Catalogue
37th Edition
2009
The production of short films in Uruguay has a long tradition, which has grown continuously from 2000, thanks to film schools, independent production companies and cultural institutions that support the production of fiction, documentary and animation works, including a little but significant niche for experimental projects and video art.
This phenomenon is part of the general explosion in the production of Uruguayan cinema that occurred in the last decade, which has changed from sporadic feature films to ten premieres in movie theatres in 2008.
Every year over fifty short films in several formats, from 35 mm. to miniDV, show a vitality, diversity and quality which have allowed them to achieve various awards at several international festivals.
The present selection is only a general panorama of the present moment of Uruguayan short film, focusing in the production of the last five years (2003-2008), with the presence of some of the most outstanding works made by some new filmmakers, among them Federico Veiroj and Adrián Biniez, who have already made their debut in feature film successfully. The selection tries to be representative of various trends, styles and genres, although it is, of course, incomplete and partial. Anyway, the works gathered are a good introduction to help us know the new generations boosting the incipient production of Uruguayan cinema.
(URUGUAY) -2003- 35 mm. / Color / 6 minutos. Animación.
An articulated doll wakes up and discovers, between lights and shades, the world that surrounds it.
(URUGUAY) -2004- 35 mm. / Color / 13 minutos. Ficción.
While he prepares for the ritual Bar Mitvá, the teenager Rafael Bregman has to follow new paths in his passage to manhood.
(URUGUAY) -2004- 35 mm. / Color / 10 minutos. Ficción.
For the garden dwarves in front of the factory where they are made, this is another ordinary day. But one of them is leaving today…
(URUGUAY) -2004- MiniDV / Color / 17 minutos. Ficción.
Encounters and mix-ups of a couple in the course of three decades. At the same time a building in Plaza Independencia, right in the centre of Montevideo, remains unfinished.
(URUGUAY) -2005- Betacam / Color / 1 minuto. Animación/Experimental.
Several pieces of fruit roll down a stair in a cascade, until… A fruit ballet with a Strauss waltz and a final surprise.
(URUGUAY) -2005- Beta sp / Color y ByN / 3 minutos. Documental/Ficción.
Frank Pinkus is a survivor of Holocaust in Poland who, seventy years later, travels with his trumpet along a railway track that could be the same that led to the concentration camp, establishing a bridge between his dark past and his new home in Uruguay, where he took refuge.
(URUGUAY) -2006- 35 mm / Color / 12 minutos. Ficción.
Virginia is 14, today is Christmas Eve and the plans are to spend such a special night with her grandma Gladys, who is 80 years old.
(URUGUAY) -2007- 35 mm. / Color / 13 minutos. Ficción.
Sandra is a young woman who works in a toll barrier in a desolated route in the Uruguayan inland. Her life and her job are very monotonous. A phone call is going to break that monotony and she will have to take a decision which could change her life.
(URUGUAY) -2007- 16 mm. / Color / 20 minutos. Ficción
In a day as any other, Antunez’s office receives a box with no addressee or sender. That afternoon, Antunez goes on a short trip and entrusts the new workmate, Lontegui, to look after the box. Day after day, Lontegui’s curiosity increases regarding the contents of the heavy box, and also the interest about it by the other employees.
(URUGUAY - ARGENTINA) -2007- Digibeta / Color / 15 minutos. Ficción.
Rosa is a young woman looking for a job. She’s going lo live a series of experiences that will confront her with a complex reality.
(URUGUAY) -2007- 35 mm. / Color / 15 minutos. Ficción.
The inhabitants of a little village are preparing for a very special event. Something really important is going to happen in the village and nobody wants to miss it.
(URUGUAY) -2007- Beta / Color / 20 minutos. Documental.
Washington Inzúa is the foreman of gravedigger in Montevideo Central Cemetery. Through his testimony and his daily activities we discover a universe that people usually prefer to ignore.
(URUGUAY) -2008- 16 mm. / Color / 5 minutos. Ficción.
Heavenly Covenant, a 21 years old man, is found dead in the attic of his house while he was reading a comic. There are speculations about the reason of his mysterious dead.
(URUGUAY) -2008- 16 mm. / Color / 5 minutos. Ficción.
The night watchman of a sports club also have his dreams of glory during the night.
(URUGUAY) -2008- 35 mm. / ByN / 9 minutos. Ficción / Documental.
It’s midday in a typical bar of the Old City of Montevideo. Encounters and misunderstandings of the various characters who pass by the place.
(URUGUAY - ARGENTINA) -2009- Betacam / Color / 20 minutos. Ficción.
Albertina, a dull woman, starts a removal to meet her boyfriend in a house in the coast on the new year’s eve. She is not able to enter her new house and her boyfriend doesn’t show up. As day goes on everything changes and the trip starts to take a very special significance in her life.
(URUGUAY - ARGENTINA - MÉXICO - ESPAÑA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 85 minutos.
Rafael Bregman (13) lost his virginity but he has never kissed a girl. To make his dream come true he must counteract his acne, fight against his clumsiness, overcome his shyness, come to terms with his adolescence.
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