Pablo di Leva

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

Gonzalo Arijón

José Pedro Algorta Durán, Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.

El Canto de los Dioses

Pablo di Leva

Road documentary that delves into the musical and religious expressions of sub-Saharan Africa. Through Mauritania and Mali, the film documents the lives of Dogon, griots, musicians and instrument makers who, through oral accounts, explain why music plays a fundamental role in the socio-religious organization of peoples. The film culminates its search with the recording of the performance of the traditional Dogon mask dance, in Begnematou, a small village lost in the desert.

Negro

Pablo di Leva

Negro explores the roots of candombe culture, trying to understand the why and how of a culture embedded into the soundscape of Montevideo and Uruguay as a whole.