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The Onqui Tonqui left their world to search for a better one and understood that there is no better world, nor a worse one, and that happiness is found in the flowers, in the stars and in the animals of the forests.
Animation film about José Martí.
Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
Macho Beta is a comedy solo show where Víctor Medina - Nanutria, a Venezuelan comedian who has shot in several Latin American countries, tells us about his journeys throughout his 30 years. He tells us about his adventures as a migrant and everything he has learned from the different countries he has visited, he also tells us about how difficult it is for a millennial to face adult life and how not all men in the world have the wood to be males alphas reminding us that you can also be a happy beta male. Comedy special recorded in the city of Buenos Aires in February 2021, taking all the precautions and measures in the health contingency.
Thirteen women gather in a house to celebrate the bachelorette party of one of them. Life, past, present, relations between them, come to light, not always in the best way
The best-known Venezuelan of the 20th century, Dr. José Gregorio Hernández and his brilliant life, through the eyes of Marlene. A young doctor who discovers curious details of his life that motivate her to overcome the conflicts she faces
Short by Diego Rísquez.
Andreína is a slut who prefers to be at home with her cat rather than go out and talk to another human being. Despite that, she had a boyfriend. She did, because they broke up. Following this tragic event, typical of youth series, her best friend, Cora, a smart Caracas girl, sets out on a quest to change her way of being and bring her out into the outside world. The result: a bunch of absurd, but funny situations.
A flock of birds circles over the swamp. On the dusty pavement, a person's leftover belongings fade away. Grass grows over the half-decrepit collapsed buildings, but a fresh breeze blows through them as well. In the motel, the day passes at the pace of waiting.
In the heart of nature, a girl uses her connection with the four elements; fire, water, earth, and air, to channel the human spirit's inherent capacity for endless healing and renewal.
An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.
Escaped from school, Raúl and Luis get a dead man buried on the beach. Rosa, his mother, decides to go to the authority of the town, the prefect Ledezma. Thanks to Raúl, Rosa discovers that Ledezma is involved, decides to attempt her own ethics to save the lives of her children.
Roxana, a young Venezuelan woman exiled in Mexico City, defies the law when her father dies in a boarding house, and tries to convince Hilda, the landlady, not to report it to the authorities. Hilda faces the dilemma of helping her or getting into trouble. Roxana’s determination almost convinces her, but her fear is stronger. Alone, in an unknown country, Roxana has to part with her father’s body, her only family
In a beach side bungalow, a couple battles sweltering heat as they try to find sleep. While tossing and turning, the two continuously miss each other as they wake up at odd moments.
It’s Karla’s first birthday away from home. And music will be her way back.
“Nude with Oranges” is a film set during a civil revolt in the mid-19th century where Caribbean myths affect the lives of two characters – an indigenous man enlisted in the Liberal Army and a mute white woman – who develop a mysterious link while seeking a new life.
During a camping trip, five friends are hunted by a creature that twists human appearance.
An approximation to Venezuelan kinetic artists Jesús Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez
A healer on healing, medicine & religion...Filmed in the modern city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community's Easter celebrations. Every day, Benito Reyes receives people at his house looking for all sorts of cures. Through his own testimony, this documentary looks at the healer's role as mediator between the social, natural and spiritual worlds. Curing someone or harvesting medicinal leaves, he must first seek permission from the plants he uses and from a variety of Saints. Like some plants and spirits, Benito has the power to extract the sickness and spells from his patients. A conjunction of sacred and profane, celebrating and mourning, Easter provides a rare opportunity to look at traditional faith healing in a wider social and religious context.
The guests are just like us: people who carry the burden of existing. Throughout nine episodes, partners (couples, friends, relatives) will sit next to the show's host to resolve the differences between them. But, could the debates be so critical and existential as to be real? Or will they merely be ideas that the audience could not conceive in their lives?
An honest motorcycle-taxi driver and law-abiding citizen, Libertador Morales dons a disguise to become El Justiciero, an avenging motorcycle hero who foils the crime spree of a local street gang in Caracas.
In an old baseball stadium in western Caracas, a group of young people prepare for a tryout with scouts from US organizations, where they hope to demonstrate their skills in the game and sign a contract in professional baseball. They all dream of reaching the big leagues and escaping poverty. Day after day they strive, compete and help each other. They also have fun, cry and laugh, as they experience together, on the playing field, the transition from childhood to adulthood.
A visual journey that showcases the beauty and biodiversity of wetlands, aquatic ecosystems essential to life that are threatened by human activity.
A drug deal gone wrong; a passionate blackmail that turned violent; and a kidnapping with the two worst kidnappers in the world.
The film follows the rise to fame of venezuelan singer Felipe Pirela. From the beginnings when he worked alongside Billo Frometa and his band Billo's Caracas Boys to the days of his death at the hands of a drug dealer.
Based on the homonymous novel by Nobel Prize Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias, "El Señor Presidente" is a tragic and impossible love story lost between degradation and fear. It is the tale of a fictitious Latin American country living under a fierce dictatorship sponsored by a society in frank decadence. Evil spreads downwards from the ruler, justice is a mockery, and the military spends their time abusing their fellow citizens and enjoying corruption. - Written by Jorge Granier-Phelps
Venezuelan comedy directed by Lorenzo Capra.
Stop wasting energy following the plot. Who cares if your socks don't match? This is the mental vacation you needed. So sit down, relax and enjoy the best that a mercantile society can offer us: Fake remedies, seizure-inducing lights and the tenderness of opening your heart to a bandit. Classic songs with new faces and new songs that promise to be pool aerobics classics.
Miguel is guilty of the serious state of health of his daughter and considers to disappear before seeing it die.
During the armed uprisings of the sixties in Venezuela, a young guerrilla woman has to give birth in secret. To her surprise, her daughter is the first to be born on Mother's Day and photos appear in the press. Since then, both have to flee. Disguises, false names are the hiding places and the daily life of CHICA, the narrator of this story. Together with her cousin TEO, they reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla fathers, building a fantastic labyrinth of superheroes and strategies around armed subversion, where you never know where reality or madness begins. But the children's game cannot hide the death, torture, accusations and betrayals that live inside the guerrilla.
A premature birth in the middle of the darkness of the 2019 national blackout in Caracas, Venezuela.
Children on the Summit is the story of children from the countries of Venezuela and Nepal who break through cultural, emotional and physical barriers to reach the summit of some of the tallest mountains in their respective countries.
A troop of improvising clowns deceives an unsuspecting audience.
written, produced, and directed by Rhoda Torres, tells the story of a UCV scientist, married and father of three children, and his wife, who commits suicide by jumping out of their bedroom window in front of their 14-year-old son. The young man tries to catch him in the air but he escapes due to lack of strength. As a result of the tragedy, the boy is left with a terrible trauma and feelings of guilt for what his father did.
A woman is found dead under gruesome circumstances. Police Inspector Manuel Salas (Félix Loreto) leads the investigation into a series of brutal homicides: women murdered with razor blades, raped, and with a rose as the only clue. As the serial killer continues, the time between each crime decreases, increasing the urgency of catching him. As the case unfolds, Manuel meets Marisa (Mimí Lazo) and her teenage daughter, Christina, after Marisa finds the body of one of the victims. Accidentally implicated, she collaborates with the police, which strengthens her relationship with Manuel, leading to a romance.
In the city of gold as they call it, Palenque, Jean, Rose and Machete find themselves immersed in a marginal world trying to survive with the opportunities that the city offers them, with the anguish of being deported, with the temptation of the easily earned money. They look for another El Dorado or return, broken by the environment, from where they came. Some flee, others die in this sordid environment. They are human beings, mostly Colombians, who live in Venezuelan society, whose culture they enrich, perverting or adopting.
A poem by Sophia Ron brought to life. Silhouettes, shapes, caresses; death. Even irony and a strong youth alienation plague the images. But what will the kids do about it?
A story based on true events about the life of an 18-year-old girl, Yuli, who, because she does not look at the right man, Rene, will live a nightmare full of action and pain.
In a low-income neighborhood in Maracaibo, Julio plays "La Olla" with some children. His mother calls him into her house, causing him to suffer the penance of gambling. At home his stepfather reprimands him violently. Julio, tired of being a victim, makes the decision to be like those who beat him.
Documentary about the creative vanguard movement in Venezuela in the 80s
Two key men in the iron industry face off.
The filmed inventory of a private collection, which can be seen as a dubious art collection, but also as a compilation like those usual in stamp collecting and archeology. Also as a series of objects and documents in the style of memento samples. The emotional catalogue of a life becomes, at the same time, a collectible item in itself.
Esther and Gustavo are celebrating seven years of happy marriage. Two beautiful children and a comfortable home in a residential area backs the stability of the still young couple, a conventional model of marriage where nothing seems to disturb their harmonious coexistence.
Documentary that tells the story of a group of laborers who live on the banks of the Amazon.
A young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner killing the peasant's cattle which result in the peasant killing the landowner which for the man goes in to hiding for more than 40 years, hounded by the murdered landowner's son obsessed with finding his father's killer.
Francesco, a successful lawyer, celebrates his retirement, but at the same time he will explore the world of drag shows. His son Giovanny, starts an altercation so that he does not damage the image of his family.
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.
Venezuelan film directed by Antonio María Delgado Gómez.
Olivia, a new nurse, arrives at a retirement home where she meets Hilario, an old man who tries to win over Abril, one of the elderly residents. Olivia will soon discover that there is more to this unusual couple than meets the eye.
Fulgencio Martinez wants a car to give a good image to the president of the company where he works and thus get a promotion. Carmina, his wife, suffers from a fatal illness and the only way to flatter her life is with an operation. Martinez tries to kill her so as not to spend the money from his savings on the clinic and buy the car. In the end, after a dream that makes him feel the loss of his wife, he abandons his plans.
Documentary about the story of Gustavo Cisneros told from the eyes of those who have been close to him in building a legacy for Venezuela and the world.
A rookie psychologist struggling with anxiety and insecurity decides to seek therapy from a recommended psychiatrist. But, despite showing signs of improvement, he ends up developing an unhealthy dependency on both the sessions and the medication prescribed to him."