La Memoria

Aníbal, an old fisherman, returns to Nueva Venecia, a village of stilt houses in the heart of the Ciénaga del Magdalena, on the Colombian Caribbean coast, from which he escaped many years ago after a massacre. Sick and exhausted, he has to reconnect with his past in order to reconcile with his memory of pain.

Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers.

Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the most important works of his career and motivations.

The movie is set around a small group of characters experiencing relationships which build and crumble before the viewers eyes. The title of the film refers to the belief, expressed by several of characters, that the goldfish retains a memory of something for only three seconds. Tom, one of the principal characters in the film, draws comparisons between this and the human tendency to jump from one relationship to the next, "forgetting" the pain that any previous one might have caused. The film shows complexities involved in straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships.

After losing his memory in an accident, a man rebuilds his memory through photographs.

Blas Quadra, a writer who was part of the Latin American boom of the '60s, now lives in Uruguay, blind and in seclusion while his son Gabriel is quite successful as a screenwriter in Spain. But one reporter found many similarities in the scripts of Gabriel and his father's work.

In 1956, while living in Chiapas, Mexico, U.S. anthropologist Roberta Montague adopts a baby girl, and asks her colleague, famous Cuban ethnologist Calixta Guiteras, to be the girl’s godmother. Inspired by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Calixta decides to return to her native island. Parallel to Maite's search, film director Guita Schyfter, born in Costa Rica to European Jewish immigrants, shares with us her own personal story.

The Trans Memory Archive gathers the images and stories of trans women for more than 50 years, preserving the memory of those who suffered the outrages of the police, the abandonment of the State and the hostility of the society that witnessed, indolent, a silent genocide. Cintia, Edith, María Belén and Trachyn survived. They share with us the intimacy and complexity of those who faced injustice and pain with humor and creativity, but also with organization and community. In the style of a documentary essay, the series is structured along four axes, each one starring one of them: they talk about carnival, affection, exile and organization, and through their personal experiences they open the door to understand the reality of an entire community.

During a cathartic writing exercise, an evocation of childhood and adolescence arises in relation to the mother figure. Thus, a rhythmic text is born that is recited, recorded and made available for listening. An audiovisual reflection in which the filmmaker observes her mother being a mother but also being a daughter.

After the death of his mother, a repressed tv writer is forced to take care of his father who is loosing his memory, obsessed with his wife is still alive and lost.

The quiet walk of a family is interrupted by the presence of a latent danger. This photo documentary reconstructs the spaces of the Parque de la Memoria through its works of art, while evoking the ever-present horror of the last military dictatorship.

Josefina's personal journey to Nuremberg, Germany, where she arrived as an immigrant from Franco's Spain at the age of eighteen, along with two million other Spaniards who left home to find a future.

Armando and Gualtiero are two elderly homosexuals who have been living together for fifteen years now. One day, though, the unthinkable happens: Armando, suffering from Alzheimer's, no longer recognizes his partner and, as if that weren't enough, he believes he is married to Paloma, their South American caregiver. Gualtiero's attempts to win back Armando turn out to be holes in the water, but where the man fails, the goldfish arrives, Elton John, who keeps a secret in his aquarium.

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

Ten years after the Law of Expiration, this documentary analyses the historical background of Uruguay's recent past. It is a survey of the controversy stirred up in society by the fact that, thanks to this law, the armed forces personnel and police who committed crimes under the dictatorship (1973-1985) have gone unpunished, and it examines the scars the authoritarian regime left on a section of the population.