Acting
A devoted butler inherits his late employer's mansion - but only until her cherished Afghan Greyhound dies. As he settles in with the dog, greedy relatives scheme to disrupt their peaceful arrangement.
Miguel and Alicia are a young retired couple. One day, Alicia goes to visit her mother-in-law at the nursing home. Hours go by and she does not return. Concerned, Miguel goes out to look for her, but finds her sitting on the sidewalk. What's wrong with her? What happened during this visit? Alicia does not answer. The following days Miguel tries to find out the reason for his wife's attitude, who remains quiet and still in the same position, while he tries to get everything back to normal.
Sofía discovers a mysterious box filled with several stacked audio cassettes in what will soon be her new bedroom. Each tape bears a name, a time, and a specific spot in the house. When she listens to them, she realizes they are recordings of spiritist sessions held there thirty years ago. Determined to find out whether her new home is truly haunted, Sofía invites two of her best friends, Camila and Verónica, to spend together an unforgettable girls’ night.
While a rumor about the presence of sharks in a small beach town distracts residents, 14-year-old Rosina begins to feel an instinct to shorten the distance between her body and Joselo's.
Drawn by the promise of new love, Teresa travels a long way to meet Enrique, a man she met online. As the night unfolds, she begins to realize he’s not quite what she expected.
Shortly after his separation, César forms a rock band with his teenage sons. Soon enough, the family project will reveal itself unsustainable. "Family Album" is a coming of age film comedy about the difficult bond between parents and children and the world of amateur rock bands.
Juana is twelve years old, she smokes and says she is pregnant. In the torpor of an immutable end of summer, she wanders between absence and disagreement with the adult world.
Summer in Uruguay. The Saldaña family are looking after the house of their well-off neighbors, the Pernas. Having the key to temptation, they decide to abuse their duties and spend the holidays there. What begins as an innocent game quickly escalates to a full-out confrontation between the families after the unexpected disappearance of the Pernas' dog.
Diego, a Mossad agent whose sister was killed in the Argentina terrorist attack, takes a leave of absence and hooks up with Gisela, a local journalist to find those responsible. Their journey to uncover the truth draws them into a world of espionage, intelligence agencies and arms dealers. A dubious world in which lies are truths, and justice and revenge become indistinguishable. The journey that the two embark on will eventually lead to a re-examination of their connection with their families and even their concept of self-identity.
Pablo, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, has an affair with Luciana, one of his students. Natalia, another professor at the University of Buenos Aires starts an affair with her student Gonzalo. Two stories, as two sides of the same coin.
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While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.
Clever, curious and young, lucky Elisa has been selected for work placement in the North. While everything she’s heard about the North seems idyllic, the trouble is that the few people who do go there don’t ever come back.
A tale of children's horror for adults. A story that intermingles fantasy and reality. The eyes of a child who perceive what adults are not able to see.
A divorced taxi driver shows up with a black eye at the home of his ex-wife’s new family; he’s been invited to dinner and he desperately wants to reconnect with his young daughter. A professional magician’s car breaks down and he ends up spending an emotionally intense night with a young, widowed toll booth worker. A singer songwriter serving a lengthy prison sentence is released for one night to perform at a local community centre. These three deeply engaging stories about yearning for connection unfold in parallel, one New Year’s Eve in a small town in central Uruguay, balancing the universality of human suffering with a powerful sense of hope.
Santiago, an Argentine police corporal, crosses the border into Uruguay fleeing from other police officers who are looking for him. Using his uniform, he inspects regional food stalls, sampling dairy products and cold cuts to survive, while trying to go unnoticed among the locals. Without money or lodging, but with empathy and cunning, he begins to plot a new life, receiving help from local characters he meets along the way and even finding what he believes to be the love of his life.
A woman inherits a farm left by her grandmother in Argentina only to discover that it is a cocaine production farm.
A construction worker takes a part in one of the most profound, obsessive and recognized theater companies of the Uruguayan scene. He will lead them to rebuild a new theater from the ruins of the old Odeón, burned two decades ago.
How does a starving and helpless vampire survive in an unknown city? The question harasses the protagonist in a Montevideo that she summons, with incomparable grace, the figure of the fearsome being that has become fragile, trapped in a destiny that she has not chosen and from which she cannot escape.
