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Lapü

Doris, a young indigenous Wayú woman, dreams she’s reunited with her dead cousin. Following her ancestral culture, this vision marks the beginning of an ancient ritual: she must go to the middle of the Colombian desert of Guajira and exhume her remains. A spiritual journey that blurs Western concepts of loss, time, and eternity. The close relationship of her culture with death, dreams and memory brings Doris to her cousin’s grave to clean her bones; only then can she make the physical and spiritual barriers of death disappear. According to the conviction of the Wayú that the deceased coexist in the world of the living, her cousin will live next to her while she embarks on her “second burial.” This mysterious belief will make her connect with the spiritual world and face death.

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César Jaimes

Juan Pablo Polanco was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1994. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Javeriana and worked at the production company “Crack”, taking part in documentary projects as a camera operator, editor and assistant director. He studied film directing at the ECAM school in Madrid and is currently a co-founder of the Colombian production company Los Niños Films, with which he has produced the short film Portete and his first feature, Lapü. César Alejandro Jaimes studied photography and cinematography in his home city of Bogotá, Colombia. He is a co-founder of the production company Los Niños Films. Death and dreams are his main objects of study and inspired him to write his first film, Lapü.

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Juan Pablo Polanco

Juan Pablo Polanco was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1994. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Javeriana and worked at the production company “Crack”, taking part in documentary projects as a camera operator, editor and assistant director. He studied film directing at the ECAM school in Madrid and is currently a co-founder of the Colombian production company Los Niños Films, with which he has produced the short film Portete and his first feature, Lapü. César Alejandro Jaimes studied photography and cinematography in his home city of Bogotá, Colombia. He is a co-founder of the production company Los Niños Films. Death and dreams are his main objects of study and inspired him to write his first film, Lapü.

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2019

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César Jaimes
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Juan Pablo Polanco

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