Alejandro Zapata

Dark Saturday

A young couple of actors is forced to face the problems of their relationship and their respective professional careers when their dog becomes seriously ill and they fear what will be the fate of all.

Present Tense

Lina is about to trade her dream job in filmmaking for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please her fiancée. Enter her Uncle, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the La Calera into an eye-opening fling for his niece. Lina's not interested, of course, but then she meets the lovely David, who challenges her to make the toughest decision of her life.

Ultraviolence

A film editor receives a proposal to edit a new film without knowing that he is going to become so obsessed with the project that he will do whatever it takes to save the protagonist from her death in the story.

Color-less

In a black-and-white world, divided between two types of beings –“Us” and “the Others”–, Violeta inadvertently invokes a mysterious being that takes her on a journey in which she will discover a magical secret hidden between the black and the white.

Color-less

In a black-and-white world, divided between two types of beings –“Us” and “the Others”–, Violeta inadvertently invokes a mysterious being that takes her on a journey in which she will discover a magical secret hidden between the black and the white.

Four Steps

Lorena tries to rebuild her life while her husband, a manipulative Italian-Argentinean, slowly and subtly locks her up in a psychological prison from which she must escape.

Psychosexual

After finding her boyfriend cheating on her, a woman becomes obsessed with a YouTuber to the point that she thinks he's the perfect man for her.

Noise

A dinner takes place at the home of a prominent businessman. The assistants, 3 couples︎: the businessman and his wife, his best friend and his wife, ︎his partner and his wife. The "rules of the game" are very clear. A closed stage︎: the house. A murder︎: that of the businessman. Five suspects: all with apparent motives to commit the crime, and a detective to make sense of the pieces and find the culprit. Through the interrogations with each of these five murderous candidates, the reconstruction of what happened that night will gradually put on the table the letters of a swing of forbidden relationships, complexes, disagreements, envy, jealousy and shady deals.

Noise

A dinner takes place at the home of a prominent businessman. The assistants, 3 couples︎: the businessman and his wife, his best friend and his wife, ︎his partner and his wife. The "rules of the game" are very clear. A closed stage︎: the house. A murder︎: that of the businessman. Five suspects: all with apparent motives to commit the crime, and a detective to make sense of the pieces and find the culprit. Through the interrogations with each of these five murderous candidates, the reconstruction of what happened that night will gradually put on the table the letters of a swing of forbidden relationships, complexes, disagreements, envy, jealousy and shady deals.

Blood

Fidel and Ana María rob a bank out of necessity but are chased by Detective Arboleda. An exploration of what violence means.

Afuera del tiempo

A man goes back in time to stop his girlfriend from ending the relationship before he can propose to her, but each time he returns, she ends up with a different excuse. He now he has to see how to change to be able to marry her.

What a nice country

Two friends set out on a trip to a beautiful town in Colombia in order to develop a business project that will allow them to avoid their respective destinations. Juan Felipe does not want to go to work in his father's company and Tomás does not expect to go through the embarrassing process of looking for work. In the middle of their journey, they will learn to know themselves, while they are winding up the details of their condition as millennials who have not yet reached 30. Their life is a contradiction, since they feel like adolescents, although with a much older age advanced, but they are not capable of recognizing themselves as adults willing to assume responsibilities and undertake the process of maturing.

So Far, So Good

The daily life of a popular neighborhood in Bogota is interrupted by a man who threatens to commit suicide by jumping into the void. Echeverry, an old mariachi and Jacinto, a gambling addict, will bet the money they have on the man's decision.

My Mother's Tits

A young boy discovers his mom works as an exotic dancer in a local bar, so he decides to find the money to take her to Disney.