Nicola writes his first play basing it on his relationship with Franca, a drama student he met a week before he left Montevideo. While he rehearses, he goes through a crisis and starts blending fiction with the present.
1965, Dominican Republic. At a seaside brothel, the lives of a group of prostitutes take a dramatic turn when freedom fighters stage a revolutionary coup, making them realise they can have a better life and perhaps find love. But everything changes when the US army supresses the revolution and takes the brothel as a military base: the girls will have to face the dilemma of either sleeping with the enemy or protecting their dignity at all costs.
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Manuel's life is upended when Esmeralda, his lost love from 15 years ago, calls unexpectedly. Despite being set to marry another, he rediscovers Esmeralda, and they realize their love transcends time.
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Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.
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Self-assured, mysterious, and captivating Linda agrees to work at an affluent home in Buenos Aires. Her charm sparks strong sexual attraction among all members of the family, exposing how fragile their externally happy veneer really is.
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The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
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The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
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In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents of two children, who, knowing they are wanted, decide to hide.
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After her girlfriend is imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection.
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In Madrid, Spain, Lucía and Xiang, two nine-year-old Chinese girls, meet at the beginning of the school year.
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In an old bookstore run by an old man, a girl immerses herself in the universe of a graphic novel, which deals with the last moments of the life of an old superhero.
Summoned to a meeting in their child’s schoolyard, two parents confront the reason behind it.
Meche goes to visit her childhood friend, Nati. On the way, she almost bumps into a mysterious figure. When she arrives, she finds the house in disarray and her friend's behaviour disturbing. The appearance of the strange neighbour Benjamin increases the tension. Not everyone is who they say they are.
This documentary, which includes testimonies from architects, urban planners, and specialists, as well as images of the demolition of iconic buildings, invites us to consider how heritage preservation and modernity can be combined without transforming Montevideo into a "museum city."
I count the time of my life: I have an internal metronome, embodied in my gestures, that marks my existence. The idea that everything will turn out well in an impossible scenario.
Four tales that take place during the same weekend in Montevideo.
