Known for
8.0In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, including the Orinoco River, from Venezuela to the border of Portuguese Brazil.
Open Air
1996
NRwritten, produced, and directed by Rhoda Torres, tells the story of a UCV scientist, married and father of three children, and his wife, who commits suicide by jumping out of their bedroom window in front of their 14-year-old son. The young man tries to catch him in the air but he escapes due to lack of strength. As a result of the tragedy, the boy is left with a terrible trauma and feelings of guilt for what his father did.
Autolisis
2016
NRVenezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial society kept farmers and slaves under the yoke of the oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora mobilized by deep ideals of liberty is leading a fight to try to erase social inequalities and distribute land equitably.
Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
2010
6.3During a trip to the mountains with their schoolmates, Arturo, who has just turned fifteen, gets thirteen-year-old Paloma pregnant.
Adiós, cigüeña, adiós
1971
NROn April 11th of 2002 a coup d'état against the venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías kept the country in a state of total uncertainty regarding his whereabouts, two days later he returned to power. This is a chronicle of those days.
Abril
2017
6.8The struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.
Black River
1990
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
NRwritten, produced, and directed by Rhoda Torres, tells the story of a UCV scientist, married and father of three children, and his wife, who commits suicide by jumping out of their bedroom window in front of their 14-year-old son. The young man tries to catch him in the air but he escapes due to lack of strength. As a result of the tragedy, the boy is left with a terrible trauma and feelings of guilt for what his father did.
Autolisis
2016
NRVenezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial society kept farmers and slaves under the yoke of the oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora mobilized by deep ideals of liberty is leading a fight to try to erase social inequalities and distribute land equitably.
Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
2010
NROn April 11th of 2002 a coup d'état against the venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías kept the country in a state of total uncertainty regarding his whereabouts, two days later he returned to power. This is a chronicle of those days.
Abril
2017
NRThe film reproduces the historical moment when Cipriano Castro, then president of Venezuela, proclaimed: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland!" While the coasts were invaded by imperial forces in 1902.
La planta insolente
2017
1990s · 2 titles
8.0In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, including the Orinoco River, from Venezuela to the border of Portuguese Brazil.
Open Air
1996
6.8The struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.
Black River
1990

