Lara Fremder

Garage Olimpo

María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.

Barbed Wire

Harvey, an old man from Scotland lives with his young son and daughter in an isolated house in Patagonia. Upon arrival of the emissaries of a development corporation he promptly stands against them by building a large fence (alambrado). A debut rich with sensibility and violent physicality, an unusual film of wind, isolation, loneliness, desolation ... and madness.

A Trip to Teulada

Assunta is struck down by a sudden illness and is rescued by her neighbor, Fatima. The old woman survives but on awakening she discovers that the illness has brought back her past, scarred by the creation of the largest military proving ground in Europe which caused the end of her small community.

Giulia in ottobre

Giulia has a one-night stand with a stranger to forget a heartbreak. Aimlessly walking through October city streets to let off steam, she meets a woman who came from Turin seeking an explanation from her partner, who doesn't even want to see her. The two join forces and settle accounts with him. Neither of them feels like going home and being alone, so they spend the whole night wandering around Milan.

The Technician

Birdwatchers

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.

Iqbal, a Tale of a Fearless Child

A little boy, Iqbal, is kidnapped by a carpet dealer who forces him to work in his workshop. With no fear or reproach, he will do everything he can to save himself and his unfortunate friends.

Memoirs of a Mountain Doctor

Salman Luban, a young Belarusian, was sent to the Calanca Valley by the Red Cross in 1917. In this remote area of Italian-speaking Graubünden, he found his calling – and never saw his homeland again until his death in 1954. Salman Luban's grandson sets out in search of his grandfather and a nearly lost form of medicine that, according to his genealogy, viewed the human being as a whole.

Sons And Daughters

We are in Argentina in 1977, a woman gives birth to twins. With the complicity of the midwife he manages to hide the child, second child. The first, a boy, is taken into custody by the regime's guards. The scene moves to the Milan of today. The young Rosa contacts Javier and tries to convince him that they are twin brothers, separated at birth. Thus, the two begin a journey to rediscover their origins and their past. A bitter reality is ready to overwhelm them ...

Dream of a Summer Night

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

The Power of the Past

Forty-year-old Gianni Orzan is satisfied with the life he has built for himself. He lives with his wife Anna, a very sweet woman, and their son Francesco. An encounter with a strange stranger who claims to know things about his father, a fascist soldier, throws Gianni's equilibrium into crisis, forcing him to make a lucid analysis of who he is and who he would have liked to become.

The Game Bag

In late summer 1991, three Italians reach a hunting reserve in Croatia with a station wagon. They go to deer, but, unaware of what's in store for months, they do not decipher the enigmatic signs that surround them. One of the three is suddendly wounded in the knee by a bullet of unknown provenance, and they end up in a hotel targeted by snipers night and day.

Oro verde

Mario is an unemployed engineer, a victim of the economic crisis. Discouraged by job advertisements that do not reflect his capabilities and demoralized by numerous financial deadlines, he decides to organize the heist of the century. The police has just stored in a military facility the largest quantity of cannabis ever seized in Switzerland, and it will be burned shortly. Mario plans to substitute it with common hay without anybody noticing: if the evidence simply disappears, so does the crime... Searching for trustworthy members of his gang, Mario brings together Ivan, Augusto, Leo, Monica and 'The Professor', each of them more desperate than the other and convinced to have found the 'green gold' that will change their lives.