Daniel Hendler

Ariel, a 50-year-old cartoonist with five kids and aging parents, faces a mid-life crisis, complicated by a hernia. His physical limits force him to reflect on freedom, family duties, and what matters most.

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Two undocumented Latino immigrants in Detroit become involved in a murder and rescue a witness with a rare syndrome. Together, they embark on an adventure of redemption, betrayal, and mystery amid the ruins of a city under reconstruction.

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Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon becomes his worst nightmare. Pedro needs to escape; but Alicia won’t let him...

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When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life.

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Nicolás is a well-known TV presenter and a frustrated writer who appears to lead a successful life, both professionally and romantically. However, just as he’s about to move into the wonderful new house he’s bought with his wife, he encounters an old soul who prompts him to question his monotonous life by recounting fantastic stories. Thanks to this strange new presence in his life and the rekindling of his old love for writing, Nicolás will search for true happiness.

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When Felipe’s ex-girlfriend breaks his heart, it feels like it’s the end of the world – and he’s not wrong. A strange zombie plague is unleashed on the paradise beach his friends have taken him to get his head in the right place. This is how the hectic pursuit for survival begins, where telling apart the living from the dead becomes the hardest part. Felipe will do whatever it takes to save his life, his friends’ lives and Ana’s life, a beautiful and problematic girl. Who would’ve guessed a zombie apocalypse would be the beginning of a new life and new love?

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Marcos Tremmer is a successful publicist who lives in Madrid, madly in love with his wife, Lucía. One day, Marcos discovers that a deadly disease will end his life in a few months.

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The members of a diverse vigilante group formed to boost the police's image are put in jeopardy when they stumble upon an unexpected drug deal.

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The ghosts of a 19th-century slaughterhouse haunt the Cinemateca Brasileira: where cows once died, films now end up. Montevideo's former Central Market houses the Cinemateca Uruguaya. A power plant now houses the Museo de Cine de Buenos Aires. This triptych portrays and connects three film archives through architecture and the buildings' interaction with urban life.

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Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no when she has just come out of the hospital after a heart attack, but also because it would be nice to escape from their frustrations for a while.

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"Lunatics" narrates the experiences of different characters who live in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montevideo. Their stories intersect. The madness of the globalized world and the local reality, of each one of them, is affected just at the moment in which the North American president begins to send posts on social networks, eliminating all trade with China.

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Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.

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Belgrano neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Someone is watching Fernando Berlasky from one of the countless windows in front of his apartment and sending him e-mails.

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A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.

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Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover from. She has trouble sleeping and experiences very vivid nightmares as strange sounds begin to emerge from inside her. Awake, Inés feels suddenly surrounded by people that seem to come from her dreams.

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Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.

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In his 40s, Esteban is about to make a huge decision: giving up his stable career for his dream job. He will no longer be a reputed lawyer in his family firm, from now on, he will be an actor. Of course, his plan is not as wonderful as he thought: becoming a first-timer actor while getting divorced was not the best of ideas. He is dealing with a huge midlife crisis.

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A film adaptation of the TV series "Los siete locos y los lanzallamas" by Roberto Arlt.

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Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.

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A woman and her 14-year-old daughter, who is a sleepwalker, in the midst of awakening. A marriage on the edges of a silenced crisis. A ritualistic, matriarchal, and endogamous family. Grandmother, siblings, cousins. A new summer, sweat, alcohol, traditions. Naked bodies, changing bodies, and the gazes upon those emerging bodies. A new New Year's celebration in the old historic family mansion is the trap for the sleepwalkers to finally awaken.

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As a child, Lucas falls in love with Ana. His story is truncated: she moves away and he loses track of her. Today Lucas does crossword puzzles and has almost zero love-sexual life. Meanwhile, his friend Santiago has a blind date with Verónica that ends after a few seconds. Verónica's neighbor is in a secret and quite toxic relationship.

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São Paulo, 1984. Agostinho, an old and tired Physics professor, is married to Januária, a retired school principal. In his classes, he begins to feel attracted to one of his students, Márcia, an HIV positive teenager. Quickly, the attraction of the two turns into an impossible love.

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Revenge, passion and dark secrets push a successful fashion designer and single mother to her limits when she meets a handsome and mysterious man.

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Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier, the greatest exponent of modern architecture, arrives by train to the city of La Plata to visit the Curutchet house, the only work he carried out in Latin America and which he could not know in life. The film is at the same time a portrait of Elio Montes, a devoted architect of Le Corbusier who spends his days in charge of the guided visits of that house, waiting for the impossible.

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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 starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

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Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is informed that his mother and brother were gunned down. He travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a decrepit town in the province of Chaco in northern Argentina to deal with their bodies and to get the life insurance money. There he meets Duarte, a sort of boss in the town and a friend of his mother's murderer who also kidnaps people for money. Cetarti's path will lead him to committing illegal acts to get his hands on the insurance money and to his involvement in Duarte's dark dealings, leading to an absurd and unexpected outcome.

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During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are about to fall: the love of a father towards his son choices, the unconditional love of a friend, the homefeeling of a neighbour who's almost part of the family. On the edge explores those extreme experiences that confront us with our prejudgments, exposing them and giving them a new meaning.

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Segun Roxi is a comedy featuring a mother who divides her world between friends and enemies. Desperately fighting to tackle the pitfalls of motherhood, Roxi faces her challenges with sincerity and humor combined.

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Sometimes the links can be built from the passions. Sometimes those links can become passions. For Hugo, a solitary taxi driver from Buenos Aires, the total, absolute and exclusive passion is San Lorenzo, which is not only an active part of his past, but a healthy obsession that bathes that gives color to his life. Until a single mother and her son cross their path. Now there will be someone to share the passion with. Maybe something more.

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While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.

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Six teenagers witness a cosmic event that grants them special powers. With these new abilities, each one discovers the worst and the best of himself, while a journalist and a mysterious woman pursue them with unclear ends.

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The film is about the life story of Javier Juárez García, an Argentinian scale model figure who decided to live in São Paulo to seize the city’s real state boom. After a betrayal, he decides to change his life and work in architectural models around the world. But he never forgets about his real goal: to come back and take revenge.

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Sebastian meets Natalia when trying to steal an important piece of art from a museum, and she wins the hand. Rivals declared, the two have to work together later in a robbery more complex: a valuable and unique bottle of Malbec from Bordeaux in the mid-nineteenth century, listed as one of the best wines in the world and jealously guarded in the vault of a bank, in Mendoza. In a world full of glamor, between vineyards and mountains, the thieves will have to display their magic, but while preparing discover theft, each to his own, that nothing will be as thought

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Santiago, an Argentine police corporal, crosses the border into Uruguay fleeing from other police officers who are looking for him. Using his uniform, he inspects regional food stalls, sampling dairy products and cold cuts to survive, while trying to go unnoticed among the locals. Without money or lodging, but with empathy and cunning, he begins to plot a new life, receiving help from local characters he meets along the way and even finding what he believes to be the love of his life.

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When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life.

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A team of advisers is brought in to manufacture the image of Marchand, producing social media profiles, commercials and a new public persona. Conflict arises when it is revealed that not everyone is who they present themselves to be. At his country estate, a rich businessman who wants to be president is groomed by a campaign team to create an image palatable to middle-class voters.

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Leandro and Silvina, a young and successful middle-class couple, are experiencing the happiest time of their lives. But the sudden appearance of Leandro's daughter from another relationship, destabilizes the couple revealing hitherto unknown differences.

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After being fired from his job, Norberto tries his luck as a real estate agent, but he doesn't tell his wife right away. His new boss advises him to take an assertiveness course to overcome his shyness, and Norberto starts taking classes in an acting workshop for beginners. While he works toward the quarterly festival, Norberto fails to get his wife and clients to believe anything he says, but he finds out he is very good at lying to himself.

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Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom share a passionate history, and the bride isn’t the only one who’s wondering if it’s all in the past.

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Two friends wake up on January 6th, they have breakfast, they take a shower, they play boggle, and they get presents from the Three Wise Men. This film includes fragments from “December 31st” (1996) which was made by the same team.

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Roque and Cristian have no special plans for the day.

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