Alfonso Tort

24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.

A broken heart makes Sergio reject the city......A city full of late adolescents, girls that make you cry, drunks worried about matters they couldn´t handle even sober...and songs that say all that they would have wanted to say (if they knew that they needed to say something)

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

Alfonso is exhausted after working and goes to the beach. He goes into the water and starts this fantastic journey through his different vacations in life, meeting old girlfriends, childhood friends, his daughter and his loneliness.

Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.

After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.

Demosthenes reappears in his village where he is known as "Ghost", just for the end of the year holidays, with no plans or goals. Luis Miguel, his old friend, gives him a job, and asks him to look for a pig to be slaughtered at the end of that week, in which friendship turns into a working relationship.

Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.

Shortly after his separation, César forms a rock band with his teenage sons. Soon enough, the family project will reveal itself unsustainable. "Family Album" is a coming of age film comedy about the difficult bond between parents and children and the world of amateur rock bands.

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

Lorenzo goes into the mountain range at the end of the world to look for a hermit, who may be his brother lost years ago. He needs to find him to release a heavy guilt, but for some villagers the stranger's questions threaten a secret that must not come to light.

For over six years, Javier and Valeria have been trying to get pregnant. At work Javier is approached by Camila, a coworker, and tells him she is pregnant with his baby. In the following days, his relationship—indeed, his entire existence—starts to fall apart.

Legítima defensa

After meeting in an anger management group, two women embark on a journey of empowerment and friendship when they set out to expose a surgeon with a suspicious reputation.

Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, who calls himself "the Prince", make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, they are met with uncommon enthusiasm, the local newspaper wants to sponsor the fight, helping hands placard the town with posters, and an open call is made for a worthy adversary. Ever so resourceful, Orsini knows how to find the right combatant, but fishing in Santa Maria could lead to a bigger catch than he'd hoped for.

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

Diverse local theatre groups go after an unfortunate programmer in charge of the Cataluña theatre festival, who goes on a vacation in Uruguay.

Daniela travels with her husband and children to help her sick father who lives isolated in a ranch. An energy crisis breaks out and the whole country falls into a ferocious anarchy. Fleeing abroad seems to be the only way out, and Daniela is determined to escape - without imagining that an unsuspected deceit is hidden behind.

El casero

Pablo and Natalia are two university professors having love affairs with students. Two mirrored stories, similar yet different.

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

Heartbroken, Maite arrives at a coastal town where the few residents live out their lonely lives. The peace soon disappears, when they come across an unconscious sailor on the beach one day, prompting Maite to decide whether to move forward and create a new life or remain stranded on those shores.

A love story escaping neoliberal times.