SUZUME

What better way to open the 41st BIFFF than with a teenage girl jumping from one dimension to the next, trying to save the world from impending doom alongside a magical cat and a talking three-legged chair? That teenager is Suzume, a seemingly ordinary high-schooler who on her way to class meets a strange fellow,… Continue reading SUZUME

INFINITY POOL

Welcome to the luxurious all-in resort on Tolqa Island! A safe haven with pearl-white beaches for the world’s wealthiest tourists who just want to take their minds off things. That’s what James and Em Foster were planning to do, chilling at the pool. Then they meet a couple that proposes a different method of relaxing:… Continue reading INFINITY POOL

SUMMER SCARS

The first scene of SUMMER SCARS feels like a vague childhood memory slowly bubbling up again. A memory of a bright, red-hot summer day you spent romping around with your brother. Except these two brothers, Tony and Noé, did not grow up in a suburb with white picket fences but in the rough, savage landscape… Continue reading SUMMER SCARS

VIRUS-32

Iris is a night guard at a big sports club in Montevideo Bay and the cliché of the single mother struggling to make ends meet. Sure, she likes to drink and smoke some weed from time to time, but who are we to judge? Once a week she also takes her daughter Renata to work… Continue reading VIRUS-32

THE LAST BATTLE

The world lies in ruin. Everything is destroyed or nearly destroyed. The wind and the storm torment the fragments of life that are left. A loner survives on the last floor of a high rise that’s almost consumed by sand. There, patiently and seated at a gigantic desk he prepares his departure. Behind the horizon,… Continue reading THE LAST BATTLE