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2025  ·  Belgium – Colombia  ·  16 min

Desarraigo

Uprooted

During the asylum crisis in Belgium, Uprooted rebuilds the roots in exile of Belén, a political refugee of the Colombian armed conflict. An intimate portrait of asylum seeking while knitting memories of the homeland.

Documentary DocNomads
Desarraigo
2025  ·  Colombia – Mexico  ·  4 min

Jaula

Cage

A self-portrait. The relationship between death and migration draws a manifesto devoted to cinema as a way of surviving oblivion. The image constitutes a space of mourning, when words are not enough to inhabit the pain.

Short film
Jaula
2025  ·  Hungary – Croatia  ·  12 min

Hace tanto tiempo

That Long Ago — Még Akkor

That Long Ago narrates the war memories of Serbian-Hungarian actor Zsolt Vicei. A film that reconstructs the masks of war, acting, and fatherhood.

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Még Akkor
2025  ·  Portugal – Colombia  ·  18 min

Caen cenizas del cielo

The Sky Wept Ashes

An intimate dialogue where dreams become a space for mourning. Submerged in the director's dreams and the uncertainty of a natural disaster, ashes have the possibility to fall from the sky.

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Caen cenizas del cielo
2025  ·  Portugal  ·  15 min

Malta a trabalhar

The People Working

A day-by-day portrait of partnership and survival through the not entirely legal poster pasting in the streets of Lisbon. Working class brotherhood as the only way to face the adversities of migration.

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Malta a trabalhar
2015  ·  Colombia  ·  100 min

Anthropos

A collective exercise: 50 directors, each filming a two-year span of a centenarian's life who selects photographs before choosing euthanasia in Switzerland. Premiered at Cartagena Film Festival.

Collective film Feature
Anthropos
Santiago Caicedo Torres

Santiago Caicedo Torres

Director · Cinematographer · Editor · Anthropologist

Filmmaker, photographer and visual anthropologist working at the intersection of poetic imagery and political inquiry. Through years of sustained fieldwork within communities marked by conflict and displacement — in Colombia, across Latin America, and in Europe — his work weaves intimate bridges between local contexts that question universal narratives. Alongside his artistic practice, he brings deep experience in research and communication processes, with a focus on environmental conflict and development studies.

Erasmus Mundus scholar. Master of Arts in Documentary Film Direction at Lusófona University Lisbon, SZFE Budapest and LUCA School of Arts Brussels (2021–2023). Anthropologist from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (2014–2017).

Services
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Direction & Cinematography

Documentary, institutional and corporate audiovisual direction. Perceptive cinematographic approach for NGOs, international organizations, media and cultural institutions.

02

Editing & Post-production

Editing and post-production of documentary, corporate and journalistic content. Visual storytelling with strong narrative and political awareness.

03

Research & Social Anthropology

Applied social research, field work and multimedia communication for development, environmental and humanitarian projects. Specialized in indigenous communities and conflict-affected populations.

Corporate & institutional reel · 2025 vimeo

Selected collaborations

Documentary, journalistic, and institutional photography with an authorial eye — field work across Colombia, Latin America, and Europe. Images made in the service of stories that matter.

Field research
2024–2025

National Unit for Disaster Risk Management — Colombia

Audiovisual and journalistic documentation of natural disaster emergency response across the national territory. Content production for national media and institutional networks.

2020–2021

Amazon Conservation Team — Caquetá, Colombia

Fieldwork with Koreguaje, Uitoto, Andoque and Inga indigenous communities. Environmental governance, ecological education and territorial expansion of indigenous territories. Audiovisual production for ethnic populations and funders.

2019

Organization of Iberoamerican States — Colombia

Research and communication for the Colombia Emprende project with the Ministry of Labor and ILO. Policy recommendations for training, employability and entrepreneurship for victims of armed conflict.

2018

Yale University — The Human Nature Lab — Honduras

Behavioral economics research methodologies with peasant and indigenous coffee-growing communities in Copán Ruinas. Training of local researchers and execution of cooperative experiments in the field.

2017–2018

CESED — Universidad de los Andes — Pacific Colombia

Research on productive alternatives to illicit crops in collective territories of the Colombian Pacific. Fieldwork with Afro-Colombian communities in Buenaventura. Surveys, workshops, interviews and academic writing.

2016

Environmental Defense Fund — Tijuana, Mexico

Field research on illegal fishing practices in the Gulf of Santa Clara and San Felipe. Characterization of productive practices and application of experimental economic methodologies with fishing communities.

Let's work together

Based in Brussels. Available for projects worldwide.

santiagocaicedot@gmail.com