Uruguay Movies

Film by Hugo Ponce de León.

The Ansina tenement in Montevideo, Uruguay was home to generations of Black people of African descent until they were forcibly evicted during the...

Laura’s story unfolds in Miguelete, Colonia, Montevideo, and Spain, interwoven with memories of her sister and niece. A sex worker, she...

An ornithologist is obsessed with deciphering the language of birds; his search will lead him to meet an old teacher who will give him the least...

Buenos Aires, 1975. Exiled Uruguayan militants hold a clandestine congress. Their goal is to form a party that will return to Uruguay and reorganize...

Two men dancing on a beach and on Dunes, explore athletic movement. An unsteady camera was chosen to give people a sense of being there watching as...

An anti-extractivist autobiography. A moving photo album from my childhood in the south.

A brief animation experimental short film about a character losing their mind going crazy in quarantine after being locked down due to the corona...

Overwhelmed by the death of his grandfather, a young man embarks on an adventure with one of his old cameras and connects with him without realizing...

Hasta Nunca follows MARIO LIGHETTI, an aging hipster DJ who produces an underground radio show in Montevideo, Uruguay. He invites listeners to share...

The film emerges from the hieroglyphic writing on the body—marks of violence that inscribe memory. A meeting in Montevideo between the director...

Uruguayan carnival is investigated by a director who seeks to illustrate the evolution of a popular culture that, in its origins, had a strong...

The film "Estoy por casarme" (1991), directed by Manuel Lamas, is a romantic comedy set in the resort town of Piriápolis. The plot revolves...

Film by Boris Cristoff.

In Palmares de la Coronilla (Uruguay), Nancy fights to promote her artisanal fishing enterprise that provides work for 30 families.

Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Even inside LOS AMIGOS. A 26-minute montage of footage recorded over the course of a working day at LOS AMIGOS,...

A short documentary about the rise of Uruguayan indie band Carmen Sandiego, following the transformation of the project created by Flavio Lira and...