Movies: Manuel Embalse

This fully archival journey through the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay reveals unseen footage and explores one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, whose effects still resonate today....

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence....

The filmmaker decides to make a film in an attempt to remember a dream from his notes: at the crossroads of essay and diary, the film offers a sensitive investigation into the relationship between dreams, animals and the city....

Meri unearths memories about Osvaldo, her father, a militant and leader of the Workers’ Party in Argentina. Much like piecing together a shattered vase, she delves into the chronicle of the first accusation of gender violence within that organization...

After collecting multiple records related to a painful family tragedy, Victor dives into the archive in search of answers about what really happened on January 26, 1983...

There is a monster in Lake Nahuel Huapi. At twilight, it spreads across the surface of the water like a taut cowhide, grabbing its victims with sharp claws. Another monster also lurks around the lake, near Bariloche, in the Argentine Andes....

"Owner's Portrait" is a documentary fable, with an atmosphere of science fiction: on a remote island, where there are no more humans or money left, lives a community of cats that transmits a libertarian message. The antennas propagate it throughout t...

In a country where the consumption of meat is prohibited, a group of vegans face off against the last resistance of barbecue lovers....

I travel around Sweden listening to the tapes recorded by my parents 40 years ago, when they fled the Argentine dictatorship. Has the revolutionary fire that animated them been extinguished in Swedish comfort? I chat with my father, looking for ghost...

A look back at the murder of a teenager by the Buenos Aires police, through the words of his mother and her obsessive observation of the place of his forced disappearance....

The Antes Muerto Cine collective presents an episodic film about nature, technology, politics, violence and affection; about times past and times to come, from the noisy, angry, rebellious present. Rather be dead than policemen, than defeated, than.....

Miren Felder died on top of a snowy mountain after a plane crash in 1977. The director discovers secret messages from her grandmother in photographs taken by her military grandfather and offers herself as a medium in a ritual to communicate with her....

A young author sets off to Argentina to seek the lost fragments of her life story. Using the archival photographs and a personal narrative, this autobiographical reconstruction of a family history documents how world history shaped the outcome of one...

A group of young writers, entangled in their relationships, argue about success, love, and death. The night's tide brings to light what was previously hidden and some weaknesses....

One day, I found a box in the trash with super 8 cartridges and a book entitled “Catalog”. The images could be from a cameraman of the past or the future. What would happen if someone found my life in a SD card in a pawnshop? What would my catalog of...

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary, crossing borders and archives. One day, he arrives at an electronic recycling workshop wher...

The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias t...

A ship is shipwrecked on a desert island in the Río de la Plata. One of the crew, without name or age, wanders through the ruins of a city project that was not. The voices of the original spirits guide him through the territory, making the formation ...

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Authorities have prohibited access to a forest on the outskirts of the city. Strange vegetation has infested the area, and those who have been questioned report sightings of rare species, human-sized birds, or figures that appear and disappear. Despi...