Discoveries from Uruguay World Cinema

Chã das Caldeiras, at an altitude of 2000m, is a town within the caldera of the Fogo volcano, in Cape Verde. In the last eruption in 2015, the town was almost completely destroyed.

After learning of his father's accident, Pedro plans to visit him. But, overwhelmed, he wanders around the Montevidean night, meeting eccentric characters that disturb him even more.

A documentary about the story of Punta del Este. Accounts by former vacationers and current residents are interwoven with unpublished period photographs and films, depicting a unique, eclusive esplace that has survived the ephemeral summer trends. "Cien años" shows a silent, hidden Punta del Este: that of the true pioneers. The seaside resort that sheltered poets and writers like Rafael Alberti and Adolfo Bioy Casares or inspired musicians like Vinicius de Moraes and Astor Piazzolla. The place where crucial diplomatic battles were fought during the Cold War. The place where Wilson Ferreira and Susana Sienra met, fell in love and saw each other for the last time before leaving for exile. The landscape that Lussich forested to calm the wind. The bastion adopted by the Argentine aristocracy as its own...

Tomás, Rafa and Mónica are three young people aimlessly looking for a place in the world, letting hope, conviction and chance to play their cards.

Overwhelmed by the death of his grandfather, a young man embarks on an adventure with one of his old cameras and connects with him without realizing it.

In 2003 a rock festival is held in a small town in Uruguay (Durazno) under the fearful gaze of its inhabitants. With each edition, the festival grew beyond expectations, until its end became inevitable. Its course marked thousands of people and transformed Uruguayan rock.

Documentary that delves into different testimonies of women who were detained as adolescents in the former Hogar Yaguarón during Uruguay's military dictatorship.

An ornithologist is obsessed with deciphering the language of birds; his search will lead him to meet an old teacher who will give him the least expected answer.

There are those who say that the women's bathrooms in nightclubs are magical places. Melanie and Sofía meet in one; and from that moment on their lives will never be the same.

When my father died, we took his ashes to the sea. We were ghosts, in the middle of summer.

Montevideo 1951

Diverse local theatre groups go after an unfortunate programmer in charge of the Cataluña theatre festival, who goes on a vacation in Uruguay.

Two friends find a mysterious fitito parked at the door of their house, when they get on it they undergo a metamorphosis, going from being the Rastafarian hippies they were to typical citizens.

Two little birds live happily together in a tree. One is white, the other is black. One day, some red birds happily fly into a hole at the top of the tree. The two birds try to get in but are rejected. They will do everything they can to be accepted.

Three characters try to build something in isolation and find that they will only succeed if they unite.

Student short film by the 2021 class of the Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay.

Francesa tests the limits of her current relationship in a constant push and pull.

The city is quiet, asleep, the human presence is only suggested. There is a visible magic, led by its ancestral inhabitants: nature, animals. From dawn to dusk, a day in this place on earth can represent all places.

Matías Fernández is a force of nature, a centaur in his wheelchair. He doesn't let an incredibly rare congenital condition hold him back. Writing, rapping, acting, and socializing—he does it all. For Matías there is freedom in living!

Film by Boris Cristoff.

Several painters unsuccessfully try to paint something on a canvas. A man enters the scene and with a single brushstroke achieves a huge sign that says: Oliver, Juncal 108.

After being kicked from the dormitory, Josefina seeks to stay for a few days with her grandma, a bohemian drunk that enjoys annoying and taking advantage of others.

A documentary that seeks to remember and collect stories of people who, in the 60s, 70s and 80s, in Uruguay and Latin America, lived in a context of dialogue between social, political and religious movements that yearned to achieve social transformation. An investigation of original and unpublished archives from that time brings a new look at some facts.

A brutal murder shakes the drowsiness of a quiet Montevideo neighborhood. The crime, which seems to be the work of a madman, encourages the intervention of a whole gallery of freaks. The paths of a strange policeman, a sinister snitch, a religious fanatic, a very peculiar priest and a fan of occult sciences intersect as the killer continues to kill. Between film trivia, football winks and occasional foul humor, the plot advances towards a terrifying outcome.

A 10-year-old boy and his parents walk the corridors of a building that is as strange as it is familiar. Exploring the place he is approaching an unknown danger, one that he senses although he does not understand.

A dying man recalls his lost youth.

A short documentary about the rise of Uruguayan indie band Carmen Sandiego, following the transformation of the project created by Flavio Lira and Leticia Skrycky from a small lo-fi duo into one of the most distinctive acts in Montevideo’s underground music scene. Built from archival footage, home recordings, rehearsals, and testimonies from friends and collaborators, the film revisits the band’s earliest concerts, the DIY recording process behind their first EPs, and the emotional and artistic evolution that shaped their sound as the group gradually became a full band.

The film emerges from the hieroglyphic writing on the body—marks of violence that inscribe memory. A meeting in Montevideo between the director and Martín reveals bodies that resist the onslaught of power, reminding us that no one knows what a body is capable of.

Laura’s story unfolds in Miguelete, Colonia, Montevideo, and Spain, interwoven with memories of her sister and niece. A sex worker, she contracted HIV and tuberculosis and died in 2003. The documentary explores taboos, family ties, and the dilemma of revealing her illness.

Dissolution explores matter, perspective, and pulse in a sensorial fusion that traverses a resilient triad: fall, fragmentation, and recomposition. The piece confronts apparent solidity and suspension; the ancestral rhythm, the throb of wood and leather, is diluted in modular loops and electronic signals.

A psychology student, overwhelmed by her mother's demands, meets a woman at her favorite coffee shop who helps her face her fears and consider a new path.

World Cup 2014 in Brazil. All television channels were showing virtual landscapes before the football matches. Landscape as a chance to meet life in it’s discontinuous mutation.

A small town boy falls in love with the portrait of Carlota Ferreira in a museum in Montevideo. Back home, he decides to see her again. His family does not understand him but the town prostitute helps him and they all travel to the capital. There they manage to meet again and share a love story.

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After moving in with her boyfriend Nicolás, Fiorella is overcome by the melancholy of leaving her home and the uncertainty of her choice. She finds an unexpected bond with a withering plant that, like her, longs for something more.

New Year's Eve. Beach. 35 degrees in the shade. A child lost in the crowd… The meat waits on the grill, and Good Will doesn't last forever.

Adela, an 83-year-old woman, lives with her young granddaughter, Lara. Every morning, she lies in bed with no motivation to get up, smoking cigarettes and watching TV shows. But one day, the doorbell rings, and someone comes back.

Two men dancing on a beach and on Dunes, explore athletic movement. An unsteady camera was chosen to give people a sense of being there watching as they move with dancers.

Diego Armando Maradona passed away on November 25, 2020, Gabriel Eloy Carrizo composes a musical lyric in tribute to the soccer star in the midst of a worldwide pandemic where he mobilizes more than 150 Uruguayan artists for the creation of this project. One song, ten musical versions, ten video clips, ten plastic works and an album.

A film about the Armenian nation, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and millions of people around the world who defend their identity, beliefs and culture.

Narrates the encounter and misunderstanding between Marcel Proust and a prostitute who returns from Paris in search of the survivors of the explosion of the Cerro de Montevideo.

Julieta wants to celebrate her birthday with her high school classmates, but her excitement may not be enough to have the party she longs for.

A short about the climate crisis.

A documentary that exposes the absence of sexual protection methods for women who have sex with women, exploring the causes and consequences of this invisibilization. It explores the lack of knowledge on the subject as well as the dangers and prejudices involved.

The title evokes that of the book by Senator Amílcar Vasconcellos about the "semi-coup" of February 9, 1973, and the film recounts the tense relations that developed between the different military forces, and in particular, the actions of Rear Admiral Juan José Zorrilla, who deployed war units by air, land and sea to stop the military insurrection of that year, comparing the sometimes contrasting positions of the different interviewees, without forcing conclusions on points that are open to discussion.

Film by Hugo Ponce de León.

Buenos Aires, 1975. Exiled Uruguayan militants hold a clandestine congress. Their goal is to form a party that will return to Uruguay and reorganize the resistance against the dictatorship of Juan María Bordaberry. The so-called "Alexandra Campaign" will establish contact with hundreds of Uruguayans and will become one of the milestones of the continent's anti-dictatorial resistance.

A journey along two shores.

A young woman on the beach waits for everyone to leave so she can bathe in the nude–just her and the ocean–except for the figure watching her from the bushes.

A young man receives the news that he is going to lose his hearing, so he starts working in a hotel in order to pay for hearing aids, while his condition worsens.

A presence crossing the real world to meet his other self.

A short documentary based on filmed correspondence. Journals of imaginary trips between two people stranded by the pandemic, one inside and the other outside the Uruguayan territory; one yearning to leave, another yearning to return.