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- DirectorJonathan JakubowiczStarsMía MaestroJean Paul LerouxRubén BladesYoung couple Carla (Maestro) and Martin (Leroux) are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father (Blades) to hand over the ransom.
- DirectorMarcel RasquinStarsFernando MorenoEliú ArmasAlí RondónTwo young men who have been raised as brothers look to their soccer skills as a way of getting out of their slum. While a scout is in town, an act of violence threatens to tear them apart.
- DirectorMariana RondónStarsLaureano OlivaresGreisy MenaWilliam CifuentesA young woman gives birth to a daughter while living in secrecy. The daughter and her cousin Teo cope with the fear and violence of their parents' struggle. They also wait for postcards from Leningrad, a place they feel is a safe haven.
- DirectorLuis ManzoStarsIván TamayoRoque ValeroElaiza GilIn a tiny town in an unnamed Latin American country in the 1930s, a young telegraph operator helps link the small, repressed community to the outside world, against the will of the powerful colonel who rules the village like a dictator.
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsHilda VeraMiguel Ángel LandaOrlando UrdanetaA handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
- DirectorHaik GazarianStarsAlfonso HerreraRuddy RodríguezRafael RomeroVenezuelan film based on real events of Venezuela's role during World War II
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsFernando CarrilloLa Beba RojasPedro LanderThe history is initiated in August of the 2002, in a meeting where Nicolas Petrov reads the sentence emitted by the Pan-American Cut of Human Rights, situated in Costa Rica, by means of which all State Venezuelan is ordered to compensate the relatives and victims of the events of February 27, to perform an effective investigation of the crimes and to identify the material heads and intellectuals of the judged facts To apply them the corresponding penal and administrative sanctions. Of all an endless number of situations are amused. They are very few the Venezuelans that do not have anything that to count on the 27F. Just as crystal Ball Caparigua, I Move away Sanpedro and hundreds of other personages that appear in "El Caracazo" are alone a small part- aforesaid in token fiction- of a social tragedy that changed the face of Venezuela.
- DirectorCarlos AzpúruaStarsManuel AranguizYanis ChimarasDalila ColomboThe film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress. There are often clashes between them and the military invading the area. The media, particularly TV and radio insist everything is under control, but the residents around La Carlota see a very different reality, right through daybreak (Amanecer) the following morning.
- DirectorSolveig HoogesteijnStarsTristán UlloaYorlis DomínguezElba EscobarAn 11 year old petty criminal gets the chance to play in a youth orchestra.
- DirectorThaelman UrgellesStarsDavid AbadChela AlterioCorina AzopardoThe story tells the emotional conflicts of a group of young friends, who represent a generation that was characterized by family problems and live music.
- DirectorAntonio LlerandiStarsGustavo RodríguezTatiana CapoteAlicia PlazaOswaldo, a Venezuelan man has climbed the social ladder on the basis of the easy wealth. He is tired of enduring the tedium of his wife and lives a passionate affair with a television star.
- DirectorAlfredo AnzolaStarsMarco VillarubiaKristin PardoRonnie Nordenflycht"1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel" is a whimsical adventure fantasy about a tired Jules Verne, fleeing from Paris and a bored wife, who joins Italian explorer Stradelli in an expedition on the Orinoco river. Along the way they pickup a young stranger- a woman disguised as a man, searching for her lost father.
- DirectorEduardo Arias-NathStarsEdgar RamírezErich WildpretSeu JorgeParallel fragmented stories are linked by the relationship between successful actor Sebastián Castillo and his friend Galo Vidal, a frustrated fashion designer. The tables are turned and now Sebastián's life is chaos while Galo is a success. Their lives come together again when Sebastián asks Galo for help and they embark on a journey that will put their friendship and their lives in jeopardy.
- DirectorJuan Carlos López DuranStarsJose Antonio DelgadoEdgar GuariguataIn July of 2006, after reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat at 26,657 feet above sea level, José Antonio Delgado was trapped alone by a fierce storm. The events that transpired during the following days came together to create a moving story of perseverance, courage, and love. "Beyond the Summit" takes us deep into the soul of this noble climber as he guides us through a journey to the summit of the world's most daunting mountains. Explore with us the mind of a man whose courage, love, and spirit will forever touch the soul of an entire continent. Through his own eyes, "Beyond the Summit" reveals the contagious spirit and philosophy that drives this climber's hunt for the summit.
- DirectorCésar OropezaHenry RiveroStarsMario CimarroErich WildpretJuan Pablo RabaPuras Joyitas tells the story of some professional thugs nicknamed "Los entendidos", led by the mysterious nameless man, NL, that get hired to steal the country's most important beauty pageant crown, in spite that all of them knowing this crown is made of fantasy cheap jewelry.
- DirectorFreddy FadelStarsDaniela AlvaradoNohely ArteagaNorkys BatistaThis revealing film shows unprecedented authentic images of babies inside and outside the uterus.
- DirectorAlberto ArveloStarsImanol AriasGabriel ArcandLeandro ArveloIn the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of neighbors, until a desperate act of violence tears them apart. It takes the brave intervention of a stranger to reunite them once again in the place of their dreams.
- DirectorFina TorresStarsPrakriti MaduroYuliet CruzJuan Carlos GarcíaA young seamstress in Havana with a dream of becoming a fashion designer, has to choose between the two men she loves - a suave foreign photographer, on a mysterious errand, and her loyal but laid back Cuban boyfriend who will, some day, build her a home.
- DirectorLeonardo HenríquezStarsAdolfo CubasKenji SatoEileen Abad
- DirectorRafael RiveroStarsMimi AlvarezEnrique BenshimolLeon Bravohomeless shoeshine boy lives under a bridge... social commentary
- DirectorFina TorresStarsDoris WellsDaniela SilverioRafael BriceñoA young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana
- DirectorFina TorresStarsAriadna GilArielle DombasleEvelyne DidiAna bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is filming an operatic Cinderella, but will Ana "fit into the glass slipper" before she is deported back to Caracas? The evil, plotting, self-absorbed Celeste tries to thwart Ana, but Ana has a great team in her corner: her Russian voice coach, a wealthy lesbian psychoanalyst, a prescient gay waiter/astrologer, and a voodoo witch doctor. Fun and adventurous.
- DirectorManuel de PedroStarsMario AntoniniAlejo FelipeFrank GarciaVictor escapes from his middle class home to search for his father (who is not aware that he has a son). He joins up with a couple street urchins, and together they search for Victor's father in the Sabana Grande neighborhood of Caracas.
- DirectorAlicia AvilaRomán ChalbaudStarsMiguel Ángel LandaJenny NogueraRafael BriceñoAfter his successful life in television and achieving financial stability, Adonay Flores dedicates himself to what he believes is his vocation, writing.
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsMayra AlejandraMiguel Ángel LandaWilliam MorenoThe old story repeats itself, in another time, and another place. End of the 1970s, at La Guaira seaport, a strapping sixteen-year old Carmen is the girl that attract all males' eyes. Female rivalries and hot tempers leads her into a fight with an older woman smuggler, La Perícia, at the municipal market. Carmen cuts the other woman's face. José Navarro, sergeant of Guardia Nacional on duty, arrests her, and takes her in a truck to the police station. The way is short, but the time of touching his face with a blossoming red rose, José is love with Carmen. For her, he will betray his uniform, he will lose his grade, and he will even kill, becoming the leader of her gang of smugglers. Félix Reverte, a young and daring bullfighter, comes to town where he will perform his art of killing the bull in the arena, soon; he too, becomes madly in love with Carmen, and the girl becomes obsessed with his courtship, rejecting her older lover. The day of the bullfight, when Carmen approaches the arena to watch Reverte's bullfighting, José can't stand it anymore, they fight, and he stabs her to death.
- DirectorIván FeoAntonio LlerandiStarsHector DuvauchelleIván FeoEliseo PereraOn board of a bus, Andrés Barazarte travels through his city like another passenger. Life passes through the head of the young man, carried by the hand of his dead grandfather. His parochial family; his childhood without parents; the bitter youth of his aunt and the vicissitudes of that bohemian and crazy great-uncle; the military ancestors: secular warlords of opaque humanity; the economic ruin occurred in three strides; the unhappy life of the absent father, a worker in an oil field. The memories are knotted with the present: the love of his girlfriend and the hazardous political life in which ideals have become a permanent mortal risk. Present and past conspire and lead to the end: Andrés conjures up the times and accompanied by his own kind, performs the moving final act that will redeem him from his miseries.
- DirectorMargot BenacerrafStarsJosé Ignacio CabrujasLaurent Terzieff"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
- DirectorClemente de la CerdaStarsAroldo BetancourtOrlando ZarrameraEvelyn BerroteranPedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically committed law students, to do like him. Following the kidnapping of Otamendi, a former corrupt official executed by a subversive command, Sebastían is unjustly detained by the police. Pedro and Sebastián's girlfriend break him out of jail with the help of a congressman. While they are celebrating their release, the police arrive and kill Artemio, who is implicated in the Otamendi case.
- DirectorAlberto ArveloStarsGermán MendietaJordani MontillaJohn MarquezThe story of Romer, who on his 50th birthday, returns to the Andes where he grew up after he has a premonition that his mother has died. On his journey he comes to a fork in the road, and takes a path which leads him to revisit his past--an upbringing in a remote traditional community which fiercely protects its ancient customs from modernity.
- DirectorAlejandro SadermanStarsOrlando UrdanetaDaniel LugoAroldo BetancourtIn the wake of a banking crisis, four middle class friends throw a 'white glove' hold up, only to find out that their bank has already gone bankrupt.
- DirectorDiego VelascoStarsHéctor PalmaLuis ColmenaresDimas GonzálezIn this dark, screwball comedy, Gustavo Perez has only a few hours to survive the bureaucracy, get an official stamp on his I. D. and put his military papers in order, or it's the draft and straight to the snipers and the border wars.
- DirectorJacobo PenzoStarsFranklin VírgüezElba EscobarDoris Wells