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Oscar Ruiz Navia | Colombia, Argentina, France, Germany | 2014 | 103 min | Spanish
Friends Ras and Calvin criss-cross the Colombian provincial city of Cali – birthplace of filmmaker Oscar Ruiz Navia – by skateboard and BMX looking for money to buy paint, an empty wall to fill, and something greater to be part of.
Coming from totally different social backgrounds, but equally alienated from their parents, they share a striking friendship. They recognise kindred spirits in a YouTube film of the Arab Spring, which inspires them to provide a contribution to a collective piece with a group of local street artists. Hongos, ‘mushrooms’, the director calls them: they thrive on rotting matter.
Just as in his debut Crab Trap, Ruiz Navia mixes documentary and fiction to capture the diffuse reality of his characters. Painting is never far away: some tableaux breathe the dreamy atmosphere of primitivism, for instance in scenes that portray the almost idyllic bond between Calvin and his grandmother.
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 26 March 2015
Time: 16:30
Duration: 2:00
Place: The Cinemas 4
Date: 28 March 2015
Time: 17:30
Duration: 2:00
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 29 March 2015
Time: 11:00
Duration: 1:45
Year in
Festival
2015
Director
Camera
Felipe Guerrero
Cast
Jovan Alexis Marquinez Angulo
Calvin Buenaventura Tascón
Atala Estrada
Gustavo Ruiz Montoya
María Elvira Solis
Dominique Tonnelier
Ángela García
Editor
Daniela Shneider
Alejandro Franco
Language
Spanish
Length
103 min
Music
Sebastián Escofet
La Llegada del Dios Rata
Zalama Crew
Producer
Oscar Ruiz Navia
Gerylee Polanco Uribe
Diana Bustamante Escobar
Nicolás Avruj
Guillaume de Seille
Titus Kreyenberg
Production Company
Contravia Films
Burning Blue
El Campo Cine
Arizona Films
unafilm
Production Design
Leandro de Loredo
Frédéric Théry
César Salazar
Sales
FiGa Films
Scenario
Oscar Ruiz Navia
César Augusto Acevedo
Sound Design
Leandro de Loredo
Frédéric Théry
César Salazar
Year of Production
2014
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