Now We're Going to Call You Brother

Now We're Going to Call You Brother

Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and...

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Tell Mario not to Come Back

Tell Mario not to Come Back

After a long exile in Venezuela, filmmaker Mario Handler returns to his country, Uruguay. There, the dictatorship is still present in the media...

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Profesión: vivir

Profesión: vivir

Existential confrontations are unleashed while people try to survival within a concret jungle. Such conflict gets worst when the person is near his...

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Liber Arce, liberarse

Liber Arce, liberarse

Liber Arce, a student, was killed by the police in a protest march. His funeral became the largest demonstration held in Montevideo. The events...

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Los Platos del Diablo

Los Platos del Diablo

Ricardo Azolar is looking for the right words, the exact phrases that will give him literary glory. The days are sterile and lacking in those...

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Carlos: Film Portrait of a Montevideo Panhandler

Carlos: Film Portrait of a Montevideo Panhandler

The "caminante" refers to a hobo who roams the countryside, a nomenclature preferred by Carlos, who once traveled all over Uruguay before becoming...

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Elecciones

Elecciones

Documentary on the electoral system in Uruguay. It focused on the upcoming federal elections, criticizing both of the country's political parties.

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Juegos y Rondas Tradicionales del Uruguay

Juegos y Rondas Tradicionales del Uruguay

Documentary made from the record of five manifestations of Uruguayan children's folklore: «El rango», «La rayuela», «Andelito de oro», «La...

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La Matanza de Santa Bárbara

La Matanza de Santa Bárbara

The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great slaughter where almost all the members of one the...

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Mariposas S. A.

Mariposas S. A.

The story of seven prostitutes traveling in a truck, town to town, selling their show in local festivities inside an old circus tent. The...

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Me gustan los estudiantes

Me gustan los estudiantes

Students protest during the Chiefs of State conference at Punta del Este. Counterpoint between presidents, students and repressive policemen.

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Aside

Aside

Rare images of real life stories in the so-called "asentamientos" in the poor underbelly of Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, and in its youth jails...

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Colonial Times

Colonial Times

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political and social standpoints; evocations of the past...

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Broken Columns

Broken Columns

The documentary delves into the intimate, labor, and political life of diverse characters to testify to the problems of inequality, exploitation...

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Uruguay 1969: El Problema de la Carne

Uruguay 1969: El Problema de la Carne

After the meat industry workers stop receiving 2 kilograms of meat a day as a part of their salary, they organize the biggest strike in Uruguayan...

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In Prague

In Prague

Documentary short film by Mario Handler about the city of Prague as part of an internship to study film in Europe.

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Two Ports and a Hill

Two Ports and a Hill

After several close calls with death squads, Mario Handler fled Uruguay in 1973 and eventually settled in Venezuela where he lived and continued to...

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Sugar Cane Workers

Sugar Cane Workers

During the second half of the 1960s, the Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas (UTAA) carried out a series of marches from the north of the...

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