Manuel José Chaves

Oedipus Mayor

Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known potentate of the region. His investigation is directed towards all the armed factions that exist in Colombia.

A Ton of Luck

The story, based on true events occurred in Colombia en May 2003, tells the dreams and adventures of Porras, Venegas, Lloreda and Perlaza, four of the 147 soldiers that were in a company of the anti-guerrilla "Destroyer" battalion. It begun when these soldiers found in the middle of the jungle, during a rescue mission, 46 million dollars inside a FARC "guaca". Instead of give it to the Government, they take it all for themselves instead. They desperate when realize that they're completely isolated because the bridge, the only way to return to civilization, has been blown up. Everything's ironic, almost surreal: These soldiers don't have food, water, or toilet paper, but they sleep on their dollar-ful bags. This discovery will change their lives forever, and will allow them to have everything they've dreamt about: some authority, power and respect, others help their families and have a no-longer poor life. Their big challenge: return to civilization and make their dreams come true.

The Firefly

After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.

Loving Pablo

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

At the End of the Spectra

After a traumatic situation that makes Vega become an agoraphobic person, she decides to live like a hermit in an apartment because of her father's recommendation. But some strange things start happening, she sees visions, and hears noises and voices. She starts to worry about the dark past of that apartment, and the bizarre obsession of her neighbor.

Ciudad Perdida

A delirious love story between a pair of thieves who rob buses in Bogotá

Blood

Fidel and Ana María rob a bank out of necessity but are chased by Detective Arboleda. An exploration of what violence means.

Afuera del tiempo

A man goes back in time to stop his girlfriend from ending the relationship before he can propose to her, but each time he returns, she ends up with a different excuse. He now he has to see how to change to be able to marry her.

Oedipus Mayor

Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known potentate of the region. His investigation is directed towards all the armed factions that exist in Colombia.

A Ton of Luck

The story, based on true events occurred in Colombia en May 2003, tells the dreams and adventures of Porras, Venegas, Lloreda and Perlaza, four of the 147 soldiers that were in a company of the anti-guerrilla "Destroyer" battalion. It begun when these soldiers found in the middle of the jungle, during a rescue mission, 46 million dollars inside a FARC "guaca". Instead of give it to the Government, they take it all for themselves instead. They desperate when realize that they're completely isolated because the bridge, the only way to return to civilization, has been blown up. Everything's ironic, almost surreal: These soldiers don't have food, water, or toilet paper, but they sleep on their dollar-ful bags. This discovery will change their lives forever, and will allow them to have everything they've dreamt about: some authority, power and respect, others help their families and have a no-longer poor life. Their big challenge: return to civilization and make their dreams come true.

The Firefly

After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.

Loving Pablo

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

At the End of the Spectra

After a traumatic situation that makes Vega become an agoraphobic person, she decides to live like a hermit in an apartment because of her father's recommendation. But some strange things start happening, she sees visions, and hears noises and voices. She starts to worry about the dark past of that apartment, and the bizarre obsession of her neighbor.

Ciudad Perdida

A delirious love story between a pair of thieves who rob buses in Bogotá

Blood

Fidel and Ana María rob a bank out of necessity but are chased by Detective Arboleda. An exploration of what violence means.

Afuera del tiempo

A man goes back in time to stop his girlfriend from ending the relationship before he can propose to her, but each time he returns, she ends up with a different excuse. He now he has to see how to change to be able to marry her.

La toma de la embajada

Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.

El Altar: Demasiado tarde para rezar

Nerea is a girl who lives with her mother in a city where she hasn't made many friends yet. In order for Nerea to meet people her age and get out of her four walls, her mother convinces her to go with a group of young neighbors to spend a weekend in the Sierra. Some members of the group do not like this and Nerea will not have it easy to make friends. When they approach the farmhouse they have rented, they begin to discover strange things.

A Game of Cat and Mouse

The neighborhood La Estrella, in Bogotá, is inhabited by families displaced by the violence. Before the event which is the arrival of the electric light, that night there is a celebration. Cristancho and Brochero families, neighbors, friends and leaders of La Estrella, will be involved in a series of incidents and jokes.

Poker

Five strangers on the brink of despair agree to meet and bet large in a poker game.

Dios los Junta y Ellos se Separan

A mid-class Colombian family get into chaos when it's found out that the "Lord of the house", Benjamín, has been cheating on his wife for 20 years and has another son.

Pura Sangre (Col)

Regreso a la guaca

After serving part of his sentence in a military prison for having appropriated a millionaire FARC cove, Lieutenant Solórzano and his men regain their freedom, but they find themselves with a bleak reality. Outside the army, they are men singled out by society, penniless and haunted by the shadow of their past.