The Pope's Toilet

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide. While most of the residents plan to sell food at the parade, a smuggler family man decides to build a pay toilet.

2007-05-21 | es

Petricor

In the near future where civil war is the order of the day and strange diseases are devastating, a boy lives alone in the house that his parents left him. Away from the surrounding chaos, he survives day by day from what the countryside gives him, until one day a strange girl interrupts her nighttime sleep, altering her daily life.

2016-11-25 | es

The City of Your Final Destination

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.

2009-03-21 | en

Mr. Kaplan

Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.

2014-11-21 | es

The Last Train

Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"

2002-05-31 | es

25 Watts

24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.

2001-01-28 | es

Emptiness

LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.

2020-01-24 | es

The Hares Dream

Affected by the disappearance of her best friend, Clara has withdrawn from the outside world. At a party she meets Mateo, he seems to know her more than she thinks.

2019-11-20 | es

Society of the Snow

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

2023-12-15 | es

Small Country

Two young people learn about love as politics turn their world upside down in this drama from director Ana Diez. After a long and successful career as a soccer player, Xavi retires from the game and moves to Spain, where one day to his surprise he happens upon Rosana, a friend from his childhood in Uruguay. As Xavi and Rosana catch up on what has happened to them over the past thirty years, they flash back to 1973, when young Xavi and his father Manuel, a shoemaker, lived down the street from Rosana.

2008-08-21 | es

Beyond Silence

Tells the story of Gerardo Bleier after the pain caused by the loss of his father, Eduardo, detained and disappeared during the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973-1985). The documentary portrays the meaning of truth and the search for freedom since the discovery of Eduardo's remains in 2019.

2020-11-13 | es

Dos palabras en la arena

A story of a friendship that wants to be something more. A story of support and connection. A story that makes you fall in love because of its innocence, transforming into an adventure on the beach, mixed with smiles, looks and feelings, set in the beautiful landscapes of the Mansa Beach in Punta del Este, being the city of San Carlos the other location used.

2018-05-10 | es

Becho o la extraordinaria aparición de la Cumparsita

Becho is a kid who has a power that makes him feel passion in a luminous and magic way. One day, some musicians' energy is so strong that Becho is teletransportated in an amazing trip where history and imagination take part of this national story.

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Libertad para los uruguayos

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry produces this short film that tries to explain the causes of the coup, anchoring them in debt and US interference, denouncing the torture and imprisonment of opponents and showing solidarity with the Uruguayan people.

1977-01-01 | es

Conversations with Turiansky

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first portrays the son of immigrants, the engineer passionate about the mystery of electricity, the man in love, the movie buff. The other places the protagonist in his time: union struggles, the advance of authoritarianism, prison and the challenges of the present. In both are present the lucidity, commitment, discreet tenderness and humor of Wladimir Turiansky.

2019-05-23 | es

One or Two Questions

In 1986, the Uruguayan Parliament passed a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the military and police during the dictatorship (1973-85). This law of impunity prevented the clarification demanded by the relatives of those who had disappeared and been murdered by the former regime. A public initiative arose calling for a referendum in which the law be subject to the vote of the people. Unas preguntas uses U-matic footage, mostly of interviews recorded on the streets of Uruguay between 1987 and 1989, to present a time capsule of the period.

2018-07-20 | es

Sea of Lions

This documentary captures a deeply personal journey by Argentinian actor and musician, Nicolás Pauls, to the Uruguayan coast. This area hosts two of the world's foremost sea lion colonies. Isla de lobos and Cabo Polonio. A famed sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of sea lions. Pauls presents the two sides of the complex conflict between the local artisanal fisherman, struggling to earn their living and the sea lions who risk their survival in leaving the boundaries of the island.

2023-02-06 | es

Cuscus

Cuscus's grandfather has the virus, so she is the only one who can get supplies. She must face great challenges as she travels a world devastated by a technological holocaust.

2018-05-20 | es

Los Peligros de Fumar en el Sillón

Two friends battle boredom with the power of their bong and marijuana, but failed to consider the perils of smoking on the couch.

2023-09-20 | es

La Vela Puerca - Uno Para Todos

2014-07-25 | es