Mercedes Sampietro – MRQE

La Noche que dejó de llover

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

53 días de invierno

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three characters meet on a winter night at a bus stop and attend to the abandonment of a dog. Mila, a teacher who has been a year off after being attacked by one of his students. Celso, security guard, married, father of a child with serious economic problems, about to learn that is going to be father again, but this time with twins. And Valeria, a cello student, with a murky relationship with her family and her love. The three set out on a journey that will take them to confront their fears and frustrations and to make each a decision that will change their lives.

Salvador (Puig Antich)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco’s Fascist State in 1974.

La Edad de la peseta

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The “edad de la peseta” or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the age of seven to the age of eleven. Set in 1958 in Havana, the year that culminates the Revolution, ten-year-old Samuel has just arrived in town with his recently divorced mother. They take up residence in the house of his eccentric grandmother Violeta, and Samuel is introduced to a new, mysterious world where Samuel finds himself an adult in comparison to his child-like mother.

Nordeste

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their hopeless village in search for a better life changes both of their lives forever.

Inconscientes

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Lugares comunes

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family’s apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.

Silencio roto

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps “those in the mountain”, the “maquis”, the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco’s Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.

Las huellas borradas

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite the flame between them. As old secrets are revealed, the villagers must come to terms with their imminent loss and the drowning of their home.

Cuando vuelvas a mi lado

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death.