UN PÁJARO VOLÓ
​​​​by Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz

20min | Colombia/Cuba | 2024

As birds flutter in a large empty coliseum, time and death come together one night. The memory of a friend who is no more invades the mind of Boloy, main player of the Cuban volleyball team, who despite the pain tries to rejoin the morning training.

International Title A Bird Flew​
Year of production 2024
Length 20'
Country Colombia/Cuba
Shooting Format Digital
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Dialogue Spanish
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Director Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz
Production Bølier Films
Co-Production Sonoramio, Estuario Cine
Producers Maria Alejandra Rodríguez, Dany Celeiro, Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz
Writers Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz, Fabián Suárez
Cinematographer Nicolás Ordóñez (AFG) (ADFC) 
Editor Liana Dominguez
Sound Design Maria Garabito
Sound Harry Suárez
Production Design Alexis Álvarez Armas
Art Director Alexis Alvarez Armas
Make-Up Yudit Dominguez
Casting Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz
​Cast Yasser Ramírez Boloy, Alejandra de Jesús Garcell, Jesús Angel Cruz López, Jose Ramón Gómez Reyes, Jakdiel Contreras Acosta, Brian Camino Martínez, Yonny Iglesias, Viscaino Brayant

Festival selections
Berlinale Generation 2024, Germany - World Premiere, Special Prize of the International Jury for the Best Short Film in Generation 14plus
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay 2024
​FICCI - Festival Internacional De Cine De Cartagena De Indias 2024, Colombia
​Shanghai International Film Festival 2024, China
​International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala 2024, India
​Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2024, Brazil
​​Drama International Short Film Festival 2024, Greece
​Batumi International Art-House Film Festival 2024, Georgia
​Panorama du Cinéma Colombien 2024, France
Message to Man International Film Festival 2024, Russia
​Lobo Fest - Festival Internacional de Filmes 2024, Brazil
​​Festival Internacional de Cine de Quito 2024, Ecuador
​ZINEBI - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao 2024, Spain
​​Ha Noi International Film Festival 2024, Vietnam - Best Short Film Award
​Cairo International Film Festival 2024, Egypt
Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali 2024, Colombia -Luis Ospina Award for the Best Director 
​Curta Brasilia - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes 2024, Brazil
​Festival Hanan Cine 2024, Peru
​​Dhaka International Film Festival 2025, Bangladesh
​Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2025, USA
​Filmfest Dresden 2025, Germany
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Director’s Statement
On December 7, 1993, UN PÁJARO VOLÓ (A BIRD FLIES) was the headline of the newspapers in Colombia.
​My father, Daniel Pájaro Sánchez, a volleyball player
for the Colombian national team and the department of Atlántico, died of a brain aneurysm in his sleep.
I was 5 years old and I grew up with an emptiness
that has accompanied me most of my life. I have kept many memories of that little time we shared together, sounds and images that I cultivated with the stories told by my father's friends.
Through this short film I was able to capture many of the sensations I had since my childhood, the balls that sounded in the great coliseum, the sound of the pigeons in the windows, the sounds of the tennis shoes while training, the strong bodies that jumped and competed with great euphoria, the smell of sweat, menthol and tapes on the fingers.
This film, besides being a tribute, is the first approach I make about my father's absence. A creative process that has allowed me to be vulnerable and sincere with a feeling that I had in my chest.
I started this short film as an undergraduate project at EICTV, but the pandemic did not allow it to be made. The desire to film it persisted in my mind and the
support of my colleagues and especially my family allowed that a year after my graduation, I returned to Cuba to film it as the closing of an academic and personal cycle.

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