Manuel F. Contreras

Manuel F. Contreras

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Boys of Buenaventura 2014

For best buddies Jonathan, John-Jaime and Presi playing music together is the ultimate pursuit, a dream they hold on to against all odds. But the end of high school marks the beginning of their last summer together. Set in Buenaventura, a rough and tumble port city on the west coast of Colombia, the young men must face the fact that their remarkable talent and drive may not be enough to fulfill their dreams of a musical career. Boys of Buenaventura is a colourful musical tour through that summer of uncertainty, told through the protagonists’ tasty mash-up of classical, salsa, reggaeton, rock and folk music.
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The Living and the Dead 2019

Manuel decides it´s time to find his half-brother; someone he once heard about as a child but who, like his late father´s memory, was buried and faded away. But finding him will only be an excuse to achieve his true purpose: to understand his impossibility to openly and truthfully talk about fatherhood: the one he didn't have as a child, that was taken up by a lonely mother, self assumed by him, and reshaped by his siblings while growing up. The Living and the Dead is a film about love, honesty and forgiveness in a family where the living ones will have to resort to the dead to find the answers about who they really are.