In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country's largest coal mine.
Flores del otro Patio
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“The subjective perspective, the symbolic imagery and the wonderful lively wind that breathes in Jorge Cadena’s film reveals how this reality is able to be both confrontational and empathic.”
“The subjective perspective, the symbolic imagery and the wonderful lively wind that breathes in Jorge Cadena’s film reveals how this reality is able to be both confrontational and empathic.”
Jorge Cadena
Biography
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1985, Jorge Cadena first studied photography in Buenos Aires. In 2016, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in cinema from HEAD – Geneva with his film El Cuento de Antonia, awarded with the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He then obtained his Master’s degree at ECAL/HEAD in 2018 with The Jarariju Sisters which received a special mention at the Berlinale. In 2019, he was selected to participate in the EFP Future Frame program in Karlovy Vary, the TIFF Lab in Toronto in 2020 and the Berlinale Talents in 2021. He is currently working on his first feature film, Malestar Tropical.
Filmography
- 2022 Flores del otro Patio, 15’, short fiction
- 2018 The Jarariju Sisters, 20’, short fiction
- 2016 El Cuento de Antonia, 30’, short fiction
