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Total trailers found: 14
Alma Mater Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends a religious temple led by a Brazilian minister.
The Circle Trailer (2008)
22 April 2008
Award-winning documentary about how one Uruguayan leftist survived solitary confinement during the dirty war.
Stories of Activists Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
This documentary tells the story of a group of Uruguayan political and social activists who began or intensified their activities in the 1960s.
Héctor the Weaver Trailer (2001)
05 April 2001
Héctor Rodríguez (1918-1996) was one of the outstanding figures in the people's movement in Uruguay.
Women's Memoirs Trailer (2005)
06 July 2005
The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay.
The Wait Trailer (2002)
30 September 2002
In Montevideo, Sonja cares for her invalid mother, works in a garment factory, and has little going for her.
At Five on the Dot Trailer (2004)
26 September 2004
The biggest peaceful demonstration of resistance to an authoritarian regime in Latin America in the 1970s was the general strike whereby Uruguayan workers and students rejected the military coup of 27 June 1973.
Anarchists Trailer (2000)
06 June 2000
Armed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately and exquisitely reconstructs the course of the “expropriating anarchists” in the Río de la Plata and specifically in Montevideo del First third of the 20th century.
The Marriage Trailer (2011)
12 April 2011
An intimate documentary portrait of an exceptional couple who live in a suburb of Montevideo: Julia, a 65-year-old transsexual whose new gender identity has finally been recognised (after twelve years) by the Uruguayan state, and Ignacio, her lover, a former construction worker with a troubled past.
The Chimera of the Coast Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
This documentary examines the problems of Uruguay's Atlantic coast in the face of a scheme to exploit the area's tourist resources that is not geared to sustainable development.
Bichuchi, the Life of Alfredo Evangelista Trailer (1996)
27 June 1996
This is a documentary about the Uruguayan boxer Alfredo Evangelista, who at height of his career even fought against Mohammad Ali.
I'm a Guy but I'm the Best Girl Trailer (1995)
23 June 1995
The first documentary about the little-known world of transvestites in Montevideo. We are shown the most complicated facets of these people, their consciousness of themselves, and their perceptions of the world and of life.
The Forgotten Land Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
This is the dramatic untold story of small farmers who suffer and struggle to subsist less than 80 kilometres from Montevideo.
Standing at the Foot of the White Tree Trailer (2007)
01 December 2007
After 22 years an old photographer finds lost negatives of El Popular, the newspaper he worked for when it was closed down by the dictatorship in 1973.
