Regular ticket: 7 EUR per block
Solidarity ticket: 10 EUR per block
Cineville is valid

Presale ticket: 17 EUR - tickets are valid for the full festival day
at Worm, including the live music and club program

Night ticket: 10 EUR - music program only (valid from 22:00)

18:00 - Doors open (with empanadas!)

18:30 - Live Music by Tibio

19:00 - Opening Film:
Bienvenidos Conquistadores
Interplanetarios y del Espacio Sideral

21:00 - DJ Chucho Vinilo

22:00 - FIN

EN |  For a decade our festival has brought Colombian culture to The Netherlands. Celebrating what we miss, not only because it shapes who we are, but also because we honor and acknowledge Colombian culture as an act of resistance.

14:30 - Doors open

15:30 - Film Block 1 (with Q&A):
Pedagogía de la Corridez +
Sueños en Concreto

19:00 - Film Block 2 (with Q&A):
Danzan Las Luciérnagas + Malta

22:30 - Live Music by Gabriel Sabor Vallenato

23:00 - Cinema Colombiano DJ's

13:30 - Doors open

14:00 - Film Block 1: Adiós al Amigo

16:45 - Film Block 2: Yo Vi Tres Luces Negras

20:15 - Film Block 3: La Bonga

22:00 - Live Music by La Ruka

23:00 - Club: CREMA x CINEMA COLOMBIANO

04:00 - FIN

FREE ENTRANCE!

Bienvenidos Conquistadores Interplanetarios y del Espacio Sideral

Andrés Jurado Uribe | 95 min | 2024

EN | Welcome to the subtropical survival training in the Colombian jungle region of Darien. Here, Neil Armstrong and his team of astronauts prepare for their journey to the moon. Neocolonial fantasies merge with European visions of the future of lunar colonisation and US plans to exploit the region’s resources. A complex collage of found-footage emerges on the canvas, debunking Western notions of continued hegemonic domination of the Global South.

ES | En el teatro de la Guerra Fría, los astronautas perdidos en el Darién se ven asediados por sus miedos más profundos al ser sorprendidos por un indígena ¿pensaron que serían decapitados o devorados por un caníbal salvaje? Una deconstrucción de archivos fílmicos y de propaganda del entrenamiento de supervivencia tropical desafía la narrativa colonial inscrita en la conquista del espacio.

Tibio

Live music

+ vinyl-set by DJ Chucho Vinilo

+ free empanadas!

EN | Tibio blends champeta, cumbia, and electronic punk with half-broken drum machines and basslines that drag like the last song of a band that no longer exists. Improvised, clumsy dancing: let the tropical beats get stained with punk and the guitars go out of tune!

ES | Tibio mezcla chámpeta, cumbia y punk electrónico con drum machines medio rotas y bajos que se arrastran como la ultima canción de una banda que ya no existe. Baile improvisado y torpe: que los beats tropicales se manchen de ponk y que las guitarras desafinen!

Pedagogía de la Corridez

Sebastián Gabriel Galvis Forero| 25 min | 2025

EN | This documentary delves into an educational methodology born in Cauca, in the municipality of Patía, with teacher Lola (María Dolores Grueso). Through the use of corridez, a synonym for madness, this method invites us to break the rules of the school institution and learn through our bodies, our surroundings, and our community.

ES | Este documental nos adentra en una metodología de educación que nace en el Cauca, en el municipio del Patía, con la maestra Lola (María Dolores Grueso). A través de la corridez, sinónimo de locura, este método nos invita a romper las reglas de la institución escolar, y a aprender a través del cuerpo, el entorno y la comunidad.

FILM BLOCK 1

Sueños en Concreto

Danzan Las Luciérnagas

Malta

+ vinyl-set by Cinema Colombiano DJ's

Anton Wenzel and Viviana Gómez Echeverry | 91 min | 2024

Elegua Luna Laverde | 18 min | 2025

Natalia Santa | 97 min | 2024

EN | Political and social awareness blossom within a roadblock in midst of chaos and violence of the 2021 social outbreak in Colombia. Driven by the idea of fighting for their dreams through art, the community raises “The Monument to the Resistance”.

ES | Sueños en Concreto es la historia de cómo la comunidad de Puerto Resistencia en el oriente de Cali se unió para construir un monumento de 10 metros durante el estallido social de 2021. Es una creación colectiva que simboliza sus sueños, esperanzas y conmemora a las víctimas. Una muestra de cómo el arte cataliza el cambio social y transforma vidas.

EN | Keke has the opportunity to move to Mars, and this means moving away from the communal life she leads with other black trans and queer people on Earth. It’s an opportunity to invent an ancestry versed in the inauguration of a new future, as well as in composing sketches of a dream.

ES | Keke tiene la oportunidad de mudarse a Marte y ello implica alejarse de la vida comunitaria que lleva junto a otras personas queer en la Tierra. Se trata de una oportunidad para inventar una ancestralidad versada en la inauguración de un nuevo porvenir, así como en componer esbozos de una ensoñación: una utopía negra, fluida y habitada por cuerpos que pueden transitar entre géneros, con la misma facilidad con la que lo hacen entre planetas.

EN | Mariana wants to go far away, far from Bogota, far from her family, but above all away from herself. Malta is a place where to start. Before she gets there she will have to delve in other territories.

ES | Mariana, una joven colombiana que enfrenta los desafíos de la edad adulta, intenta ganarse la vida en un call center, toma lecciones de idiomas y lidia con una familia disfuncional. En medio de sus sueños de escapar de su hogar viajando a la isla de Malta, una relación con un particular compañero de clase la obliga a confrontarse con los verdaderos motivos para huir.

+ live accordion music by Gabriel Sabor Vallenato

FILM BLOCK 2

Adiós al Amigo

Iván D. Gaona | 118 min | 2024

EN | Revolutionary soldier Alfredo Duarte Amado receives a telegram with the news of the pregnancy of his brother wife. He convinces an amateur photographer in the bowels of the Chicamocha canyon to go with him searching for his brother. Director Ivan D. Gaona previously made Pariente, which was shown at the festival in 2017. He now returns with a beautiful western set at the beginning of the 20th century.

ES | Después de mil días de una guerra civil en Colombia en 1902, el soldado revolucionario Alfredo Duarte Amado recibe un telegrama con la noticia del embarazo de la esposa de su hermano. Enterándose que la guerra ya ha acabado, convence a un fotógrafo aficionado en las entrañas del cañón del Chicamocha, para que se acompañen en busca de su hermano perdido en la guerra, sabiendo que el fotógrafo también busca al hombre que mató a su papá.

Yo Vi Tres Luces Negras

Santiago Lozano Álvarez | 87 min | 2024

EN | José de Los Santos is in charge of the funeral rites of his village on the Pacific Coast. One day, the soul of his son announces his own death and orders him to find the way back to his origins. He sets off on a journey to the jungle. In the midst of an eternal war, he must stay alive to reach his final resting place.

ES | José de Los Santos está a cargo de los rituales funerarios de su pueblo en el Litoral Pacífico. Un día, el alma de su hijo le anuncia su propia muerte y le ordena encontrar el camino hacia el origen. Se va de viaje a la selva. En medio de una guerra eterna, debe mantenerse con vida para llegar al lugar de su último descanso.

La Bonga

Sebastián Pinzón Silva and Canela Reyes | 77 min | 2023

EN | Two decades after a death threat from right-wing paramilitaries caused the maroon community of La Bonga to flee, the townspeople embark on a symbolic journey through the jungles of the Colombian Caribbean to resurrect a home that exists only in their memories.

Made in collaboration with Colectivo de Comunicaciones Kuchá Suto

ES | El 5 de abril de 2001, una amenaza de muerte firmada por un grupo paramilitar provocó la huida de la comunidad palenquera de La Bonga. Veinte años después, cientos de personas emprenden un viaje simbólico de retorno por las selvas del caribe colombiano para resucitar un lugar que sólo existe en su memoria.

Hecha en colaboración con el Colectivo de Comunicaciones Kuchá Suto

La Ruka

Live music, 22:00

EN | La Ruka is an artist who has the jungle running through her veins. She is from the Colombian Pacific coast, from Buenaventura. Her live show brings together marimba de chonta and bass to create a fusion of urban music with salsa choque and folklore. La Ruka honors the name of a community that dances to the sound of its history, powerful for its commitment to its art, its land, its people, its women, and its flavor.

ES | La Ruka es una artista con sangre de selva en las venas oriunda del pacifico colombiano, de Buenaventura. Su show trae marimba de chonta y bajo para fusionar la música urbana con la salsa choke y el folclore. La Ruka pone en alto el nombre de una comunidad que baila al son de su historia, poderosa por su compromiso con su Arte, con su tierra, con su gente, con las mujeres, con el sabor.

19:00

18:30

15:30

19:00

14:00

16:45

20:15

CREMA x Cinema Colombiano

Club night, 23:00 - 4:00

EN | We're closing down our festival anniversary early Sunday morning. From 23:00 to 4:00 no less than five dj's will make you dance to a diverse range of music genres: from cumbias to perreo. CREMA, the soul-child of El Javier_B, has slowly but surely become a reference in
the city for dance parties. CREMA has a clear mission: to showcase mind bending Afro-Caribbean tunes from past and future. And for this special occasion we have been cooking an explosive and delicious Dj line-up!

ES | La celebración del aniversario va hasta el amanecer. De 11pm a 4am, nada más y nada menos que cinco DJs te harán bailar con una amplia gama de géneros musicales: desde cumbias hasta perreo. Para esta noche de club colaboramos con CREMA, un programa iniciado por El Javier_B, residente de Radio WORM & Operator (también conocido por su banda Lola's Dice). Juntos presentamos lxs siguientes dj's:

FILM PROGRAM

MUSIC PROGRAM

during the day: Colombian food by Claudia's Delight!

Since 2015 we’ve shared alternative perspectives on Colombia, woven through time, flavors, communities, and artistic expressions. Our beloved audience and us have enjoyed music, film, performance, video installations, gastronomy, and visual arts: first in WORM Rotterdam, and since 2021 also in Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam.

For our Cinema Colombiano anniversary, we decided to add a third location: on the 18th of September, we will open the festival in Hotel Maria Kapel in Hoorn. And as a present to you, our visitors: the opening event is gratis. Aside from film and music, there will be free empanadas as well!

On September 20th we continue at Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam for two film blocks followed by a live accordion performance, and on September 27th, after a day of films, the festival closes down at WORM in Rotterdam with Colombian musician La Ruka and a club night organized together with CREMA.

Cinema Colombiano is a party, but it has also been a space for collective reflection. That’s why we want to take this 10th anniversary as a chance to imagine and plant seeds for the future. We will present futuristic films, as well as communities and artists who we believe will be the protagonists of the times to come. Because without a doubt, Colombia has so much to contribute to the future we long for: one without war, decolonial, and free. Ashé!

ES | Durante una década, nuestro festival ha traído la cultura colombiana a los Países Bajos. Celebramos lo que extrañamos, no solo porque nos define, sino también porque honramos y reconocemos la cultura colombiana como un acto de resistencia.

Desde el 2015 hemos compartido perspectivas alternativas sobre Colombia entrelazadas a través del tiempo, sabores, comunidades y expresiones artísticas. Junto a nuestro querido público hemos disfrutado de música, cine, performances, videoinstalaciones, gastronomía y artes visuales: inicialmente en WORM Róterdam y, desde 2021, también en Filmhuis Cavia de Ámsterdam.

Para nuestro aniversario de Cinema Colombiano, decidimos añadir una tercera sede: el 18 de septiembre, abriremos el festival en Hotel Maria Kapel en Hoorn. Y como regalo para ustedes, nuestros visitantes, el evento será gratuito incluyendo películas, música y empanadas!

El 20 de septiembre continuamos en Filmhuis Cavia en Ámsterdam con dos bloques de películas seguidos de una presentación de acordeón en vivo. El 27 de septiembre, tras un día de cine, el festival cierra en WORM en Róterdam con La Ruka y su música del Pacífico colombiano, y una fiesta con DJs organizada en colaboración con CREMA.

Cinema Colombiano es una fiesta, pero también ha sido un espacio de reflexión colectiva. Por eso, queremos aprovechar este décimo aniversario para imaginar y sembrar semillas para el futuro. Presentaremos películas futuristas, así como comunidades y artistas que creemos que serán lxs protagonistas del porvenir. Porque, sin duda, Colombia tiene mucho que aportar al futuro que anhelamos: uno sin guerra, decolonial y libre. ¡Ashé!

all films have english subtitles

22:00 - 4:00

A record hunter, DJ/selector and radio host born and raised in Barranquilla, a city on the Caribbean coast of Colombia with a powerful culture of celebration and where music is a sure path to joy and liberation. She currently lives in Berlin, and much of her sound that she shares is influenced by her musical roots and her migratory experience.

20 Uñas is the Alter Ego of Sandra Zegarra Patow, a Peruvian-born, Rotterdam-raised interdisciplinary artist. Her work flows between photography, mixed media, and music, always rooted in themes of identity, memory, and belonging. She began DJing in 2020 while on an artist residency in Peru during lockdown, where she realized that music could express what images alone could not. Her sets are emotional collages blending psychedelic Cumbia, reggaetón, Baile Funk, Guaracha, Perreo Underground, Dembow and experimental beats. 20 Uñas doesn’t stick to genres.

Her approach is borderless—geographically, culturally, and sonically—offering sensory experiences that celebrate heritage, movement, and collective presence. Through music, she continues to explore who she is, while creating space for the Latinx diaspora to feel seen, heard, and celebrated.

Archivist & DJ focussing on electronic dance music from South-America, Africa, and Asia. Dance to the sound of Digitized Kuduro CD’s or Baile Funk found on a USB-stick from Rio, Moroccan Techno from dusty cassette tapes, or hot Puerto Rican Reggaeton.

Besides DJ’ing, Rotational (Karim) also runs a YouTube channel filled with musical finds from all around the world. Dive into a global soundscape by visiting: youtube.com/@rotational_

Venezuelan-Portuguese musician, producer, DJ and record collector currently based in Brussels. Known in the independent music circuit as the hardest working man in Tropical music", he’s the founder of critically acclaimed tropical psych punk outfit Fumaça Preta, afro-caribbean psychedelic sensation Conjunto Papa Upa, legendary record shop Vintage Voudou Records and tropical experimental label Music With
Soul Records.

In his role as a DJ, he’s committed to never give in to the obvious, betting on the least imaginable connections between Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Traveling around the globe for the past 15 years, always in search of the most surprising, irresistibly danceable records and the stories behind them, he’s built one of the most world-renowned record collections in the realm of Tropical music, which he showcases on all his DJ sets and his weekly program in the online radio streaming app ROVR. His sets feel like an adventurous ride, through territories you’ve probably never visited before. You will hear music you didn’t know existed. Music you didn’t know could make you dance like nobody's watching. You will be left in awe, with a refreshed and renewed sense of what “dance music” is supposed to mean.

After years of experimenting with his band Lola’s Dice (NYCT, Music with Soul and Bongo Joe), along with a passion for collecting vinyl, he embarked on an extensive journey to explore rhythms and sounds from around the globe. Hailing from Maracaibo, Venezuela, his spirit is deeply connected to the vibrant tropical beats of the Caribbean and the enchanting sounds of Africa.

Currently, he is a resident Dj at Worm and Operator radio hosting his biweekly show Crema. El Javier_B is a creative force, dedicated to crafting eclectic mixes that ignite energy and groove on the dance floor.

Calamidades Lola

Veinte Uñas

Alex Figueira

Rotational

El Javier_B