Festival de Cine Colombia Migrante - Brisbane 2026

Festival de Cine Colombia Migrante: Territorios Soñados brings together film, sound, art and conversation to mark 10 years since Colombia’s Peace Agreement. Come for stories told by Colombian filmmakers. Stay for crystal singing bowls, live drumming, a transfuturist installation and electro-cumbia beats. Meet someone new, reconnect with home or discover a Colombia you haven’t seen before. Presented by VER MÁS Australia The Precinct, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Free entry with registration. Reserve a ticket for each night you wish to attend.

Tuesday 17 November | Opening Night: Forenses 7:00–9:30 PM Sonido Vortix opens the night with a 30-minute ceremony featuring crystal singing bowls and guided sound healing, inviting you to pause and settle into the experience. We then screen Forenses, Federico Atehortúa Arteaga’s documentary exploring Colombia’s disappeared and the connections between personal loss, memory and a country’s search for truth. A reflection from a human rights expert closes the evening.

FORENSES Documentary, 91 min — 2024 Dir. Federico Atehortúa Arteaga

Plus: Post-screening Q&A and reflection from humans right expert

Thursday 19 November | Noche de Cortos: Cinema & Drum Circle 6:00–8:00 PM Three short films. A live drum circle. An evening that moves from watching stories to sharing a rhythm. Yolanda camina sola follows a mother travelling to reclaim her daughter’s remains. Abriendo Camino introduces the community building peace through collective resistance of San José de Apartadó. Ngubá takes us to San Basilio de Palenque, where women share ancestral knowledge through planting, cooking and song.

YOLANDA WALKS ALONE - Yolanda Camina Sola Fiction, 20 min - 2024 OPENING PATHS - Abriendo Camino Documentary, 34 min - 2024 NGUBÁ Documentary, 12 min - 2024

Plus: After Ngubá, Republika del Bullerengue brings the evening into a 30-minute live drum circle with singing and percussion, continuing the film’s themes of community and healing through music. Come to listen, connect and experience the night together.

Friday 20 November | Transfuturistic Art, Cinema & Electro-Cumbia 7:00–10:00 PM

What do our dreamed lands look like? Come explore other worlds through art, Colombian cinema and Latin rhythms. Start with an installation by Shahni Bidwell, then settle in for El Origen de las Especies, a film by Crisálida Cine. A new species travels through space inside frozen rocks and reaches Earth, changing the planet forever. An invitation to imagine different bodies, ways of living and possible futures.

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Science fiction / experimental cinema, 71 min - 2024 Dir. Tiagx Vélez, Juliana Zuluaga, Analú Laferal

NETWORKING: After the film, stay for electro-cumbia tunes from Republika del Bullerengue. Meet artists, film lovers and new friends, share your thoughts and let the night find its rhythm.

Thursday 26 November | Closing Night: Soñé su Nombre

Her father comes to her in a dream. He asks her to find him. After 30 years of buried grief, Ángela sets out with her sister Juliana across Colombia to the Indigenous lands where their father, an Afro-descendant farmer, was forcibly disappeared. Along the way, family recordings bring his voice back into their lives. What begins as a search becomes an intimate encounter with the father they remember and the legacy he left behind. Recognised with a Special Jury Mention at Hot Docs, and screened at DOC NYC and the San Francisco International Film Festival, Soñé su Nombre now comes to Brisbane for our festival’s closing night.

SOÑE SU NOMBRE Documentary, 85 min - 2024

Plus: Festival closing remarks by VER MÁS Australia, post-screening Q&A and networking