Stones / 2002

The stones of the title are the dreams and burdens carried by these five women with interlinked lives. This story of decision and transformation was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

Piedras / 2010

Martín is a twenty-year-old young man living in a little village with his grandmother Zunilda, whom he feels a great affection for. His mother, Mimí, is a restless woman who left him several years earlier to follow her new husband to Patagonia. When she comes back for a short visit, she finds it very difficult to re-establish contact with her son. Sebas, Martín's friend, who is going through a difficult period with his girlfriend, feels attracted to Unno, a young transvestite. Martín starts going out with a handsome older boy who is very kind to him and invites him home. Suddenly, the quiet life of the protagonist seems destined to undergo unexpected change which will force him to grow up. But it is Martín who must decide how to react when he falls in love for the first time, and whether to accept the fact that his grandmother will leave him.

The Monster of Piedras Blancas / 19596.01 voti

An old lighthouse keeper who lives with his daughter secretly keeps a prehistoric fish-man by feeding it scraps and fish. One day he misses the feeding and all hell breaks loose.

It Happened in Piedras Blancas / 1960

It is the story of a young Puerto Rican government doctor who is assigned to fight schistosomiasis in a rural district and informs Puerto Ricans about the dangers posed by this common disease.

Piedras Vivas (Civilizaciones Desaparecidas) / 2005

Piedras vivas / 1956

We The Stones / 2017

Even though the government expelled them from their lands in the name of ecologic preservation 40 years ago, a group of panners keep searching the rivers for gold, deep in Costa Rica’s jungle. Their living as modern pariahs shows their fight for survivance, and questions the country’s conservationist fame.

KUEKA , cuando las piedras hablan / 2017

The film recounts the extraction of the Kueka stone from Venezuelan territory, an emblematic stone for the Pemón people of the Gran Sabana. The event occurred when the power lines began to be laid in Santa Cruz de Mapaurí and the Santa Elena de Guairen highway was being built, which connected the Venezuelan territory with Brazil. All this maelstrom of "development" led to the mobilization of indigenous people for the defense of their territory, which resulted in the removal of the stone: Grandma Kueka, as she is known by the Pemón culture.

The Stones / 2011

In a house in Delta, in a quiet interrupted only by the noise of the boats, a couple lives without crossing each other. He is a writer waiting for the words; she is an alienated employee of the Exterminator House . The relationship crisis (with the domestic, with the other, with the writing, with the present) seems to last in personal trips mixing loneliness and something hypnotic about this world. There is a contemplative realism that contains everything, partly as a perplexed look, but also as a way to analyze a strange corruption where the ordinary is transformed, where the mundane is reflected in the rippling waters of the river until it reflects another face. But an unexpected change in the course of a character will change his life and the tone of the film... This debut film directed, written and performed by Roman Cardenas bet on a visual narrative with brief interruptions of words, where the everyday can coexist to confuse the mystery, absurdity and revelation.

Las Semillas de las Piedras / 2008

La hora de las piedras / 2021

Late at night, the time of the stones has arrived.

The Evolution of the Stones / 1988

Complete version in three parts. Reconstructed from VHS transfers of the original Super-8. Music and film by Claudio Caldini, 1988.