Best South American short movies

The Bombing of Washington (1972)

Satirical short comprising wartime footage, purporting to be from the Soviet Film Agency and depicting a successful bomb strike on Washington.

Faggots, The Documentary (2016)

This documentary is a collection of interviews of homosexual boys who are proud to be labeled queers. They discuss the stigma behind the word and how they reacted to homophobic attacks they've face at some point of their lives.

Beco (2019)

Seven Years in May (2019)

One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled, without looking back. From that moment on, his life changed, as if that night had never ended. One evening, around an improvised fire near a factory, he decides to confide his journey to a stranger. Rafael’s intimate account meets the collective testimony of an entire nation oppressed by poverty, police repression and institutional corruption.

Asunción (1975)

The vengeance of a housemaid against the family that hired her.

Under Whose Roof (2019)

Brazil is going through a political crisis which even representatives of our institutions reproduce speeches that seek to criminalize social movements by framing them as terrorists. The short "Teto Pra Quem" seeks to question the brutality of common sense fueled by the conservative wave by opposing it to the reality of thousands of families and their struggles in the pursuit of one of their most basic human rights: living under a roof.

Film for Blind Poet (2012)

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

Deter & Oro (2023)

Revolución de 1922 (1922)

A 1922 documentary.

Deep Waters (0)

The memory of Olivia's father still haunts her months after his death. She returns to her psychologist in order to try closing her old wounds, but she finds things that were not able to be seen in the surface before.

Horror Palace Hotel (1978)

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

Tuã Ingugu (Water Eyes) (2019)

In the Kalapalo cosmogony (an ethnic group that lives in the Xingú Indigenous Park), water is as old as humans and is the source of life. That is where all their sustenance comes from, their food, their drink, their joy. The idea of using water as a dumpster, of poisoning water is a dystopia. In this documentary Chief Faremá —from Caramujo village on the banks of the Kuluene River— tells us about the birth of water and warns us about the consequences of disrespecting it.

The Day I Remembered the Trip to Bicuda (2015)

I always left that memory buried deep in my mind. Until one day she came back as a movie.

Kyrie ou o Início do Caos (1998)

A woman is mesmerized by a mystical sound and from there chaos begins to spread.

Trying (2024)

Down on her luck after an exhaustive job search, Luna returns to the home of her childhood friend following another failed interview. They commiserate over wine, working to re-establish their relationship as young adults navigating São Paulo, Brazil.

The sound of your voice (2017)

While the day fades and the light suffocates its last breaths: the birds celebrate their first twitters. It seems like the sea is the only place that could retain a desperate sob.

How Tasty Was My Little Cafaçu (2015)

It feels so good to dream of you. It feels so real it fills me with pleasure. And I can't think about anything else.

Austral Fever (2019)

Amanda (46), a complaisant and lonely woman, lives with her son Daniel (16) in the mountains of southern Chile. Octavio (16), a Daniel’s friend, is accidentally injured while hunting in the forest. Amanda takes over the healing sessions, developing an intimate bond with the teenager. They discover that the contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.

I don't know if I'll get home (2022)

A girl tries to call her mother as she is being followed by a man on the street.

Chile paralelo 56 (1964)

The last surviving natives of the Llaganes and Alacalufes tribes can be seen on the canals of southern Chile.

The Nap (2019)

A girl wraps her grandmother in a spiral of fantasy, causing amnesia to her.

Ciro-Norte (1998)

On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes man-eating fish, confronts his doppelganger, walks through a field of giant flowers, and comes upon Venus herself, buried up to her shoulders in sand. She is a giant, and she takes him to her breast. He wakes from the vortex, back in the bar, his mood transformed.

Pelano! (2019)

Raquel has been dripping for six months, but it seems that today everything will melt.

Dad (2019)

Esther lives with her dad and takes care of him every day. However, due to his madness, she has him locked in his room.

Monster God (2019)

God is now a Power Plant. On a misty night cows escape, a child is chosen, and a girl tries to find freedom.

COME IN (2020)

Pipes sing and cracks spy. Where to go if inside is as dangerous as outside?

And that secret that moves the tides of your chest (2018)

After having contemplated the final scene and the credits of the movie “Your light disappears”, a man, absolutely moved, feels how his emotions materialize in his face.

Like a ghost (2017)

Follow the path of the secret window, get confused by the rhythm of the trees. During the story of the elements of a dream, a part of me, got lost there.

Bizarre Friends of Ricardinho (2010)

A weird trainee. A stifling job. In the midst of corporate oppression, a worker passively fights back with stories from home.

Superheroes (1999)

A crazy costumer in a comic book store claims that he is the Son of Krypton, Kal-El, and he is willing to do anything to prove it.