Documentary Pitching

How do you build a “new life” when your first years were spent on the street? Through a creative act, eight teenage girls who lived on the streets give life to a fictional classmate. As reality prevails and fiction fades, the innocent game becomes a descent into hell where their luminous faces guide us to the depths of the dark world they once inhabited. How to imagine a different life, break the cycle of abandonment and embrace the future?

The FILMMAKER approaches the archive of negatives of her father, a man that in the past photographed his political activity within the underground resistance against the Chilean dictatorship and his prolonged exile. By Photography as a common language, father and daughter ask themselves for the meaning of images and their ways of seeing the world. This will be also a way of approaching the past that preceded her and determines Chile’s present

Storyline en inglés 96-year-old young woman: Vitale. She loses the love of her life, returns home after forty years of exile, receives the most important award in Spanish literature and goes on tour around the world. The poet Ida Vitale travels and travels without moving away from herself, attentive to what no one sees. Jumping from one syllable to another, she travels around the planet in a slow parenthesis: a tour full of unprecedented pauses.

Several years later I return to the city where I was born. I return to reconstruct a death that altered my destiny and try to remember my childhood. Slowly I fall like Alice through the rabbit hole. Only my encounter with the past will determine my memory and my future.

Hitler Youth child, Helga recalls her love story with Bruno, a Jewish man who had to end his boxing career and flee to Brazil during Nazi persecution. From the perspective of director Karen Gronich, the documentary explores how Helga can embody contradictory and extreme values as the superiority of a race and true generosity and sweetness towards the other.

Since the route was built, every December the settlers of Puerto Paraíso prepare to receive tourists who arrive excited looking for jungle and relaxation. During the next three months their lives revolve around tourism. Out of season, they return to the usual rhythm of work on the farm. In rainy season the privacy of the home reaches its highest peak and the hostility of the jungle climate is present

The forbidden lives of my three men is a feature documentary that, using only family photographs from the director’s personal collection and a text written by her, aligned with a sound landscape work, reconstructs the memory of a society, Brasil’s Northeastern, through almost one hundred years.

Leopo is frustrated after 50 years of political struggle. He was imprisoned and tortured but the world remains unfair and even his torturer is free. Leopo prepares for his most difficult battle: to confront his torturer and learn from him. He wants to understand the world he was not able to change.

A feared Monsignor by the name of Builes, imposed ultra-conservative doctrines in Colombia between 1924 and 1971. Liberals, homosexuals, and emancipated women were part of his nightmares. His ideology paved the way for one of the first paramilitary groups in Colombia. We cross the lands where the Bishop reigned and recreate in a sarcastic way his own nightmares, asking ourselves about the origin of the fear that characterizes us as a nation.

In a post-pandemic and impoverished Buenos Aires, a group of unionized sex workers is trying to make ends meet. The increasingly police and paranoid normality projects new images of abjection and contagion on them. Can that union’s collective body preserve life, or at least a life worth living? His profession depends on what causes so much trembling: the contact between the bodies.