schweizen is a dynamic film company founded in 2010 and based in Bogotá (South America).
We aim to boost fiction and documentary features with a strong and distinct voice behind; seeking to explore contemporary, politically urgent, and culturally challenging narratives to shape into unique cinematographic works.

Along with new titles for cinema, we are passionately developing new television and on-line projects for a variety of clients.

Convinced that good auteur and risk-taking original films must find their audiences, every season we attend the major world markets and handpick a few international award-winning films for Colombian Distribution.

Films

by Augusto Sandino Feature – 75min Colombia, Czech Republic, Norway, USA (English & Sunapakún) The hallucinatory days of F pass by in the unusual and majestic wasteland of Sumapaz. F, heir and guardian of the territory, carefully takes care of his father. His lonely life is interrupted by Agents of progress who threaten to destroy his fragile balance, forcing him to escape after an agonizing farewell. In postproduction

A Vanishing Fog

by Augusto Sandino
Feature – 75min
Colombia, Czech Republic, Norway, USA (English & Sunapakún)

The hallucinatory days of F pass by in the unusual and majestic wasteland of Sumapaz. F, heir and guardian of the territory, carefully takes care of his father. His lonely life is interrupted by Agents of progress who threaten to destroy his fragile balance, forcing him to escape after an agonizing farewell.

In postproduction

by Manuel Correa Documentary – 70min Colombia, Norway (Spanish) Do you remember the war? Ask seven people and you will have seven different versions. The Shape of Now is a creation documentary that seeks to present the difficulties of historical reconstruction for a peaceful future. [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=

The Shape of Now

by Manuel Correa
Documentary – 70min
Colombia, Norway (Spanish)

Do you remember the war? Ask seven people and you will have seven different versions. The Shape of Now is a creation documentary that seeks to present the difficulties of historical reconstruction for a peaceful future.

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by Sebastián Múnera Feature/Experimental – 78min Colombia, México (Spanish) In 2004, a bomb exploded in the public library of Medellín in Colombia. Only one photo exists of the attack, which was never solved. While the calmly moving camera glides lovingly through the building, time and light pass. The result is a brave and poetic attempt to keep history alive. [video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id=

The Tower

by Sebastián Múnera
Feature/Experimental – 78min
Colombia, México (Spanish)

In 2004, a bomb exploded in the public library of Medellín in Colombia. Only one photo exists of the attack, which was never solved. While the calmly moving camera glides lovingly through the building, time and light pass. The result is a brave and poetic attempt to keep history alive.

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by Augusto Sandino Feature – 90min Colombia (Spanish) Three members of the same family experience love at different stages of their lives. Dolores, an older woman who had a lover for thirty years; Rafael, a former sportsman who could never consolidate a family and Laura, a teenage girl who faces a crossroads that can change her fate. [video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id=

Gentle Breath

by Augusto Sandino
Feature – 90min
Colombia (Spanish)

Three members of the same family experience love at different stages of their lives. Dolores, an older woman who had a lover for thirty years; Rafael, a former sportsman who could never consolidate a family and Laura, a teenage girl who faces a crossroads that can change her fate.

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by Gabriel Rojas Feature – 98min Colombia (Spanish) After ten years of marriage, Karen realizes all what she has left behind. Tired of everything, she decides to leave her husband and start from scratch. She will soon have to decide between returning to comfort or, for the first time, taking over her own life. [video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id=

Karen Cries on the Bus

by Gabriel Rojas
Feature – 98min
Colombia (Spanish)

After ten years of marriage, Karen realizes all what she has left behind. Tired of everything, she decides to leave her husband and start from scratch. She will soon have to decide between returning to comfort or, for the first time, taking over her own life.

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Team

Nubia Stella Cubillos

CEO - Executive Producer

Nubia has succeeded in cultural management and fundraising for the arts sector for more than 30 years. She has been advisor to the Ministry of Culture and the Instituto Caro y Cuervo. With a strong background in the world of fine arts as curator and gallerist and as literature and poetry publisher, she bursts into film production to provide criteria and added value to everything we do at the company.

nubia@schweizen.co

Augusto Sandino

Founder and Creative Director

Augusto Sandino is one of the outstanding names in Colombian contemporary cinema. Winner of over 30 international accolades and the National Cinema Award 2000-2005 given by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia for his short “Aniversario”. His film debut Suave el aliento (Gentle Breath) won the First features Special Jury prize and the FIPRESCI award at Tallinn Black Nights FF in 2016. Founding Director of the manifesto Auteur cinema symposium with Carlos Reygadas, Lisandro Alonso and Amat Escalante in 2014. Sandino has also been the producer of his films plus the works La forma del presente (The Shape of Now) DOK Leipzig Next Masters 2018; La torre (The Tower) IFFR Bright Future 2018; Karen llora en un bus (Karen Cries on the Bus) Berlinale Forum 2011. Entre la niebla (A Vanishing Fog) is his second feature-length film, which world premiered in the main competition at PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights FF 2021, and won the jury prize for best cinematography at SXSW 2022 among other awards. It was released in theaters 2022 through Cine Colombia, and has been acquired for theatrical distribution in the North America.

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