Movies: 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 great...

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 ...

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

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 spirit...

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....

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....

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 hi...

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....

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....

LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to provide the couple Tezlaff. It once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared....

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 sta...

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

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 villag...

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....

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....

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 ...

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

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