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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.
Total trailers found: 41
11 May 1982
Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents.
11 October 1999
It begins with the tragedy of Armero, during the course investigates the murder of a beautiful woman and on his way some people die in the end a killing and a cemetery.
08 April 2008
The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is both incomplete and contradictory.
01 January 1987
Ten years after "Agarrando Pueblo", a reunion with one of its protagonists, a street fakir still doing the same show.
17 April 2021
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.
01 January 1978
Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV.
17 May 2024
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.
01 March 1994
A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993.
06 August 2003
Freely expressing his loves and hates, controversial Colombian and openly gay writer Fernando Vallejo (living in Mexico) breaks with an ingrained literary tradition: that of the omniscient writer who sees and knows everything.
04 May 1973
A 13 minute glimpse of the Feria de Cali celebrated between Christmas and New Year… A carnival of commodity fetishism, red devils and white indians that will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the surrealist ethnographies of Michael Taussig.
01 October 2021
Between 2014 and 2017, Luis Ospina and Lina González made a series of travels through some Asian countries; perhaps the antipodes of their symbolic world.
01 January 1987
Portrait of the Colombian composer and pianist, one of his country’s most important classical musicians in the twentieth century.
01 January 1975
The vengeance of a housemaid against the family that hired her.
21 December 1991
Hairdressers in Cali discuss life, work, dreams, beauty, fashion, and homosexuality. The filmmaker is having a haircut too.
16 June 1985
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.
21 December 1991
A film about shoeshiners in the streets of Cali. A pure piece of direct cinema in the first installment of the crafts trilogy.
01 January 1986
Using the unfinished film, ANGELITA Y MIGUEL ÁNGEL, by Andrés Caicedo and Carlos Mayolo, as a structuring device, friends of prolific film critic and writer Andrés Caicedo, an unforgettable figure of the group of Cali in the 1970s who left an incredible amount of texts, reflect upon his life, his work, and his suicide at the age of 25, testify to his influence in the cultural life of Colombia, and remember his strong and touching personality.
17 December 1972
Satirical short comprising wartime footage, purporting to be from the Soviet Film Agency and depicting a successful bomb strike on Washington.
15 August 1990
This two-part documentary series made for regional television captures a crucial moment in Cali and Ospina's relationship with its city: a crossroads where the break with the city of youth becomes inevitable and painful.
21 December 1991
The taxi drivers of Cali, both those working the day shift and those working the night shift, talk about work, customers, and violence, revealing their vision of the city, real or fantasized.
01 January 1989
Educational documentary on North American silent comedy made with archival materials.
02 March 2023
Mudos testigos is a cinematographic collage made from all the surviving material of Colombian silent films, re-editing the images in such a way as to create a single imaginary film: the impossible love story of Efraín and Alicia that traces the convulsive first half of the twentieth century in Colombia.
11 July 2019
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.
01 January 1992
Memories from the neighborhood theaters in Cali, spaces that each summer occupied an important place in the heart of the people.
24 February 1986
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.
25 December 1983
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.
13 March 2020
'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.
13 September 2015
An intimate portrait of the pioneering artistic collective Grupo de Cali, whose work is now considered a fundamental part of Colombia’s film history.
01 January 1970
The film adapts Jean-Paul Sartre’s short story Erostratus about a man on the verge of despair who decides to buy a gun and go out to kill at random.
17 December 1971
Experimental film inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Sleep'.
08 March 2019
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.
05 June 1993
Faced with his imminent death from AIDS, Colombian artist Lorenzo Jaramillo looks back on his life and work through the five senses.
01 January 1972
Documentary about the effects of the VI Panamerican Games in the city of Cali, seen from the point of view of the people that couldn't get into the stadiums.
01 January 2003
A video art piece that combines citations from the filmmaker’s first films with footage shot in India.
10 September 1975
The documentary Sin Telón celebrates the national artistic values of Teatro La Candelaria, recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the leading Latin American experimental theater groups.
01 January 1975
An outcast looks for a glass of water in the house of a single woman, he notices that she is industrious yet repulsive and resolves¸ under the guise of love¸ to exploit her as a servant.
01 January 1991
Video-survey with fixed camera about the Cali people. They are asked about different topics: happiness, money, innocence, love.
