Virginia Martínez Movies

Award-winning documentary about how one Uruguayan leftist survived solitary confinement during the dirty war. The story of former Tupamaro guerilla...

The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has...

A mother struggles to raise her daughter all by herself, and due to the economic difficulties decides to rob multiple finance houses, fooling her...

Armed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately...

For more than forty years, Belela Herrera has dedicated her life to saving that of others. The politically persecuted, those displaced by civil wars,...

Sara Méndez, a Uruguayan teacher, was kidnapped in March 1976 by the Argentine Dictatorship, when her baby (who was appropriated by the...

The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay. The way up to the building...

We follow the efforts of Ester Gatti to find her missing granddaughter Mariana Zaffaroni. As a child, Mariana and her parents were kidnapped by a...

A group of archaeologists from the University of the Republic enters, for the first time in Uruguayan history, into a barracks to dig for the remains...

This documentary tells the story of a group of Uruguayan political and social activists who began or intensified their activities in the 1960s. What...

This documentary was shot in four countries in the Southern Cone of South America over a two-week period. It examines the democracies that re-emerged...

In October 1976, the Uruguayan Armed Forces exhibited to the media a group of militants kidnapped in Buenos Aires months before, as if they had just...

The Uruguay of restored democracy alter years of military dictatorship remains divided about what to do with de military accused of violations of...