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Guillermo Madeiro (born 1984) is a Uruguayan director, producer, writer and editor.
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Nunchaku
Writer
event 2012
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At 28, Santiago still lives with his mother and has no real job projects. In order to feel independent, he decides to move to his family's summer house in a seaside resort during the winter. His human ties in this deserted place will be reduced to his neighbor, a paranoid family man, and the local bike rider, an alcoholic man who carries a homemade nunchaku and claims his friendship.
Freedom is a Big Word
Editor
event 2018
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After thirteen years in Guantanamo, Muhammad is set free and taken to Uruguay. He has a second chance in an unknown place where he shall start to live a new life in freedom.
Life on Board
Editor
event 2018
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A ship, fifteen men, the river. A sensory film, a journey towards introspection. A portrait of loneliness, labour and absence, on board this floating society trapped in time. Could it be the reflection of our own « life on board »?
New Venice
Editor
event 2016
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This is a documentary film about a stilt village in the middle of Santa Marta's Marsh, and the passion pushing its inhabitants to build, on the water, a soccer field.
Bosco
Editor
event 2021 star_border 4.5
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Bosco is an Italian town of 13 inhabitants, surrounded by chestnut trees that devour it day by day.
Carmín
Editor
event 2023
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A portrayal of the multifaceted artist Sofía Saunier's daily routine as she takes care of her housemate and makes Transur, a film project showing the present reality of Uruguay's trans community.
Historia de invierno
Editor
event 2022 star_border 2
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A cinematographic poetry that portrays the artistic link between the French filmmaker André S. Labarthe and his disciple, the Uruguayan filmmaker Gabriela Guillermo. The letters that were written over the years testify, not only to the mutual affection and admiration, but also their will to one day make a movie together. After trouble in the production due to the teacher's delicate health and his subsequent death, we witness in the winter landscapes the creative complicity between both filmmakers.
Clever
Director
event 2015 star_border 6.5
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Still bitter from a recent divorce, martial arts instructor Clever discovers a car tricked out with flames in his neighborhood and sets out on a single-minded quest: to find the artist and treat his own vehicle. His journey leads to a secluded village, and to an enigmatic personality who isn’t quite what he expects. Delightfully odd and idiosyncratic, Clever is an absurd satire of the fragile façade of masculinity.
Restless Spirit
Editor
event 2019
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Life of the Uruguayan musician Gustavo "Príncipe" Pena who, with only two records, has created a name for itself in the music industry of the country.
Fashion Avenue
Director
event 2020
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She wakes up slim and feeling pretty. She looks at her belly in the mirror because she knows that later it will swell. Anna lives off her image, she is in New York -the fashion mecca of the world- fulfilling her lifelong aspiration. When the lights go out, dreams and nightmares walk the same street.
Portrait of My Father
Editor
event 2022 star_border 2
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Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe was just eight years old when his father’s body was found on a beach. His mother, a psychiatrist, decided an autopsy was unnecessary, even though his father had been depressed and had psychiatric medication among his belongings. Thirty years later, the filmmaker tries to find out what happened, who his father was and how his mother arrived at her decision.
Alex
Editor
event 2023 star_border 2
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Alex is around 40 years old, he is nice and friendly and also addicted to pleasure and sex. He lives with his wife and his two children. A tour of 24 hours in his life.
Alter
Editor
event 2022
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After being fired from his job, a psychologist and frustrated songwriter begins his career as an imitator of Latino superstar Luis Miguel, gaining local fame while singing someone else's songs as he questions who he wants to be.
The Door Is There
Editor
event 2023 star_border 7.5
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Portrait of the birth of a friendship between two men, while one helps the other to die. The acceptance of pain, the sense of humour and the commitment to family and friends, will accompany the virtual chats between Fernando and Eric, who were unable to meet due to the pandemic.
Memories from a Dog That Could Not Parade
Editor
event 2023 star_border 2
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From the control desk, an amplified voice announces the judgments have already begun. A refined dog that seems made of foam awaits, bound and in vain, his turn to model. An immersive cinematic composition that could be its memory.
Not Even the Flowers
Editor
event 2024
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Mariana Viñoles has positioned her camera in the window. As lockdown puts everything on hold, little everyday dramas continue to play out in her street, as many secret tales waiting to be told. Off-screen, everyday dialogues outline the contours of domestic life. We are invited to prolong their existence, and marvel at the magical power of life.
Bad Reputation
Editor
event 2024
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Karina was just 12 years old when she was trafficked into sex work. Now 45, she has no standard education qualifications, but what she has witnessed and experienced, in a society that has been hostile to her ‘kind’, has resulted in a new career path opening up for her. She has established O.T.R.A.S., a union for current and former sex workers, to which her friends and colleagues need little persuading to join.
The Champion of the World
Director
event 2019 star_border 5
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Ten years after winning a world title in bodybuilding in Russia and becoming a star of said discipline in Mexico, Antonio Osta (43) leads a life of austerity in the Uruguayan rural town where he grew up. He resides there with his son Juanjo (17), a sensitive teenager who keeps him company and confronts him openly. Suffering from acute kidney disease which keeps him from competing professionally, Antonio is stuck in limbo, halfway between his glorious past and the impossibility of being who he once was. However, he is unwilling to give up his lifestyle, even if it kills him. In an attempt to reinvent himself, and seeking a better future for his son, Antonio plans a comeback to the Mexico bodybuilding scene, where he may relive his glory days.
Señor, si usted existe, por qué no me saca de este infierno
Editor
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Chacho tries to occupy his time in order to escape from drug use. He takes courses in film and baking. He doesn't show up at the shelter on weekends. That's when the devil catches him, he says. His life changes when he moves into a new house, without the rules of the shelter. But temptation is latent and his abstinence grows.
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