Films in Progress 43 / Toulouse 2024

Filhos do mangue (en)

Director: 

Eliane Caffé

Country: 

  • Brésil

Year: 

2024

Length: 

1h35

A violent and disturbed man is found wounded and suffering from amnesia in a coastal community. When he is accused of theft by the fishermen, they try in vain to make him regain his memory in order to recover the stolen money. In a popular trial, a conspiracy is uncovered involving embezzlement of public funds, prostitution, domestic and gender-based violence. Sentenced to isolation, he seeks a new meaning in life.

Horizonte (en)

Director: 

César Augusto Acevedo

Country: 

  • Colombie

Year: 

2024

Length: 

2h05

When Basilio and his mother Inés understand that they are dead, they decide to embark on a physical and spiritual journey through a landscape devastated by war. All of this was provoked by Basilio, who was a criminal when he was alive and who is now forced to relive endlessly all those acts with his mother as a witness. It is only through great sacrifices that they will achieve the redemption they long for, which will allow them to discover the true value of life in this land where all hope seems to be lost.

Isla negra (en)

Director: 

Jorge Riquelme Serrano

Country: 

  • Chili

Year: 

2024

Length: 

1h45

In their well-off house on the beach, Guillermo and his assistant Carmen spend the weekend together before starting a real estate project in the Isla Negra beach resort. The quiet weekend is disturbed when a woman, her husband and her sick father arrive at their home. Since the arrival of this family, the routine will become increasingly tense, triggering a conflict that will reveal deep political and social differences of both opposing worlds.

Jepotá (en)

Director: 

Carlos Papá Guarani
Augusto Canani

Country: 

  • Brésil

Year: 

2024

Length: 

1h33

In a territory where indigenous life collides with urbanization, Iraí is a young indigenous man who learns that Jerá, the mysterious girl he is deeply in love with, could be suffering from a deadly condition known by his community as "Jepotá". When Jerá suddenly disappears, Iraí seeks Caburé’s help, a woman retreated into the wilderness. In a midst of a vast industrial district, Iraí finds himself and discovers the intricate interconnections of reality that go far beyond what he could have imagined.

Querido Trópico (en)

Director: 

Ana Endara

Country: 

  • Panama

Year: 

2024

Length: 

1h53

A tropical garden becomes the stage for an encounter between two lonely souls will spend time together : one of an upper-class woman whose early onset senile dementia is taking away everything she once was, and another of a pregnant immigrant caregiver who is alone, cut off from the world by a terrible secret.

Vainilla (en)

Director: 

Mayra Hermosillo

Country: 

  • Mexique

Year: 

2024

Length: 

1h30

In the late 80s, a family made up of seven women from different generations and ideologies, struggle to save the house they live in and which they are about to lose because of a debt. The story unfolds through the eyes of the youngest, Roberta (8), as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, which impacts the rest of the family.