The Break

Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide. While most of the residents plan to sell food at the parade, a smuggler family man decides to build a pay toilet.

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.

Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"

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 unique and historically valuable addition to the Official Films Collection, these 14 minutes of material predate television and provides both black and white and colour coverage of the first ever FIFA World Cup™. There are five minutes of material from the final in colour, providing a record of Uruguay’s victory in 1930.

LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.

Two young people learn about love as politics turn their world upside down in this drama from director Ana Diez. After a long and successful career as a soccer player, Xavi retires from the game and moves to Spain, where one day to his surprise he happens upon Rosana, a friend from his childhood in Uruguay. As Xavi and Rosana catch up on what has happened to them over the past thirty years, they flash back to 1973, when young Xavi and his father Manuel, a shoemaker, lived down the street from Rosana.

Estragos

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Embarazado

In an inner world suspended between oblivion and creation, a female figure moves through a dreamlike space where forgotten ideas take shape. Genesis is an experimental piece that explores the journey toward the origin of an idea — of oneself.

There are places that never stop speaking to us, even when we think we've forgotten them.

From its old age, a SIG-510 rifle tells the story of its military service as a weapon used by the Chilean army. It tells of his military training, its frustrated desire to serve his country, and the memories it has of the Coup d'état that occurred in 1973.

Tornado rojo

Dulce Bellum Inexpertis

In the near future where civil war is the order of the day and strange diseases are devastating, a boy lives alone in the house that his parents left him. Away from the surrounding chaos, he survives day by day from what the countryside gives him, until one day a strange girl interrupts her nighttime sleep, altering her daily life.

On February 23, 1981, Spain experienced a major coup d'état that shook the country to its foundations. In the midst of the chaos, rumors surfaced that King Juan Carlos I had recorded two speeches: one in case the coup succeeded and one in case it failed. 'The Second Tape' is a 17-minute short film that delves into this conspiracy, following the entire recording process and decisions made during the critical hours.

A young man who dreams of being an artist remembers an argument he had with a cousin who distrusted his plans. The disagreement is so great that, even though they both talk, neither of them listens to what the other has to say.

Affected by the disappearance of her best friend, Clara has withdrawn from the outside world. At a party she meets Mateo, he seems to know her more than she thinks.