Víctor Gaviria

Searching for the Animal (2017)

Harassment, kidnapping, isolation, submission, hunger, humiliation, infidelity, psychological manipulation and incest are some of the themes that are the focus of this documentary based on true stories and the work of natural actors who suffered abuse and ...

The Animal's Wife (2016)

Amparo, a submissive young woman, tries to escape from her strict convent school but falls into the hands of "El Animal," a violent and abusive man who forces her to become his wife. Trapped by fear and constant mistreatment, she clings to her love for her ...

Addictions and Subtractions (2004)

A look at the notorious Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Former coke addict has built a new life as contractor, but cannot shake off his past on drugs. ...

The Rose Seller (1998)

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christm ...

Simón el mago (1992)

Simon is a naughty and dreamer boy who lives with his older brothers, his religious mother and the hard hand of his father. He goes to school, plays with his friends in the town and fulfills the duties of the home as any of the neighbors of his age. Howeve ...

Rodrigo D. No Future (1990)

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lif ...

Yo te tumbo, tu me tumbas (1990)

Documentary film about young people in Medellin, Colombia, interviewing actors who appeared in the film Rodrigo D: No Futuro. ...

Darío Lemos, un Retrato (1989)

Documentary on nadaist poet Darío Lemos. ...

La Vieja Guardia (1985)

Que pase el aserrador (1985)

Adaptation of the story "Que pase el aserrador" (Let the sawyer come) by Jesús del Corral. The story happens near the Cauca River. Simón is a musician and a pawn, but he pretends to be a sawyer to get a job at a hacienda. ...

Los Músicos (1985)

At the end of the 1940s, when the worst of the Partisan Violence began to worsen in the fields and towns of Colombia, a popular music duo, in search of work, walked the road from the town of Sucre to the town of Liborina. One of them, Cesáreo, is blind, b ...

Los Habitantes de la Noche (1984)

A gang intends to rescue a friend from a mental hospital, moving around Medellin by bicycle and communicating through a radio program known as "The Inhabitants of the Night". ...

Buscando tréboles (1980)

Moving and poetic images of the daily lives of blind children at a school in Medellín. ...

Anhell69 (2023)

A hearse cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells his story in this city marked by conflicts, violence and paradoxes. He remembers his childhood and the discovery of his sexuality. ...

The Calm After the Storm (2021)

After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the pla ...

Making Birds Act (2017)

One of the most important Colombian films of the last years revives. With 'The Rose Seller' we learned about the most painful side of addictions: lost youth. What happened to its protagonists? How, against all odds, did they make such a powerful tale? Erwi ...

Searching for the Animal (2017)

Harassment, kidnapping, isolation, submission, hunger, humiliation, infidelity, psychological manipulation and incest are some of the themes that are the focus of this documentary based on true stories and the work of natural actors who suffered abuse and ...

Duni (2013)