María Eugenia Alonso, almost a woman, still an adolescent, returns from Europe to impose the light of her reason on that of her old house, a temple of boredom, where, as in the ancient and moist churches, the old smell of traditions and race floats.
Based on the homonymous novel by Nobel Prize Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias, "El Señor Presidente" is a tragic and impossible love story lost between degradation and fear. It is the tale of a fictitious Latin American country living under a fierce dictatorship sponsored by a society in frank decadence. Evil spreads downwards from the ruler, justice is a mockery, and the military spends their time abusing their fellow citizens and enjoying corruption. - Written by Jorge Granier-Phelps
A confectioner prepares the cake for a party to which she hopes to be invited.
Inspired by true events, "God's Slave" is the story of Ahmed and David, two extremist characters, one Islamic and the other Jewish, who cross their paths while being in the opposite side of the conflict in the A.M.I.A bombings that took place in 1994 in Buenos Aires.
Beginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.
Five domestic stories, five characters, and their families. Small stories that magnify their small ambitions, pettiness, hope, and discouragement, which for each of them are moving, definitive and tragic.
Maria Cecilia, a high school valedictorian originally from Venezuela but growing up in Miami, grapples with her fate and her identity as graduation day approaches. Meanwhile, her mother, Violeta, veers too close to a ghost from the past. And Gaby, her younger sister, swears she's found the answer to it all: winning the lottery.
Five domestic stories, five characters, and their families. Small stories that magnify their small ambitions, pettiness, hope, and discouragement, which for each of them are moving, definitive and tragic.
Tosca, the true story is a Venezuelan film released in 2001, based on the homonymous opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.
A lonely woman haunted by murky menacing pictures that kept her confined to her apartment, anonymously receives a DVD loaded with images that feeds the panic which silences her memory and the anguish that forecast her vision. Triggered by this bizarre hint leaves her confinement embarking on a search, which leads it to confront the keys to her own behavior.
Proud television reporter Amanda Herrera lives through the desperate and crazy bolero when, just before Valentine's Day, she is abandoned by Felipe, her married lover, who is finally going to be a father and wants to give his marriage to Dalila a new chance.
The New movie of Alfredo Anzola
Two loners agree to mate their dogs. Eva tries to grieve over the death of her son, and Tomás looks for a baby before his old dog dies. In each visit they find reasons that unite them; and she convinces him that her son's alleged killer is now threatening her. He risks his life to defend her, but discovers that it is a lie. Her son committed suicide, and the guilt racked her. It will remain to save love, and may love save them.
Five stories, five perspectives on the same emotional territory called “country.” A Cuban actress tries to make her way in Chile; two women reunite after decades and confront the passing of time; another survives in solitude while facing her fears; a father and son seek reconciliation amid old wounds; and a birth turns into a desperate race for life. Five intertwined stories—small tales of love, loss, and hope—forming an intimate mosaic about identity, belonging, and the search for a place in the world.
Eladio is a failed actor who has spent years in obscurity working maintenance at a TV station in the capital. When he’s forced to return to Maracaibo to care for his teenage niece —a fierce, guitar-playing rebel— their worlds clash. Amid loud music, insults, and generational conflict, Eladio accidentally reinvents himself as an acting teacher… and ends up entangled with one of the city’s most notorious crime syndicates. What follows is a hilarious, heartfelt, and uniquely Latin American story about rediscovery, family, and the absurdities of adulthood —at any age.