Alfonso Tort

A love story escaping neoliberal times.

Heartbroken, Maite arrives at a coastal town where the few residents live out their lonely lives. The peace soon disappears, when they come across an unconscious sailor on the beach one day, prompting Maite to decide whether to move forward and create a new life or remain stranded on those shores.

For over six years, Javier and Valeria have been trying to get pregnant. At work Javier is approached by Camila, a coworker, and tells him she is pregnant with his baby. In the following days, his relationship—indeed, his entire existence—starts to fall apart.

Lorenzo goes into the mountain range at the end of the world to look for a hermit, who may be his brother lost years ago. He needs to find him to release a heavy guilt, but for some villagers the stranger's questions threaten a secret that must not come to light.

Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.

Demosthenes reappears in his village where he is known as "Ghost", just for the end of the year holidays, with no plans or goals. Luis Miguel, his old friend, gives him a job, and asks him to look for a pig to be slaughtered at the end of that week, in which friendship turns into a working relationship.

Entre 1973 e 1985, muito antes de ser presidente do Uruguai, José Mujica luta para sobreviver a 12 anos de prisão e tortura junto com outros prisioneiros políticos.

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.

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 broken heart makes Sergio reject the city......A city full of late adolescents, girls that make you cry, drunks worried about matters they couldn´t handle even sober...and songs that say all that they would have wanted to say (if they knew that they needed to say something)

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

Em Montevidéu vive Jacobo, um homem de 60 anos que vive sozinho desde a morte de sua mãe. Desde então sua única alegria na vida é a pequena fábrica de meias que possui. Marta é uma mulher de 48 anos que é o braço direito de Jacobo na fábrica, onde trabalha como supervisora. Marta e Jacobo possuem uma espécie de dependência mútua, apesar dos assuntos entre eles sempre ficarem em torno de trabalho. Até que um dia Herman, o irmão de Jacobo, avisa que irá a Montevidéu para participar da matzeiva, uma celebração judaica para a colocação da pedra do túmulo em até um ano após a morte de uma pessoa. Herman não vai a Montevidéu há mais de 20 anos, tendo faltado até mesmo ao funeral de sua mãe, sendo que também tem uma pequena fábrica de meias, localizada no Brasil. A visita de Herman desperta em Jacobo a velha competição existente entre os irmãos, que faz com que ele faça a Marta uma proposta inusitada...

24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.