Marcos Contreras

Buddies and the Heir (2026)

Following the death of a hotelier in Punta del Este, Uruguay, an unexpected inheritance dispute begins. Stallone, an actor with Down syndrome, believes he is the rightful heir to the hotel. On the other side is Magrelo, a young autistic man who was raised ...

Pineapple Pizza and The End of the World (2023)

The motel room destroyed, a hell of a hangover and a dead body; the world really should have ended. ...

1961 (2023)

In 1961, father and son travel to Porto Alegre. Their severance leads both to unknown realities. ...

The Babbling Boil (2022)

Daniel has a misunderstanding with a witch and recieves an interesting curse; ...

The Nightshifter (2019)

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night. ...

Through Ernesto's Eyes (2019)

Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl. ...

Resistance (2019)

Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros an ...

Rend Your Heart (2018)

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son. ...

The City of Pirates (2018)

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after ...

The Movie of My Life (2017)

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had ...

Restless Sea (2016)

Anita an ex junkie moves with her husband to an isolated wind blown coastal town hoping to leave her out of control drug fueled past behind her. Her laddish, bad tempered husband is not sensitive to Anita's emotional needs and her new life does not seem to ...

The Staple of News (2014)

Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play "The Staple of News" provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and ...

Camel on the Tarmac (2014)

Camel on the Tarmac is made of two movements: the walking and the feeling. Walking under the sky of platinum winter; and on the asphalt. Feeling under the silence of the journey; relive the emotional memories. Peter walks and feel; walks and crosses the ...

A Última Estrada da Praia (2010)

Waiting Room (2009)

A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city. ...

Stray Dog (2007)

In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actre ...

Olho Por Mim (2022)

Camel on the Tarmac (2014)

Camel on the Tarmac is made of two movements: the walking and the feeling. Walking under the sky of platinum winter; and on the asphalt. Feeling under the silence of the journey; relive the emotional memories. Peter walks and feel; walks and crosses the ...