Adrián Biniez

Diverse local theatre groups go after an unfortunate programmer in charge of the Cataluña theatre festival, who goes on a vacation in Uruguay.

Far from showing a shipwreck as an adventure, La encomienda reveals the traumatic experience suffered by those who fight for their lives in extraordinary circumstances, in which both hopelessness and their own patience become powerful enemies.

Alfonso is exhausted after working and goes to the beach. He goes into the water and starts this fantastic journey through his different vacations in life, meeting old girlfriends, childhood friends, his daughter and his loneliness.

Alfonso is exhausted after working and goes to the beach. He goes into the water and starts this fantastic journey through his different vacations in life, meeting old girlfriends, childhood friends, his daughter and his loneliness.

A divorced taxi driver shows up with a black eye at the home of his ex-wife’s new family; he’s been invited to dinner and he desperately wants to reconnect with his young daughter. A professional magician’s car breaks down and he ends up spending an emotionally intense night with a young, widowed toll booth worker. A singer songwriter serving a lengthy prison sentence is released for one night to perform at a local community centre. These three deeply engaging stories about yearning for connection unfold in parallel, one New Year’s Eve in a small town in central Uruguay, balancing the universality of human suffering with a powerful sense of hope.

After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.

After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.

A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.

A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.

A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.