Víctor Gaviria

Directing

Víctor Gaviria

Born

1955-01-19 (71)

Place of birth

Liborina, Antioquia, Colombia

Known for

Directing

Credits

28 titles

Víctor Manuel Gaviria González (born January 19, 1955, in Liborina, Antioquia, Colombia) is a film director, writer, and poet. His four feature-length films are highly acclaimed and have won many international awards. He is the first Colombian filmmaker to be featured at the Cannes Film Festival in France. He is often recognized as the most influential and well-known filmmaker to come out of Colombia, often being considered an exception to Colombian Cinema.

Known for

A Poet poster
8.7

An aging poet finds purpose mentoring Yurlady, a talented teen, though exposing her to the poetry scene might be unwise. His own poetic pursuits led nowhere, leaving him a stereotypical obscure writer.

A Poet

2025

The Rose Seller poster
7.9

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.

The Rose Seller

1998

Anhell69 poster
5.7

A hearse cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells his story in this city marked by conflicts, violence and paradoxes. He remembers his childhood and the discovery of his sexuality.

Anhell69

2023

Rodrigo D. No Future poster
7.0

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.

Rodrigo D. No Future

1990

The Inhabitants of the Night poster
NR

A gang intends to rescue a friend from a mental hospital, moving around Medellin by bicycle and communicating through a radio program known as "The Inhabitants of the Night".

The Inhabitants of the Night

1984

Making Birds Act poster
6.0

One of the most important Colombian films of the last years revives. With 'The Rose Seller' we learned about the most painful side of addictions: lost youth. What happened to its protagonists? How, against all odds, did they make such a powerful tale? Erwin Goggel's 'Making birds act' is a return to that universe, a look at the most melancholic, surprising, and bleak past from 20 years ago, or a look at today, 20 years after its birth.

Making Birds Act

2017

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

The Rose Seller poster
7.9

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.

The Rose Seller

1998

The Rose Seller poster
7.9

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.

The Rose Seller

1998

Rodrigo D. No Future poster
7.0

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.

Rodrigo D. No Future

1990

Rodrigo D. No Future poster
7.0

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.

Rodrigo D. No Future

1990

The Inhabitants of the Night poster
NR

A gang intends to rescue a friend from a mental hospital, moving around Medellin by bicycle and communicating through a radio program known as "The Inhabitants of the Night".

The Inhabitants of the Night

1984

Addictions and Subtractions poster
6.1

A look at the notorious Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Former coke addict has built a new life as contractor, but cannot shake off his past on drugs.

Addictions and Subtractions

2004

Addictions and Subtractions poster
6.1

A look at the notorious Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Former coke addict has built a new life as contractor, but cannot shake off his past on drugs.

Addictions and Subtractions

2004

Los Músicos poster
8.0

At the end of the 1940s, when the worst of the Partisan Violence began to worsen in the fields and towns of Colombia, a popular music duo, in search of work, walked the road from the town of Sucre to the town of Liborina. One of them, Cesáreo, is blind, but the other, Antonio, seems to suffer more from the inclement weather of the route.

Los Músicos

1985

No artwork available
NR

Simon is a naughty and dreamer boy who lives with his older brothers, his religious mother and the hard hand of his father. He goes to school, plays with his friends in the town and fulfills the duties of the home as any of the neighbors of his age. However, his story changes course when he decides to become a true magician and learn to fly after hearing from the lips of the black Fruits the fantastic stories of myths and legends of the Antioquia region. Adaptation of the homonymous story by Tomás Carrasquilla. From OtraParte

Simón el mago

1992

No artwork available
NR

Simon is a naughty and dreamer boy who lives with his older brothers, his religious mother and the hard hand of his father. He goes to school, plays with his friends in the town and fulfills the duties of the home as any of the neighbors of his age. However, his story changes course when he decides to become a true magician and learn to fly after hearing from the lips of the black Fruits the fantastic stories of myths and legends of the Antioquia region. Adaptation of the homonymous story by Tomás Carrasquilla. From OtraParte

Simón el mago

1992

Searching for the Animal poster
10.0

Harassment, kidnapping, isolation, submission, hunger, humiliation, infidelity, psychological manipulation and incest are some of the themes that are the focus of this documentary based on true stories and the work of natural actors who suffered abuse and are marked by abandonment. Made during the filming of "La mujer del animal" by Victor Gaviria.

Searching for the Animal

2017

Searching for the Animal poster
10.0

Harassment, kidnapping, isolation, submission, hunger, humiliation, infidelity, psychological manipulation and incest are some of the themes that are the focus of this documentary based on true stories and the work of natural actors who suffered abuse and are marked by abandonment. Made during the filming of "La mujer del animal" by Victor Gaviria.

Searching for the Animal

2017

The Animal's Wife poster
7.6

Amparo, a submissive young woman, tries to escape from her strict convent school but falls into the hands of “El Animal,” a violent and abusive man who forces her to become his wife. Trapped by fear and constant mistreatment, she clings to her love for her daughter and her hope for a better life. However, her strength and dignity may not be enough to stand against the cruelty of the ruthless Animal.

The Animal's Wife

2016

The Animal's Wife poster
7.6

Amparo, a submissive young woman, tries to escape from her strict convent school but falls into the hands of “El Animal,” a violent and abusive man who forces her to become his wife. Trapped by fear and constant mistreatment, she clings to her love for her daughter and her hope for a better life. However, her strength and dignity may not be enough to stand against the cruelty of the ruthless Animal.

The Animal's Wife

2016

Searching for Clovers poster
8.0

Moving and poetic images of the daily lives of blind children at a school in Medellín.

Searching for Clovers

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sosiego

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sosiego

—

The Old Guard poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Old Guard

1985

No artwork available
NR

Adaptation of the story "Que pase el aserrador" (Let the sawyer come) by Jesús del Corral. The story happens near the Cauca River. Simón is a musician and a pawn, but he pretends to be a sawyer to get a job at a hacienda.

Que pase el aserrador

1985

Darío Lemos, un Retrato poster
NR

Documentary on nadaist poet Darío Lemos.

Darío Lemos, un Retrato

1989

Yo te tumbo, tu me tumbas poster
NR

Documentary film about young people in Medellin, Colombia, interviewing actors who appeared in the film Rodrigo D: No Futuro.

Yo te tumbo, tu me tumbas

1990