José Luis Torres Leiva
Chile - Argentina - South Korea
71 min.
María, an actress, heads for Puerto Williams to star in a movie. A bad storm prevents the film crew from arriving on time, leaving her to get by on her own. Looking for help to ease her severe back pain, she meets the locals of the world's southernmost city and a pending story in her life. This is the tale of waiting and an accidental encounter between María, the continent's most meridional nature and its inhabitants.
Celina Murga
Argentina - Uruguay - USA - Mexico - Germany
112 min.
Pablo is a university lecturer, married and with two sons. He starts a secret affair with one of his female students, not realising the consequences. Meanwhile, Natalia, a university lecturer, married and with two daughters, starts a secret affair with one of her male students. Two stories that alternate and mirror one another; one featuring a man, the other a woman.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2020
Juliana Rojas
Brazil - Germany - France
119 min.
Two tales of migration between city and countryside. In the first part, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana struggles to thrive in the working city. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia moves to his farm with her wife Mara. The nature forces the two women to face frustrations and cope with old memories and ghosts.
Iair Said
Argentina - Italy - Spain
78 min.
David returns to his home in Buenos Aires only to learn that his mother has decided to pull the plug on Bernardo, his father lying in coma. He oscillates between the intimate coexistence with his mother, alienated by the pain of the imminent loss of her husband, and a ravenous desire to fill his existential anguish. He spends his days learning how to drive, oscillating between the past and the present and trying to have sex with anyone showing him the least bit of attention.
WIP Latam 2023
Nele Wohlatz
Brazil - Argentina - Taiwan - Germany
97 min.
A coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for holidays with a broken heart. A broken air conditioner sends her into Fu Ang’s umbrella store. He could become a friend, but the rainy season doesn't arrive and his shop disappears. While looking for Fu Ang, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers in a posh skyscraper. Kai finds herself strangely mirrored in Xiaoxin’s tale.
Ikusmira Berriak 2018
Luis Ortega
Argentina - Mexico - Spain - Denmark - USA
96 min.
Remo Manfredini is a legendary jockey, but his self-destructive behavior is beginning to outshine his talent and threaten his relationship with his girlfriend Abril. On the day of the most important race of his career that will clear him of his debts from his mobster boss Sirena, he has a severe accident, disappears from the hospital and wanders the streets of Buenos Aires. Free from his identity, he starts to discover who he is truly meant to be. But Sirena wants him found, dead or alive.
Yennifer Uribe Alzate
Colombia - Chile
100 min.
Sandra is the new security guard at a shopping centre. Running into a bus driver on her first day at work leads to an affair between them. Sandra gets to grips with her sex life and sets out on a road to freedom through her own experience with desire.
Proyecta 2018
WIP Latam 2022
Ana Endara
Panama - Colombia
108 min.
A tropical garden provides the setting for the meeting between two lonely souls who accompany one another for a time: that of an upper-class woman from whom dementia is taking all she ever was, and that of her caretaker, a lonely immigrant, alienated from the world by a terrible secret.
Salvador Del Solar
Peru - Spain - Uruguay
100 min.
Having received the ashes of his father, with whom he had no more than a distant relationship, Ramón meets Mateo during lockdown. Despite their differences, a profound connection grows between them, prompting them to question themselves. Mateo decides to accompany Ramón on the journey to scatter the ashes in Huancayo. On the way, Ramón will realise that he was looking for answers to the wrong questions, and that he must heal from within in order to move on.
Lola Arias
Argentina - Germany - Switzerland
82 min.
Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wanted to travel, but she was arrested at the airport for drug trafficking. Nacho is a trans man who was busted for fraud and formed a rock band in jail. Gentle or tough, blond or shaven, cis or trans, old-timers or new arrivals: in this hybrid musical everybody recreates their life in a Buenos Aires prison.
WIP Latam 2023
Federico Luis
Argentina - Chile - Uruguay - Mexico
96 min.
Simon is 21 years old. He introduces himself as a mover's helper. He claims not to know how to cook or clean the bathroom, but he does know how to make a bed. Recently, he seems to have become a different person…
Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez
Mexico - USA - France
125 min.
After a cartel gunman from a small Mexican town is murdered, Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son, is left an orphan and in danger. Sujo narrowly escapes death with the help of his aunt who raises him in the isolated countryside amidst hardship, poverty, and the constant peril associated with his identity. When he enters his teens a rebelliousness awakens in him, and like a rite of passage, he joins the local cartel. As a young man, Sujo attempts to make his life anew, away from the violence of his hometown. however, when his father’s legacy catches up with him, he will come face-to-face with what seems to be his destiny.
Mariana Rondón
Peru - Venezuela - Mexico - France - Brazil - Chile - Dominican Republic
100 min.
In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbours of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and electricity shortages, the family has to solve everyday problems and the lack of basic needs while trying to find a solution to escape. Ana scavenges for food in the abandoned apartments, but strange noises in the dark corridors frighten her more and more. In a world that has become wild, Zafari is the only one who still has enough to eat.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2019