Vladimir Durán

Directing

Vladimir Durán

Bogotá, Colombia

Vladimir Durán is an Colombian-Argentine actor, writer, director and producer. Born in Bogotá, he graduated in Anthropology from the University of Montreal, studied Film Directing at the Universidad del Cine (FUC) in Buenos Aires, and Acting and Actor Direction at Nora Moseinco's acting school in Buenos Aires, where he has also worked as a teacher. His films have premiered at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, among others.

Acting credits

Romina Smile poster
7.0

Romina has been working as a promoter for more than 20 years and, about to turn 40, faces few and poorly paid job offers. Her last days at work take her to bars and events. He decides to leave it, but in a Buenos Aires with crisis and unemployment, he cannot re-enter the labor market.

Romina Smile

2024

The Defendant poster
5.7

Silvia, a single mother and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. But in addition to trouble at work, she is also facing a more crippling problem: her mother’s cancer has returned. While she is forced to face up to her mother’s inconceivable yet inescapable death, Silvia embarks on a love story, her first in many years.

The Defendant

2020

Fire Supply poster
7.0

Because podcasts have a limit, a person who loves his mother + his father would want to make ice or steel or else have a cemetery so that his mother does not suffer for anyone.

Fire Supply

2024

In Here poster
7.0

Inside David’s lives a troubled, doubtful, neurotic young man.

In Here

2013

Tropical Snow poster
4.0

New York is the dream city of Tavo and Marina, where the lovers hope to start a better life; at home in Bogota they have to work as pocket pickers at the airport to support their families. Dealer Oskar can persuade them to smuggle drugs in their stomachs on plane to New York - although both know of the risks, since Marina's sister died on a similar journey. However on arrival at the airport in New York they show nerves and all their dreams start to shatter.

Tropical Snow

1988

A part poster
NR

While looking after a friend’s house, Vladimir (a young Colombian) wakes up one morning to find a gigantic stone sitting on the terrace, next to the pool. He has no idea where it came from. Disturbed and intrigued, he calls Cecilia (his ex-partner), who is pregnant with her new partner’s child, to help him figure out what to do. A part is an independent element that can be considered or included within a whole. It can also be a person or group that stands in opposition to another in a discussion or in a war. It might be a brief exchange, or perhaps just any place. This is a story that begins early in the morning. A rock appeared on the terrace. A giant rock. Miguel calls his ex-girlfriend and asks for help. But this is only a part.

A part

2013

Prodigal Son poster
2.0

Renzo tries to get close to the universe of family and football, which has always seemed alien to him. He wanders between his current life and the one he could have had.

Prodigal Son

2023

The Face of the Jellyfish poster
4.4

It is no coincidence that the second feature by Argentinian Melisa Liebenthal begins with a quote from “Duino Elegies” by Rilke, who was concerned with existential angst. And, more prosaically, Marina, the film’s young protagonist, is faced with similar anxiety. In fact, her problem is her face. One morning, she discovers her face has changed, and she can no longer recognise herself. Not even her mother can, who bumps into her on the street and says hello to her like she would to any stranger (deadpan, surreal humor is part of the film’s recipe). Marina is thus forced to confront her identity: who is she? Is she determined by her parent’s DNA or by her ID card? Can she be identified by a family portrait, by biometrics or the love of those around her, including her Colombian boyfriend? Is she prettier now?

The Face of the Jellyfish

2022

Plurabelle poster
NR

Ana Livia Plurabelle (30) has different sexual encounters that will make her realize something she hasn't thought about before: the possibility of making money with her body.

Plurabelle

2022

Blood poster
5.0

Fernando, a naval officer, arrives in the city of Rosario to work on an oil tanker. But his move seems to conceal other motives.

Blood

2020

Present Imperfect poster
NR

It's Martin's Birthday. A confusing gift will make him wonder how the rest of the people see him.

Present Imperfect

2015

The Pleasure Is Mine poster
5.3

Antonio wanders the streets of Buenos Aires in search of money and sex. The magnetism he exerts on the people who cross his path allows him to steal and cheat them. Only his mother, with whom he has a confictual relationship, will get over his feeling of impunity and will push him to leave for a trip to the south of Argentina.

The Pleasure Is Mine

2024

So Long Enthusiasm poster
6.3

Ten-year-old Axel lives with his mother and three sisters in a flat in Buenos Aires. They’d be a perfectly normal family if only the mother weren't imprisoned in one of the rooms.

So Long Enthusiasm

2017

A Single Room poster
NR

In the absence of projects in which to establish herself as an actress, Franca looks for unconventional alternatives to obtain recognition.

A Single Room

2022

Las flores poster
NR

Ana hasn't spoken for days. Be silent. Those around her adapt to their new condition. Suddenly, Ana asks Maria, her friend, a favor.

Las flores

2018

Whispers: a romantic fantasy about failure poster
NR

The failure of a film about an old love affair leads to the making of a new film that aims to retrace the steps of that unsuccessful first project.

Whispers: a romantic fantasy about failure

2017

Dear Renzo poster
4.8

Two young Argentines, brought together by chance, wander the streets of New York City, increasingly lost in a maze of currency exchange, translation problems, religious vocation and nocturnal flirtation.

Dear Renzo

2016

Long Time No Sleep poster
5.1

A sunny morning in Buenos Aires. All seems quiet, but then an odd race begins: a variety of people are after a backpack. A little army of seekers surprises us at every corner. Suddenly, a lonely bureaucrat (Mapache) is involved in this adventure, and new, mysterious and unknown people start to populate his life, all running around the popular Argentinian city to obtain the backpack which seems to be crucial to his own fate, according to the words of his new accomplice, magician and tarot reader Luminitsia.

Long Time No Sleep

2022

A Grain of Rice from a House Where No One Has Died poster
10.0

A woman who will die soon tells her three children that she wants to do so with as little intervention as possible. They don't know how much of that desire they will be able to fulfill. Accompanying her in her decision makes them confront the way in which our civilization conceives death. Taking charge of preparing this farewell while their mother is still alive will be a mysterious and revealing way to be together.

A Grain of Rice from a House Where No One Has Died

2023

Behind the camera

A part poster
NR

While looking after a friend’s house, Vladimir (a young Colombian) wakes up one morning to find a gigantic stone sitting on the terrace, next to the pool. He has no idea where it came from. Disturbed and intrigued, he calls Cecilia (his ex-partner), who is pregnant with her new partner’s child, to help him figure out what to do. A part is an independent element that can be considered or included within a whole. It can also be a person or group that stands in opposition to another in a discussion or in a war. It might be a brief exchange, or perhaps just any place. This is a story that begins early in the morning. A rock appeared on the terrace. A giant rock. Miguel calls his ex-girlfriend and asks for help. But this is only a part.

A part

2013

Tres Hermanas poster
NR

Three sisters entering old age. Three sisters that are very knit together but have opposing views, that are very close but live far apart, one in Tel Aviv, one in Paris and one in Bogotá. A film about how the passage of time affects us, about death, both our own and that of those who shared their lives with us. Director Joyce Ventura films herself and her two sisters over many years, reflecting on the aging process, acceptance of one's own death and that of our loved ones, and exposing the anxieties that come with facing the end of life. The three very different sisters, each living in different cities, contrast their opposite existential perspectives and personalities. Old age, a life stage that we often choose to ignore but inevitably concerns us all, is narrated in first person with humor and sensitivity.

Tres Hermanas

2025

Alicia todo el tiempo poster
NR

The pandemic, images from the past, images in the trash, various animals, a wounded lion boy, musical neighbors singing an old bolero, a medicinal herb vendor making cooking videos. An experimental piece in collaboration with I Acevedo, Paula Trama, and Inés Copertino, commissioned by the Buenos Aires Queer Art Festival.

Alicia todo el tiempo

2024

Alicia todo el tiempo poster
NR

The pandemic, images from the past, images in the trash, various animals, a wounded lion boy, musical neighbors singing an old bolero, a medicinal herb vendor making cooking videos. An experimental piece in collaboration with I Acevedo, Paula Trama, and Inés Copertino, commissioned by the Buenos Aires Queer Art Festival.

Alicia todo el tiempo

2024

The Inner Ear poster
NR

After an accident, Lorenzo begins to hear a persistent ringing that profoundly alters his relationship with the world.

The Inner Ear

2026

I Am So Happy poster
3.8

Fragments of a Saturday winter day. The Vittenzein brothers are alone at their family house. Mateo stops by to pick up Bruno and Camilo and drive them to the country house where their mother awaits. A sudden break slam brings them into the intimacy of a waste land.

I Am So Happy

2011

I Am So Happy poster
3.8

Fragments of a Saturday winter day. The Vittenzein brothers are alone at their family house. Mateo stops by to pick up Bruno and Camilo and drive them to the country house where their mother awaits. A sudden break slam brings them into the intimacy of a waste land.

I Am So Happy

2011

I Am So Happy poster
3.8

Fragments of a Saturday winter day. The Vittenzein brothers are alone at their family house. Mateo stops by to pick up Bruno and Camilo and drive them to the country house where their mother awaits. A sudden break slam brings them into the intimacy of a waste land.

I Am So Happy

2011

So Long Enthusiasm poster
6.3

Ten-year-old Axel lives with his mother and three sisters in a flat in Buenos Aires. They’d be a perfectly normal family if only the mother weren't imprisoned in one of the rooms.

So Long Enthusiasm

2017

So Long Enthusiasm poster
6.3

Ten-year-old Axel lives with his mother and three sisters in a flat in Buenos Aires. They’d be a perfectly normal family if only the mother weren't imprisoned in one of the rooms.

So Long Enthusiasm

2017

So Long Enthusiasm poster
6.3

Ten-year-old Axel lives with his mother and three sisters in a flat in Buenos Aires. They’d be a perfectly normal family if only the mother weren't imprisoned in one of the rooms.

So Long Enthusiasm

2017