Uruguay

Synopsis:
¨The door is there¨portrays the birth of a friendship between two men, while one helps the other to die.Read More »

A young french girl arrives at Montevideo to interview famous Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and do some research on the history of the city. She’s interested in finding pictures of the day president Baltasar Brum committed suicide in plain view and also pictures of a zeppelin flying over the city, at the end of the 19th century. A photographer tries to help her and they find themselves involved in a mysterious intrigue story. Is it possible to invent the images of a country without memories?Read More »

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Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.Read More »

Official description wrote:
In a post-apocalyptic future, mankind is color blind. A brilliant scientist suddenly dies, leaving his precious briefcase-filled with a highly-addictive synthetic drug that allows people to see colors again-to Ana, a mere 12-year-old girl. Possession of the briefcase makes her the target of a doctor with wicked plans for the drug, and her only hope to escape his pursuit relies on the aid of the dead scientist’s two devoted bodyguards. Together, their epic, perilous journey pivots on a tremendous secret: Ana herself could be the key to salvaging a world in ruins.Read More »

Two young lovers embark on a relationship while a rumour of sharks at the beach has everyone talking.

10 Wins, 9 Nominations

2019: Sundance Film Festival: Best Director – Drama (World Cinema)
2019: BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival: Special Jury AwardRead More »

A young man in Uruguay has trouble expressing himself verbally. As the lead singer in a band, he interacts with the world through his music.Read More »

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This is a documentary with rare images of real life stories in the so-called “asentamientos” in the poor underbelly of Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, and in its youth jails. It centers on the life of a family, and some of its teenage neighbors. Filmed at times by only one discreet camera, the documentary exposes the youth legal system and youth jails in Uruguay, as well as the daily lives of its former or future prisoners: teenage prostitutes, petty thieves, single mothers, and their miserable lives, contrasting with upper middle class neighborhoods. A former prostitute now “single” grandmother is a central character, being the mother of a few teenage criminals, a single mother who is also a prostitute, and a repeat offender who eventually dies of AIDS in jail, and whose burial we witness in the film.Read More »

Exhausted after leaving work, Alfonso goes to the beach and dives into the sea. Coming to the surface, he finds himself on another beach, in another time. His parents are waiting for him, calling to him from the water’s edge. Alfonso sees and understands everything from his adult’s body, even if they treat him like an 11 year old. This is the beginning of a fantastic voyage through the different holidays in his life, where the situations come one after the other with no chronological order, interrupting with a tone of intimacy and entertaining nostalgia his meetings with girlfriends, teenage and childhood pals, his daughter, and his loneliness.Read More »

A middle-aged, single mother of three cares for her eighty year old father, and they are pushed to the breaking point.Read More »