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The Cannibal Club
🇧🇷 BrazilOtavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman and the Club’s leader, her and her husband’s lives are in grave danger.
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Running After
🇧🇷 BrazilPaulo Gale is a black Brazilian man, a typical "day-by-day survivor", always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When finding himself a dead end, he discovers the opportunity to become a football manager by leading some boy from the neighborhood to becoming the new Neymar of international soccer. Going through the suburbs of Rio, he finds Glanderson, a young boy with an enormous talent for soccer given the absence of two toes in his right foot. With good humor, high hopes, and a lot of missteps the quixotic duo tries their best to get to their dream to come true.
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Retablo
🇵🇪 PeruSegundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains of Peru. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond.
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The Endless Film
🇦🇷 ArgentinaBased on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seemed unsuccessful and pointless.
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The Wolf House
🇨🇱 ChileOnce upon a time there was a country within a country from where nobody could escape. — María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at the service of the military dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet—, is punished for having lost three pigs, so she decides to run away and take refuge in an abandoned house hidden in the forest.
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The Trial
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sThe impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff from the point of view of her defence team. This is a courtroom drama that unfolds slowly: the appearances of the various parties gradually turn the proceedings into something akin to theatre. Inside the courtroom, grand emotions are played to full effect whilst, on the other side of the doors, lobbyists and supporters pace the corridors. Meanwhile, outside, in front of Brasília’s modernist government buildings, demonstrators are chanting like a Greek chorus. Only the main character, Rousseff herself, remains professional and aloof.
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Sapo
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sJeremías Gallardo, a prominent Chilean journalist who, on January 29th, 1986, covers the last death sentence in the country, which was carried out in the prison of Valparaiso. That same day, his wife is giving birth to her first child at a clinic in the capital. Gallardo's return to Santiago becomes an inner journey where he will relive moments from his dark past, linked to the intelligence services of that time.
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Nothing to Lose
🇧🇷 BrazilAgainst all odds. For the good of all. — Authorized biopic of Brazilian evangelical bishop Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of Record TV network. Based on a book trilogy of the same name, the movie tells the story of the self-made man who faced several moments of turbulence while pursuing his conviction.
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Kahal Kadosh: Sacred Community
🇨🇱 ChileA portray of the life inside a small Jewish community in Temuco, Southern Chile, home of the oldest synagogue in the country. Narrated mainly by female voices, descendants of one of the founding families of the community, their testimony will give a gender perspective, willing to challenge their cultural heritage.
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The Awakener
🇧🇷 BrazilCorruption has created its greatest enemy — Miguel is a federal agent, highly trained and skilled in weapons. After experiencing trauma in his personal life, he sets out on a journey of revenge, assuming the identity of a masked vigilante. The Awakener decides to do justice with his own hands by exterminating corrupt politicians.
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Tungstênio
🇧🇷 BrazilA retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
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El Angel
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sInspired by true events. — Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
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Una selfie con Timochenko
🇨🇴 ColombiaJuan Pablo, a mid-level official of the Colombian presidency, wants at all costs to get up to Natalia, an actress and television presenter who is far from his possibilities, because this "mommy", he believes, would not notice a guy in wheelchair, unless you give access to the coverage of the news of the moment: the signing of peace. The problem is that Juan Pablo is not even invited to the big event, so he decides to dismantle it by taking it to Rwanda to learn more about the process of reconciliation between Hutus and Tutsis and return to the country in time for the signing and thus achieve, not only in the official photo but "lag" a selfie with Timochenko. That will surely make Natalia fall exhausted to the wheels of her chair.
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Ciro y yo
🇨🇴 ColombiaCiro Galindo was born on August 29th, 1952 in Colombia. Wherever he's gone, war has found him. After twenty years of friendship, I understood Ciro 's life sums up Colombia's history. As so many Colombians he is a survivor, who has run away from war for more than sixty years, and now dreams of living in peace. "Ciro and Me" is a journey to memory, seeking to give sorrow words; a journey, similar to that of Colombia in times of peace, in search to recover its dignity.
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The Smiling Lombana
🇨🇴 ColombiaWhat seems to be the story of a promising young artist, Tito Lombana, and that of his romance with an intelligent and liberal Italian, begins to dress in shadows. Why the most famous work of Lombana, "The old shoes" (in Cartagena), is not accredited to his name? What is the reason for the taboo that covers it in your own family? The granddaughter of the artist explores the life of his grandfather without sparing himself uncomfortable questions. Through the testimonies of his wife, his family and the people who knew him, the character reveals his folds... From FICCI
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Dry Martina
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 ChileThirsty for love — Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.
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Double Me
🇨🇴 ColombiaDouble Me is a film about the tragic misunderstandings between the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous peoples of Colombia, and the ramifications of those traumatic experiences. Based on manuscripts, photographs and films belonging to the Colombian ethnographer Gregorio Hernández de Alba, Rugeles pieces together existing and new footage in this documentary punctuated with fiction and stories. From FICCI
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En tránsito
🇨🇱 ChileFour transgender people are wandering around the streets while they tell us about their life experiences in a country that doesn't have a place for them. They only ask for dignity, love and respect, struggling against Chile's worst face.
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Rio do Medo
🇧🇷 BrazilThe documentary seeks to understand, through its characters’ testimonies and meaningful events, how Rio de Janeiro’s military police became a demoralized, violent and corrupt institution. Without denying the police’s importance, but aware of the difference between restraint and police brutality, the movie will relive the biggest events from the last decades in which those who tried to bring the military police closer to the law collided with those who transformed it into a feared symbol of urban violence.
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Perdida
🇦🇷 ArgentinaNever stop searching — A policewoman whose childhood friend disappeared in Patagonia years ago starts a new search to find answers, and soon finds her own life in danger.
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...And Suddenly the Dawn
🇨🇱 ChileAll of life fits in a glorious instant, boy — Pancho Veloso, an old writer of celebrity articles, returns to his hometown of Chilean Patagonia after more than 40 years of having fled. When trying to write "salable" stories about that area so called "the end of the world", he will face his past and leave his imposture.
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Bruno Motoneta
🇦🇷 ArgentinaNever substime the power of a virgin — The film tells the story of Bruno, who drives his motor scooter through the streets of Buenos Aires, making deliveries to the premises of "Extraordinary Objects" of his uncles. His friends wait for him to start the weekend but an unexpected accident with a relative changes his plans. Bruno starts a weekend of adventures, which will involve a scientist, a girl with unusual beauty, a group of aliens who love human flesh and an eccentric modern artist.
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A Twelve-Year Night
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sEndless darkness. Limitless courage. — Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
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They Were Coming to Get Me
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sDocumentary about the horrors of the Chilean 80's dictatorship from the perspective of a son who has lost his fathers and goes into the quest of finding out more about them
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Auto de Resistência
🇧🇷 BrazilA documentary about the Rio de Janeiro police killings praticed as so-called "self-defense acts". The film follows people who deal with those deaths in their daily lives, showing how Brazil's Federal Government deals with these cases, from the police investigations to the courtrooms.
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Elegy of a Crime
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sUberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 24th 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva, the director’s mother, is brutally murdered by her partner. “Elegy of a Crime” is the final chapter of Cristiano Burlan’s “Mourning Trilogy, about the tragic family history. Faced with impunity, the film plunges into a dizzying journey to rebuild Isabel's image and life.
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O Paciente - O Caso Tancredo Neves
🇧🇷 BrazilThe true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
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Além do Homem
🇧🇷 BrazilBrazilian writer Alberto Luppo has lived in Paris for years and does not want to return to his home country. But when a French anthropologist disappears in the interior of Brazil, Alberto is forced to return to his homeland to turn the story into a book. However, during the journey, between fear and enchantment, he surrenders to his destiny. Guided by Bethânea, he discovers in everything he despised, the beauty of his own identity.
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Cirqo
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sTwo prisoners escape execution by the police and become successful circus clowns in Pinochet's Chile.
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Pickpockets
🇨🇴 ColombiaMasters in stealing — An aspiring teen thieves learn what it takes to be successful pickpockets on the streets of Bogotá
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Petit-Frère
🇨🇱 ChileLooking for a home or planet called Chile — A dialogue between the collective and the personal, a living memory that combines the dreams and realities of the Haitian community residing in Chile. This dialogue is guided by the voice of Wilner Petit-Frère, a Haitian immigrant who observes and captures, in a print publication, the society where he ended up living in this stage of his life.
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Madness On Air
🇺🇾 UruguayRadio Vilardevoz and its endearing characters take us into the universe of madness and the construction of collective dreams from a mental hospital in Montevideo.
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Cheques Matta
🇨🇱 Chile"Cheques Matta" are works of small format, similar to an American check that the painter Roberto Matta sent by mail to his friends with financial problems during the first years of the Military Dictatorship in Chile. Establishing new paradigms, making us question the true function of art as an instrument of social transformation.
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Mulheres Alteradas
🇧🇷 BrazilLeandra is in her mid-30s: she wants to get married and have children, but she does not have a boyfriend. Her sister, Sonia, is married and has two children, but all she wants is a night of fun with her best friend, Marinati - a workaholic lawyer who went to fall in love just when her career is on the rise. Marinati is Keka's boss, who is looking forward to the trip she's scheduled to save her marriage.
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Marcha Cega
🇧🇷 BrazilMarcha Cega portrays violent police repression at demonstrations in São Paulo that turned the city's streets into real battlefields, leaving blind journalists, students wounded and dozens of political prisoners. This violent march follows without seeing the deep roots hidden by the dense fog of the tear gas.
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Don't Cry for Me England
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1800sIn 1806, in the mist of the British invasion of Buenos Aires, football is introduced. A merchant of the time sees in this sport a unique business opportunity and in the process awakens a passion so great that it can replace the war.
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La Casa Rosada
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980sAdrian Mendoza (52) has become a widow due to the effects of the war and together with his children, Juan de Dios (12) and Maria del Carmen (10), confronts the fatal situation that prevails in the convulsed city of Ayacucho. Adrian is returning to his home with Juan de Dios when a police patrol stops him for a routine search. Tthe police take him into custody as a presumed terrorist on the basis of subversive messages coming from the radio. He is branded as a terrorist and a fugitive from the law. In the days that follow more than a dozen soldiers raid his home and he is taken to the dreaded Pink House where he will be cruelly tortured.
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Y nos fuimos pal' mundial
🇨🇴 ColombiaNever three humble Colombian "Russians" (construction workers) imagined that they would see their idols of the Colombian National Team so close, so they had to travel so far to fulfill a promise. And it is that Russia is not around the corner. "Moth", "Freddy Beltrán" and "Pantera", 3 Colombian Russians, were out of place, when unknowingly, they were confused by three malicious Moscow spies. They, although they had no cause to fall dead, were convinced that the Lord of Miracles would grant them the desire to travel to Russia to fulfill a promise and accompany their beloved team in the World Cup. These fun characters will have a trip to the other side of the world full of adventure, humor and action.
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The Black Forest
🇧🇷 BrazilIn a forest based in the heart of Brazil, a girl sees her life – and everyone’s around her – change terribly, when she finds the Lost Book of Cypriano, whose Dark Magic, besides bestowing power and wealth on its possessor, is also able to deliver a terrible evil upon the Earth.
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Tacos de cemento
🇨🇱 ChileAndrés Pérez Araya, one of the most outstanding Chilean artists. Through his own voice, makes an exciting retelling of his life and his final years.
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Fabiana
🇧🇷 BrazilFabiana is a seasoned trucker who has crisscrossed and conquered the roads of Brazil for 30 years. The fact that she is transgender doesn’t seem to make any difference for her nomadic life. In many places, she can hook up with a variety of women and is in her element among the guys on the road. Now she is approaching retirement, Fabiana realises her life will change drastically. Her house, where she lives with her girlfriend when not on the road, will become her new world.
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Flow
🇨🇱 ChileTwo rivers, searching for humanity — A film that observes the human and morphological connection between two rivers, the Ganges in India and Biobio in Chile. From their origins in the mountain range until their deltas in the ocean, this documentary proposes a game of mirrors between both civilizations, creating a poetic journey through the flow of one single great river.
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Mujer saliendo del mar
🇨🇱 Chile The 1930sValparaíso, Chile, 1933. Years of psychiatric treatment and a seemingly happy marriage will not take away Elisa's memory of that youthful love. So, when some years later, Rebecca becomes a beautiful feminist, Elisa's fragile world will collapse in front of her eyes.
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Você Não Sabe Quem Eu Sou
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1980sNasi was always a controversial guy. Since his times with Ira! in the early 1980s, his name was among the most talented and also the most troublesome artists on the Brazilian scene.
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Cola de mono
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sDrink responsibly — It's Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. Both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller, this is a story about the ways that passion and desire control our lives - from pop-culture tastes to sexual fantasies.
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Florianópolis Dream
🇧🇷 BrazilA recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
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10 Seconds to Win
🇧🇷 BrazilThe history of the famous Brazilian bantam and featherweight world champion Eder Jofre, who tries to deal with his personal life and the obligations of a world class athlete, with the mentoring of his trainer and father Kid Jofre.
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O Banquete
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sAn elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.
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Dona Onete - Flor da Lua
🇧🇷 BrazilDona Onete became a great name of recent brazilian music, the movie shows one of her concerts and some interviews.
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