Motorrodillo

Filmstill Motorrodillo

Motorrodillo

Motorrodillo
Alba Jaramillo
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Colombia,
France
2022
30 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

In rural northern Colombia, where the railway has long been discontinued, people help themselves with a fleet of “Motorrodillos” – motorcycle-driven miniature trains. Every day, Dolly and her colleagues take school kids, goods and travellers on rugged routes from village to village. If you meet oncoming traffic on the way, you get off the rails. If you find holes in the rails, you mend them yourself. The affectionate portrait of a self-organised transport system.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Alba Jaramillo
Cinematographer
David Horacio Montoya
Editor
Francine Lemaître
Producer
Qutaiba Barhamji, Marie-Odile Gazin, Alba Jaramillo
Sound
Andres Acevedo, Manuel Vidal