Una Mujer Acompañada

Sometimes we get hooked on a place, a moment, or a person who’s gone. This film is about coming back, waiting, and asking yourself if you truly want something to happen—or if you're just in love with the memory of it.

Nerida

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.

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.

Antony, a nurse shaped by his father's early absence and the death of his best friend, moves through his days in a quiet state of disconnection. One night, he encounters a mysterious old man who claims to be a “translator of problems.” Among the buildings of Tlatelolco, hospital wards, and the hidden streets of Mexico City, the two embark on a journey where, little by little, they help each other heal and reframe their understanding of family, death, and salsa.

No volveremos

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.

Stories about life and death during the Day of the Dead season.

5 cigarros con tu madre

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.

Year 2002. In the midst of a crisis that suffocates him, a young man tries to convince himself to take a step he never imagined to enter and rob a gas station. As he hesitates, the night becomes increasingly disturbing. The radio that accompanies him seems to know too much, the voices are confused with his thoughts and reality begins to twist subtly. Nothing is entirely clear, and something or someone seems to be watching him.

After the last breath of her elderly husband, Maria experiences a brief suicide attempt that will take her into a journey throughout all her memories alongside him with the purpose of finding a true meaning to life, beyond marriage.

Cuando tu sangre espese

Three female friends, who haven't seen each other in a long time, are invited to get together at the suggestion of one of them, but this meeting will not be just any ordinary get-together...

Manuela, a 75 year old woman, has been married to Cecilia her entire life. For some time now, Cecilia has been battling Alzheimer's and is becoming increasingly disoriented. Hoping that the sea will refresh her memory, they take a short trip to the beach.

A couple faces the heartbreaking decision of whether to disconnect their hospitalized child from life support. A woman reunites with an old acquaintance to settle unfinished business. Another woman is given the chance to save her partner through a sacrifice. A relationship reaches its end, and a woman receives a terminal diagnosis. These stories converge in an anthology about love, pain, and death.

CUATRO

Todo como en el 2006

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.