Discover the fascinating world of cinema at the Bogotá Cinematheque! We present the schedule of the films that will be presented this Sunday of Holy Week, March 31, 2024.
For lovers of the seventh art, this is the ideal place to explore diverse stories and enjoy the magic of cinema at its finest.
The best part is that the admission ticket is incredibly affordable and is only $6.000 pesos.
There are performances with free admission!
“Masha and the Bear” is a special for theaters with five episodes never before seen on the big screen. The journey begins with a quest to witness a wedding and ends in a snow-covered wonderland. When it comes to Masha, be prepared for wild and fun antics: cake cart races, improvised parachutes with the wedding veil and mischievous pigeons to chase.
But there’s more: a touching Christmas story. The characters will team up with magicians called The Twelve Months to save the holidays and make them truly unforgettable. The film proposes a journey full of laughter, warmth and magic. The real adventure is about to begin!
Time: 11:00 am
An old monkey prince wakes up one day hurt and lost. He is saved by young Tom, who takes him to his parents, two scientists exiled from the scientific community for their theories about other primate civilizations. The prince, fascinated, discovers a surprising society, while the pair of scientists try to convince the Academy of the truth of his thesis.
Laura Zamora, a trans woman serving an unjust sentence of 52 years in the La Picota penitentiary center in Bogotá, falls in love with Jaison, a former FARC combatant. Daniela and Max, two trans activists, decide to have a daughter and give her their love.
The TRANS COMMUNITY NETWORK takes to the streets to demand their right to life. Through love in the trans community, this cinematic experience portrays a form of resistance that emerges and liberates us even in the most hostile environments of our society.
Peter Press has been living with a press for 20 years and has completed his squaring process. But an incident forces him to take off the press and take a different form. This will go against his beliefs and jeopardize his entrance to paradise. He begins a journey where he discovers that the Other Form is the last trace of his individuality.
A journey between the past and the present exposes the career of the great maestro Edy Martinez, Colombian pianist, composer and empirical arranger who was the greatest exponent of Latin music in the decade of the 60s and 70s.
In the magnificent and gray metropolis of New York, walks the small image of a man whose genius is unsuspected and even today goes unnoticed by many amid the loneliness and magnitude of his legacy.
Nominated for the Oscar for Best International Film
Seydou and Moussa are two young people who leave Dakar to head to Europe. A contemporary odyssey through the dangers of the desert, the horrors of the detention centers in Libya and the dangers of the sea.
A group of armed women runs a clandestine refinery in the rabid Sol Nascente favela, Ceilândia, on the outskirts of Brasilia, a place that seems straight out of a post-apocalyptic science fiction movie. Led by two sisters, one of them recently released from prison, this matriarchy leads the course of a potential rebellion in the making, while they sell fuel at a cheaper price to the bikers in the region.
The Brazilian filmmaker Adirley Queirós, together with the Portuguese Joana Pimenta, slip between the documentary record and fiction, imagining a social fantasy that evokes the structural impoverishment of Brazil and the political consolidation of the extreme right.
Time: 3:30 pm
A story that speaks of the ability of human beings to get up, to rebuild, to reinvent themselves after having experienced something terrible. A story about people who have learned to live with their pain, in a devastated town that rose again thanks to the strength and deep love of its inhabitants for their land and their people. A small place stranded in the Salvadoran mountains dressed in jungle and humidity.
The Venezuelan Araya Peninsula is one of the driest places on earth, exploited for more than five hundred years due to its abundant salt mines.
Director Margot Benacerraf captures the life of the salt farmers through impressive images, highlighting the hard life of this region, which disappeared with the arrival of industrialization.
Masterpiece of poetic cinematography and precursor of Latin feminist art.
Film from the UNAM Film Library Collection
Based on real events, the film tells the story of the precarious conditions in which the fishermen of the municipality of Nuschimango, Veracruz, live and work, who, tired of the long days, decide to rebel.
Far from being a film about life in the gangs of Medellín, El Bolero de Rubén is a tragedy to the rhythm of boleros where Marta, after fifteen years of waiting for her boyfriend to get out of prison, is consumed by the walls of her house half finished; At the same time, her extinct dream of being a singer takes her through imaginary places that reflect her frustration, her anger, and her fear.
Based on the play with the same name, El Bolero de Rubén navigates between the thriller, the musical, realism and comedy, making it a unique film of its kind.
Time: 7:00 pm
When her young son Minato starts acting strangely, his mother senses something is wrong. Discovering that the person responsible for all this is a teacher, she bursts into the school demanding to know what is happening. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of the mother, the teacher and the boy, the truth slowly comes to light.
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