Silent Witnesses

Mar 2, 2023

1h 18m

★ 10.0

"The fate of the lovers is cast."

Overview

Mudos testigos is a cinematographic collage made from all the surviving material of Colombian silent films, re-editing the images in such a way as to create a single imaginary film: the impossible love story of Efraín and Alicia that traces the convulsive first half of the twentieth century in Colombia. Compiled by the late Luis Ospina and finished posthumously by Jeronimo Atehortúa.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Invasión Cine

Pomme Hurlante Films

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Cast

Efraín

Roberto Estrada Vergara

Alicia

Mara Meba

Uribe

Rafael Burgos

A Colombian actress named Zahinabu is finally having her first audition in New York, for a Latina role. It could be the opportunity that she has been waiting for since she arrived to US. But the audition takes a different direction when the casting group needs to consider the great audition from this Latina woman who doesn't look like a "latina".

10.0

Collage

May 5, 2021

Considerations on collage as a cognitive act in artists’ cinema. A pedagogical film adrift: 35mm photographs and other materials collected over the last fifteen years by artist Stefano Miraglia meet a text written by Baptiste Jopeck and the voice of Margaux Guillemard.

0.0

Strangers in the Night

Oct 17, 2024

A lonely young woman becomes obsessed with the sex lives of her next door neighbors, unaware that appearances are not what they seem.

3.0

مصطفى أو الساحر الصغير

Aug 29, 1932

No overview available.

5.3

Jaan Tere Naam

Jan 30, 1992

Lovely Pinky Malhotra is a heart-breaker in the college where she studies, and has a number of young men who would lay down their lives for her. Amongst them are Sunil and Vicky. She is attracted to Sunil, and both carry on a romantic relationship, hoping to get married after finishing college. Before that could happen, Pinky finds out that Sunil has been two-timing her as he is already dating another young collegian. Angered and hurt at this, she decides she will have nothing to do with him, and starts her romance with Vicky. Sunil, who does not know what has transpired, wants to talk to Pinky with a view of rekindling their romance, but Pinky refuses to speak with him. The question remains is Sunil really in love with another girl, and if so, why did he take the trouble to woo Pinky?

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0.0

Selbstportrait 1

Jan 1, 2005

No overview available.

0.0

Forgiveness

Nov 11, 2021

Following an argument two roommates learn to forgive each other.

7.8

A Trip to Paramountown

Jul 10, 1922

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.

7.3

Birds of Passage

Aug 2, 2018

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

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6.0

View on Boulevard, New York City

Sep 1, 1896

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend interest to the scene.

6.0

The History of the Pink Trunk

Nov 11, 2005

In 1945, in the train station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, he has to deal with an inquisitive journalist Hipólito Mosquera while trying to solve the mysterious case. Nobody knows who the girl is, or who put her in the trunk. The things turn bad when Mosquera publish the news in the local newspaper. With the help of a bartender Martina Quijano, Corzo will find an answer for the question: Who killed the girl and why?

3.2

Sisak

Apr 6, 2017

This short film follows the story of two gay men in Mumbai who meet and fall in love in regular train journeys. Burdened with the larger social (and legal) scorn the two are unable to say anything to each other.

9.0

Doomer's Guide to Living

Dec 17, 2024

After getting involved in a car accident, a depressed, isolated, and chronically online girl tries to cut back her internet addiction and reconnect with an old friend.

0.0

The death of the minotavr

Sep 30, 2022

The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of transformation, abyss and expiation, because only murdering to minotaur and everything he represents is possible to return to life. From the female gaze, it shows the depth of the emotional wounds caused by domestic violence; the same one that the surrealist Dora Maar lived and that ask why, as a society, instead of killing the minotaur, we blindly continue to send him women only to be devoured and ask them why they simply did not fight, why they did not try get out of the labyrinth.

6.0

María

Oct 20, 1922

María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.

0.0

Untitled Static

Feb 7, 2025

A visceral journey through dysphoria in the internet age.

0.0

La Cumbre

May 1, 2021

Abandoned for two decades in the Colombian Andes, La Cumbre is an intimate portrait of the film-maker’s home told through the memories and presence of his grandparents, reflecting on the time they spent there with their family.

0.0

good boy

Dec 7, 2023

The author's erotic imagination is mixed between desire and magazine clippings, and the trade of collage becomes a ship that travels from outer space to the city itself.

8.0

The Man Hater

Sep 2, 1917

Phemie, an avowed man-hater, marries Joe, the village blacksmith.

6.5

A Quiet Man

Feb 8, 2021

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

Silent Witnesses

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