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Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1970sDocumentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40 years after the premiere of the film. Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.
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Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
🇻🇪 VenezuelaOnce upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.
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El Father Plays Himself
🇻🇪 VenezuelaA father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself. — A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
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Infection
🇻🇪 VenezuelaFilm about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an epidemic of aggressive and cannibalistic beings. Doctor Adam Vargas is in the midst of all this, when he begins a journey within a ravaged Venezuela to save his son from being infected.
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The Dance
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIvanna returns to Caracas pretending to be a flamenco dancer…with three performances scheduled at a nightclub called ‘The Place’. There she is supposed to meet Vicente (Gabriel Agüero) and manage to get him emotionally involved with her in order to extract information about his father, the swindler that she has been hired to kill.
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Primavera en Petare
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the populous parish of Petare, three girls whose names begin with the letter "V" have parallel lives but intersected by the same reality from which they seek to get ahead by their own means. One is a violinist; the other is a motorcycle taxi driver who, as a child, lost her father in an armed robbery; the third is a young woman who, after being raped, practices prostitution. The three girls and a woman nicknamed "La Colombia" will establish a relationship with El Diablo, a criminal with a curse on his back from which she can only free herself when she finds true love.
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La Corte Malandra
🇻🇪 VenezuelaJose Thomas is a spirit who fell into a subject in a trance and related his story himself, he said that he always defended his neighborhood and helped his people, he never allowed any child to take the wrong steps that he had to take because he did not have a voice A friend who would tell her about the good or the bad, grew up in a neighborhood of Petare and led her community for several years with her great friend from youth Piter.
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Arando en la memoria
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the Northern Andes, in the Venezuelan Andes, in the midst of work and immense and beautiful landscapes, women and men, farmers, tell us about the past and present of Andean agriculture and culture.
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Mónica entre el Cielo y la Tierra
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 2010sMónica entre el Cielo y la Tierra , is a true story, between the university professor Giovanni Gómez Ysea and the famous international actress Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2004, at the moment when the teacher tries to make Monica's dream of making movies come true . All truncated by his murder in January 2014. However, through the magic of cinema, Mónica, played by Andrea Rosales, makes her dream come true.
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The Whistler: Origins
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the mid-nineteenth century, in a small Venezuelan village, Father Giovanni and a clerk write the story of a supernatural case that they have witnessed, is the story of a mysterious specter, which the people of the town have baptized as "El Silbón". In the current age, we know a family made up of Gabriel and Mayra, Ana's parents. Gabriel suspects that his daughter is possessed by the devil since she is trying to kill him. Gabriel asks the priest of his parish for advice, which is the same one Father Giovanni wrote about the Silbón over a hundred years ago.
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Venezuela es un Desorden
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThrough humor, anecdotes and their songs, mythical Venezuelan ska band Desorden Público tells their story and that of three decades of their country.
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Operación Orión
🇻🇪 VenezuelaJairo and Javier, two young Colombians, are recruited to travel to Venezuela to work as farmers. A few days later, they will understand that they have been deceived and that they are now part of the complex Orion Operation.
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DISTORSIÓN, En medio del caos
🇻🇪 VenezuelaAgainst a backdrop of tension and violence throughout Venezuela, Ángel, a businessman of questionable repute, is held captive in his apartment. In this highly charged atmosphere, he is forced by his captors to face the dilemma: To continue as a social predator, or to take responsibility for his actions?
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El Paraíso
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over the course of fifteen years. The tapes are a mixture of the personal and the political – the father was politically engaged in the revolutionary movement that brought Hugo Chávez to power. The family’s life becomes a backdrop for political and economic developments in Venezuela and their impact on the lives of ordinary citizens.
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The Family
🇻🇪 VenezuelaAndrés and his son Pedro live in a working district of Caracas and hardly ever see each other. While Andrés fills his time doing different jobs, Pedro wanders the streets playing with friends and learning from the violent atmosphere around him.
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Una Fabula Muy Trillada: The Legacy Of Dermis Tatú
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990s The 2020sAn historic Venezuelan rock album... 20 years later — Two decades ago, Venezuela's power trio Dermis Tatú released their only album, "La violó, la mató y la picó" ("Raped her, killed her and cut her"). The band was an offspring from the separation of Sentimiento Muerto, and was formed by Carlos "Cayayo" Troconis (voice and guitar), Héctor Castillo (bass) and Sebastián Araujo (drums). The record is still considered by many as the most influential in the Venezuelan rock scene. Twenty years later, Castillo and Araujo remember the stories behind the recording, as a group of the current generation of Venezuelan rockers, not only explain its influence and impact, but also play all the songs from the album, making them their own.
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True Memoirs of an International Assassin
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe man. The myth. The memoirs. — After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.
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From Afar
🇻🇪 VenezuelaExamines the struggles of a man petrified by the notion of human contact and intimacy. Armando, aged 50, cruises young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets 17-year-old Elder, leader of a small band of thugs. Their turbulent relationship will come to mimic the violent, passionate, oppressive unpredictability of the city around them.
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El Amparo
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1980sOn the border of Venezuela with Colombia, during the late 80's, two men survive an armed assault near the Arauca River, in which fourteen of their companions end up dead. The Army accuses them of being guerrilla fighters and tries via intimidation to seize them from the cell where they are being watched over by the local police officer and by the entire village. They say they are simple fishermen, but pressure to yield to the official version is overwhelming.
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Point Break
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe only law that matters is gravity — A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".
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El Infierno de Gaspar Mendoza
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1870s1878. After the Federal War, Captain Gaspar Mendoza leads a life of austerity and efforts with his family in an old house in the interior of Venezuela, although Gaspar has done everything possible to leave that tragedy behind, it will be his daughter Maria Eugenia who seems to revive her through terrible nightmares that mercilessly haunt her.
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Liz in September
🇻🇪 VenezuelaA shocking secret, ex-lovers and the arrival of an outsider shake things up for Liz as she celebrates her birthday at a lesbian-owned resort.
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The Liberator
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1820sHis army never conquered. It liberated. — Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.
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The Longest Distance
🇻🇪 VenezuelaBecause life is a journey — Two sides of the same country: a chaotic and violent city contrasting against a natural paradise where the oldest mountains on the planet can be found. Two main characters that find each other at a crucial moment. Two fearless journeys, one that begins as a childlike adventure and ends up on the other side of the country and a one-way journey, free and determined. The same destiny will inevitably bond a woman with her grandson. Without knowing it they are part of an unbreakable family circle that deeply unites them. Second opportunities will arise while individual freedom of choice will become imposing. Everything comes together to tell us: there is only one destiny, the one you choose for yourself.
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Mega Piranha
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThey were created to save mankind. Something went wrong. — When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.
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Up
🇻🇪 VenezuelaCarl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
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Venezzia
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1940sThe movie is set in 1942 when the United States begins an espionage program in South America due to the potential thread of Nazis submarines in the Caribbean. Venezuela though not officially at war against the Axis powers had been supplying oil to the allies during the Second World War. Frank Moore (Herrera), an Hispanic American spy, travels to a small town in the Caribbean coastal area of Venezuela where he meets Venezzia (Rodriguez), the wife of a Venezuelan commander Enrique Salvatierra (Romero), and they both begin a romantic relationship which will make them forget the reality of a world at war.
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Alien Autopsy
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990s The 2000sPrepare To Be Stitched Up! — Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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El Benny
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950sBased on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.
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El caracazo
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1980s The 2000sEl Caracazo o Sacudón fue una serie de fuertes protestas y disturbios durante el gobierno de Carlos Andrés Pérez, que comenzó el día 27 de febrero y terminó el día 28 de febrero de 1989 en la ciudad de Caracas, e iniciados realmente en la ciudad de Guarenas, cercana a Caracas. El nombre proviene de Caracas, la ciudad donde acontecieron parte de los hechos, recordando a otro hecho ocurrido en Colombia el 9 de abril de 1948; el Bogotazo. La masacre ocurrió el día 28 de febrero cuando fuerzas de seguridad de la Policía Metropolitana (PM) y Fuerzas Armadas del Ejército y de la Guardia Nacional (GN) salieron a las calles a controlar la situación.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950sBased on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
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Secuestro Express
🇻🇪 VenezuelaYoung couple Carla and Martin are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the ransom
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990s The 2000sHugo Chavez was a colourful, unpredictable folk hero who was beloved by his nation’s working class. He was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, and proved to be a tough, quixotic opponent to the power structure that wanted to depose him. When he was forcibly removed from office on 11 April 2002, two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace.
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Dragonfly
🇻🇪 VenezuelaWhen someone you love dies... are they gone forever? — A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
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What Dreams May Come
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990sAfter life there is more. The end is just the beginning. — Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
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Jungle 2 Jungle
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990sThe big city is about to get a little savage. — Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had -- a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.
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Jaguar
🇻🇪 VenezuelaA shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although Perrin is not very enthusiastic about so much interest in his person, he lets the shaman spend the night in his flat. After an official meeting on the next day being part of the PR campaign the shaman suffers from a heart attack. Hardly being able to speak and laying in a hospital bed he demands to see Perrin. The latter is not very interested in meeting the shaman again. However it looks like it is to late for animosities as the shaman and Perrin seem to be tied mentally somehow since they've met in the elevator.
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Little Indian, Big City
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe city is a jungle. Some are just better prepared for it, than others. — Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?
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American Ninja 5
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe Magic Power of the Ninja Is About to Reveal Itself... — When a scientists daughter is kidnapped, American Ninja, attempts to find her, but this time he teams up with a youngster he has trained in the ways of the ninja.
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
🇻🇪 VenezuelaAn adventure beyond the limits of civilization, faith and passion. — Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
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Arachnophobia
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990sEight legs, two fangs, and an attitude. — A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
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El Dorado
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 16th CenturyThe story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
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The Green Inferno
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe thirst for adventure! — Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives.
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Macu, la mujer del policía
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe true story of a jealous policeman and his young wife living in a shanty-town in South America.
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Cut and Run
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe one story you won't be seeing on the 6 o'clock news! — A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
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Oriana
🇻🇪 VenezuelaA young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.
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Cannibal Holocaust
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1970sCan a movie go too far? — A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
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Sorcerer
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe only wages worth running for, dying for, killing for, are the wages of fear — Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
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Lovers Like Us
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1970sA young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
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