La Soledad

To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions caused by alcohol abstinence, and his desire for redemption becomes distorted when he joins old friends to work in an illegal gold mine controlled by Colombian guerrillas. The violence required to work in the mine plunges Roque into a cycle of self-destruction that devours his interior. He will need the fortitude to get out and start anew.

In a remote Venezuelan island, a community of fishermen fights to protect the ruins of the first European city built in the Americas.

Three Venezuelan women cross the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta.

Caro travels to Venezuela to sell her late father’s cacao plantation, only to find the family mansion occupied by its former staff, who are determined to remain at all costs. As Caro takes justice into her own hands to claim the inheritance she believes is hers, she sets off a struggle that unearths the violence buried in the land and its memory.

A personal portrait of the director’s grandfather Opa, and his wife's grandfather Ababo, who remained in Venezuela after most of their family emigrated due to the economic crisis and violence in the country.

In February 2014 the student protests in Venezuela paralyzed the country. The University community peacefully demanded personal security, and a solution to the heavy economic crisis, but the Government of Nicolás Maduro responded with hard military repression and bullets. The aftermath resulted in 43 people killed by the National Guard and the armed government-supported groups.