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- DirectorHector BabencoStarsTom BerengerJohn LithgowDaryl HannahMartin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
- DirectorJack TobinAn American goes to work in the booming oil industry of Venuzuela.
- DirectorKatrina ChannellsChasing Chavez explores Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution through the eyes of Australian Coral Wynter, as she seeks a meeting with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. Coral's one desire is to present her idol with the book she co-authored 'Voices from Venezuela: behind the Bolivarian revolution' but as Coral explains 'nothing is easy in Venezuela.'
- DirectorRubén Sierra SallesStarsGladys PrincePatrizia FuscoRossana HernándezMeche has not got over the absence of his son Raúl. Challenged by an imminent danger, her daughters Dayana and Anabel try to convince her to leave Lídice, the neighborhood where she has lived her entire life. With Dayana's birthday for excuse, the family gathers.
- DirectorFreddy SisoStarsPedro María PeñaAlbina DugarteOmar CastilloPortrait of the daily reality of the peasants of the town of Los Nevados, in the state of Mérida (Venezuela), who have to emigrate to the city in search of better economic conditions, although they always try to keep their customs alive despite everything.
- DirectorLuis Alberto LamataStarsLourdes ValeraCarlos CruzDaniela AlvaradoIn the corridors of a Caracas hospital, two very dissimilar beings meet by chance one night. Coming from very different worlds, anxiety is the only thing they have in common. One of them is Antonieta Sanchez, a single mother who has made ends meet for herself and her son, Odulio, by washing clothes and ironing. She knows she has lost her son a long time ago: Odulio is a young criminal. The night he was shot, Antonieta's life changed forever. The other is Benigno Robles, an assistant district attorney who, as a young law student, devoted his career with hope and deeply rooted ideals of justice. When Elisa, his only daughter, is hit by a stray bullet, Benigno will never be the same. But this encounter between Antonieta and Benigno, seemingly coincidental, is not: there is a secret that will eventually come to light.
- DirectorSolveig HoogesteijnStarsIrma SalcedoGisvel AscanioÁngel BarceloAbout a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background whilst in a Caracas jail.
- DirectorRicardo AdlerRicardo KordaBelén OrsiniStarsPaul FellermeierManis FriedmanAn ancient Kabbalistic secret was kept hidden for centuries, but now filmmaker Ricardo Adler and leading Rabbis of this generation are breaking a historical tradition and revealing it for the first time.
- DirectorJorge Thielen ArmandStarsJosé Dolores LópezAdrializ LópezMarley AlvillaresA vivid and intimate account of the Venezuelan crisis told through the real-life struggle of a young father trying to save his family from the demolition of their home.
- DirectorCharles MartinezStarsSergio AlonsoRodrigo GómezMelina Hidalgo LloveraA documentary with elements of fiction that explores the myth around the character of Luis Enrique Cerrada Molina (1956-1977), the most popular miraculous dead man of the Andean city of Mérida, who lived as a criminal, who was famous for sharing the haul with the poor people of the barrios and the city and for being riddled with bullets in a well-known confrontation with law enforcement officers.
- DirectorMel FerrerStarsAudrey HepburnAnthony PerkinsLee J. CobbA young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsLisa BlountLeonard MannWillie AamesA reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
- DirectorJohn PetrizzelliStarsCarolina TorresLuis Gerónimo AbreuAroldo BetancourtFifty years of Venezuelan history seen through the eyes of a parrot, with multiple names and as the owner of the moment: "empanada", "Democracy" and "Penelope." His life is marked since it was sold to animal dealers when it was just a pigeon. Not imagine the adventures of the parrot that will witness this in the search of his most cherished dreams. What a mess! En la Venezuela de los años 50, un pichón de loro real es vendido a traficantes de animales; durante su traslado es salvado por una vendedora de empanadas quien lo acoge como un miembro más en su familia. Los tiempos son duros para sus dueños y la capital se perfila como una buena opción de vida, así que emprenden el largo viaje y se llevan con ellos al loro. Una vez en Caracas, ni se imaginan las peripecias que este loro tendrá que pasar, de jaula en jaula y siento testigo de las aventuras y desventuras de sus dueños.
- DirectorJoseph NovoaStarsRocío MirandaLaureano OlivaresArmando GotaThe town of Papayal is located in the Amazon jungle. It is ruled by violence, greed and vice. It has grown around mines where gold is extracted, and where mercury has severely destroyed the environment. Apart from the local bar and brothel, the settlers have nothing to do but work on the mines. Every once in a while a man called Fellini arrives and projects films. One day the mother of teenager Isabel and her lover steal the gold from miner El Gallego and flee from Papayal. The girl is forced to pay their debt, by working on the brothel. Isabel tries to escape, but she is caught by the police, and meets Cae, a young man who is bought by a trader to work in the gold mines. Back on Papayal, Isabel falls in love with Cae, who tells her that both her mother and her lover have been killed.
- DirectorMargot BenacerrafStarsJosé Ignacio CabrujasLaurent Terzieff"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
- DirectorLuis Alberto LamataStarsCosme CortázarFrancis RuedaAlexander MilicAt early 16th century a priest joins the Spanish colonizers in order to bring Christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally becomes one of them - until the Spaniards return.
- DirectorHaik GazarianStarsAlfonso HerreraRuddy RodríguezRafael RomeroVenezuelan film based on real events of Venezuela's role during World War II
- DirectorJoel NovoaStarsMohammed AlkhaldiVando VillamilDaniela AlvaradoInspired by true events, "God's Slave" is the story of Ahmed and David, two extremist characters, one Islamic and the other Jewish, who cross their paths while being in the opposite side of the conflict in the A.M.I.A bombings that took place in 1994 in Buenos Aires.
- DirectorLuis ManzoStarsIván TamayoRoque ValeroElaiza GilIn a tiny town in an unnamed Latin American country in the 1930s, a young telegraph operator helps link the small, repressed community to the outside world, against the will of the powerful colonel who rules the village like a dictator.
- DirectorJuan XiolEdward G. MullerEdoardo MulargiaStarsRoberto AntonelliHélène ChanelÁngel ÁlvarezAfter escaping from a prison camp, an undercover Policeman infiltrates a Revolutionary Movement bent on stealing guns and ammo for their cause. He finds that he must combat the entire group single-handed. Larry Anderson
- DirectorAlfredo AnzolaStarsMarco VillarubiaKristin PardoRonnie Nordenflycht"1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel" is a whimsical adventure fantasy about a tired Jules Verne, fleeing from Paris and a bored wife, who joins Italian explorer Stradelli in an expedition on the Orinoco river. Along the way they pickup a young stranger- a woman disguised as a man, searching for her lost father.
- DirectorLuis CorreaStarsOmaira AbinadeDaniel AlvaradoRicardo BlancoThe true story about a bloody rivalry and revenge between two families in Santa Barbara del Zulia, Venezuela; during the 70s.