We invite you to the film screening of Heliconia by Paula Rodriguez on the 25th of January at 6:30 pm.
Heliconia, Paula Rodríguez Polanco, Colombia/France, 2020, 27’
SYNOPSIS
Heliconia is the portrait of three young people in search of an earthly paradise. It is the story of their journey, their desire for freedom and their emotional ties through the multifaceted landscape of the tropics.
BIO
Paula Rodríguez Polanco (Bogotá, 1994) is a filmmaker, researcher and curator. She studied philosophy, art history and cinema in Paris, where she has lived for the past ten years. She directed the short films Camposanto in 2019 (Festival Tous Courts) and Heliconia in 2020 (FID Marseille, IndieLisboa, Jihlava, Mar del Plata IFF, Documenta Madrid, Beldocs…).
Her films are closely linked to her research work, in which she questions the materiality of celluloid film in contemporary practices and the image’s relationship with history and individual and collective memory. She is currently preparing a PhD thesis on Super 8 and 16mm practices in contemporary cinema, and is writing her first feature film Malpaís, produced by mutokino (Colombia) and L’Heure d’été (France).
AWARDS
Special Mention First Film Prize – FIDMarseille 2020
Special Mention Altered States Competition – Mar del Plata IFF
Special Mention Best Short – FICCALI
Best International Short Film – Lima Alterna
Best Character – Festival Laberinto
FESTIVALS
FIDMarseille, FICValdivia, Jihlava IFF, Festival Cámara Lúcida, Zinebi, Amiens FIFAM, Mar del Plata IFF, Documenta Madrid, IndieLisboa, Shorts Mexico, Beldocs, Festival internacional de cine de Cali FICCALI, Las Palmas IFF, Festival Obskura, Festival internacional de cine de la isla de Chiloé, Panorama du cinéma, Colombien à Paris, Daimon Muestra de Cine, Dresden Filmfest, Leiden Shorts, Festival de Cine Independiente Laberinto, Cinemancia Festival Metropolitano de Cine, Lima Alterna, Dhaka IFF and Panorama of the European Film in Cairo
