Rubén Mendoza

Directing

Rubén Mendoza

Born 1980-01-01 · Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia

Rubén Mendoza was born in 1980. Director and screenwriter of eight short films, as well as editor of the latest films by renowned filmmaker Luis Ospina. His debut feature La sociedad del semáforo, won more than 15 international awards including, in its development stage, the Carolina Foundation Screenwriting Grant, the Screenwriting Stimulus from the Colombian Film Development Fund (FDC), a grant to attend the TYPA Foundation's screenwriting lab in Colón, Argentina, the Amiens Festival Award for Project Development and the Ibermedia Program's Stimulus for Project Development.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Wandering Girl poster
6.2

Teenager Ángela meets her three adult step-sisters for the first time when their father dies. Fearing that Ángela will end up in state custody, the sisters embark on a 900-mile journey across Colombia to leave the young girl with an aunt she doesn't even know. During this journey, Ángela will discover what it means to be a woman.

Wandering Girl

2018

Wandering Girl poster
6.2

Teenager Ángela meets her three adult step-sisters for the first time when their father dies. Fearing that Ángela will end up in state custody, the sisters embark on a 900-mile journey across Colombia to leave the young girl with an aunt she doesn't even know. During this journey, Ángela will discover what it means to be a woman.

Wandering Girl

2018

Montañita poster
NR

This room which no longer exists, was the one i share with my girl cousins...

Montañita

2014

No artwork available
4.8

María Luisa is a transgender woman living in a staunchly catholic town. The horrors of rural life in Colombia with all its morality have done nothing but increase the power of this solitary soul. Shunned from birth, from the womb, she has found in the secrets she holds, in her love of animals, in the labyrinth of her faith, a way of dealing with a world that has done nothing but despite her for reasons beyond her control, reasons that have victimized her from the start. But our Miss is as mighty as a stalk of wheat, impervious even to earthquakes, and although she has known much sorrow, there is none powerful enough to exhaust her tears or wipe away her smile.

Miss María, Skirting the Mountain

2017

No artwork available
4.8

María Luisa is a transgender woman living in a staunchly catholic town. The horrors of rural life in Colombia with all its morality have done nothing but increase the power of this solitary soul. Shunned from birth, from the womb, she has found in the secrets she holds, in her love of animals, in the labyrinth of her faith, a way of dealing with a world that has done nothing but despite her for reasons beyond her control, reasons that have victimized her from the start. But our Miss is as mighty as a stalk of wheat, impervious even to earthquakes, and although she has known much sorrow, there is none powerful enough to exhaust her tears or wipe away her smile.

Miss María, Skirting the Mountain

2017

No artwork available
4.8

María Luisa is a transgender woman living in a staunchly catholic town. The horrors of rural life in Colombia with all its morality have done nothing but increase the power of this solitary soul. Shunned from birth, from the womb, she has found in the secrets she holds, in her love of animals, in the labyrinth of her faith, a way of dealing with a world that has done nothing but despite her for reasons beyond her control, reasons that have victimized her from the start. But our Miss is as mighty as a stalk of wheat, impervious even to earthquakes, and although she has known much sorrow, there is none powerful enough to exhaust her tears or wipe away her smile.

Miss María, Skirting the Mountain

2017

No artwork available
8.0

The last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life.

Memories of a Vagabond

2014

No artwork available
8.0

The last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life.

Memories of a Vagabond

2014

Dust on the Tongue poster
5.8

A grandfather, in the final stage of his existence, asks two of his grandchildren to kill him because he wants to die by the hand of someone who bears his own blood. However, the young children discover a truth that will make them take the opposite decision.

Dust on the Tongue

2014

Dust on the Tongue poster
5.8

A grandfather, in the final stage of his existence, asks two of his grandchildren to kill him because he wants to die by the hand of someone who bears his own blood. However, the young children discover a truth that will make them take the opposite decision.

Dust on the Tongue

2014

Dust on the Tongue poster
5.8

A grandfather, in the final stage of his existence, asks two of his grandchildren to kill him because he wants to die by the hand of someone who bears his own blood. However, the young children discover a truth that will make them take the opposite decision.

Dust on the Tongue

2014

La sociedad del semáforo poster
5.9

By applying all his knowledge in electricity and electronics, Raúl Tréllez, a bum who lives in the downtown streets of Bogotá, struggles to control the time of a red light so that jugglers, cripples and other homeless people can achieve longer shows in the red light corner.

La sociedad del semáforo

2010

La sociedad del semáforo poster
5.9

By applying all his knowledge in electricity and electronics, Raúl Tréllez, a bum who lives in the downtown streets of Bogotá, struggles to control the time of a red light so that jugglers, cripples and other homeless people can achieve longer shows in the red light corner.

La sociedad del semáforo

2010

La sociedad del semáforo poster
5.9

By applying all his knowledge in electricity and electronics, Raúl Tréllez, a bum who lives in the downtown streets of Bogotá, struggles to control the time of a red light so that jugglers, cripples and other homeless people can achieve longer shows in the red light corner.

La sociedad del semáforo

2010

No artwork available
NR

In 2008 The stoplight society (LSD.S, colombian film) was, as a project, Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival (L’atelier), which organized more than 40 meetings to finalize production deals for the film. We started each meeting with this.

A QUARTER GRINGO! - O - FUKING' FRIENCHIES WE NEED MONEY

2008

The Fence poster
7.0

Francisco Maldonado is sadly involved in a series of dreams that have tormented him, in which generally he, wielding multiple weapons (the machete, the shotgun, his own mother) attacks his father, with whom he has lost intense contact since the death of his mother. This December 31, the old man, Don Juan Cristo, his father, with whom he also adjoins his farm, appears again at his door, so that they finally agree, on this last day of the term after ten years of the death of his mother , the destruction of the fence that divides their lands, so that she stops being a soul in pain, and so that the municipality does not take these lands at its will.

The Fence

2004

The Fence poster
7.0

Francisco Maldonado is sadly involved in a series of dreams that have tormented him, in which generally he, wielding multiple weapons (the machete, the shotgun, his own mother) attacks his father, with whom he has lost intense contact since the death of his mother. This December 31, the old man, Don Juan Cristo, his father, with whom he also adjoins his farm, appears again at his door, so that they finally agree, on this last day of the term after ten years of the death of his mother , the destruction of the fence that divides their lands, so that she stops being a soul in pain, and so that the municipality does not take these lands at its will.

The Fence

2004

The shadowless valley poster
NR

A dark night of 1985 a huge avalanche mixed, in only one mass, children, women, elderly, animals, tractors. More than 25,000 people and an entire village were buried in only 15 minutes. It was an announced tragedy.

The shadowless valley

2015

The shadowless valley poster
NR

A dark night of 1985 a huge avalanche mixed, in only one mass, children, women, elderly, animals, tractors. More than 25,000 people and an entire village were buried in only 15 minutes. It was an announced tragedy.

The shadowless valley

2015

Cita con la trocha poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cita con la trocha

2018