Catalogue

This section seeks to facilitate the search for works and projects from Uruguay for festival programmers, press and sales agents and co-producers.

EL RETRATO DE MI PADRE

My father was found dead at the beach with psychotropic medication among his things. Despite suicide being a possibility, my mother -a psychiatrist- deemed performing an autopsy unnecessary. I was eight years old. Thirty years later, equipped with a..

Year Premiere: 2022

Director: Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe

AIRE

Montevideo. 2012. In a torned down building located in old town, two male nurses, Martín (45) and Andrés (43), confess to having murdered around twenty terminally-ill patients by injecting air into their veins, therefore causing cardio arrest follow..

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Director: Carlos Morelli

NENA

Ana waits for her dad to come by and finally listen to what she has been longing to tell him for years. When she understands he is not coming, Ana will reach out to every..

Year Premiere: 2022

Director: Celeste Lois

FRAGMENTOS

Documentary that records the writing process of a collective book. A group of Uruguayan ex-convicts get together each week aiming at reconstructing a story that went through their lives leaving deep marks...

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Director: Laura Linares

LA NIEVE ENTRE LOS DOS

Hundreds of letters exchanged between a girl exiled in Sweden and her father, a political prisoner in Uruguay, bear witness to 11 years of adversity and thousands of miles of separation. In these letters, father and daughter search..

Year Premiere: 2024

Director: Pablo Martínez Pessi

TENEMOS QUE VER

Tenemos Que Ver is the International Film and Human Rights Festival of Uruguay, which for the past 11 years has held an annual free access festival. The Festival seeks to be a space for meeting and reflection on..

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Director: Francesca Cassariego

DESPERTÉ CON UN SUEÑO

Felipe is a teenager who spends his days riding a bike with his friends along the empty streets of the beach town where they live, rapping freestyle and taking acting classes behind his mother’s back. He sees entire..

Year Premiere: 2022

Director: Pablo Solarz

MONTEVIDEO INOLVIDABLE

Why is it so difficult to defend Montevideo's building heritage? The artist Alfredo Ghierra tries to answer it, while paying tribute to his city and inviting us to reflect on it. The film also explores the..

Year Premiere: 2025

Director: Alfredo Ghierra

CERRADO POR DUELO

This is the story of a false suicide, that of two men in decadence protagonists of a tragic end. On one hand, the old mayor of a town that, cornered by dozens of complaints that..

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Director: Darío Mascambroni

LA FABULA DE LA TORTUGA Y LA FLOR

When Eliana -my best friend since childhood- told me that she had terminal cancer, I suggested that we make a film together. What seems like an attempt to abolish the rules of nature becomes an..

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Director: Carolina Campo Lupo

BACARAY

The year is 2048. A worldwide prohibition of meat consumption causes the creation of ilegal tourism in countries with meat traditions such as Uruguay. A young group of locals are hired by some shady tourists..

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Director: Eduardo Granadsztejn

EXCESO DE AMOR

In a small city in northern Uruguay, a social trauma generated by a television challenge with a tragic outcome is hidden. From the memory of its inhabitants we will unravel this painfully forgotten story...

Year Premiere: 2026

Director: Aldo Garay

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