Wahabi Islam and evangelical Christianity are both growing in this tolerant and multicultural country. Multinational companies are extracting wealth and security companies profiting from social conflict, because it is an opportunity for private security firms to move in. And Sharia utopia conflicts with the desire for consumer goods.
Culture
Quimantu: sentiments of equality and freedom
Chilean originated and British raised, this multicultural band has its official launch of their new album “Cantos…” on April 20th in a concert with a music collection that goes beyond both cultures. Yi ZOU Quimantu have been the ambassadors of Chilean and Latin music in Britain and Europe […]
Rulfo’s unreal, sordid and brilliant curse
There is a certain flavour of good in “the bad” as told by writers such as the Mexican, Juan Rulfo. And even more if, as he did, the texts are expressed through the code of magical realism (or marvellous reality). Antonio Paneque Brizuela “It was rare not to […]
Luis Ospina(Part 2): The social context of film-making
Cinema as a document or cinema as exploitation? The responsibility of cinema and TV series in stunting public debate, and encouraging a culture of easy money. Making a biographical film while close to death, his life really passed in front of his eyes. Graham Douglas His latest film […]
Luis Ospina (Part 1): It all started at the end
The well-known film director talks about the unsteady history of cinema in Colombia. Beginning in his native city of Cali he was part of the renaissance that began in the ‘60s with the Caliwood movement. He talks about the fine line in his work between fiction and documentary, described by the controversial term ‘mockumentary’.
















