Another Story of the World

The indigenous inhabitants of a Caribbean island are happy living a quiet life in harmony with nature, but their governor wants to be remembered, so he orders everyone to help him be the first man to reach the moon.

A tale of children's horror for adults. A story that intermingles fantasy and reality. The eyes of a child who perceive what adults are not able to see.

A short story about human creativity blocked by the destruction and death that wars bring with them, and how art pieces go beyond the life of their creators.

An unrepenitent Don Juan, an introverted buddy, their girlfriends, and the women they have their eyes on—all mix in the nightlife of Montevideo.

Leo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids, who's now trying to ward off her own personal demons. This casual re-encounter will affect their personal conflicts without either truly grasping the other's problem.

The governor of a small Caribbean island is about to be visited by his European nephews, so he decides to treat them with the celebration a traditional Christmas day. This includes eating turkey for dinner, decorating the Christmas tree, and watching the snow fall. His subjects are willing to fullfil this task in order to improve the distribution and protection of drinking water that comes from a spring.

Two Uruguayan journalists embark on a journey of secrets, simulations, furtive encounters and paranoia when a mysterious informant contact them with the intention to reveal evidence of crimes by the military dictatorship that have never been investigated. The delivery is postponed repeatedly, patience runs out and anxiety grows, but the possibility of obtaining the information is stronger than any suspicion.

The tale of five Uruguayan villagers who embark on a journey to see the ocean for the first time. They depart in a broken down freight truck, property of Rodríguez, a taciturn man who loves the sea. Their point of departure is a local bar, and at the last minute, an unknown man from the bar joins their adventure.

Basilio is a great guy, a poor devil with a huge heart who nobody really notices. Dominated by his wife, humiliated by his colleagues, despised by the man who walks his dog. Basilio decides to give it all up, but in the middle of his suicide attempt he meets three peculiar characters, a noise pollution officer, a young 12-year old girl and a creative and endearing woman who keeps losing her phone. With these three in tow, he wanders through the city, while the noise around him is growing.

The life of a seal is pretty unfair. During mating season, the strong ones take ten females each, nine males stay without a partner. This wildlife comedy observes a colony of seals and tells the story of one of them: We follow him through the crude beauty of birth, being fed by his mother, and being pushed away when the next new-born is due. His adolescent fight to define his place in life - and finally his efforts during mating season. Fresh, funny and with entertaining narration, the film switches from the sex life of seals to our own manners of courtship and mating. Isn't our life all about reproducing ourselves? What does us humans divide from mammals when it comes to love, sex and reproduction? Aren't we all seals after all...?

Two kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.

Two humans and a dog try to find shelter during a storm, but nobody is paying attention to them.

A poor woman is abandoned by her partner after she gets pregnant, and she is determined to give the kid a better life.

Dos Orientales is a musical documentary about the jazz fusion duo Hugo Fattoruso and Tomohiro Yahiro. The film invites you to dive into the creative world of these two experienced musicians who come from very distant countries: Uruguay and Japan. Twined by their passion and their charisma, they have been sharing routes and scores around the world since 1997 until today. Dos Orientales is a journey to the heart of cultural and musical differences that, rather than separating, unite and build bridges.

After the end of the dictatorship, Uruguay was faced with the unresolved problem of what to do with the past. In this documentary the CEMA camera team roam the city streets and find out what Montevideans think about bringing armed forces personnel to justice. This tour reveals a climate of scepticism, a climate of fear and suspicion, but also a will and a desire that justice must be done.

A couple of kids start to beat up a ragged doll because it's not doing what it's told.