Germán Arango Rendón is an anthropologist, screenwriter, and film director with a master’s degree in visual anthropology. He is a founding partner of the film production and distribution company Briosa Films and a co-founder of the research and collaborative film collective Pasolini in Medellín. His feature-length documentary Cantos que inundan el río premiered at Hot Docs in 2021, was awarded best documentary at the Cinélatino festival in Toulouse in 2022 and the Martinique Film Festival in 2023, and was awarded best ethnographic feature film in 2022 by The Society for Visual Anthropology. His narrative short film El juicio was part of the official selection of the Havana Film Festival in 2020 and the Bogotá Short Film Festival (Bogoshorts) in 2021. Germán was an assistant director for the feature documentaries El rojo más puro (Yira Plaza, 2023) and La casa de Mama Icha (Oscar Molina, 2019), and is about to shoot his fiction feature film Mc Silencio, winner of a regional feature film production grant by the Colombian Film Development Fund.

Germán was a participant in Cine Qua Non Lab’s 2021 Taller de Revisión de Guion lab with Mc Silencio.

La Virgen de los Dolores — Aurelio, a Colombian archaeologist living in Mexico, is split in two like the object he has been commissioned to investigate: a Virgin giving birth, sculpted by an indigenous artist in the 17th century. Unifying the piece is restoring the fracture that leaving his country meant for him.