Synopsis:
In crisis-stricken Venezuela two former schoolmates in their twenties are brought together by their moral and existential doubts. Roberto, a rigid idealist working for the ministry of transportation, struggles to make ends meet but pledges never to desert his homeland and looks down upon those who abandon the country. Selina, a careless expatriate brat, is working illegally in Italy and considers marrying for papers, a situation she hides from her affluent family back in Venezuela. When Roberto receives what seems a tremendous job opportunity abroad and Selina gets trapped in Venezuela during her Christmas holiday, they face a difficult question: will they stay behind to rebuild their homeland or face the uncertainties of an immigrant life?
In crisis-stricken Venezuela two former schoolmates in their twenties are brought together by their moral and existential doubts. Roberto, a rigid idealist working for the ministry of transportation, struggles to make ends meet but pledges never to desert his homeland and looks down upon those who abandon the country. Selina, a careless expatriate brat, is working illegally in Italy and considers marrying for papers, a situation she hides from her affluent family back in Venezuela. When Roberto receives what seems a tremendous job opportunity abroad and Selina gets trapped in Venezuela during her Christmas holiday, they face a difficult question: will they stay behind to rebuild their homeland or face the uncertainties of an immigrant life?
SHORT FILMS
Un Polvo de Locos (2020)
Synopsis:
A packed cafe. Only two tables occupied by single customers. The two catch each other's attention and end up in each other's pants in a public bathroom, but it ends too soon as they immediately begin fighting. It all seems a little too similar... have they done this before?
A packed cafe. Only two tables occupied by single customers. The two catch each other's attention and end up in each other's pants in a public bathroom, but it ends too soon as they immediately begin fighting. It all seems a little too similar... have they done this before?
HARINA (2018)
Synopsis:
Roberto is a middleclass working professional trying to survive Venezuela's economic death spiral and current humanitarian crisis while maintaining his unemployed mother. They run into a conflict when she insists that he buy flour for her birthday cake.
Roberto is a middleclass working professional trying to survive Venezuela's economic death spiral and current humanitarian crisis while maintaining his unemployed mother. They run into a conflict when she insists that he buy flour for her birthday cake.
VELVET DREAMLAND (2016)
Synopsis:
Sevine is a hedonist; she can love one, she can love many. Addicted to emotional danger zones, she locks herself up in the “Velvet Dreamland” to play. Suddenly, disruptive images of her different love affairs storm her mind, and her subconscious starts to slowly pull her away from the dreamland. As her hedonistic escape comes to an end she is forced to face reality: is love running away from her, or is she running away from love?
Sevine is a hedonist; she can love one, she can love many. Addicted to emotional danger zones, she locks herself up in the “Velvet Dreamland” to play. Suddenly, disruptive images of her different love affairs storm her mind, and her subconscious starts to slowly pull her away from the dreamland. As her hedonistic escape comes to an end she is forced to face reality: is love running away from her, or is she running away from love?