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Mario Jacob was born in Paysandú, Uruguay, in 1943. He is a director, producer, editor and sound engineer. Together with Walter Tournier, he created the production company Imágenes. He did journalism and was the founder of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo (Montevideo, 1969-1974).
Total trailers found: 35
02 January 2007
One is a former police officer, bodyguard and hairdresser. Currently retired, he takes care of his extravagant and almost hundred-year-old illiterate mother.
01 January 1993
A woman that is an excellent wife and mother, and responsible and efficient in her work, commits a shameful act pushed by fate.
01 January 1987
Free adaptation of the story “Muebles El Canario” by Felisberto Hernández, with Leo Maslíah in the leading role.
27 November 1997
The engineer Eladio Dieste, the most innovative architect in Uruguay, is interviewed by the architect Mariano Arana.
01 January 1987
Women in an isolated backwater in the countryside tell the story of how they live, and talk about their work in a cooperative that processes wool to make good quality clothing.
01 January 1992
This is a marsh area in the very heart of the protected wetlands in the east of Uruguay, but today it has almost completely disappeared.
01 January 1988
In 1988, the indebtedness of the land adjudicators of the National Colonization Institute faced a controversial refinancing law that made their subsistence unfeasible.
11 August 2013
Two inmates at Canelones prison fight for a better future, running a voluntary rehabilitation programme.
15 August 1991
From an early age children are brought up very differently depending on their gender. The process of discovering the world is a veritable box of surprises in which school, the family and the media programme us about what it is to be a “good” girl or a “good” boy.
30 October 2015
This documentary rescues from oblivion an experience of cultural resistance during the Uruguayan dictatorship.
20 July 1972
A father tries to make his little daughter understand the reason for his political imprisonment. The jungle serves as an allegory of society and the hunter as its danger.
01 January 2000
Ten years after the Law of Expiration, this documentary analyses the historical background of Uruguay's recent past.
15 October 2022
A story of five voices passionate about the legendary national sport, characters who know a reality that the vast majority of fans are unaware of.
01 January 1963
It tells the story of a girl who must take her beloved hen to the market.
01 January 1987
After the end of the dictatorship, Uruguay was faced with the unresolved problem of what to do with the past.
14 September 1990
A long interview with Uruguay's greatest writer, in Madrid a few months before his death. From his bed, Onetti talks about literature, creativity, and his origins.
01 January 1992
The community at Rincón de la Bolsa, just a few kilometres from Montevideo, is suffering from all kinds of environmental problems, and the local people organize and demand solutions.
01 January 1985
Audiovisual on three screens that commemorates a triple anniversary: 70 years of the Association of Medical Students, 65 of the Uruguayan Medical Union and 50 of its Assistance Center.
28 October 2011
A documentary film about the production and distribution of uruguayan militant cinema during the 60s
01 January 1998
This documentary examines sexuality as seen by women and men born into Catholic families and educated at Catholic schools.
01 July 2012
“The Bella Vista” is the story of a house started as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel and changes at last to a Catholic Chapel, all in a small conservative village in Uruguay.
17 November 1989
The subject is women and their participation in politics, and this is used as a pretext for a humorous, provocative, female perspective on official (male) discourse and the almost nonexistent participation of women in Uruguayan politics.
14 November 1991
In the east of Uruguay there is a little-known region of vast wetlands in a beautiful natural setting which is a sanctuary for thousands of species of flora and fauna.
02 February 2012
Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures.
27 November 1997
Idea approaches the figure of Idea Vilariño, considered as one of the greatest Spanish-language female poets.
01 January 1997
Forty million people and countless species of flora and fauna depend on the rivers of the Rio de la Plata basin.
09 November 1984
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them.
01 November 2007
After a long exile in Venezuela, filmmaker Mario Handler returns to his country, Uruguay. There, the dictatorship is still present in the media, public opinion, and in the memory of people.
23 October 1980
In Nicaragua, 1977, corruption and abuse of power are everyday occurrences under the Somoza family’s dictatorship.
19 July 1969
Liber Arce, a student, was killed by the police in a protest march. His funeral became the largest demonstration held in Montevideo.
01 January 1981
A carnation planted on the moon is banished for not to flourish. Once in exile, thanks to the care and affection of a child, the flowers bloom.
01 June 1971
A record of the founding act of the Frente Amplio political party in 1971.
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.
01 January 1991
This is the dramatic untold story of small farmers who suffer and struggle to subsist less than 80 kilometres from Montevideo.
