Alvaro Mechoso

Award-winning documentary about how one Uruguayan leftist survived solitary confinement during the dirty war. The story of former Tupamaro guerill...

22 de abr. de 2008

34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends a religious temple led by a Brazilian min...

01 de jan. de 2004

In Montevideo, Sonja cares for her invalid mother, works in a garment factory, and has little going for her. Her neighbor Modesto, an older man who...

30 de set. de 2002

This is a documentary about the Uruguayan boxer Alfredo Evangelista, who at height of his career even fought against Mohammad Ali. A considerable p...

27 de mar. de 2006

After 22 years an old photographer finds lost negatives of El Popular, the newspaper he worked for when it was closed down by the dictatorship in 1...

01 de dez. de 2007

Montado com base em fotografias, filmes de época, material de arquivo e testemunhos de sobreviventes, familiares e historiadores, o documentário re...

06 de jun. de 2000

This is the dramatic untold story of small farmers who suffer and struggle to subsist less than 80 kilometres from Montevideo. The reality of their...

01 de jan. de 1991

An intimate documentary portrait of an exceptional couple who live in a suburb of Montevideo: Julia, a 65-year-old transsexual whose new gender ide...

12 de abr. de 2011

This documentary tells the story of a group of Uruguayan political and social activists who began or intensified their activities in the 1960s. Wha...

01 de jan. de 2008

The first documentary about the little-known world of transvestites in Montevideo. We are shown the most complicated facets of these people, their ...

23 de jun. de 1995

Héctor Rodríguez (1918-1996) was one of the outstanding figures in the people's movement in Uruguay. He was a textile worker and also a member of p...

05 de abr. de 2001

The biggest peaceful demonstration of resistance to an authoritarian regime in Latin America in the 1970s was the general strike whereby Uruguayan ...

26 de set. de 2004

This documentary examines the problems of Uruguay's Atlantic coast in the face of a scheme to exploit the area's tourist resources that is not gear...

01 de jan. de 1994

The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay. The way up to the buildi...

06 de jul. de 2005