Roberto is a middle class working professional trying to survive hyperinflation amid the Venezuelan crisis while maintaining his unemployed mother. An argument breaks out when she asks him to buy flour for her birthday cake. In an effort to make amends, he resorts to the black market to buy the scarce food, but gets caught in the violent looting of a market.
Julia returns to her native city after many years, just to find out that nothing has changed. That leads her to face her past and reunite with her childhood best friend, Eric.
Ana walks Valencia with a thousand dollars in her bag, but every turn reveals what it really cost her. A debut short film, made in Venezuela.
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.
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
El Regreso is a venezuelan movie written and directed by Patricia Ortega, which tells the story of a Wayuu girl that survived the slaughter of his people, in Bahía Portete from the Colombian Guajira, and therefore, she is forced to grow in a unknown world to her.
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about, or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
Andrés and Julissa now parents to a seven year old Carlitos struggle to live happily as a family despite being fervent fans of rival teams and of Vicente's (Julissa's father) disapproval.
Ray is a gay teenage fisherman who embarks on a journey to find his mother in the Peruvian jungle, armed with little more than a photo of her in a bar in Iquitos. As he ventures into the unknown, he is forced to confront his motivations for seeking her and the harsh realities of his own life.
An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
A young girl is found dead off the Venezuelan coast. A medical examiner tries to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated.
Bitter over their divorce, a wealthy businessman prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child. She then takes him to custody court and a judge tries to determine what will be best for the child.
ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
In 1750, in the glare of the Caribbean, the man who created history known as the forerunner of independence in Venezuela. His name is Francisco de Miranda and, to be exact, is the largest globetrotter who has known the Americas, Miranda has a reputation as an inveterate wanderer, an eternal conspirator, a turncoat, a conqueror of nobles and courtiers, a lover of asylums, libraries, prisons and brothels, has written 63 volumes of his autobiography, a friend of princes, military and world-renowned artists, collector of women and unthinkable dreams, restless fugitive, owner of ten different names, and presented by the British press the moment as the future liberator of Spanish America.
Brothers Daniel and Julio fight to escape a violent and poor Caracas neighborhood by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to go professional while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to the local football club. However, after their mother is killed in a shootout, each brother is forced to decide what's more important: family, revenge, or achieving their dreams.
Caracas, las 2 caras de la vida
This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim. The other Carmen Luisa is beaten by violence within her own family.