130 películas de directoras latinoamericanas (Del libro Locas Mujeres de Jorge Ruffinelli)
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- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJoel McCreaAndrea LeedsFrank JenksJoe Meadows (Joel McCrea), a sensitive lad from Kansas, arrives in New York to begin a sea-faring career. But due to the scarcity of jobs in that field he accepts work at an ocean-site resort. There he immediately becomes to object of romantic designs by Helen Brown (Andrea Leeds.) And she chases him until he catches her.
- DirectorTereza TrautmanStarsDarlene GlóriaGracindo JúniorArduíno ColassantiMarried woman only feels well when she's in love. In search of a ravishing love, she has many love affairs, with her husband's consent.
- DirectorSolveig HoogesteijnStarsÓscar BerisbeitíaJosé Napoleón UrdanetaMaría de AzuajeIn a coastal town with no name and desolated by poverty, the sea suddenly begins to exhale a scent of roses that transforms the lives of all the villagers.
- DirectorEva LandeckStarsGeorge HiltonIrene MorackEnrique Guarnero
- DirectorMarcela Fernández ViolanteStarsJuan FerraraHelena RojoVíctor JuncoAn actor blurs reality and fiction with the character he plays in a soap opera.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsLuisina BrandoRodolfo RanniJulio ChávezAfter finding out her husband cheated on her, Leonor decides to leave him to find her true identity.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBibi AnderssonAnthony PerkinsSandra DumasWhen a museum directer, who has long been divorced, takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
- DirectorAngelina VázquezStarsValentín Osorno BadillaIrma MullerGustavo LeighThe film diary of the exiled director's semi-clandestine return to Pinochet's Chile.
- DirectorTizuka YamasakiStarsTânia AlvesAlberto AmaralJosé Mário AustregésiloAn important part of Brazilian history, this is the story of Anayde Beiriz - as played by Tania Alves - poetess, journalist, teacher, a revolutionary in her time (the 1920s and 1930s), and known for her sexuality. Her great love for João Dantas triggered the assassination of Joao Pessoa, the Governor of Brazil's Parahyba State. These events were then used politically as pretext for the "Revolution of 1930."
- DirectorMaría Elena VelascoStarsMaría Elena VelascoArmando CalvoCarmen MontejoA poor woman goes to Mexico City to find her mother and sister but later sees that her sister is a rich actress and does not believe her.
- DirectorNorma BengellStarsCarla CamuratiAntônio FagundesEster GóesBiography of Patrícia Galvão, aka Pagu, a legendary personage, muse and activist of Brazilian Modernism in art, during the 1920s until the 1940s. She shocked the society of her time, but charmed artists such as painter Tarsila do Amaral and writer Oswald de Andrade, having had an affair with the latter. For her political engagement, she was constantly harassed by Brazilian authorities.
- DirectorAna CarolinaStarsXuxa LopesNey MatogrossoDaniel DantasIn order to leave her past and family values behind, woman has relationships with many men and, among many doubts, tries to find out her own identity and happiness.
- DirectorTetê MoraesStarsBolívar AnoniCerlyDante de OliveiraDocumentary about the oppression of a group of a thousand families who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1985, and their leader, Rose, a woman fighting for the right of owning a land and for elementary human rights, and who also was the mother of the first baby born in the camping site.
- DirectorJeanine MeerapfelStarsLiv UllmannCipe LincovskyFederico LuppiMaría and Pancho are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsLeticia HuijaraAlejandra CerrilloMartha NavarroLola is a struggling saleswoman with problems, causing her to ask her mother to take care of her young daughter. With her husband in LA, she realizes how important life really is and being alone, she longs to have her daughter back.
- DirectorCamila LoboguerreroStarsMaría Eugenia DávilaFrank RamírezMagusoColombia 1920's. The country receives compensation for the separation of Panama and is open to foreign credit to undertake major development works. Growing mass of workers but not improve their conditions as still subject to the place since colonial times. The climate is more conducive to that industrial strife and the emergence of leaders who are: Maria Cano was one of the Highlights. His work on behalf of the workers were also given for the woman confronted the powerful toured the country and raided the literature. She and her colleagues do this story.
- DirectorValeria SarmientoStarsFranco NeroLaura del SolLaura BensonA well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
- DirectorKristina KonradStarsFranziska Oliver
- DirectorMarisa SistachStarsEmilio EchevarríaDavid BeuchotPía BuilA divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
- DirectorDana RotbergStarsEvangelina SosaLilia AragónRoberto SosaIn a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
- DirectorLita StanticStarsVanessa RedgraveOfelia MedinaLautaro MurúaA film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. But will making a movie about it force Silvia to remember her traumatic past?
- DirectorAna Cristina HenríquezStarsSaúl ArochaChela AtencioHéctor CampobelloIn a Latin-American psychiatric hospital, Esperanza, abandoned by her relative, and Pedro, recruited by force, share the same sadness and loneliness. The only escape will be to discover how much madness is needed to love truly.
- DirectorHeddy HonigmannStarsVíctor TalledoSeñor EnglishMercedes AguilarIn 1992, Peru was just emerging from one of its darkest moments in its entire republican history (1821- onwards). A cataclysmic economic meltdown and over 10 years of death and conflict brought upon by the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla had left deep scars in the Peruvian population. Furthermore, Alberto Fujimori had just dissolved the congress and senate in order to obtain extraordinary faculties and implement harsh economic measures. It is amidst this critical moment in the history of Perú that filmmaker Heddy Honigmann chronicles the views and lives of 14 real life taxi drivers in Lima. They represent the perseverance and ingenuity with which the everyday man survived and overcame the turbulence of the times in order to achieve advancement for themselves and their families.
- DirectorGuita SchyfterStarsClaudette MailléMaya MishalskaAngélica AragónTwo Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s.
- DirectorCarla CamuratiStarsMarieta SeveroAntonio AbujamraThales Pan ChaconA hot blooded Spanish princess plots to conquer her enemies and become queen.
- DirectorCarmen CastilloGuy GirardStarsCarmen CastilloMarcia MerinoAn encounter between Marcia Merino -"the Skinny Alejandra"- a former member of leftist movement MIR before the 1973 coup who became an informant for Pinochet's secret police after being tortured, and one of her victims.
- DirectorFina TorresStarsAriadna GilArielle DombasleEvelyne DidiAna bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is filming an operatic Cinderella, but will Ana "fit into the glass slipper" before she is deported back to Caracas? The evil, plotting, self-absorbed Celeste tries to thwart Ana, but Ana has a great team in her corner: her Russian voice coach, a wealthy lesbian psychoanalyst, a prescient gay waiter/astrologer, and a voodoo witch doctor. Fun and adventurous.
- DirectorSabina BermanIsabelle TardánStarsDiana BrachoArturo RíosJesús OchoaGina (Diana Bracho) is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees once in a while just to have sex; they are both atracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa, while he admires his power, she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian (who is a journalist) to write a book about Pancho Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers. She gets sick of only having sex, and when she decides to get married with him and have a baby, he escapes to buy cigarrettes and gets lost for three months. Gina forgets about him and gets a new boyfriend (half the age she is), and when Adrian tries to get her back and she refuses him and humiliates him, the one and only Pancho Villa appears as his machista conscience ready to do anything to get Gina back.
- DirectorCatalina VillarSeven school children in Medellin, where daily life is full of violence, have been asked to write a diary.
- DirectorMercedes García GuevaraStarsPaola KrumJuan PalominoPablo CedrónA young working mother in Buenos Aires, Ana reads a note suggesting a relationship kept hidden by her husband, an executive preoccupied by his job. To solve the mystery she travels a long distance to Rio Escondido, an unimportant river town at the foot of the mountains in western Argentina, and the film becomes a journey of discovery as she finds her heart and her passion. Along the way, truths and perceptions intertwine when Ana meets Martin and she learns who and what he is.
- DirectorTata AmaralStarsLaura CardosoFransérgio AraújoAna Lúcia TorreSelma, a retired nurse, is an extremely loving mother for his son Raimundo, in an almost incestuous relationship. One day, she becomes aware of some changes in her son's behavior. At first, she thinks it may be some girlfriend. But soon she learns it's something else.
- DirectorSandra WerneckStarsMurilo BenícioCarolina FerrazEmílio de MelloFifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an encounter, an unfinished sentence... Something insignificant, but which will determine the character's life. Fifteen years later, we follow three completely different versions of Carlos's life. In one, he is a man divided between the stability of a secure life in a lukewarm marriage, and the growing desire to live a great love affair. In the second, he is homosexual and places passion above all else. In the third possible life, Carlos is a man who hasn't yet discovered love, and lives through successive disastrous relationships in search of the perfect woman. One of them is his real life. Another is not his life. And a third is the life he'd like to lead. Which is his true life ?
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsRodrigo SantoroOthon BastosCássia KisA trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.
- DirectorLourdes PortilloThis gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
- DirectorAna PoliakStarsMónica DonayJorge PradoAlejandra AlvarezAni, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.
- DirectorBeatriz Flores SilvaStarsMariana Santangelo GoldmanSilvestreJosep LinuesaMontevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home.
- DirectorVerónica ChenStarsCecilia BengoleaLeonardo BrzezickiAdrián FondariA suicidal woman and a male prostitute connect in an ATM station and begin a tenuous affair.
- DirectorYanara Guayasamín
- DirectorCelina MurgaStarsCamila TokerIgnacio UslenghiJuan Cruz Díaz la BarbaTwenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.
- DirectorEliane CafféStarsJosé DumontNelson XavierMatheus NachtergaeleThe illiterate population of the small town of Javé charge Antônio Biá with the mission of writing the story of the town, in an attempt to stop the construction of a hydropower dam that would destroy the village. They start remembering (or making up) great local personalities and events.
- DirectorMariana ArrutiIn 1972, during the military government, a group of prisoners is confined to prison Trelew, considered maximum security . However, several of those detained had their way free, while 19 prisoners were recaptured.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMercedes MoránCarlos BellosoAlejandro Urdapilleta16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.
- DirectorMaría Victoria MenisStarsLeonardo RamírezDarío LevyMónica LairanaAn itinerant worker, engaged by a farm couple, finds interest in their little child, giving it loving protection when the parents split up.
- DirectorElia SchneiderElia K. SchneiderStarsRoque ValeroEdgar RamírezRamiro Meneses"Punto y raya" is the story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsCaco CioclerFlavio BauraquiWerner SchünemannThe strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
- DirectorInés de Oliveira CézarStarsSusana CamposRoxana BercoGuillermo ArengoRenee returns home one Saturday after giving an early morning piano lesson. She lives in the provinces with her husband Juan and their five year-old son Santi. Over breakfast, they discuss a possible move to Buenos Aires but rule it out after Juan provides a reasoned argument against it. He suggests a family trip to the beach. Renee proposes for Juan alone to take Santi to the beach while she takes her ailing mother Virginia to the country. The film bifurcates as the narrative alternates between the two excursions. Renee picks up Virginia at an assisted-living facility; they drive to a rustic cabin, sit by the fireplace and later take a walk in the forest. Juan and the inquisitive Santi travel further, to an almost empty beach, walk down a pier, build a castle out of sand, and meet two fishermen who entertain the boy with sea tales and teach him how to gut a fish.
- DirectorMartín De SalvoVera FogwillStarsVera FogwillLucía SniegMirta BusnelliAn exploration into mother-daughter relationships and the struggles of a precocious 10-year-old child to raise her cocaine-addicted mother who gets unexpectedly pregnant with her second child.
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsMagaly SolierCarlos J. de la TorreYiliana Chong14-year-old Madeinusa comes of age during the Easter festivities of her tiny, isolated village.
- DirectorDaniela GoggiStarsFernando CasarínHéctor DíazAndrea GarroteLife is a long way to adapt to fear. Monica, 33, recently separated, waits for the result of a medical examination, but has no courage to break the news to her self-centered relatives.
- DirectorMarianne TelekiStarsHector SalgadoAt 16, Hector Salgado was arrested and tortured by military forces in Chile. By 20, Hector was without a country living in exile in the US. This documentary follows Hector as he returns to Chile almost 30 years later, camera in hand, to confront the perpetrators and his former captors looking for answers and justice. In the process, the documentary takes a look at US foreign policy in Latin America in the '70s, and the legacy of Pinochet with which Chile struggles today.
- DirectorAna KatzStarsAna KatzCarlos PortaluppiDaniel HendlerA romantic holiday has left Ines all alone.
- DirectorLorena Giachino TorrénsA mother who lost her memory. Her best friend, kidnapped and disappeared being pregnant. A daughter who tries to rescue them. A reflection upon friendship, motherhood and loss.
- DirectorLucía GajáTeenage immigrant, Rosa Jimenez, is accused of committing murder in a Texas.
- DirectorSandra KogutStarsThiago da Silva MarizWallison Felipe Leal BarrosoMaria Juliana Souza de OliveiraThiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
- DirectorSandra GugliottaStarsGermán PalaciosAna CelentanoMarina GlezerThe beautiful wife of a geologist frantically searches for her missing husband and is haunted by a man who bears a striking resemblance to him.
- DirectorClaudia AbendAdriana LoeffStarsIgnacio BenedettiPablo BonillaEmiliano BrancciariThrough the memories and confessions of some of the most important names in Uruguayan music, the film brings back to life the stories of the songs that defined a country and that, in some cases, helped change history.
- DirectorDiana CardozoSeven Instants is the story of women that were "guerrilleras" in Uruguay at the beginning of the 70's. Under an intimate focus, the film shows the moments of decision and the personal crossroads that it involve.
- DirectorInés BraunStarsMercedes MoránFernán MirásSofía Gala CastiglioneAt the bar "La Ronda" Javier breaks up with Lucía, who works there as a waitress. He then meets Mónica, who is not attracted to him but falls for Luis, the house painter. But when he finishes working at her house, he leaves her. By chance Luis meets Julia, who becomes interested in him only because she thinks he is an art painter. When she realizes the truth, she runs away. Then Julia meets Max, a film director. They like each other and he offers her a part in his movie. The set is at the bar "La Ronda", where the circle closes in a very unexpected way.
- DirectorLucía CedrónStarsMercedes MoránJorge MarraleLeonora BalcarceThe kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.
- DirectorMariana ChenilloStarsFernando LujánEnrique ArreolaAri BrickmanThis story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora had devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.
- DirectorElisa EliashStarsValentina AlegríaJosefina GonzálesCatalina SaavedraA mother on the brink of blindness abandons her little daughter every day. The girl just wants to please her mother so it develops a macabre game to look like her. Until one day, the plan seems to have yielded results beyond all expectations.
- DirectorAlbertina CarriStarsAnalía CouceyroJavier LorenzoVíctor Hugo CarrizoA married woman with a mute daughter has a forbidden relationship with the single father of a teenage boy.
- DirectorGabriela DavidStarsLuis MachínLuciano CáceresCecilia RossettoTwo close girlfriends come to Buenos Aires from the Northwest of the country looking for a better future, but they are coaxed and eventually forced to work in a brothel. One of them will adapt to survive while the other will try to flee.
- DirectorJulia SolomonoffStarsGuadalupe AlonsoNicolás TreiseMirella PascualA teenage girl, feeling babyish and awkward compared to her older sister, finds solace in a childhood friend while spending a countryside summer in her father's old van.
- DirectorNatalia SmirnoffStarsMaría OnettoGabriel GoityArturo GoetzAn older housewife discovers she has a knack for solving puzzles.
- DirectorHilda HidalgoStarsPablo DerquiEliza TrianaJordi DauderBased on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a sexual awakening and finally exorcised, Sierva finds an unlikely ally in a young priest and together they discover passion.
- StarsSebastián RulliAarón DíazAngelique BoyerTeresa is a young woman dominated by her greed. Her parents have made great sacrifices to give her a good, decent life, but Teresa wants more, a lot more.
- DirectorAna Luiza AzevedoStarsEduardo CardosoMurilo GrossiCaroline GuedesThe countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope. Later he offers to help Lucas with some duties at the school laboratory, but when the Daniel realizes that his friend is dating Mim, he blows up and breaks the laboratory, leaving the key in the door. Lucas is blamed by the headmaster and is suspended from classes and examinations. Daniel decides to tell the headmaster the truth and learns that a laptop was stolen from the lab.
- DirectorCecilia Priego
- DirectorAnahí BerneriStarsErica RivasNicasio GalánZenón GalánAre we what others see, or are we what we allow others to see? Most likely it is the view of others which delimits our own identity, as a young divorced mother named Julieta convinces herself. This evening is like any other: her two young sons are roughhousing in their cramped apartment. They whoop and shout while their mother makes desperately futile attempts at the computer to concentrate on writing a report for work. Feeling intense pressure, Julieta tries to quiet the conflict but finds it difficult without a partner to help. The tense situation changes unexpectedly when her two-year-old falls and hurts himself. In this story of a mother suspected of hurting her own child, the movie investigates themes of motherhood, guilt, duty, the role of men and women, fathers and mothers....
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsJean Remy GentyYanmarco King EncarnaciónPaul Henri PresuméA Haitian man who recently lost his job as a French teacher begins a desperate search for work in Santo Domingo.
- DirectorAlejandra Sánchez OrozcoAlejandra SánchezStarsJesús Romero ColínJesus was sexually abused by a priest when he was an 11 year old boy. As an adult, he decides not only to denounce his aggressor but also to find him and confront him.
- DirectorSabrina FarjiStarsCeleste CidMariela VitaleVictoria CarrerasEva and Lola are close friends. While Eva tries to cope with her past creating a fantasy life, Lola does not want to handle with the truth of her real identity. Two friends with different views of the same story.
- DirectorVirginia Martínez
- DirectorMarcos PradoStarsNathalia DillLuca BianchiLívia de BuenoTwo girlfriends visit a big Brazilian beach festival and decide to just let go. They enjoy the music, booze, drugs and on one steamy afternoon even each other. They also meet a young man and things can't be better. Can this paradise last?
- DirectorMilagros MumenthalerStarsMaría CanaleMartina JuncadellaAilín SalasPortrait of everyday life of Marina, Sofia and Violeta, three sisters living in Buenos Aires his grandmother's house, the woman who raised her, after she has died.
- DirectorMaría Elena WoodDocumentary about the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize, Gabriela Mistral, and her relationship with the American Doris Dana. Gabriela meets Doris when she thinks she cannot overcome the biggest tragedy of her life: the suicide of her only son. Doris, realizing that her partner will be gone soon, records the conversations with her in their Long Island house. These recordings will be the access to the affective universe of a woman who lives in permanent tension with her inner demons and whose sensitivity and ambition make her the protagonist of her time.
- DirectorPaula de LuqueStarsOsmar NúñezJulieta DíazAlfredo CaseroThe story is based on the first meeting of Juan Perón and Eva Duarte, during a fund-raising for the recent 1944 San Juan earthquake, and their growing relation.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsMauricio RodríguezLucas AcuñaTeresa GuerrecheaMauricio is a lifeguard who tries to steer clear from getting in the water, he believes that a good professional applies preventive measures to stop people from drowning, so he tries to make everything run according to his rules. The problem is that those who come to the beach in the summer want to forget that during the year someone tells them what to do. Nobody wants to do what they're told and he doesn't want to risk his life for them. Everyone is exposed, watching the events and tragedies that take place on the Beach.
- DirectorPaula HernándezStarsDiego PerettiLuis ZiembrowskiElena RogerChildhood friends Bruno and Lalo are inseparable, until Lisa enters their lives. Beautiful and free-spirited, she quickly turns both their heads, igniting a passionate but heartbreaking love triangle - before suddenly leaving town without a word. Lisa resurfaces much later; Bruno is married and Lalo divorced, and none have them have been able to completely shake their memories of that summer 30 years ago. When Lisa reunites the group, those old feelings are stirred - and relived.
- DirectorLeticia TonosStarsJulietta RodriguezVictor ChecoGastner LegermeMaria, 18 year old daughter of a single mother, decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finally finds him in a nearby town, living in what appears to be a haunted old country house in the middle of a neglected banana plantation. Amidst the peculiarities and superstitions of the Dominican country side, father and daughter will have to face the ghosts of the past that haunt them both.
- DirectorLucía CarrerasStarsCecilia SuárezGabriela de la GarzaGala MontesPilar loses the one thing in life that mattered to her and, from that moment on time stops. The present begins blending with the past, and the heroine withdraws into a world of her own. An intimate drama about the extreme emotions connected to the loss of someone on whom our lives depend.
- DirectorMaite Rivera CarbonellHow fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past when they open their "files", the records obtained of the illegal surveillance and persecution that the Puerto Rican government held against citizens and organizations that disagreed with the establishment. Through their daily life, they will tell us their stories, experiences and intimate feelings of the persecution they suffered. Taking their past as an example, we will confront the present.
- DirectorJacaranda Velásquez
- DirectorTania HermidaStarsEva Mayu Mecham BenavidesMarkus Mecham BenavidesMartina LeónIt's the summer of 1976. Manuela is a nine year old girl who's caught in between her communist and atheist father and her grandmother, a catholic and conservative woman. They both dispute the right to define her name and, with it, her role inside the familiar universe. It will be her encounter with with her crazy uncle, hidden in the library of the family's farmhouse (where he has dedicated himself to freeing the words) that will wake up her need to go through mirrors, transforming forever her relationship with language and names, including her own.
- DirectorMariana Viñoles
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaFrom dusk to dawn Martin watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords.
- DirectorPaula MarkovitchStarsPaula Galinelli HertzogLaura AgorrecaViviana SuranitiCeci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?
- DirectorPaulina Del PasoStarsRobertoGilbert SotoAna Maria Torres
- DirectorVerónica RiedelStarsSofía ArévaloGiacomo BuonafinaCarolina CuervoFONSI is an apparently privileged 12 year old boy. As we get to know his dysfunctional family, his world begins to crumble in a matter of hours. Due to a series of unexpected events, each character changes drastically, facing a crude reality.
- DirectorMarialy RivasStarsAlicia RodríguezAline KüppenheimMaría Gracia OmegnaDaniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
- DirectorAlicia Cano MenoniStarsAgustina AgueroEliza di PasquaFabiana Dinardi'El Bella Vista' is the story of a house started as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel and changes at last to a Catholic Chapel, all in a small conservative village in Uruguay. Two transvestites, one brothel's Madame, a brickmaker, ex football player, and a nun will bring to life this battle for control of a single physical space, home to mutually antagonistic institutions, driven by the same motivation: passion.
- DirectorAna PiterbargStarsViggo MortensenSoledad VillamilDaniel FanegoA man who assumes the identity of his deceased twin in Argentina.
- DirectorPaola CastilloTiziana PanizzaA social experiment that moves marginalized families into a middle class neighborhood in Valparaiso, Chile.