Hugo Piccinini

Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.

Sofía discovers a mysterious box filled with several stacked audio cassettes in what will soon be her new bedroom. Each tape bears a name, a time, and a specific spot in the house. When she listens to them, she realizes they are recordings of spiritist sessions held there thirty years ago. Determined to find out whether her new home is truly haunted, Sofía invites two of her best friends, Camila and Verónica, to spend together an unforgettable girls’ night.

An amateur filmmaker’s life gets complicated when a mobster hires him to direct a pornographic horror movie starring a frighteningly sexy actress.

Agustina, a young upper-class woman, suffers from violence in the street after coming off from work. A taxi driver offers her help. Now Agustina must confront her own contradictions.

He is a poor glass cleaner. She lives in Carrasco. One day at the crossroads something happens that can change their lives forever.

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

Shortly after her honeymoon Alicia contracts an inexplicable illness, while her husband Jordan bear witness seemingly indifferent. Something hidden is driving her insane. The disease makes the young woman mix reality with gruesome hallucinations.

LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to find the couple Tezlaff. They once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted a 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared, alongside a third unknown hostage taker.

A few days after moving in with his girlfriend, Jorge receives a visit from his future self who traveled through time to warn him that she is going to leave him for another guy, then proposes him a plan to avoid it.

How does a starving and helpless vampire survive in an unknown city? The question harasses the protagonist in a Montevideo that she summons, with incomparable grace, the figure of the fearsome being that has become fragile, trapped in a destiny that she has not chosen and from which she cannot escape.

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

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.

Overwhelmed by various problems in Montevideo, a couple in their thirties must move to a deserted beach resort on the Uruguayan coast. There they will not pay rent since an aunt lends them their magnificent house. What in principle seems like a true solution to your problems ends up not being so. Quite the contrary, this "idyllic" winter season on the beach, away from its natural environment, without much to do, will forever change the relationship between Claudia and Leandro.

The water war causes the levels of alcohol consumption to rise as a daily use. People live absolutely drunk and wait for moments of happiness to sober up. Luna wants to go to a party, and her friend gets her water so she can live a real night.

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.

A guy tries to end a relationship with his girlfriend, but is very afraid to do it.

A young woman vacationing in a lonely country house, fills her backyard pool every night found in it empty by the morning. Strange neighbors and even stranger circumstances start to getting her paranoid about where the water is actually going.

A young woman arrives at a hotel escaping from something, but everything about this hideaway intensifies her paranoia.

An audiovisual producer in crisis receives the host of a Dutch travel program in Montevideo. Hidden emotional problems and an old debt to the local underworld threaten to derail the expedition.

He is a poor glass cleaner. She lives in Carrasco. One day at the crossroads something happens that can change their lives forever.