Discoveries from Venezuela World Cinema

Super-8 film by Ricardo Jobardo.

Rosario lives alone in the slums (barrio) with her dog Ringo. She always wanted to be a truck driver but her mother never let her. One day she bought three miraculous prints from the " Lady in Black", who was initiated into the mysteries of "Sorte". (Sorte: A Rain Forest area in Venezuela where, priests from different religions worship Indian and African mythical entities). With the first print the Negro Primero saves her from the street gangs. With the second one, Maria Lionza makes the captain of police, who wanted to displace her from her home, falls in love with her. And with the third one, José Gregorio Hernández, doctor to the poor, rescues her from the debris of her destroyed home after it collapse from a storm. Rosario awakes after eating the stamp in front of the gangs and with her market bag scares them away. Rosario still lives in the same barrio with her dog Ringo.

A young woman rushes to get ready for work, dealing with messages from an impatient boss and a series of forgetful thoughts that keep her in and out of her apartment. Just when she thinks she's got it all figured out, one last frustrating distraction reveals that the most important thing has been left behind.

A woman reveals to her best friend her plans to emigrate to join her family. What begins as a lighthearted conversation turns into a tense and emotional debate about friendship, loyalty, and the future in a country in crisis. An intimate and moving dialogue about the dilemmas of staying or leaving in search of a better life, testing the bonds that unite them and the true meaning of home.

Three generations of the Pemón people fight to reclaim their ancestral grandmother. The spirit of Kowai Kueka, embodied in a sacred red jasper stone, was taken from Venezuela to Germany as art without their consent.

The film follows artist Juan Loyola and his performative actions consisting on painting different kind of industrial junk like cars, appliances or abandoned swings with the colors of venezuelan flags

The film is about the connection the viewer establishes with the work from the very first image. The camera pans smoothly over the body of a beautiful naked woman and, just before reaching below her navel, stops.

This dance film was filmed in Sabaneta, Los Taques municipality, inspired by a challenge set by creators for the Malaga film festival. The premise was "a self-portrait."

A dark family secret is revealed in the midst of a shared delirium between mother and daughter.

A celebration of Venezuelan folklore by experimental animation filmmaker José Castillo.

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

Experimental animation film based on Prinsessen paa Ærte by Hans Christian Andersen.

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

A long-lasting lockdown. The last days of a grandmother. In between, a speculative film diary: a distant homeland, a grieving state possessed by light.

An homage to the painter Armando Reveron, this is the story of a contemporary painter who chooses to live in isolation in a hut alongside the Caribbean Sea. Along with Claudia, his muse, he works using nature as his source of inspiration. Alfredo, a friend and art connoisseur, forces the painter to create a series of paintings for an exhibition in New York that aims at achieving fame and putting him on the contemporary art market. The film presents a tropical perspective of the dilemma between artist and the commercializing of his work.

A documentary with elements of fiction that explores the myth around the character of Luis Enrique Cerrada Molina (1956-1977), the most popular miraculous dead man of the Andean city of Mérida, who lived as a criminal, who was famous for sharing the haul with the poor people of the barrios and the city and for being riddled with bullets in a well-known confrontation with law enforcement officers.

Venezuelan film directed by José Fernández.

Venezuelan comedy.

Adaptation of Napoleón Ordosgoiti's novel "Abismos Azules". Two friends argue over the love of an ambitious woman.

Melina and Segundo get married in a collective ceremony that is part of the electoral campaign of the People's Party candidate. Segundo begins to work at the Maracaibo Petroleum Company. He soon becomes involved in the mysterious disappearance of the town's priest, who is involved in arms trafficking in support of the guerrillas. Segundo is imprisoned and Melina falls victim to her boss's abuse. From this moment on, both participate in smuggling and prostitution as the easiest solution to survive.

Venezuelan comedy featuring Perucho Conde.

Venezuelan movie directed by César Cortez.

"A visual poem to the glory of Venice by the gifted young Venezuelan painter, with music by Vivaldi." –G. Weinberg

Venezuelan horror television movie from 1977.

A butcher keeps his business running despite the serious economic crisis that affects his country.

Through intimate conversations and backstage moments, Marcel reveals how the art of transformation becomes his daily lifeline. Glitters, makeup, and lights transform into his protective shield against the outside world. And on stage, Verónica Selastraga emerges, briefly forgetting the weight of the world that follows him.

Venezuelan band 'La Vida Bohème' presents "Tiempo Comparti2", a new installment in their concert film series, recorded in New York in the studios at GB’s Jukejoint.

This experimental animation features the enigmatic bodies of dyed crystals grown by Maria Ferreira and by Dr. Bart Kahr, the lead scientist at the Kahr Research Group who has worked on growing these types of crystals throughout the past 30 years. The film is an embroidery of thousands of crystals documented in a unique way she discovered utilizing scanners. A once relevant practice in materials science, Ferreira learned the lost art and science of growing painted crystals during my artist residence in the chemistry laboratory of the Kahr Research Group at New York University.

A spirit wakes up in a dollhouse incarnating a body that is strange to it. As it tries to get used to this form of existence, it feels the need to migrate to other forms of existence in order to survive.

An amateur Venezuelan boxing champion seeks to go professional by seeking the help of a Scottish boxing trainer

Alessandro is a young man who tries to recover his memory and his beloved girlfriend Amelia who is missing. Fate leads him to live uncertain situations, together with the company of Laurencio, with whom he has a pending job that he does not remember either. Remembering everything, he faces the sad reality of being in league with a criminal and having accidentally killed his beloved girlfriend.

Based on the passion for the Yanomami Indians of the 1960s from the different currents of anthropology and anthropologists, this documentary allows us to meet Jacques Lizot, since he arrived in the Venezuelan Amazon in 1968, where he lived for more than twenty years until his return to his native country, France.

In Venezuela, Pedro lives above three thousand meters, the only descendant of the first Venezuelan to climb Pico Bolívar who stayed to live among the mountains. With no neighbors or close relatives, Pedro lives in solitude accompanied by his best friends and dreaming of love.

Documentary follows women and children from an Yanomami tribe in Northern Brazil, Amazon forest, particularly Ehuana Yaiara and her family.

It is the story of Violet who works as a teacher in a school. A young woman who, before her imminent announcement of death due to illness, chooses to make a list with her last wishes to do in this world

Have you ever wondered how contemporary dance dancer should be prepared to meet the demands of this discipline? Know the intense work of the members of the contemporary dance group DANZAHOY, through the testimonies of their dancers at a time when Venezuela was a cultural reference

Eva , a 73 -year-old woman, faces long days of loneliness until love appears to change her life, and make her feel alive once again.

Chirinos Decimas Animadas is inspired by the life of José Leonardo Chirino, a free mestizo who led an insurrection in colonial Venezuela to establish a Republic and end slavery.

The country that once had the highest economic growth in the world is now a benchmark of collapse and misery. I Am The People: Venezuela Under Populism is a documentary film that sets out to expose the skillful mechanisms of authoritarian power in the government initiated by Hugo Chávez and continued by Nicolás Maduro.

In 2002, a team that only knew defeat surprised all of South America with a chain of unexpected victories in the World Cup qualifiers. The players have begun to believe in themselves like never before and the vinotinto shirt is beginning to represent an entire country. A hope, previously unimaginable, is germinating in the hearts of Venezuelans: to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time.

A documentary about the noise of the city of Maracaibo.

Two brothers, Alfredo and Sebastián, try to discover what is the best life for them, while at the same time trying to overcome their differences and the death of their father.

From the Venezuelan artist John Moore a watercolor animation movie made in 1978.

One accident, one victim, three women, three visions of the accident. Hoek’s Delta is, like a river delta, the mouth of the story of these three women involved in an accident, and what this causes in each of them, individually and as part of a whole. This all led by the music of the Venezuelan artist José Hoek, as a guiding thread and as sound support.

Filmed on May 22, 2010, at the Port of Piraeus during the loading of part of the humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza, and on January 21, 2009, during a demonstration by artists outside the Israeli Embassy in Athens.

Animation musical about Simón Bolívar.

Live recording of Venezuelan rock band Ravahil, from Trasnocho Cultural, Caracas, on 14/8/2025

Super-8 film by Gianni Dal Maso.

Documentary about the life of Luis Mariano Rivera.

A director tries to express his chaotic ideas about fire and the country through a documentary, a fiction, a correspondence.

After four years without visiting her homeland, Orangel returns to record the places of her memories: her grandparents' house, her deceased great-aunt's house, her childhood best friend's house, and the bay. What is not precarious is uninhabited or broken, like her childhood photos and those of her deceased mother, objects that she takes with her.

And experimental animation film by José Castillo.

A young homosexual man feels utterly lonely and does not know what to do with his life. To make matters worse, his mother repudiates his homosexuality.