While Waiting 2017

Lola lives in a public nursing home where everything is shared: the clothes, the showers, the only coffin and the endings. Her only personal belonging is the memory of her two great loves: her mother and husband. Thanks to them Lola has something to do every day, going to the main door’s window to check on her husband who lives across the street and to the phone, where she tries to call her mother. Both died long ago, but they are Lola’s only strength to reach her end in a world that, otherwise, is very impersonal for her.

Illiterate 2014 ( 5)

Ximena is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy as a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to be an almost impossible task, till one day, Jackeline finds something Ximena has been keeping as her only treasure since she was a child: a letter Ximena's father left when he abandoned her many years before. Thus, the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover that there are many ways of being illiterate, and that not knowing how to read is just one of them.

Family Holidays 2014 ( 6.4)

The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.

Images of the Unconscious 1987 ( 7)

In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952. It gathered paintings and drawings made by mental patients from all over Brazil. Many of the works in the museum are paired with the case-histories of the patients who created them in this fascinating film.

Wild Tango 1993 ( 6.262)

A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.

Historias Breves I: La Ausencia 1994 ( 5.5)

An old man seems to direct the lives of the people who pass by on the street, under his balcony.

Corazón voyeur 2005

Close Your Eyes 2024

It's a day of waiting for the young boy Chico and his grandmother Rosa, both for better news from the hospital and for the lunar eclipse.

Alphaville - Do Lado de Dentro do Muro 2009 ( 6.7)

Alphaville is a slice of the lifestyle inside the wall. The portrait of a Brazil surrounded, where danger, unwanted interactions, all kinds of movement, heterogeneity and unpredictability of the streets are supposedly kept away.