Uruguay Movies

On February 12, 2021, and after 87 years of operation, the Mercado Modelo closed its doors for good. Combining music and documentary recording, this...

Blending archival footage, personal testimony and a decades-long search for answers, Melissa Saavedra Gil transforms a childhood tragedy into a...

The Ansina tenement in Montevideo, Uruguay was home to generations of Black people of African descent until they were forcibly evicted during the...

Laura’s story unfolds in Miguelete, Colonia, Montevideo, and Spain, interwoven with memories of her sister and niece. A sex worker, she...

A brief animation experimental short film about a character losing their mind going crazy in quarantine after being locked down due to the corona...

The film emerges from the hieroglyphic writing on the body—marks of violence that inscribe memory. A meeting in Montevideo between the director...

Uruguayan carnival is investigated by a director who seeks to illustrate the evolution of a popular culture that, in its origins, had a strong...

The film "Estoy por casarme" (1991), directed by Manuel Lamas, is a romantic comedy set in the resort town of Piriápolis. The plot revolves...

Lean (25) is a transfeminine person living in El Dorado, Canelones Uruguay. In the early stages of her transition, she struggles with the...

A short documentary about the rise of Uruguayan indie band Carmen Sandiego, following the transformation of the project created by Flavio Lira and...

In Palmares de la Coronilla (Uruguay), Nancy fights to promote her artisanal fishing enterprise that provides work for 30 families.

Several painters unsuccessfully try to paint something on a canvas. A man enters the scene and with a single brushstroke achieves a huge sign that...

When a serial killer steps into the darkness of your mind, reality can be confusing, altered, and chilling. Even more so when his victims announce a...

Tomás, Rafa and Mónica are three young people aimlessly looking for a place in the world, letting hope, conviction and chance to play...

Among the 85 rural schools in Tacuarembó is "El Paraíso", the school attended by Lucía, who is in her final year of elementary...

A short documentary based on filmed correspondence. Journals of imaginary trips between two people stranded by the pandemic, one inside and the other...

An ornithologist is obsessed with deciphering the language of birds; his search will lead him to meet an old teacher who will give him the least...