We’re back in Caracas! With great enthusiasm, Caribe Atómico Film Festival returns for its fourth edition to keep celebrating the cinema of the Caribbean and Latin America.
We will soon announce the dates and venues of this reunion with the Caracas audience.
Our aim is still to de-gentrify and reclaim spaces, bringing cinema and critical thinking to the widest possible diversity of audiences and activating collaborations with cultural organizations inside and outside the country.
Coming back to Caracas means coming back to our home soil, our climate and the conversations that spill out of every screening. This edition is a celebration of everything Caribbean and Latin American cinema keeps saying about us.
The Official Selection brings together 20 short films in three sections: From this side, showcasing the national talent that keeps working in the country; From that side, which gives space to Venezuelan filmmakers who emigrated and continue to tell our stories from abroad; and Caribbean and Latin America, which builds a bridge between us and all the sister countries that make up this beautiful continent.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
From this side
Carlos Méndez | 5min
Venezuela
A thief breaks into an office full of workers in order to rob it, never imagining that, once inside, nothing that happens there will be normal.
Grecia Hernández | 9min
Venezuela
A portrait of Manuel, a passionate cosplayer from Mérida who, through each of his characters, turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Gustavo Vera Febres-Cordero | 20min
Venezuela
In the Sinamaica Lagoon, in Zulia, the Añú people are being silently displaced by climate change as they struggle to preserve their culture.
César Fernández, Sinahi Mora, Samuel Zambrano | 3min
Venezuela
An audiovisual piece that rescues fragments of memory from Acarigua, a city lost in time that still lives on in the memory of its people.
Hernani Rodríguez | 11min
Venezuela
In the jungles of Yaracuy, a sacred giant struggles not to become a ghost: the agony of the tapir, between mystical allegory and science.
Paubla Marisela Rojas Guillén | 15min
Venezuela
A living archive of family identity that dwells in the silence of Pausalina and traces the passing of time through nostalgia and memory.
Joxander Medrano | 7min
Venezuela
Amid the crisis, La Negra crosses Los Teques every day to keep over a hundred rescued dogs alive in a shelter built from recycled materials.
From that side
Andrés Jesús Giménez | 14min
United States
A shady fish roe deal between Miami and Tokyo brings Otto, a Venezuelan-Japanese cook, closer to his estranged father and strains their bond.
Camila Corina Casanova Arce | 7min
Argentina
In a context marked by repression, scarcity and exile, this animated short film explores the deep, lasting echoes left behind by collective trauma.
Gabriel Ponte-Fleary | 20min
United States
In the midst of political upheaval in Venezuela, a teenager is torn between his mother’s plea to stay safe and his own conviction to fight back.
Federica Arévalo | 16min
United States, Venezuela
Stranded in the United States and terrified of deportation, Alberta discovers through a possum that she is not the only misunderstood creature.
Vivian Alejandra Márquez | 22min
France
In France, Latin American migrant women face exile and sacrifice, while Diana searches for her own place amid dreams and uncertainty.
Caribbean and Latin America
Rodrigo Torrijos Parra | 5min
Colombia
Maestro Andrés Narváez moved from folk music to the music of resistance: songs about life in the mountains, about war and about hopelessness.
Juan Sebastián Torales | 15min
Argentina
In a house in ruins, María is consumed by sadness. In the forest, two men search for a strange way to put an end to their sorrows.
Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza | 12min
Argentina
Stranded in a tavern in the Pampas after an accident, a young raver faces visions and supernatural forces that stalk him through the night.
Víctor Vargas | 11min
Costa Rica
Trapped in a space that follows no logic at all, a young woman discovers that surviving does not mean escaping, but facing whatever haunts her.
Keywa Henri | 5min
French Guiana
About to receive the community’s verdict, Anaxi (“spider” in the Kali’na language) must make a choice: save the detractors, or escape alone?
Carlos Cipriano Gomes Junior, Amanda Vázquez Campos | 10min
Brazil, Cuba
Lured by a sorrowful voice, twin brothers become trapped in a labyrinth and fall under the spell of Death, who condemns them to dance forever.
João Paulo Vicente | 16min
Brazil
In 2023, a Braskem salt mine collapsed beneath the Mundaú Lagoon in Maceió; at the same time, an invasive mollusk infested its waters.
Isangélica Soto | 15min
Puerto Rico
Inspired by true events, Nenotén draws on magical realism and ancestral voices to confront those who want to erase the people of Loíza.
THE TEAM
GIULIO VITA
Artistic direction
LILIBETH BOLÍVAR
Executive production, programming
OSMELY PIÑA
Programming
OSCAR PEÑA GONZÁLEZ
Programming
NADIA VICÉN RODRÍGUEZ
Programming
ORIANA MARTÍNEZ
Coordination in Caracas