These Latin American feature-length documentaries will be participating in this section of CONECTA 10. This category is aimed at projects in the development or production stage.
The projects selected for the Conectados section are:
just stay silent
Country: Brazil and Colombia
Dir: Juliana Gouveia
Prod: Kiki Garcia (Brasil) y Emmanuel Orozco (Colombia)
Storyline: The grandchildren of repressors are the remaining, unopened archives. I’m Juliana, a filmmaker and granddaughter of a Black man who was a Navy commander during the dictatorship in Brazil. I seek the truth about my grandfather through archives, memories, and talks with my mother.
ARCHAEOLOGY OF TORTURE
Country: Brazil, France and Norway
Dir: Carla Gallo
Prod: Rafaella Costa
Storyline: While excavating the facilities of DOI-Codi, the main apparatus of repression during Brazil’s military dictatorship, a group of archaeologists unearth some of the darkest chapters in the country’s history. Interwoven with the excavations, archives and silenced stories evoke the political memory of the era and the dreams of a nation.
Way to freedom
Country: Argentina
Dir: Maria Manzanares
Prod: Ailén Herradón
Storyline: Betiana, a young machi (Mapuche doctor), after the highly publicized murder of her cousin Rafael Nahuel, decides to resist in the forest, her pharmacy, alongside her community. This demonstrates that the conviction of who one is can shake up a seemingly unbreakable system. However, criminalization continues, and telling her story becomes urgent.
When the Fog Advances
Country: Chile
Dir: Jaime Díaz
Prod: Aukaleb Ankaro
Storyline: After discovering that she was taken during the dictatorship in Chile, María Jesús embarks on a journey in search of her biological mother. As she unravels her past, the harsh reality of child theft and a family relationship marked by violence is revealed.
Ways to Travel
Country: Chile
Dir: Meme Cabello y Antonia Martínez Valls
Prod: Juan Bautista Tagle
Storyline: In a self-built settlement on the outskirts of Talagante, Chile, children of different Latin American nationalities imagine traveling in a parked van in search of distant family. Through this collective adventure, they explore migration, identity and belonging, blurring the line between reality and fiction.
Daughter of the Sun
Country: Costa Rica
Dir: Michele Ferris Dobles
Prod: Natasha Carmona Cruz
Storyline: Lela Taliashvili is a Georgian astrophysicist living in exile in Costa Rica who devotes her life to studying and communicating with the Sun; between science and philosophy, her story is a quest to understand the cosmos and our fleeting place in it.
Kimbo
Country: Cuba
Dir: Paloma Gomide
Prod: Jorge L. Garcia
Storyline: Catalina, a fifty-year-old psychologist who decided to give up her profession, lives and works in the middle of Havana’s largest garbage dump.
In a journey between memories and the harshness of the present, Catalina reveals the dynamics of the garbage society and shows the reality of a country.
The other voice
Country: Argentina and Spain
Dir: Agustina Pérez Rial
Prod: Nicolás Gil Lavedra
Storyline: Based on unpublished letters and photographs, The Other Voice reconstructs the years of Mercedes Sosa’s exile (1979–1982). An intimate and political portrait of the woman behind the icon, revealing her strength, her fragility, and the power of her voice as an instrument of resistance and collective memory.
Prophecies
Country: Bolivia and Peru
Dir: Miguel Hilari
Prod: Nayme Bustillos, Guadalupe Cuba, Miguel Hilari
Storyline: A silent film from 1925’s Bolivia showed a forbidden love: She was a white landowner, he an Aymara servant. For that reason, the film was censored and burned. Today, we do a journey searching for traces of this story. Is the ancient tale of an impossible love still relevant today?
Lourdes
Country: Brazil
Dir: Mariana Cobra
Prod: Morena Koti
Storyline: Director and protagonist of the documentary, Mariana, 40 years old, finds herself facing a doubt: will she be a mother or not? She closely follows her grandmother Lourdes’ Alzheimer, and the care given to her by her mother and aunts amidst much beauty, affection, and love.
Marithea
Country: Colombia
Dir: Diego Cruz
Prod: Frank Carreño
Storyline: Marithea is a young Afro-Colombian rapper who became an icon of Ibero-American freestyle, defying a scene historically dominated by men. But now, tired of the constant pressure of competitions and the weight of representing those who see her as a feminist symbol, she has only one goal in mind: to retire at the peak of her career.
MODULE 33
Country: Chile
Dir: Sebastián Moreno
Prod: Sebastián Moreno
Storyline: In a high-security module, writer Nona Fernández interviews Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, former militant of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, sentenced to 30 years for being one of the intellectual authors of the assassination of Jaime Guzmán and for the kidnapping of Cristián Edwards. What begins as material for a book becomes an intimate and political journey that explores the convictions, contradictions and ghosts of a man who embodies the open wounds of Chile’s recent history.
Our fur baby Moma
Country: Uruguay
Dir: Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe
Prod: Carolina Campo Lupo
Storyline: Juan Ignacio (44) is a documentary filmmaker who lives alone with Moma, an old dog, whose ownership he shares with his ex-girlfriend Maite. Overcome by a midlife crisis, he launches into filming a documentary about the world of fur babys, in a desperate attempt to take charge of a debt that he may no longer be able or willing to pay: fatherhood.
Pablo from Chill-e
Country: Chile
Dir: Tomás Alzamora Muñoz y Pablo Acevedo
Prod: Pablo Calisto
Storyline: Since the early days of trap in Chile, one name stands out: Pablo Chill-e (25). His lyrics expose violence, inequality, and neglect, portraying a country many refuse to see. Behind the controversial artist lies a sensitive young man who found in music, family, and social action his weapons against injustice.
QUEEN OF THE PEOPLE
Country: Colombia
Dir: Mónica Taboada-Tapia
Prod: Beto Rosero
Storyline: Filmed over a decade, Queen of the People follows Naomy, an Afro-Colombian teen thrust into pageants by her mother and crowned queen of Cartagena’s biggest grassroots contest. As promises fade and she becomes a mother, different generations face gender roles in a city marked by sex tourism, violence, and the disappearance of women.
SEA ROUTE
Country: Chile
Dir: Vivienne Barry
Prod: Samuel Leon
Storyline: The ‘Ruta del Mar’ invites us to enjoy tourism, but instead reveals the most striking and painful contrasts. From Chile’s most exclusive and elegant beach resorts to the most extreme pollution and poverty, not to mention the destruction of nature and human rights violations. A journey to the most contrasting extremes that are plain to see on our Central Coast, but which the sand and time strive to hide.
South Pole Explorers
Country: Chile
Dir: Jota Loyola
Prod: Juan Ramírez
Storyline: At the South Pole, known as the ‘Heart of the Planet’, three simultaneous maritime expeditions, led by explorers from a wide range of fields, reveal global research in the midst of Earth’s most hostile climate, showing how international collaboration is key to understanding and preserving this unique ecosystem.
A Body for Waldirene
Country: Brazil
Dir: Rafael Farina Issas y Luíza Zaidan
Prod: Ana Freitas
Storyline: Waldirene is a retired manicurist facing the challenges of old age. In 1971, she underwent the first gender reassignment surgery in Latin America. After decades of silence, Wal tells how her body became a battleground between a visionary surgeon, the Brazilian military dictatorship, and her own dreams.
A PATH OF THORNS
Country: Mexico
Dir: Adriana Otero
Prod: Adriana Otero, Paola Stefani
Storyline: After a miscarriage turns into a wrongful accusation of homicide, a Mexican Indigenous woman is sentenced to serve a long prison term. Ten years later, she seeks to understand the reasons behind the injustice that marked her life, in search of her true freedom and to prove her innocence.
Widows of Living Husbands
Country: Brazil
Dir: Diego Kelmann y Jussara Costa
Prod: Renata Lobo
Storyline: In Brazil’s rural Jequitinhonha Valley, parents struggle to remain present in their families’ lives, even as they’re forced to spend long months working far from home. This historical cycle of migration leaves deep marks across the entire community.
You? Mom?
Country: Brazil
Dir: Daniel Gonçalves, Nathalia Santos
Prod: Daniel Gonçalves, Dani Nascimento, Roberto Berliner, Sabrina Garcia, Leo Ribeiro
Storyline: You? Mom? Camila, Nathalia, Moira, Luciana… These and other women have their ability to bear and care for a child tested every day. For them, being a mother isn’t compulsory. They are mothers with disabilities.
I also want to resign
Country: Puerto Rico
Dir: Natalie Uni Marie
Prod: Vilma Liella
Storyline: The archives from the phones of three friends, sex workers, and activists in Puerto Rico reveal their resistance to the violence that surround them. Through Uni’s perspective, as co-protagonist and filmmaker, the documentary offers an intimate look into their world, exploring human limits, power, and body autonomy within a colonial context.
Analog Zambra
Country: Chile and Mexico
Dir: Paula Leonvendagar
Prod: Matías Cardone
Storyline: An intimate portrait of Alejandro Zambra, a key figure in Latin American literature. Filmed in Chile and Mexico, the documentary follows his creative process as he reflects on writing, migration, technology, and the passage of time in the digital age.
About Conecta
Conecta is an international documentary industry event aimed at Latin American producers and filmmakers with documentary projects in development, editing, post-production, or completed but not yet premiered.
The meeting brings together national and international industry professionals, including representatives from funds, markets, and festivals; distributors, sales agents, exhibitors; as well as platform and television programmers, and producers.
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