Antipodal Dreams

Original Title: Sueños Antípodas

Runtime: 85'

Expected Release: November 2027

Production Stage: Post-Production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Co-Producers, Gap Financing, Sales Agents, Festivals

Synopsis:

A young Colombian dancer carries her brother’s death in her body, killed during the historic uprising of 2021, silenced by state violence. With her friends, through the memory of the body, dreams and collective creation they open a portal of sound, which leads them to their antipode in Thailand, finding a ritual for the youth who never returned.

Director/Producer’s Profile:

Juanita Onzaga (1991) is a Colombian filmmaker and artist based between Mexico, Bogotá and Brussels. In her films, Juanita combines fiction and non-fiction, touching the importance of memory, death and imagination, creating poetic tales that reflect different ways of perceiving reality within strong political contexts. Her films move from intimate, sensorial and emotional landscapes to the crossroads with ancestral futurism, transformation of trauma from violent conflict, mysticism, the dreamworlds, the poetics of nature and perception of the real through the lens of ancestral knowledge and rituals.
Her short films have been presented at Cannes Directors Fortnight, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, IFFR, the MoMA of New York, the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, Eye Film Museum and more festivals and venues, being awarded internationally.

Juanita Onzaga is also the founder of Llamas Etéreas (formerly Rana Films), a production company with a radical vision that fuels hope in the future, in the possibilities for change, and in the healing of the trauma of violence and the land, crafting sensory cinematic rituals. Seeking out what connects us, the company creates flashes of critical and poetic thought, essential for rebuilding hope within our realities.