Colombia | 18'

Keke has the opportunity to move to Mars, and this means moving away from the communal life she leads with other black trans and queer people on Earth. It’s an opportunity to invent an ancestry versed in the inauguration of a new future, as well as in composing sketches of a dream.

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Malta

Natalia Santa | 2024 | Colombia, Argentina | 97'

Mariana wants to go far away, far from Bogota, far from her family, but above all away from herself. Malta is a place where to start. Before she gets there she will have to delve in other territories.

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You can find the full program HERE