Mario Handler Movies

The documentary delves into the intimate, labor, and political life of diverse characters to testify to the problems of inequality, exploitation, and...

In 16th-century Spanish America, a Dominican friar named Santiago survives a brutal expedition and is absorbed into a Carib tribe. When he flees...

Existential confrontations are unleashed while people try to survival within a concret jungle. Such conflict gets worst when the person is near his...

A documentary about the building of a damn near Caño Mánamo and the effects it has on the environment.

Documentary on the electoral system in Uruguay. It focused on the upcoming federal elections, criticizing both of the country's political parties.

Documentary short film by Mario Handler about the city of Prague as part of an internship to study film in Europe.

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political and social standpoints; evocations of the past are...

During the second half of the 1960s, the Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas (UTAA) carried out a series of marches from the north of...

Documentary made from the record of five manifestations of Uruguayan children's folklore: «El rango», «La rayuela»,...

Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil...

The confrontation between two families over possession of the land gradually becomes a great slaughter where almost all the members of one the sides...

Rare images of real life stories in the so-called "asentamientos" in the poor underbelly of Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, and in its youth jails....

Liber Arce, a student, was killed by the police in a protest march. His funeral became the largest demonstration held in Montevideo. The events...

After a long exile in Venezuela, filmmaker Mario Handler returns to his country, Uruguay. There, the dictatorship is still present in the media,...

TV Movie based on the life of Antonio José de Sucre, the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho

The story of seven prostitutes traveling in a truck, town to town, selling their show in local festivities inside an old circus tent. The authorities...

After the meat industry workers stop receiving 2 kilograms of meat a day as a part of their salary, they organize the biggest strike in Uruguayan...

After several close calls with death squads, Mario Handler fled Uruguay in 1973 and eventually settled in Venezuela where he lived and continued to...

The "caminante" refers to a hobo who roams the countryside, a nomenclature preferred by Carlos, who once traveled all over Uruguay before becoming a...