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The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

A policewoman returns with her young daughter to her hometown to care for her dying mother. The murder of a young girl will keep her there longer than expected. Thus, she will try to solve a case that no one seems to care about.

A woman has a chance to free herself from an oppressive past when she meets a man with whom she re-discovers her passion for tango. But before she can move on she has to accept some uncomfortable truths.

Mi Mundial is an Uruguayan movie based on Daniel Baldi's namesake book. It tells the story of Tito, a wonderful football player, who comes from a poor family in a little village and is traded to a big team in the city, but in his best moment something unexpected happens.

A successful football player suffering media harassment and the pressure of his surroundings seeks escape from the hell his life has turned into.

Four friends want to explore the basement of their school but Miriam ,the go-between of the classroom ,listens to their plan.They are in trouble.

Married but separated couple Matthias and Anna, marital wounds still open, get together to plan their son Lukas' birthday party. When, at the end of the party, little guest Julius isn't picked up by his parents, a rapid chain of events takes place. First Matthias just wants to get rid of Julius, but later the helpless little boy awakens Matthias' protector instincts and opens his eyes to his own son's needs.

Madelón (40) is a mother who searches for her 18-year-old son after the plane he was traveling in crashes in the Andes mountains in 1972. Just a few days after the accident, the search efforts are canceled by the governments, as survival seemed impossible. «The Rosary of the Andes» explores the invisible connection between mother and son that goes beyond the bounds of reason, delving into the realms of faith, the esoteric, and the dreamlike as the only tools to embark on a quest for a miracle. Based on the true story and the book published by Madelón Rodriguez, mother of Carlitos Paez Vilaró, one of the 16 survivors of the Andes tragedy.

In 1983 a group of 154 children aged 3 and 17 years old traveled alone to Montevideo in a flight coming from Europe. They were children of political exiles from Uruguay, who were unable to come back to their own country; they sent their kids to know their relatives and home country. This well intentioned act with a political message involved, will be helpful not only with human rights' fight and freedom, but also it will affect children's life, in relation to their identity development, when a crowd received them singing together "your parents will come back". This movie is about six kids who have been trying to establish their identity until today, already grown up; because they hadn't got a common childhood like any other kid; growing up in one place with their relatives and neighbors, exile's children lived a life in retirement, leaving behind everything they loved.

The Citroen Méhari is a lightweight all-terrain vehicle: 600 cc, two-cylinder and 28 HP, with a maximum speed of 60 kilometers (37 miles) per hour. Divorced and lonely, a Uruguayan named Mario Sabah decided to realize a longtime dream for his 50th birthday and tour the world in this car. So he quit his job and fixed up the blue Méhari that once served as the family wagon. Together with a camera and his two sons, he then embarked on a 150,000-kilometer (93,000-mile) journey across 45 countries and five continents. Once on the road, it doesn't take long for tensions to mount. After a clash of personalities halfway through Latin America, Mario continues alone, all the way to Canada. Sometimes he drives 600 kilometers at a stretch without even realizing it. "Do not ask me what happened in the middle, because I cannot tell." Once he is way up north, he puts the Méhari on the boat to Spain, and from there he travels through Europe, Asia and even Australia, defying heat, rain, dirt and all forms of chaos along the way - with plenty of stamina, far too little money and at a speed that's crucial to the story. In the words of his son Mattias, "At 60 kilometers per hour, you're like a chameleon. You go slowly, transforming along with the landscape you're going through."

Blanca Luz Brum traveled an unusual path, through twentieth-century Latin America, actively participating in the intellectual, political and artistic movements of Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is today a symbol of female emancipation in Latin America. The versions about her life are varied and dissimilar, the testimonies of those who knew her, full of contradictions.

Carmen Vidal is a private detective addicted to pizza, beer and marijuana who fights against a criminal Senator to avenge the death of her colleague, in a modern film noir about self-improvement.

A bright, low-income young woman has relegated her career to caring for her abusive mother. After getting a new job in the home of an upper-class family that treats her as an equal, she will realize that her comfort in that place has other intentions.

Being a mother is not the only mandate; you also have to be a good one. Nowadays, maternity is a state of madness. Malamadre narrates, through interviews with mothers, the story of motherhood that they never told us.

After a long political exile, in the summer of 1989 the Uruguayan Alfredo Zitarrosa died in his native country. After his death, hundreds of boxes with their memories remain closed in the family home for twenty-seven years. Today, his daughters and his wife rescue those memories, marked by exile and that are torn between oblivion and destruction by the passage of time.

When Noelia goes blind, she must face the fear of being a mother without seeing, of forgetting the faces of her loved ones and of understanding the world without seeing it. But the darkness absorbs her and she thinks of death. Her vital impulse drives her to rehabilitate herself and there she meets love. Strengthened, she decides to repair the wounds of the past with her daughter, knowing that this is the only way she will be able to back to the light.

Carroceros is a documentary about the fans of the mythical Argentinean film "Waiting for the hearse", which looks into both the obvious and the hidden reasons for this fandom phenomenon.