Oscar lives with his grandparents in a humble country house that has been left in the middle of a large hydroelectric project. It is the last day to vacate their house and his grandparents, faced with the pain and uncertainty of leaving the land where they were born, prefer to end up under it.
Jorge is the only one of his generation who has decided to stay in the countryside. The local festivities are just round the corner, and with them comes the reunion with his ex-girlfriend Andrea, who is back from the city. Her arrival starts to unhinge him physically and mentally. Second feature film by its director.
Dora has two daughters; she has taken the decision to end her 27-year-old marriage because she no longer feels loved. Just when she has gathered the strength to return to her place of origin with the hope of finding love again, her husband Meinardo suffers a workplace accident and loses his leg.
Worlds Burning Amid the Shadows is a generational embrace born from the encounter between an adult woman and a group of young people. This journey through darkness, bodies and lights, proposes a playful experience, from the formal and the narrative, in which the symbolic plane becomes a battlefield and the prevailing need for freedom can be satiated from minimal acts such as dancing, smoking or makeup.
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. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.
Cristina and Simon are two young graffiti artists who paint the city that they live in. Their restless spirit leads them to defy a criminal gang when they decide to paint the mural of a whale over a threat written in a wall. The love that unites them, their friendship with other artists at La selva- an old house they use as a refuge- and familiar tensions, come together to tell a story where the powerful strength of youth faces fear, violence and the difficulties of growing up.
