Length: 90 min.
Director and Photography: Mauro Colombo
Producers: Abner Benaim, Arturo Méndiz
Executive producer: Isabella Galvez 
Languages: Italian - Spanish, English, French, Dutch and Embera
Shooting locations: Panama, Spain, Chile, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands

With the support of: ICAA, ICEC, Programa Ibermedia, Dicine, Ciudad del Saber, UNIR

World premiere “Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival”, 2024

After the death of his father, Mauro, an Italian filmmaker living in Panama, encounters a lifeless body on a road in the middle of the jungle. He tries to revive him with a chest compression, the person comes back to life for a few seconds, and then passes away again. In front of this particular coincidence he embarks on an intimate journey into uncharted territories, looking for a dialogue with death.

Length: 70 min.
Director and Photography: Mauro Colombo
Format: HD
Original language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Aperturafilms, Panama 2018

World premiere ‘Habana Film Festival’, 2019

BEST Documentary, 2019
*IFF PANAMA
*Yellow Robin Awards CURACAO IFF ROTTERDAM

An immersion into the Darien gap, the primary forest that divides Panama and Colombia where Guerrillas, drug traffickers, immigrants, indigenous people, farmers, wild animals and local police cross paths. Mauro´s observation goes beyond his characters in this a no man's land and focuses on the search for meaning in  the jungle as a metaphor for the wild within us. 

EL CRUCE

Length: 25 min.
Director and Photography: Mauro Colombo
Format: HD
Original language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Aperturafilms Panama, 2017 

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What is a simple intersection becomes a struggle between two cultures, between two ways of seeing the world, between two visions of the future, between a political economic power and an indigenous people. El Cruce, following the siege of an indigenous people, tells of a war for survival that all indigenous peoples are fighting. A simple intersection becomes a battlefield of a blunt shock.

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Two roads converge at the same point called El Cruce. One is the famous Panamaricana, the only road that connects Panama City with the rest of Central America. The other is a small road that descends from the mountains of Cerro Colorado 400 km from the Panamanian capital. One is a vital economic artery for the country. The other is the trip that thousands of people from the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous group have decided to make for days to reach the Pan-American Highway and close it as a protest against the project to build one of the largest copper mines in the world in its territory.

Hasankeyf Waiting life

Length: 52 min.
Director and Photography: Mauro Colombo
Format: HD
Original language: Curds
Subtitles: English
Italy, Hagam 2009

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Hasankeyf is an ancient village on the Tigris river, in the Mesopotamia of the Assyrian and of the Byzantine, the place where the central Asian and Persian cultures crossed with the Europeans. Today 5000 inhabitants, most Kurdish, live in Hasankeyf: a community that lives as suspended in time, since when, in the 1954, the Ilisu dam project was born. The Ilisu dam in activity, once completed, would submerge Hasankeyf under 30 metres of water. But the life in Hasankeyf continues as nothing has to happen. HASANKEYF, WAITING LIFE tell a story of a big conflict living the daily life, where the history collides with modernity, national interests with the local ones, the necessity of personal growth with the preservation of the own roots.

The City of Light - a psychedelic story

Length: 54 min.
Director and Photography: Mauro Colombo & Giampaolo Gelati
Format: DV
Ratio: 4:3
Original language: English
Subtitles: Italian
Hobofilm, Italy 2006

Born in the Sixties in San Francisco from the alchemic encounter between LSD and a whole generation’s desire for freedom, music and psychedelic culture have kept alive, in the last 40 years, growing, changing in a new underground scenario. The documentary follows this narrow path through the voices of its protagonists: Chet Helms, the man who discovered Janis Joplin, Sam Andrew, the Big Brother & The Holding Company guitarist, Tom Constanten, the Grateful Dead keyboard player, and the ecstasy’s chemist Dr. Shulgin, up to today’s leaders of the new psychedelic generation: Goa Gil, father and guru of the Goa Trance, Quasar, and Dylan. 

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The acid parties take us back to the San Francisco of the hippies, with their acid tests and the entranced dreams of a generation at war. Across the dramatic pictures of Vietnam, we reach the spiritual warmth of India where, during the Seventies, hippies fled escaping from compulsory recruitment: Goa beaches became the place to keep on dancing and dreaming. Here American psychedelic music merged with the new European electronic sound: the Goa Trance was born, mother of Psychedelic Trance, back today hitting the streets of San Francisco with its acid beat, melting bodies and blood with its powerful rhythm. “There is a message that comes from far away” states Quasar “that crosses the Sixties and reaches us today”. A message of “Personal freedom”. Spirituality and freedom are the beat of the ancient collective ritual of this alternative America.

24/12

Length: 36 min.
Director Mauro Colombo 
Format: minidv
Original language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Ronzinanti Cinema, Italy 2006

The day before Christmas a huge mass of people is waiting the opening of the commercial centre. It will be a running competition to buy the fresh fish and seafood for the every year’s ritual celebration. A tragic – comic documentary about the perception of the people about the real Italy inside one of the biggest Italian supermarket.

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