Marta Rodríguez

Camilo Torres Restrepo, el amor eficaz (2022)

An experimental documentary that dares to gather diverse and plural audiovisual archive materials, which gives itself the possibility of creating an imaginary, but concrete, intense and profound conversation between the filmmaker Marta Rodríguez and the i ...

Los Andes Symphony Orchestra (2020)

The North of Cauca is the region of Colombia most affected by the internal armed conflict since 1940. There is an orchestra of ancestral music composed of young indigenous people of the Nasa ethnic group who, with their instruments, their voice and their p ...

Breadcrumbs (2016)

When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile ...

Bloody April Fools (2013)

Nine young friends get lost on their way to spending April Fools Day together. Instead of letting the entire trip go to waste, they decide to go party at an old abandoned inn called 12 Hills. Rumor has it that the place has curse that comes to life every A ...

The Smoke Seller (2012)

A salesman comes to town offering an extraordinary merchandise: to realize the dreams of its inhabitants, though, for a small fee. However, the locals do not have time to fantasize, more busy with their chores. ...

No hay dolor ajeno (2012)

Testigos de un etnocidio: memorias de Resistencia (2010)

This documentary is the testimony of the extermination of the native peoples in Colombia during the last forty years and the struggle of these communities to conserve their lives and their culture through passive resistance. The film brings together witnes ...

Soraya, amor no es olvido (2006)

Una casa sola se vence (2004)

Never Again (2001)

A documentary about the struggles of Colombian peasants in the province of Chocó who are caught in the middle of an armed conflict between the military, guerrillas and other paramilitary groups. ...

La Hoja sagrada (2001)

Amapola: la flor maldita (1998)

Los hijos del trueno (1998)

Love, Women and Flowers (1988)

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia. ...

Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future (1982)

The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500. ...

Campesinos (1975)

A Colombian documentary that expose the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early '70s. ...

The Brickmakers (1972)

This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 196 ...

Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide (1971)

A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous community formed a cooperative to defend their rights from settlers and colonists, but the government organized a military operation to protect the latter and forei ...

Beyond Silence (1996)

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl's coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet wh ...

Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1984)

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. First episode: the influences of Cahiers du cinéma, the New Wave, Italian neorealism. In Brazil, Cinema Novo draws inspiration from these models while drawing on the historical and cultural singularity o ...

Claves, 2: We will return younger (1984)

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Second episode, evoking the border between fiction and documentary. With his film Tire dié (1960), the Argentinian Fernando Birri proposed this manifesto: to create a realistic and critical national cine ...

Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country (1984)

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Third episode: from the 1960s, France and Europe showed a real enthusiasm for Latin American cinema, but the latter remained hampered by numerous economic and political obstacles. ...