Discoveries from Venezuela World Cinema

A docufiction shortfilm about stimuli and death.

Many stickmans working and playing with a rubbish paperball.

In Venezuela, amidst a backdrop of poverty, murder, and corruption, the El Sistema youth orchestra offers children hope and the opportunity to pursue a life of art in spite of the harshness of the society around them. Yet the country’s spiraling collapse and political repression threatens the musicians’ dreams of a better life.

TV Movie based on the life of Antonio José de Sucre, the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho

Vidal Rojas, an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, after failing in a subversive attempt and suffering a romantic disappointment, decides to enlist in the revolutionary groups in the interior of the country.

A derelict fishing boat in the Caribbean Sea is taken in by four ship's crew hoping to make a profit from the cargo. Little do they know, however, that the nets contain more than just fish.

Documentary about the Flotilla to Gaza that was attacked by the israeli commandos in 2010.

As José Abreu “Guanipa” is transferred with a group of prisoners to the Guasina camp in the Orinoco Delta, he recalls the torture he was subjected to by SN (National Security) henchmen in order to obtain information about the resistance. In Guasina, the prisoners are subjected to forced labor while they plan their escape. Guanipa is released after signing the bond and the rest of his companions remain in the camp.

Pablo is a young man going through a crisis of love. His best friend decides to take him to reunion party; there he encounters Daniela, the great love in his adolescence. In the middle of the party he tries conquer her heart, but discovers a reality that he did not expect of her: she is dedicated to the oldest trade in the world

The Second Republic has fallen miserably. Simon Bolivar arrives to Jamaica without money or friends, seeking help from other nations to free Venezuela.

A young man is haunted by the memory of his father who abandoned him as a child. By transferring the image of his father to men with similar attitudes or physical traits, kills them. Acts with his lover, much older than himself, who finally delivers it to the police

Ingrid is a young high school student who due to the impact suffered by the death of his mother, is acting strangely causing concern to her teachers. After a landslide caused by heavy rains, police surrounded the premises of the high school to expel the refugees resulting in the classes suspended.

Venezuelan horror television movie from 1982.

In the wake of a banking crisis, four middle class friends throw a 'white glove' hold up, only to find out that their bank has already gone bankrupt.

Documentary by Alfredo Anzola about his father, Edgar J. Anzola (1893-1981), a pioneer in Venezuela of car racing, radio, film, acting and private enterprise.

The myth of María Lionza, the goddess of Venezuela, merges with the experience of a migrant filmmaker who longs for her lost goddess. Through two decades of filming, the movie reveals the different faces of the fracture of the iconic statue of the Goddess in the midst of a Caracas marked by acute political and social division. Different eras come together to explore a rupture that is not only that of a statue. It is the story of Venezuela and of every Venezuelan who feels divided.

A 13-year-old kid starts a journey along the Venezuelan coast and, in order to survive, he captivates people by constantly reinventing his own story in the mudslide. His true past, however, will gradually become clearer. Ten years ago the mudslide took his mother, now he thinks he can find her. He has a difficult road ahead of him, but there is also a world yet to be discovered.

Rene receives an anonymous phone call from a stranger who knows in depth his implication on illegal diamond traffic. The tension on the conversation grows by the time Rene realizes what his actions provide him. Miguel and his friends gathered to spend some time together. Everything is doing well until they ran out of drinks and one of them has to go for some more. In order to do that, they resort to the game they use to play to decide their arguments: a play card over the table, the one who plays must guess if the next card will be an upper or a lower card. Miguel loses so he has to be the one leaving the game. What stared as an ordinary night turns into a mixed up story in which a game of chance takes them changing the course of their relationships. What would you chose? High or Low?

Octavio, a hermit, has visions of an environmental disaster that will destroy the city where his brother lives. Octavio, with the excuse of a false pneumonia, invites him to his isolated house to keep him away from the catastrophe.

A single mother and her young son must face the social and economic crisis of their country while contemplating the possibility of leaving in search of a better life

Set against the turbulent backdrop of Venezuela’s oil industry on the cusp of nationalization, La hora Texaco follows the Montoya family as they struggle with internal crises amid social change. The father, a skilled oilworker, sinks into depression; the mother, both teacher and homemaker, carries on an affair; and their son Bobby is torn between his passion for baseball and his unrequited love for Angélica. Years later, Bobby and Angélica reunite, replaying memories that shine a harsh light on ambition, family, and sacrifice.

Investigating the murder of a drag, the journalist Heriberto Camargo discovers that the crime is part of a plot of police killings attributed to a character known as Vincent. The chronicles published by Camargo and his investigations to uncover the motive for the crimes confront Commissioner Sangretti.

Endi Paredes and Ángel Leiva invade the streets of Maracaibo.

This low-budget avant garde feature uses no dialogue in telling the story of the reaction of the Spanish court after the initial exploration of America. A botanist revels in his collection of new plants. A native is baptized in a church ceremony, and nuns and court jesters appear throughout this rambling feature.

In the Colombian-Venezuelan Andes, a peasant works the land under exploitative conditions to ensure the survival of his family. His son is ill, his wife is pregnant, and he himself reproduces the violence that surrounds him. With no money for medical treatment, one night he gets drunk and is arrested. In jail, in a burst of fury, he rebels against the town's political boss in the only way he can. La Paga was a pioneering work of social and political cinema in Latin America, released the same year as Barravento, Glauber Rocha’s debut feature, and anticipating movements such as Third Cinema. Influenced by Italian Neorealism and Soviet cinema in its aesthetics, forms, and ideological approach, the film uses the archetypal representation of characters and the social and economic forces they embody. Based on the director’s childhood observations in his hometown, La Paga denounces the exploitation of the rural peasantry.

Pedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically committed law students, to do like him.

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.

Intertwined stories of people fighting for love, survival and the truth during quarantine.

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Second episode, evoking the border between fiction and documentary. With his film Tire dié (1960), the Argentinian Fernando Birri proposed this manifesto: to create a realistic and critical national cinema, closer to society without falling into populism.

Samuel, a young Venezuelan, emigrates from his country in search of a better life and to help his family, without knowing the difficult situations that he will face as an immigrant.

Anita Camacho, an ambitious maid poses as the owner of the house where she works in order to seduce a man of money, marry him and finally stop being poor.

A young man is forced into the blood-soaked world of underground soccer money games after his older brother runs up a gangland debt.

The life of the fighter for Latin American independence Braulio Fernández, and his love for Lucía, a young and beautiful patriotic spy

On April 11th of 2002 a coup d'état against the venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías kept the country in a state of total uncertainty regarding his whereabouts, two days later he returned to power. This is a chronicle of those days.

In a tiny town in an unnamed Latin American country in the 1930s, a young telegraph operator helps link the small, repressed community to the outside world, against the will of the powerful colonel who rules the village like a dictator.

In the shantytowns of Caracas, teenage Aixa finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and trapped between conflicting forces: her grandmother Carmen, young yet matriarchal head of the sprawling family clan, desperately tries to prevent Aixa from repeating the cycle of teenage motherhood that has plagued the women in her house for generations; meanwhile Ramon, the drug-linked young father, more obsessed with the idea of a child than with responsibility, resorts to threats—“If you get rid of the baby, I’ll kill you”—to impose his will. All around Aixa, others believe they know what’s best for her—but the choice of life or death, hope or despair, remains hers alone in a world where survival is the only certainty.

In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of neighbors, until a desperate act of violence tears them apart. It takes the brave intervention of a stranger to reunite them once again in the place of their dreams.

In 1856, a whaler arrives in Paita, Peru; on board is Herman Melville, who is astonished to learn that Manuela Sáenz, for eight years the lover of Simón Bolívar, is still alive. He calls on her, and although she will not talk to him about her life, his visit sends her to her chest of Bolívar's letters. As she reads them, the sepia-toned present gives way to flashbacks in color: she meets 'the Liberator' in 1822, becomes his lover, and also becomes a colonel in his military movement to realize the 'Gran Colombia', one nation across South America. As plague (brought by the ship) closes in on Manuela's household, so does her tempestuous story move toward Bolívar's betrayal and death.

Super-8 videoclip by Víctor Rodríguez Castillo, for the rock band Sentimiento Muerto.

Based on the thesis of Alejandro Rivero and Ernesto Pacheco, this documentary attempts to glimpse, through the senses, the fourth mathematical dimension.

The 29 of October of 1988, a group of 14 fishermen of the population of El Amparo, Venezuela, were assassinated by a commando and presented/displayed to the public opinion like members of a guerrilla detachment. The truth of the events was well-known after the testimony of two survivors, but the case was investigated by the military justice that guaranteed the thesis of the confrontation. Later, the Inter-American Court of Human rights vindicates the fishermen and sentences against the Venezuelan State a sentence that 20 years later has been fulfilled partially, being material, intellectual and concealing the authors free and, in some cases, high positions to be able. This is a history of injustice and abuse authority, but also of perseverance and fights to clean the names of those humble fishermen, in spite of the passed time.

Alex spends his first new year's eve after his father's death, evoking many feelings he thought he had left behind. With the support of his family he tries to move on.

First bilingual Venezuelan film, directed by Héctor Cabrera Sifontes.

Ramiro is a ringleader of a gang of drug traffickers that in order to introduce a new drug, called Night Music (Música Nocturna), must eliminate Aurelio, the biggest drug lord. To implement his plan, he use his friend Daniel has bait who has a close friendship with Aurelio. Ramiro succeeds, murders Aurelio and proposes Daniel to participate in the drug business.

Anthology film of classics police stories written and directed by Marcos Moreno

Manuel, a young man with a lot of creativity in search of a better economic position, meets in a fortuitous way with Lucía, daughter of the businessman who can support his project. To be accepted by his possible father-in-law and be able to fulfill his dream of being a successful businessman, Manuel does everything to win over Lucía. Without realizing it, he goes through funny situations in which he finds himself immersed in terrorist actions against the government. Manuel must decide whether to continue with those "commitments" or have a clear conscience according to his principles.

The second Venezuelan film produced. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on 28 January 1897. The film shows a group of young people enjoying the Lake.

A tale of hate in a town in the Venezuelan Andes where the conflicts and passions of those who live enclosed in the mountains make violence an inevitable destiny.

Inspired by true events, "God's Slave" is the story of Ahmed and David, two extremist characters, one Islamic and the other Jewish, who cross their paths while being in the opposite side of the conflict in the A.M.I.A bombings that took place in 1994 in Buenos Aires.

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Fourth episode: in Cuba, the ICAIC, created in the aftermath of the Castro revolution, is at once a film school, a production company and a state cultural branch. Cuban filmmakers testify to the situation and themes specific to their national cinema.

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Third episode: from the 1960s, France and Europe showed a real enthusiasm for Latin American cinema, but the latter remained hampered by numerous economic and political obstacles.

Mexican feature film

A young couple struggles with jealousy.

Four very special couples fight with life to achieve their desires. Some are looking for respect and the right to love each other. Others face treason and hidden truths. Four stories full of humour, drama and passion. They are joined by a common space: they are inhabitants of "Central Park".

Based on the poetry collection by writer Robert Rodríguez, Gray Stage is a triptych that composes the author's creation in images that transcends the literary. A woman, who will narrate the poems, will guide with her words and superimpositions the different echoes of the writer.

A love story, of boyfriends and songs¸ of three sisters who travel to Colombia with their jealous father Hipólito to receive the inheritance of their late aunt Encajosa¸ who made it a condition that the three girls must be married to receive it.