Colombia

Ivan’s Dream is every kid’s soccer fantasy--and a fun family comedy to boot! For the first time, a team of the biggest stars on the planet will play against an international selection of hand-picked children! Representing Spain, Ivan travels with the team to Mexico for the heavily televised charity match. Light romantic comedy and drama on and off the field at Aztec Stadium ensues amongst Ivan, his best friend Paula, the class bully, a FIFA representative, and the team’s coaches.

A dream-like elegy about a war-torn part of Colombia as well as a nicely underplayed coming-of-age story, Towrope centers on 19-year-old Alicia. Traumatizing memories invade her mind like a ceaseless storm. Uprooted from her destroyed village by the armed conflict, Alicia tries to start a new life in La Sirga, a decadent hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes. The house belongs to solitary Oscar, her only family member still living.

Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled across the country from the war, faced the difficulties of growing up in Bogota, a city of exclusion and racism. When his younger brother and closest friend disappears, Tomas plunges in the streets of the city. His search becomes an initiatory journey that reveals a unique perspective of a vibrant and unstable city that, like Tomas, stands on the threshold between what once was and what might be. Premiered at Cannes 2012.