Gamín
Documentary of 1977 that talks about the life of the gamines in the city of Bogotá. The gamines are children who have fled their homes in remote areas of the city or living in neighbouring districts of it and trying to survive. The film is based on three segments showing the gamines mostly displaced in the violence and their families, to live on handouts of persons, of the theft of windshield, car radios, recycling cardboard and stealing several streets but above all of the pure Centre of Bogotá to the gamines grouped in "galladas" sleep on platforms, bus stops and in the now defunct "Calle del Cartucho".
Ciro Durán
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Ciro Durán
Drivers of urban public transport in Bogotá do not receive a fixed salary¸ only a percentage per passenger picked up. Through the testimony of two champions of this daily war¸ an unpleasant daily life is shown¸ distressing and dangerous¸ both for the users and for the drivers themselves los and from which the only ones who benefit are the great transport entrepreneurs¸ true architects of a bloody war in which the State is hardly an indolent spectator.
A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world
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.
