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The Friendly Man
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sOn the night of the return to the stage of a famous rock band from the 1980s, a video that involves the band`s lead singer Aurélio Sá in the death of a military policeman, goes viral.
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First Act
🇧🇷 BrazilTheatre students André and Gabriel drum up support for resistance against the dismantling of culture policies in Brazil.
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Maternal
🇦🇷 ArgentinaLu and Fati are teen mums living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows. But the girls’ impending motherhood faces her with a challenging situation.
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Killing the Dead
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sParaguay 1978, during Stroessner’s dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem is: in spite of what they are doing, they have never killed anyone before. A storm indicates that the winter is coming while the destiny of the three men is determined during the World Cup final. Both Pastor and Dionisio are the last link of a chain in the terrible system that has as a result in all the missing people.
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Perros sin cola
🇨🇱 ChileRosario is a wandering teenager who believes that her mother, does not really love her and she's apparently right. The young woman has found refuge in the dance and in her friend Jonathan, a young street vendor who helps raise money for the wedding of his sister Jenny: Rosario's silent and platonic love. On the day of the party the revelry and excesses revealing Rosario can't leaver her family's fate behind.
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My Mom is a Character 3
🇧🇷 BrazilDona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.
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The Moneychanger
🇺🇾 UruguayHumberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
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The Good Intentions
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAn aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
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El maestro Humberto Maturana
🇨🇱 ChileThis documentary explores the impact and life of one of the most internationally recognized Chilean scientists, an inspiring human being who at his 90 years is more lively than ever.
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Borderless Love
🇧🇷 BrazilBorderless Love is a romantic comedy about two couples - Pedro and Joana, Brazilians; Martin and Pilar, Argentines - involved in an involuntary couples exchange. Pedro and Joana turn a blind eye to each other's infidelity. Their daughter, Paula, a jealous teenager, distrusts the father and ends up discovering his case with Pilar. Pedro opts for the family, but without his lover, he becomes a burden at home. Tired of her husband's depression, Joana asks Pilar to return to be Pedro's lover. In the end, everyone's life takes on new paths, but they remain united. Borderless Love is a fun and romantic journey of self-knowledge in the lives of these characters.
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Harley Queen
🇨🇱 ChileA woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
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Pasco, avanzar más allá de la muerte
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sOn March 21, 1975, Triple A kidnaps, tortures, shoots and dynamite eight popular militants in the San José de Temperley neighborhood. This traumatic event is known as the Pasco Massacre and is part of a terrifying rehearsal room that pre-announces the so-called State Terrorism.
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Pacified
🇧🇷 BrazilTati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. As Brazilian Pacification Police battle to maintain a tenuous occupation of the surrounding Rio favelas, Tati and Jaca must navigate the clashing forces threatening to derail their hope for the future.
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Morgue
🇵🇾 ParaguayOn his first day as a security guard, Diego Martinez is assigned to the night shift at the Hospital Regional. On his rounds, he notices the hallways can be unsettling at night until he accidentally notices he’s trapped inside the morgue.
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Amigo lindo del Alma
🇺🇾 UruguayA movie about Eduardo Mateo — The words and music of renowned artists tell us about Eduardo Mateo, decisive uruguayan musician in the second half of the 20th century.
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The Surge
🇦🇷 ArgentinaMatia, a marginal young man, escapes to an island in the River Paraná. In an uncomfortable atmosphere that is not his own, he tries to start a new life, but the tensions his arrival cause take him back to his criminal past and to the idea of having to flee in order to survive.
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GIG - A Uberização do Trabalho
🇧🇷 BrazilThe work mediated by digital apps and platforms is growing worldwide. But the advance of the “gig economy”, called in Brazil “uberization”, has aroused debates about the precariousness and intensification of work.
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Norte
🇵🇪 PeruAlejo, an archaeologist from Lima, Peru, travels to Newmarket, Canada, where his Peruvian family migrated years ago. It is his first time back in two decades and since the death of his mother.
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The Journey of Javier Heraud
🇵🇪 PeruThe life of the Peruvian poet Javier Heraud, who sadly passed at the young age of 21, told by his great-niece Tania through letters, poems and tales of shared times.
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Cadet Amarilla, My Son
🇵🇾 ParaguayA documentary about the death of Cadet Marco Amarilla in a military academy in Paraguay, a death that was initially reported as a suicide, but was revealed to be a cover-up in a country where dozens of other young men have died in military facilities.
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Todo por el ascenso
🇦🇷 ArgentinaNestor is extremely superstitious. This year, his team plays the ascent in Mendoza and prepares to travel with Rafa, his friend. But Fabian appears, a mufa. The ascent is in danger, unless they can prevent Fabian from reaching the stadium.
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Alelí
🇺🇾 UruguayThe death of patriarch Alfredo sends his heirs into a downward spiral. With the pending sale of their beach house, a repository of childhood memories, three siblings’ long-simmering resentments are brought to a full boil. Alternating between moments of laugh-out-loud absurdity and stirring beauty, Alelí is a knowing black comedy about a dysfunctional family that seems willing to set everything on fire.
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Carta Para Além dos Muros
🇧🇷 BrazilHIV and AIDS in Brazil — This documentary reports, through interviews with specialists and activists, the chronology of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil, from the beginning of the discovery of the disease to the present day.
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Gunman
🇦🇷 ArgentinaPistolero is a fiction that in a certain way is an essay on violence. The story follows the criminal raid of Isidoro Mendoza and his brother Claudio in the rural Argentina during Ongania’s dictatorship, and how the violence of his criminal deeds begins to leave a mark in them. A teacher from Buenos Aires arrives to Isidoro’s life, and love is the possibility to open himself to a new life, but even as he tries, he can not escape the entropy generated by his own drives and actions.
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La embajada
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sCarmen Castillo reconstructs what life was like at the French Embassy in Chile from September 1973 to July 1974, through the writings of Françoise de Menthon, wife of the ambassador, and the testimonies of both embassy officials from that time andr some of its hundreds of refugees. A story about how humanistic values and ethics can be imposed at critical moments to bureaucracy, formalisms and, especially, fear.
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Sebastina: The Curse
🇵🇪 PeruA trip with your friends could become your worst nightmare. — Based on a story titled "The Woman and the Tiger" featured in Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma about a trip of a group of friends that ends up haunted by a mysterious spirit.
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Passages
🇧🇷 BrazilPassages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
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Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sAn overview of Brazil's riots of June 2013, which were the beginning of a great political change that would take the country in the following years.
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Partida
🇧🇷 BrazilThe film documents the construction of political thinking of the newest candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Brazil by the female PARTY, the actress Georgette Fadel, from her relationship with an unusual troupe of ten people who accompany her on an initiatory journey in search of hers greatest reference, Pepe Mujica, in Uruguay.
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The Welles Raft
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1940sA documentary about Orson Welles days in Brazil in 1942. — The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.
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We Still Have the Deep Black Night
🇧🇷 BrazilKaren sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.
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Sirena
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1970sLake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An unfruitful search for his body comes to a halt when confirmation arrives from a faraway island. A task group sets off to retrieve the corpse
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The Strong Ones
🇨🇱 ChileA story of love and bravery at the end of the world — Lucas travels to visit his sister to a remote town in southern Chile. In front of the ocean and the fog, he meets Antonio, a boatswain in a local fishing boat. When an intense romance grows between them, their strength, their independence and their adulthood become immovable in front of the tide.
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Macabre
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sIn the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."
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El viaje espacial
🇨🇱 ChileA tour across Chile's diverse scenarios through the observation of bus stops and passenger's small talk.
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City of Ashes
🇨🇴 ColombiaA Colombian farmer, faced with the sterility of his wife, wants to adopt his orphan niece, but in order to achieve this he must destroy the demon of the town who is opposed and who, without knowing, had always intervened negativity in his life.
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La última frontera
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sSantiago 1984. Carmen, former JJCC, after being tortured by the CNI, works as an undercover agent. Francisco, an agent obsessed with her, infiltrates her in an advertising production company, meets Gastón, creative director. He discovers that he is planning a commercial in the mountains as part of an escape operation for a political prisoner. Carmen manipulates both of them, lying to Francisco and approaching Gastón, in order to join the operation and thus achieve her own escape.
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Revolution and Land
🇵🇪 Peru The 1960s The 2010sThe long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform marked a before and after in the country's story - a profound change that Peruvian cinema reflected and encapsulated, creating great imagination we continue to discover today. 50 years after the social experiments of the revolution, we ask ourselves whether Peru really messed up or not with Juan Velasco Alvarado.
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The Champion of the World
🇺🇾 Uruguay¿Qué queda después de la gloria? — Ten years after winning a world title in bodybuilding in Russia and becoming a star of said discipline in Mexico, Antonio Osta (43) leads a life of austerity in the Uruguayan rural town where he grew up. He resides there with his son Juanjo (17), a sensitive teenager who keeps him company and confronts him openly. Suffering from acute kidney disease which keeps him from competing professionally, Antonio is stuck in limbo, halfway between his glorious past and the impossibility of being who he once was. However, he is unwilling to give up his lifestyle, even if it kills him. In an attempt to reinvent himself, and seeking a better future for his son, Antonio plans a comeback to the Mexico bodybuilding scene, where he may relive his glory days.
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Lost Time
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAgustín Levi, an Argentinian scholar settled in Norway, is obsessively devoted to intellectual work. When Agustín returns to Buenos Aires to take part in an international congress, he takes the chance to meet Carlos González, an old high school literature professor and his role model in life. But when the meeting finally takes place, Agustín’s idealized image will collapse and his certainties will suddenly struggle.
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Music for Bleeding Hearts
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sIn present-day São Paulo, a trio of young hearts are about to break. Ricardo has both a steady boyfriend and a wandering eye for a new coworker. Isabella is taking a break from both her boyfriend and best friend Ricardo. And hopeless romantic Felipe has suddenly found himself caught between the two of them. These three have big dreams, yearning passion, and opinionated acquaintances, but they’re all unprepared for what’s to come from Cupid’s arrows.
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Soul of Hero
🇨🇴 ColombiaA soldier will have a mission of rescuing his partner kidnapped in the Colombian jungle although he will miss a dating with a beautiful girl that is his partner's sister.
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Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field. The Documentary
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sTucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before Romero's “Night of the Living Dead” was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot “Zombies en el cañaveral,” which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.
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Cazador, la película
🇦🇷 ArgentinaMelkor is a rebellious demon who choses Buenos Aires to turn it into his personal hell by unleashing a demonic invasion. Zombies and demons walk the earth. All is chaos, fire, and death. The only one capable of stopping the hordes of the underworld is Cazador, but he only seems interested in drinking, eating, and fucking. To spark his interest the key will be Bussi the bear, his favorite plush toy. Based on the 90s comic.
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Uma garota chamada Marina
🇧🇷 BrazilThis documentary portrays the trajectory of Brazilian singer and songwriter Marina Lima, an exponent of popular music with a career spanning over 40 years.
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In the Middle of the Labyrinth
🇵🇪 PeruFor Renzo, a teenager from Trujillo, Peru, the days pass by on the streets and skateboard runways where he tries to master new tricks on his board. Until fate leads him to meeting Zoe, a girl who spends her afternoons drawing the dozens of telephone antennaes that cut across the city sky, and his life transforms almost imperceptibly.
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1982
🇫🇰 Falkland Islands Malvinas The 1980sIn 1982, the Argentine military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas Islands, located 500 kilometers off the country’s coast. The dictatorial government left no stone unturned in using propaganda to convince the people of their mission. Consisting almost entirely of excerpts from the TV program 60 minutes, 1982 summarizes the media campaign that took place over the 74 days of war, when Argentine troops tried to take their island back from the British. We watch TV anchormen ask viewers to donate money for weapons, inspire them to sing the national anthem at home, and welcome government leaders as heroes as they “spontaneously” show up at the studio to celebrate the importance of the mission for the motherland.
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Wiren
🇸🇷 SurinameWhen nine-year-old Wiren meets the American Dr. Young a world of opportunities opens up for the small deaf boy. Driven by his ambition to get ahead in life he leaves his life in rural Nickerie behind and winds up at the Kennedy boarding school in the capital Paramaribo. He struggles to comply to the strict, conservative Catholic methods at the school, but turns out to become the catalyst for the change that leads to the introduction of sign language. After being rejected by the university he realizes that deaf people do not enjoy the same rights and opportunities as hearing people. Witnessing the constant withhold of deaf people in Suriname leads Wiren to seek justice by suing the government to coerce them to adhere to the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities. Will he succeed?
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