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Luis Ara
Born November 2, 1979 · Houston, Texas (age 46)
Luis Ara Hermida (Texas, 1979) is a Uruguayan-American director, producer and writer. He was born in the US, but developed his career in Uruguay, mostly focusing on documentaries.
Known For
USA 94: Brazil's Return to Glory · 2026USA 94: Brazil's Return to Glory
★ 6.82026
MovieDocumentary
Follows Brazil's journey to winning its fourth World Cup in 1994, featuring interviews with players and unseen behind-the-scenes footage from the tournament.
Togo · 2022Togo
★ 6.32022
MovieCrimeDrama
Togo just wants to watch his neighbors' homes, wash their cars and clean up their sidewalks. But the drug traffickers want more from him.
Atchugarry Monumental · 2022Atchugarry Monumental
2022
MovieDocumentary
The story of one of the most important contemporary artists on the planet. A young man who explored art until he connected with the Carrara quarry and thus experimented with the material that would change his career forever: marble.
Vicuña Salvation · 2023Vicuña Salvation
2023
MovieDocumentary
The incredible conservation story of a magnificent species that produces the finest, most expensive fiber in the world and the empowerment of an indigenous community that lives 15,000 feet above sea level in the Peruvian mountains.
Teros, sueño mundial · 2015Teros, sueño mundial
2015
MovieDocumentary
The campaign of the Uruguayan rugby team, nicknamed "Los Teros", during the 2015 Rugby World Cup qualification, and the amateur character of its players that contrasts against the professionalism of their group rivals.
12 Horas 2 Minutos · 201212 Horas 2 Minutos
2012
MovieDramaDocumentary
The story of Juan, a man who, after almost two years of waiting and with his heart working at barely 8% capacity, receives the news that there is a donor for him. 12 hours and 2 minutes elapse from that call until the end of the operation.
Peru: Hidden Treasure · 2017Peru: Hidden Treasure
★ 7.72017
MovieDocumentary
Peru is a country steeped in cultural traditions that stretch back more than 1,000 years. But it's also a land of surprising natural riches.
El Invierno Más Frío · 2021El Invierno Más Frío
2021
MovieDramaHistory
The cold streets of Warsaw, the Ghetto where thousands of Jews lived during the Second World War and the deportation square where the train left for the Nazi concentration camps are living witnesses of one of the darkest times of humanity. This film travels to the chilling corners of the Auschwitz, Bkernau and Majdanek concentration camps where nearly 2 million Jews were murdered. Along with never-before-seen images, the renowned Argentine writer Marcelo Birmajer seeks to understand part of what happened in that dark chapter in the history of humanity and in turn decipher not only how humans could commit such an atrocity, but what they must do to prevent it from happening. happen again.
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