Uruguay

October 2004. Uruguay. After three years away Mariana returns to her country to be reunited with her family and also to vote. After the economic crisis that plunged the country into a ...

A group of kids start their own band after being inspired by the adults.

A lively neighbourhood learns not to take water for granted.

A whole class of savage teenagers celebrate the disappearance of their high school principal by throwing a house party. The night gets hotter when a couple of outlaws show up with her ...

The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay. The way up to the building led through “the meadow” where ...

A laboratory rat which was sacrificed with scientific purposes comes back to life. The rodent claims for revenge but in its search for the culprits, it is manipulated by the members of ...

During the 2004 electoral campaign, before the left came to power for the first time ever in the history of Uruguay, a film crew sets out to record the opinions of young people who are ...

Fruit falling down stairs

What Romeo wants is to chill out in front of the TV with some pizza. Soon he will realize that this isn't going to happen. He will see that the pizza box doesn't contain an ordinary ...

Two humans and a dog try to find shelter during a storm, but nobody is paying attention to them.

An 11-year-old street boy, Obdulio, who sells newspapers for a living but cannot read or write, finds a magical "Maestro" in the night watchman of the newspaper's office. Obdulio's ...

A young city couple find themselves stuck at a rural gas station after their car breaks down. An old man, disturbed by their disrespectful behavior, starts telling them a story about ...

Two old crime partners meet again. One of them just got out of jail and is looking for a new gig, while the other one now has a legitimate business. They go to catch up at a bar while ...

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, ...

A documentary about five gravediggers' stories, and at the same time it goes through the different areas of the Montevideo North Cemetery. It's a view over lives' stories, aspirations, ...

A seemingly innocent construction site behind a school hides a terrible secret.

The biggest peaceful demonstration of resistance to an authoritarian regime in Latin America in the 1970s was the general strike whereby Uruguayan workers and students rejected the ...

This is the story of the “Anthem of the Tangos”, the most emblematic tango of all time. We are taken through the story of The Cumparsita, from its creation, its debut at La Giralda, the ...

31º October 2004: for the first time, the political party Frente Amplio is on the verge of winning the presidential elections. Líber Seregni, one of the founders of this political ...

A girl sees other kids running with backbacks on their backs, leaving behind numbers and letters, and she decides to follow them.

A little boy is having trouble falling asleep because there are monsters in his bedroom

At the time of the dictatorship in Uruguay, the University was one of the main centres of repression and a channel for the dissemination of state ideology. The institution's freedoms ...

The story of 4 normal people, with their jobs, dreams and frustrations. Set in offices, apartments and hovelled boarding houses with a gray-looking Montevideo in the background.

A short story about human creativity blocked by the destruction and death that wars bring with them, and how art pieces go beyond the life of their creators.