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Expiatorio
"The narrative voices in Expiatorio are skillfully developed to guide the reader through geographic spaces significant to the author's own biography (Valencia, Bogotá, Valle del Cauca). However, many of these journeys also allow the reader to assign…
En mi boca se abrirá la noche
"The author began writing this poetry collection ten years ago, following the murder of two women (mother and daughter) in Caracas. The news coverage focused more on sensationalism than on denouncing violence, as photos of the two women’s burned…
La edad del búfalo
"How many times can the temperature of a story change? As many times as Javier Guedez wants. His tales of the sweltering Caribbean are told with the rhythm of a street party—with its scents, its flavors, and its mysteries—that, all of a sudden, leave…
Les poissons de Caracas
In Caracas, a dismembered body is discovered in the Guaire River. Inspector Enrique Dávila is assigned to the case. But time is running out, as the army threatens to transfer the file to the secret services.
Meanwhile, the officer’s neighbor is…
Los verdaderos paraísos
"A young man arrives in a remote Brazilian town following the trail of a little-known episode in the life of writer Albert Camus. In that small village, he becomes part of the daily routines of a boarding house run by an elderly Japanese woman, who…
Florecer lejos de casa
"It is impossible to understand Venezuela without considering the massive migration of European and Latin American citizens who arrived on its shores between the 19th and 20th centuries. Now, it is equally impossible to understand the country without…
La Soledad
"The inspiration for filming La Soledad comes from the director’s childhood experiences at his grandparents’ family home in Caracas, Venezuela. After spending years abroad, he returned to the country to shoot a film in that house—a work that…
While You're Still You (Mentre siguis tu / Mientras seas tú)
Winner of the 2024 Goya Award for Best Documentary Feature.
"After 50 years in theater, film, and television, actress Carme Elías is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Together with her friend, director Claudia Pinto Emperador, she decides to document her…
Desde allá
Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide…
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
"On Lake Maracaibo, beneath the mysterious silent Catatumbo lightning, the village of Congo Mirador is preparing for parliamentary elections. For streetwise local businesswoman and Chavist party representative Tamara every vote counts, fought by all…
Women of Venezuelan Chaos
"Five women from Venezuela, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a portrait of a society in perdition and allow us to take the pulse of a population in distress, to represent a sort of barometer of the situation of this Latin American…
La mañana imaginada: Antología poética (2021-1978)
Poetry anthology of María Auxiliadora Álvarez, edited by Juan Carlos Abril.
Los escapistas
"In Los escapistas by Fedosy Santaella, readers will find themselves astonished, frightened, enraged, amused, and ultimately drawn back into the intricate map of escapes, stumbles, and chance encounters that define every existence. Each story in this…
Nido
Premio Nacional de Novela Gráfica 2024"In this work of autofiction, the author portrays her own life experience with simplicity and precision, while also capturing the reality of many of her compatriots: uprootedness, nostalgia, fear, xenophobia,…
Superhéroe
"Gabriel has moved to a new country where things can be quite strange: the words are completely different, he has a couple of arch-enemies at school, and his math teacher looks like an alien plotting an invasion of Earth. Luckily, he's an expert on…
Venezuela: Crónicas de Ángel Sastre
"Jon Sedano (1984) is a journalist, director of the portal La Casa de EL, and a comic book scriptwriter. Closely connected to the world of comics both as a passion—having founded the specialized website in 2011—and professionally as a member of…
Los capítulos perdidos
After years abroad, Ena returns to Venezuela with a fragmented sense of self. At home, she finds her grandmother losing her grasp of reality. Meanwhile, her father spends his days looking for rare books in an attempt to safeguard the country’s…
Los terneros
Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind men who know the urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists riding through city avenues, foreigners learning a language through confession, dying pilots finding rest in the writings of…
Uprising / Alzamiento
"Lisbeth Coiman is a dazzling new voice. With tender rage, she excavates what it means to love and grieve a homeland." Ariel Gore, author of Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance and F*ck Happiness.…
#Darién
Two glam queens embark on a surreal journey into the Darien jungle, confronting haunting experiences and personal challenges that reshape their understanding of life and redefine their sense of self. (IMDb) "“I was seeing how more and more…