Luis Ospina
Luis Ospina (1949, Colombia) studied film at UCLA and has made many short and feature-length films, including Capitulo 66 with Raul Ruíz. He is also one of he founding members of the Cali Group, alongside Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo. He directed the fiction features Pura sangre (1982) and Soplo de vida (1999). His documentary features include Nuestra película (1993), La desazón suprema (2003), the mockumentary Un tigre de papel (2007) and It All Started at the End (2015). A complete retrospective of his films was shown at DocLisboa in 2018. From 2007 until his death in 2019, he was the Artistic Director of the Cali International Film Festival. Mudos Testigos (2023), selected for IFFR 2023, was released posthumously. Pura Sangre is part of the IFFR 2024 Focus: Chile in the Heart programme.
Filmography
(selection) Via cerrada (1964, short), Acto de fe (1970, short), Autorretrato (doemido) (1971, short), Oiga vea (1971, short), El bombardeo de Washington (1972, short), Cali de pelicula (1973, short), Asunción (1975, short), Pura sangre (1982), En busca de ‘Maria’ (1985, short), Andrés Caicedo: unos pocos buenos amigos (1986), Antonio Maria Valencia: musica en camara (1987), Ojo y vista (1988), Arte sano cuadra a cuadra (1988), Fotofijaciones (1989), Slapstick: la comedia mida norteamericana (1989), Adios a Cali (1990), Camara ardiente (1991), Al pie, al pelo, a la carrera (1991), Nuestra pelicula (1993. doc), Capitulo 66 (1994, with Raul Ruíz), Cali: ayer, hoy y manana (1995), Mucho gusto (1997), Soplo de vida (1999), La desazón suprema (2003, doc), Un tigre de papel (2008, mockumentary), It All Started at the End (2015, doc), Hay Que Ser Paciente (2015, short), Mudos testigos (2023, co-dir)
Luis Ospina op IFFR
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Mudos testigos
Jeronimo Atehortua Arteaga, Luis Ospina | 78' | Colombia | World premiere
An imaginary melodrama excerpted from twelve extant films from the silent period of Colombian cinema. -
Agarrando pueblo
Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo | 27' | Colombia | None
An invasive film crew attempts to make a gritty documentary on some Cali slums. -
Ospina Cali Colombia
Jorge de Carvalho | 81' | Portugal | Dutch Premiere
Enter the world of Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina, a fascinating figure in Latin American cinema. -
Pura sangre
Luis Ospina | 90' | Colombia | None
Colombia’s first horror film is a class politics-dense pulp masterpiece. -
Soplo de vida
Luis Ospina | 110' | Colombia | -
A private detective investigates the murder of the pretty Golondria, and finds out his life is tied up with hers. Colombian film-noir opens the attack