Memento Mori
Dir. Fernando López Cardona
Synopsis
The body of a beheaded man is buried as an NN in Puerto Berrio. The dismembered corpse generates fear in the people around. During the funeral, a mysterious man writes the word “chosen”: it is a pact that will take him to hell to find the head and thus restore dignity to the corpse.
Starring
César Badillo, Lucía Bedoya, Carlos Mario Echeverry, Alvaro García, Oscar Rojas
Written
Fernando López Cardona & James Valderrama
DP
Andrés Felipe Morales
Production Companies
Fidelio Films, ADC Rental, 42film
Year
2023
Producers
Juan Diego Villegas
Executive Producers
Mauro Mueller, Paola Andrea Pérez Nieto, Alvaro Jose Villegas
“This is not just a story of a body—but of collective refusal: burying an anonymous corpse as NN and then daring to retrieve its humanity,” says Fernando López Cardona, envisioning the animero’s quest as a sacred ritual of restitution and memory against the machinery of conflict.”
Festivals
2024 Havana Film Festival New York, U.S. Premiere, New York, USA
2024 Curaçao International Film Festival (CIFF), Special Mention, Curaçao
2023 Les Rencontres du Cinéma Latino‑Américain, Toulouse, France
2023 Festival Ojoloco du cinéma ibérique et latino‑américain, Grenoble, France
2023 Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale, Jury Prize Best Film, New Haven, USA
2023 Lima Film Festival, Official Selection (Honorable Mention – Cinematography), Lima, Peru
2023 Festival ÍCARO (Central America International Film Festival), Guatemala
2023 Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), World Premiere & Opening Night Film, Cartagena, Colombia
Awards
2024 Premios Macondo (Colombian Academy Awards)
🏆 Best Costume Design (Winner)
🏆 Best Makeup (Winner)
🏆 Best Direction – Fernando López Cardona (Winner)
Best Actor – César Badillo (Nominee)
Best Cinematography – Andrés Felipe Morales (Nominee)
Best Art Direction – Sofía Guzmán (Nominee)
2023 Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale
🏆 Jury Prize - Best Film (Winner)