The Colloquium of the birds

One day, dawn no longer breaks. In that realm of darkness – which inevitably drew plagues, persecution, devastation, and death – a group of friends, members of CODEVIAP (Federation of Old Anarcho-Poets), is forced underground. In their covens and mysterious gatherings, the old anarcho-poets wonder about the time they have lived through and seek hopeful resistance, however small, through dance, poetry, and friendship. Now, nearing the end of their lives, they ask for help to cross into the other world. To the place where, with their new, non-human identities, they may be able to save something of what remains.Taking the Sufi myth The Colloquium of the Birds as its guiding allegory, this film is a fable that seeks to play with the symbolic, utopian ideas of friendship and poetry as weapons of insubordination against the current order of things.

Biography

Sofía Velázquez is a Peruvian filmmaker, film editor, and poetry writer. She has directed “About Everything there is to know“(2021), which premiered at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, among other projects and collaborative films with the Mercado Central collective. She also promotes creative workshops with groups of people deprived of their liberty in youth centres and prisons. She teaches and accompanies audiovisual projects. The Colloquium of the Birds (2026) is her most recent film and had its world premiere at Visions Du Réel.

Filmography

2026 – The Colloquium of the Birds – 60 min. Premiered at Visions du Réel.

2021 – About Everything there is to know – 90 min. Premiere at Mar del Plata Film Festival.

2021 – Beans. 5 min. It was part of the curatorship “Fabulous” by Mohammad Shawky Hassan for the  Ashkal Alwan platform.

2019 – Prescindir de la imagen, la palabra – Dispensing with the image, the word. 5min. Film based on an imaginary conversation with Peruvian poet Blanca Varela. It was part of the installation “El verbo no alimenta. Blanca, women and Santa Beatriz” in Centro Cultural de España en Lima.

2019 – Tres tristes tigres – Three Mourning tigers. 5 min. Film based on the poem The day my father searched among the stones, looking for the name of his dead brother. Premiered at Cortopolis, Argentina.

2014. Soy Eterno – I am eternal. 6 min. Film essay mixing poetry in texts and images. Premiered at Filmocorto Short Film Festival, Perú.