Pirotecnia

Pirotecnia was released on 26 de enero de 2019.

Pirotecnia was directed by Federico Atehortúa Arteaga.

Pirotecnia has a runtime of 83min.

Pirotecnia was produced by Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga.

While a director makes a film about this the origins of Cinema in Colombia, suddenly, his mother, apparently suffers a strange mental disease: without explanation she stops talking. This situation forces him to stop his film and starts recording his mother's everyday activity, trying to understand what possibly is happening to her. The director decides to revisit his family's past and finds a video footage of a children's theater play, shot by his mother, in which he himself acts as a false guerrilla fighter. This discovery brings him back to his original film and leads him to find the relationship that exists between the origins of Colombian cinema and what the media called "falsos positivos" a painful recent even in which it was found out that the army killed innocent youngsters and dressed then up as guerrilla fighters to give the impression they were winning the armed conflict.

The key characters in Pirotecnia are Mamá (Aracelly Arteaga), Papá (Carlos Atehortúa).

Pirotecnia is a Documental, Historia film.

Pirotecnia has an audience rating of 6.8 out of 10.

Pirotecnia had a budget of 50.000 US$.

Pirotecnia has made 1504 US$ at the box office.