121280 Ritual
Pregnancy becomes ritual in Antoinetta Angelidi’s film of her son’s birth, finished 28 years later.
16'
Greece
IFFR 2024
Luis Ospina, frontman of the Grupo de Cali – a pioneering group of filmmakers, artists and writers active in Cali, Colombia – was a most fascinating, impossible to place figure in Latin American cinema. He made fiction features as well as proto-Punk style documentaries that gave short shrift to categorical niceties, instead opting for hybridisations. Sure, a film like Pura sangre (1982) is fiction, but with so much reality in its details that one easily forgets it is all fantasy. It could have been real, these things do happen in one way or another, for this is Colombia.
In 2018, film director-teacher Jorge de Carvalho and his students sat down with Ospina in the comforts of a very fake jungle to talk about his life and works. With contributions from fellow Grupo de Cali-members including Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo, this interview became the basis for Ospina Cali Colombia. It’s a perfect and concise auteurist reading of Ospina's complete work – to which little could be further added, as he died the following year. Since then, interest in Ospina seems to have only grown, especially as genre tropes and references to popular cinema are so elemental to his art. So, please, enter the labyrinth of Luis Ospina's mind – for Cali, by now, is everywhere…
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2024
Programme IFFR 2024
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmePregnancy becomes ritual in Antoinetta Angelidi’s film of her son’s birth, finished 28 years later.
16'
Greece
IFFR 2024
An invasive film crew attempts to make a gritty documentary on some Cali slums.
27'
Colombia
IFFR 2024
A sensitive and insightful documentary on the art of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
53'
Switzerland
IFFR 2024