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Marcel Keoroglian, a public figure in Uruguay thanks to his works in carnival, television, radio and cinema, has at home eighteen records of the 1949 carnival that have never been heard. These records were recorded by José Goglian, an Armenian immigrant, who in the 1940s lived in Villa del Cerro (a Montevidean neighborhood made up of many immigrant groups) and who invited his neighbour carnival musicians to his apartment to record them with a phonograph. This documentary is focused on Marcel's passionate bond with the murga genre, as he writes the lyrics for a group that is preparing for the next carnival, while looking for a way to revive the music of these albums that awaited sixty-eight years to be heard.

A group of women and their uncle come to the aid of a severely wounded man who has been shot. They soon discover he is the brother of Paco, a powerful gangster with deep influence in the criminal underworld. Despite their efforts, the man dies days later. Enraged and determined to uncover the truth, Paco approaches the women with a proposal: work for him within his organization while he temporarily leaves the city. With their help, he plans to identify those who betrayed his brother and orchestrated his death. As they become entangled in the mafia’s operations, loyalty, danger, and ambition collide — leading them into a dangerous mission of revenge that could change all their lives.

Michelle says goodbye to everyone that's important to her before leaving the island of Puerto Rico for good.

Sal is an odyssey whose hero has no home to return to. His is a search for transcendence in a landscape that pits him against a harsh, impervious human reality. Heraldo is a man with no identity who comes to the desert asking about his father. In this dystopian land, the last refuge of desperados who have no place in the world, he finds himself asking if maybe he is one of them when a strange couple, Don Salo and his wife, take him in.

Three rival cartel groups wage war over control of the same territory, each determined to claim absolute power. Ruthless and unforgiving, they will eliminate anyone who stands in their way — no matter the cost or who falls in the crossfire. As threats extend to the police and personal vendettas fuel the violence, the conflict spirals beyond control. Revenge, ambition, and fear collide in a region on the brink of chaos. When a mysterious informant sets the stage for all factions to confront one another at a single location, tensions explode into an all-out confrontation that ignites a brutal and bloody war.

An old man searches for an ancient music on the mountains with his videocamera. A filmmaker is making a film about it. Some film critics will watch a film. The audience will attend to the screening.

While working at Uruguay's largest prison construction site, Miguel is leading a double life. When he realizes that he has become a prisoner of his own lies, Miguel struggles to find the courage to disclose the truth to his loved ones.

A Paixón de María Soliña is a feature film with a historical setting which describes the Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition through the inquisitorial trial against María Soliña in Galicia (Spain) in the XVII century, accused of witchcraft.

Within the project “Anatomía poética" (Poetic Anatomy), by Elena Córdoba.

Based on an original interview about the Curuguaty massacre, The Lost Voice interrogates Paraguay's recent history.

A filmmaker comes back to his grandparents' house to make them a video-portrait. That's what cinema is about, isn't it?

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.

Mr. Olivares is already recovered; all he needs is to take a vacation in a paradisiacal place where he can relax.

Hyohakusha is a lyrical trip to Japan, passing through Galicia (magic land in the northwest of Spain). Two women filmmakers recover twenty forgotten rolls of Super8 that showed the journey of two Galicians to different places of Japan in 1973, and with this material, and the reflections and emotions of his owner watching the rolls for the first time (the son of the travelers) with her wife, that is Japanish and could not know her father in law that died soon after that trip, these two filmmakers give birth to a new story seeking suggestive relations between the two countries (half of the film is filmed by them in Galicia, also in Super8). This filmmakers during the process of making this film are reading a book of haikus of Basho, that wrote in his lyrical diary "Oku no Oshomichi" about the beauty of some of the places where this Galician couple went to visit in their trip to Japan many centuries later. So some passages of this travelogue are included too.

In the spring of 2015, with her 80 years of age, Eloísa prepares to participate in a new celebration commemorating October 17, 1945. 70 years have passed since that feat of the working people. Everything is fresh in Eloísa's memory, also that night in 1944 when she became a witness to a secret meeting in the mansion where she worked as a service staff. There was Colonel Juan Domingo Perón fighting a duel with the representatives of the economic power of the time who proposed to condition his actions. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, the staff debated the current employment and political situation.

Jesús Andrade, a young thug, has decided to rob a stagecoach. At the time of the robbery he realizes that this is one of many stagecoaches of Governor Francisco Carreño and without giving enough importance he continues to theft, then suddenly he falls in love.

Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who dreams of being an actress.

First film of Juan José Ponce’s trilogy about Federico García Lorca. Lunas de Nueva York looks back on Federico’s trip to New York in 1929, an essential journey for his life and career.

Director Miguel Kohan tries to connect the memories of his Gaucho-Jewish family with the fleeing of the Sephardim from the Iberian Península in 1492. Surinam, New York, Jamaica, and Brazil are some of the places where the untold story of those who escaped inquisition is visibilized.

Dani loves his girlfriend, Monica, but he is always late and has lost the expensive watch she gave him as a birthday present. Tired and disappointed by his lack of commitment, she breaks up with him. On the advice of his amateur psychologist friend, Elias, Dani sets off on an impossible quest to retrieve the watch, to prove his love to Monica and save their relationship.

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.

A 17-year-old girl watches the cruelties being reported on the news every day, bringing her mind closer and closer to the dangerous nature of society.

Lucía has been possessed by the devil. Nacho, her husband, will have to learn to live with it.

Carne con papas is a "serious humor" short film. Ivón has just been robbed on the street and when she gets on a bus she is assaulted again by Dudamel, a pirate movie salesman. When the driver along with the passengers arrest Dudamel, the weapon falls into the hands of Ivón, who no longer has anything to lose.

A black comedy about Chalo, a lone security guard who acquires his first gamecock and discovers the bittersweet taste of friendship.

Life and work of the Argentine cartoonist Enrique "Quique Alcatena". An in-depth look at this creator of fantastic worlds and beings, with the testimonial contribution of co-workers, friends and family.

When Julia's boyfriend has to leave Barcelona and move temporarily to London for work, she is forced to share a flat with an outgoing Dutch photographer. Their living together will make both of them rethink the way they face life.

Filmed in the Andean Mountains in the traditional lands of the Atacameño, Aymara, and Calchaquí-Diaguita in Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina, ALTIPLANO takes place within a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts, and coloured lakes. Fusing earth with sky, day with night, heartbeat with mountain, and mineral with iridescent cloud, ALTIPLANO reveals a vibrating landscape in which a bright blue sun threatens to eclipse a blood-red moon.

Portrait of Costa da Morte (coast region in Galicia, Spain) from an ethnographic and landscape level, exploring also the collective imagination associated with the area. A region marked by strong oceanic feeling dominated by the historical conception of world's end and with tragic shipwrecks. Fragmentary film that approaches to the anthropological from its protagonists: sailors, shellfish, loggers, farmers ... A selection of characters representative of the traditional work carried out in the countryside in the region, allowing us to reflect on the influence of the environment on people.

Teresa is terminally ill and is about to die. Her doctor, as a last resort, invites her to appear at a medical meeting. Teresa arrives on the indicated day and is called by a mysterious doctor who believes he can cure her.

Gabriel, a 32-year-old Spanish man lives in Germany with his boyfriend Lars, far away from his conservative family. Time and again he remembers his childhood in daydreams.

Cristina and Manuel are a couple like any other who spends a Sunday together. As time passes, the couple shows that they are in a crisis.

This work focuses on the representation of a state somewhere between life and death. It is proposed as a place where there is a loss of consciousness. The death has just reached us and our body is drained of life. This crucial instant in which our existence comes to an end, is what we try to capture in their flight. The light of life through us and let us inert. We are in a timeless, ethereal and volatile place.

Dr. Heller is treating Lucas for agoraphobia with exposure treatment. But the forest where they go is inhabited by a strange force which will make both of them project their deepest traumas.

Adriana finds out the son she's expecting suffers a brain malformation that won't allow him to live outside her womb. As therapeutic abortion is illegal in Chile, she must wait until her baby is naturally born.

Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake an adventure: it is a parallel universe, dark and fantastic, where life and death hang in the balance.

In this veterans' hospice, every patient spends their last days fighting between life and death. Veterans die alone in rooms full of memories and anecdotes about wars that they fought for a country that they barely knew.

Olvido is condemned to live among the memories of an incurable love. The presence of her ex-partner removes her as if she were a ghost.

Dr. Vladimir Roslik was born and raised in the town of San Javier, founded by Russian immigrants on the banks of the Uruguay River, and graduated as a doctor in Moscow in the late 1960s during the Cold War. He later decided to return to his small town in Uruguay to practice his profession, for which he obtained the affection and respect of the community. Vladimir Roslik was assassinated in 1984 during the dictatorship during a torture session, and it is considered the last death of the Uruguayan military dictatorship. Today, more than 36 years after his crime, it is still not known who the intellectual authors of the military operation that caused his death were. This documentary traces the life of Mary and Valery, the widow and son of Dr. Vladimir Roslik. They are currently seeking to heal a wound that is theirs, and of their community, as victims of an irrational political and ethnic persecution, under the shadow left by a law that prevented justice for the murders.

Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a nefarious educational system, but a journey of self-discovery as well.