Juan Álvarez Neme
2021
La fundición del tiempo
Juan Álvarez Neme
An encounter between a girl and a tree doctor in a forest in Nagasaki. A horse tamer searches for a wild animal to submit across a timeless wasteland. A story about phantoms of a lost time and the remains of violence still inhabits in us.
The Smelting of Time
Al Pie del Árbol Blanco
Juan Álvarez Neme
After 22 years an old photographer finds lost negatives of El Popular, the newspaper he worked for when it was closed down by the dictatorship in 1973. A teenager is looking for the way to deliver to it's owner the treasure he had found playing in the garage as a child, inside a hole in the wall. A building reveals a secret that has been hidden inside it: fifty thousand ever enduring negatives with the untold story of a country.
Standing at the Foot of the White Tree
El Cultivo de la Flor Invisible
Juan Álvarez Neme
Milka González, Hortensia Pereira
The Crop of the Invisible Flower is a daily painting of a group of people who have been struck by forzed dissapearances on Uruguay. The documentary follows them through 5 years, starting from the first triump of the left on the country, exploring reality through their eyes. The movie also explores the search for the truth on a society divided by justice and memory.
The Crop of the Invisible Flower
