Jorge Cadena

Jorge Cadena (born 1985) is a Swiss–Colombian artist and filmmaker based in Geneva, Switzerland. Cadena first studied photography in Buenos Aires. In 2016, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in cinema from HEAD – Geneva with his film El Cuento de Antonia (2016), awarded with the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival. He then obtained his Master’s degree at ECAL/HEAD in 2018 with The Jarariju Sisters which received a special mention at the Berlinale. In 2019, he was selected to participate in the EFP Future Frame program in Karlovy Vary, the TIFF Lab in Toronto in 2020 and the Berlinale Talents in 2021. He is currently working on his first feature film, Malestar Tropical.