Cinema Colombiano
Cinema Colombiano is a film festival that returns every year in the Netherlands. It has taken place at WORM in Rotterdam since 2015 and also at Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam since 2021. This year, as we celebrate the festival’s 10th anniversary, we’re excited and honoured to offer a sneak peek of the festival with new audiences at Hotel Maria Kapel.
At the festival, the Colombian diaspora and people from all backgrounds come together to explore and appreciate Colombia’s rich culture and social realities through film and music. This year, the 10th edition will happen on the 18th of September in HMK, on the 20th of September in Cavia, Amsterdam, and on the 27th of September in Worm, Rotterdam.
Bienvenidos Conquistadores Interplanetarios y del Espacio Sideral (Andrés Jurado, 2024) 90 min - with English subtitles.
In 1963, NASA astronauts underwent survival training in the Colombian jungle. Amongst them was Neil Armstrong. Through creative use of archival footage, documents, and sound recordings, the film explores this surreal encounter, presenting a counter-history that examines colonialism, space exploration, and historical memory. The film is a hypnotic journey along disparate and unique archives exposing the human obsession with “development”.
Programme
6 pm Start (with vinyl music and empanadas)
6:30 pm Live music
7 pm Intro + film (90 min) - Cinema
9 pm Q&A + vinyl music afterwards
10 pm End
Cinema Colombiano
Aside from the festival, the team of Cinema Colombiano organises other spaces to connect: CINEMA COLOMBIANO RADIO, a bi-weekly radio program featuring Colombian music, where we invite creatives, activists, and diverse voices to share their stories; and INTERRUPCIÓN, a year-round event showcasing music from Latin America and its diaspora.