Urban Films Line-Up

BABY, SAY HI TO DIEGO

by Andrea Herrera Catalá

Isabel, content chief of Culture Channel, which is in crisis due to low ratings, trusts that Sofia, her favorite daughter, will save her career by being the new image of the Venezuelan youth. However, Sofia, who has just returned from Spain where she studied journalism, has her own plans: She declares that she has found her true identity abroad, claiming that she is really Argentinean and she plans to travel south in order to become repatriated. That is the beginning of this unique and funny family 'war of independence' which will be shown through mass media and put the love between mother and daughter to the test.

COMEDY – 98' – VENEZUELA / ARGENTINA / CUBA – 2014

WHEN WE ARE YOUNG - CONGRESO

by Luis Fontal

“What is life?” Gonzalo asks himself while he practices for his first leading role on a stage. His roommates and childhood friends Nicolás and Germán have more specific matters to be nervous about. Germán´s ex wants to keep his beloved goldfish Fidel in their division of assets; Nicolás, the womanizing musician –whose family owns their apartment–, is getting ready for the visit of three beautiful girls, hoping to spend an unforgettable night. And it certainly ends up being just that: not only for the right reasons (all the alcohol, the dancing, and the spicy games of a Mexican-themed party), but also for some bad news over the phone, and, finally, a betrayal..

DRAMA – 85 – ARGENTINA – 2014

EL BUMBÚN

by Fernando Bermúdez

In a desolate area of Argentina, the last daughter of an authoritarian worker who was expecting a son, is born. After his first three daughters, who were given away to, the latter daughter is baptized as José and nicknamed as Bumbún. In her teens, and after being forced to assume the identity of a man, her life moves between being resigned to her fate or fight for change it.
Based on a true story.

DRAMA – 90' – ARGENTINA – 2013

THE FIRST LAST DAY

by Javier Arriaga y Guillermo Llaguno

The meeting of three generations at the family house to celebrate the birthday of the great grandfather, as well as his death, which they will have to commit themselves bound by a new law. This exceptional circumstance creates the breeding ground for family conflicts that remained hidden to show up.

DRAMA – 90' – SPAIN – 2014

MAKE YOUR LIFE A MASTERPIECE

by Fernando Merinero

In a spanish castle held a course of improvement. Participants are from a broker who stuffs a pill, an aspiring filmmaker working detective, a young architect in unemployment, and the president of a supermarket chain. The teacher and guru is a nice decadent novelist and his partner a voluptuous woman with a dark past. The owners of the castle also bring them a redneck sport TV, very seductive and macho, and his wife, a demure and innocent woman determined to be a mother on the verge of forty.

COMEDY – 89' – SPAIN – 2014