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Veiroj weaves dialogue from diverse sources: his 30-year personal archive, film excerpts, and footage from a psychiatric hospital where his father received diagnosis. These images dissect complex family experiences and relationship
Sofía meets Azul at a bonfire and is strongly hooked. Years later they meet again in a bar and finally decide to get closer. The two of them, the sea, fire and art that night. An indelible scar and the clock that haunts them.
On a Christmas marked by unexpected cold, 14-year-old Paulino arrives at the family beach house with his mother and sister. Amidst routines, visits, and preparations, an unforeseen discovery forces him to reconsider the way he sees his family.
A couple invites their 4 children for a barbecue back at their farm by the seaside. A Sunday barbecue; endless toasts; a family like any other, yet a family like none other.
Kung-Fu Ombijam, an artist and former inmate, and Facundo, a young man still serving his sentence, are united by their passion for rap. Both take part in a music workshop inside prison, where they share their experiences and challenges, exploring the transformative power of music. Through their stories, Tumbero reflects the struggle to find a new path and how, despite past hardships and experiences, art becomes a tool for self-discovery and for building a future filled with greater hope.
This unusual documentary pixilation is based on images discovered in Cuban court archives. In the past, the Communist regime’s prying security forces surveilled not only the enemies of the regime, but also the activities of nonconformists, misfits and dissidents.
On a deserted beach, Matías and Laura enjoy an idyllic moment by the sea. But the tide rises and reaches their feet, revealing the shackles that bind them to a concrete base beneath the sand. It's only a matter of time.
The wife of a well-known politician has a problem she can't control and finds herself in a situation that could ruin her husband's career. But not everything is what it seems...
The indigenous inhabitants of a Caribbean island are happy living a quiet life in harmony with nature, but their governor wants to be remembered, so he orders everyone to help him be the first man to reach the moon.
Recorded live in November 2009 in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. This DVD captures the essence of a night when Jaime Roos, along with his band Contraseña, invited several of the most prominent names in Uruguayan rock to perform a concert that fused their styles over a repertoire based on Roos's songs. As a bonus, it includes a brilliant performance by Roos at Luna Park in Buenos Aires, just a week later, on November 14, 2009.
The night before he is set to leave Uruguay in search of a better future, Lucas, an ambitious yet doubtful young man meets Juan, a Venezuelan immigrant who challenges his views on life and pushes him to enjoy the present.
Virginia is 14-years-old, it's Christmas Eve, and her plan is to spend that special night with her great-aunt Gladys, who is 80-years-old.
The documentary traces a social-political panorama to explore the changes in Uruguayan society since the legalization of cannabis, taking into account cultural, political, economic, medicinal and industrial scenarios. With interviews with professionals from different fields, such as lawyers and pharmacists, the film uses a game of chess to portray the power game in the world of drugs and how each social actor plans his move.
Nicolás is a well-known TV presenter and a frustrated writer who appears to lead a successful life, both professionally and romantically. However, just as he’s about to move into the wonderful new house he’s bought with his wife, he encounters an old soul who prompts him to question his monotonous life by recounting fantastic stories. Thanks to this strange new presence in his life and the rekindling of his old love for writing, Nicolás will search for true happiness.
Based on the play of the same name, the film features Siamese twins Annie and Dani, who face physical separation in an act that is as surgical as it is existential. Willie, another brother who has to operate on them, confesses his desire to be a Siamese and asks to sew himself to one of them. The tensions and obsessions of the cast become entangled with the fantastic fiction; meanwhile, the main location threatens to collapse.
The younger members of a big happy family reflect on how lucky they are.
Bosco is an Italian town of 13 inhabitants, surrounded by chestnut trees that devour it day by day.
A child goes to to the corner store to run an errand, but in Uruguay such a short distance can take a lifetime.
Danila, a real estate agent, meets Luis, a possible buyer for an old apartment downtown. The eerie atmosphere makes her edgy, and her job turns into a possible trap.
Christian is a raising star in world football. He lives isolated, in a luxurious and lonely environment, besieged by fans, under pressure from the media and forced to honour commitments made by his father who acts as his manager. For the first time Christian feels the need to escape.
At the age of 17, she had the opportunity to appear on television, but she didn't, due to her insecurities. Sylvia remembers it as the day she almost fulfilled her dream of being famous thanks to her own songs. Using a camera that was at her side at all times, she documented her entire life: her children's childhood, her days as a physical education teacher, family vacations, but above all the private moments, where she allowed herself to act, sing and talk to a public that was not there.
In the company of housewives, professionals and a retired tennis instructor, Hernán is part of a middle-class community that is preparing for the eventual arrival of the end of the world at a holiday resort in the marshy Tigre delta.
The Hot Club of Montevideo is a Uruguayan cultural institution founded in 1950 by the pianist Paco Mañosa, along with his brother and some friends who played together. It was the first club dedicated exclusively to jazz in Latin America.
M.A.M.O.N. (Monitor Against Mexicans Over Nationwide) is a satirical fantasy sci-fi short film that explores with black humor and lots of VFX the outrageous consequences of Donald Trump´s plan of banning immigration and building an enormous wall on the Mexico - US border.
Ana runs out of flowers and decides to go out to get more. What she thought would be a quick and easy task turns into an absurd adventure full of unexpected situations on a long journey through the city. A day of strange encounters and absurd moments, nothing that doesn't happen in Tacuarembó, always with the same goal in mind: to smoke some flowers.
After three years, the vampire Crowley resuscitates due to a series of sadistic rituals practised by three young women.
If there is no timeline, where is the future? Where am I going?
A young woman buys a pillow from some gypsies. Upon awakening, she mysteriously feels as if her life is being consumed. Nobody can cure her from the unknown illness that finally leads to her death.
A surgeon from Buenos Aires, wearied by personal problems and the endless cycle of work, leaves for a week's skiing vacation in the south. Instead, on impulse, he follows a young hitchhiker to a small fishing village, Devil's Point, in the north, on the coast of Uruguay. He makes fleeting acquaintance with some of the villagers, and learns that "the only thing to do in winter is to wait for summer".
Lucía works caring for elderly men with terminal conditions, although her life revolves around dance. The company to which she belongs, is preparing the most demanding and complex presentation of the year. Despite this, Lucía finds it extremely difficult to merge both aspects of her life. The stillness of the patients consumes her. But Lucía just wants to dance.
Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe was just eight years old when his father’s body was found on a beach. His mother, a psychiatrist, decided an autopsy was unnecessary, even though his father had been depressed and had psychiatric medication among his belongings. Thirty years later, the filmmaker tries to find out what happened, who his father was and how his mother arrived at her decision.
A carnation planted on the moon is banished for not to flourish. Once in exile, thanks to the care and affection of a child, the flowers bloom.
An unrepenitent Don Juan, an introverted buddy, their girlfriends, and the women they have their eyes on—all mix in the nightlife of Montevideo.
A cinematographic poetry that portrays the artistic link between the French filmmaker André S. Labarthe and his disciple, the Uruguayan filmmaker Gabriela Guillermo. The letters that were written over the years testify, not only to the mutual affection and admiration, but also their will to one day make a movie together. After trouble in the production due to the teacher's delicate health and his subsequent death, we witness in the winter landscapes the creative complicity between both filmmakers.
About abuse in marriage.
Two years after having migrated from Uruguay to the Netherlands, Sofía returns to her hometown to visit her family, expecting to jump right into her old life again. The reality of what she encounters is very different, as Sofía realizes that things have changed. Is this place still her home, or did her home turn into a strange place?
The campaign of the Uruguayan rugby team, nicknamed "Los Teros", during the 2015 Rugby World Cup qualification, and the amateur character of its players that contrasts against the professionalism of their group rivals.
Through the present-day lives of three young people, children of political militants from the 70s, the story of their families during the Uruguayan military dictatorship is re-told. It’s a story that begins with a picture of a poster held up in a crowd and a postcard chosen quite by chance.
Euthanasia entered Florencia’s life with her late father's diagnosis. Today, she is an advocate for euthanasia to honor his memory. She now seeks to prevent other families from enduring the same pain. This documentary portrays her personal story with euthanasia and the urgent need for a bill that allows people to choose how to die.
The discovery of audio tapes recorded by Eugenio Berríos, known as the "chemist of Augusto Pinochet", forms the basis for reconstructing his rise and fall. His life traces a thin black line through Chile's recent history—dictatorships, lethal poisons, and mountains of cocaine—within a political life so violent it ultimately led to his own self-destruction.
Some new age UFO lovers groups have announced that the Earth will be without energy and sunlight for three days. Three dark days of galactic cleaning by superior light brothers. Behind this apocalyptic resource is a depraved alien plan to start an invasion and supplant humankind leaders.
A super dimensional heroine in her day off must stop an alien invasion by some very incompetent evil doers...
Julio, a man obsessed with love, meets Claire, an american tourist.
A story whispered narrates a journey where two dimensions of space-time overlap.
Gilda is a 22-year-old girl, an employee of a direct sales company, which sells superfluous products. She is exploited by her boss, but one day she rebels and has her own "Day of Fury".
Cuscus's grandfather has the virus, so she is the only one who can get supplies. She must face great challenges as she travels a world devastated by a technological holocaust.
Un hombre alado is a feature-length documentary about Gustavo Cerati's creative, artistic and technical process. Through conversations with people who knew him, and the voice of Gustavo himself, we will discover aspects of his musical career and also what it was like when he faced his guitar to compose the music and lyrics of his songs. We will immerse ourselves in his universe to understand why his legacy continues to expand.
A guy tries to end a relationship with his girlfriend, but is very afraid to do it.
After matching on Tinder a young couple wakes up the morning after to find out that a strange pandemic will have them in lockdown together.
Alan, a young Uruguayan fed up with his job in a hamburger restaurant, takes a trip to Buenos Aires to sell his most prized collectible toy so he can dedicate himself to his true vocation: his podcast. A series of wrong decisions lead to a bag of cocaine exploding inside his body, making his trip a true journey through the big city.
Upon arriving at a party organized by his cousin Facundo, Martin finds himself in a place that is stranger than he expected. He soon begins to feel out of place. Still, unexpected situations will lead him to question his emotions and desires, in a complex web as he goes through an increasingly intense and confusing environment, facing a moment of self-discovery.
Against the backdrop of the 1970s meat ban in Uruguay, José, a Galician immigrant, and his daughter Rosita establish a clandestine slaughterhouse to survive. As the operation expands into a citywide black market, their ambitions collide with corrupt authorities, rival butchers and the shifting political landscape, pushing the family toward dangerous alliances and violent consequences.
Hilda and Cristina have been told that a settlement will begin near the cementery. Hilton, an illegal gravedigger, watches with concern. If they invade, he won’t have space to digging graves. The settlement and the cemetery are very close, and the dead seem to have achieved what they desire: a home.
Karina was just 12 years old when she was trafficked into sex work. Now 45, she has no standard education qualifications, but what she has witnessed and experienced, in a society that has been hostile to her ‘kind’, has resulted in a new career path opening up for her. She has established O.T.R.A.S., a union for current and former sex workers, to which her friends and colleagues need little persuading to join.
Susi, a recent widow, receives a call from heaven that shatters the calm of her bedroom on a night as absurd as it is unsettling.
