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The Strong Ones is a story of love and courage, at the end of the world, between two men in search of freedom.

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

A family takes a short vacation, while the daughter of the family gradually discovers that her parents could be separating.

Five brutal torturers of Pinochet's dictatorship serve sentence in a luxury prison at the foot of the Andes. Fearing of transferring to a regular jail after a TV interview, they will go to great lengths to stay where they are.

During the summer of 1990 in Chile, people begin to feel a growing sense of freedom and three teenagers face their first loves and fears.

Timid, video game-loving DJ Santiago seemingly digs his own grave when he agrees to bring a violent criminal kingpin the head of Machine Gun Woman.

Lucas is visiting his sister on a remote island in southern Chile before moving abroad. An unlikely romance grows when he meets Antonio, a struggling young fisherman. The intimacy they share makes them navigate towards a new horizon and to a different stage of their adulthood.

Two close family friends, Jeremy and Alphonse, American and French, spend a few weeks together in Brooklyn. Jeremy is confused about his understanding of the friendship, while obsessed with the ducks in the Prospect Park lake and finishing a school paper about their migration. Alphonse likes to ride bicycles and does not want to leave town. The ducks inevitably leave, Alphonse goes back to Paris, and Jeremy stays in his house, but all of them depart to discover something new.

A rural police officer investigates a strange case in which a woman is found headless. The main suspect puts the blame on a legendary monster.

On an isolated hilltop, an elderly couple lives in solitude. She is dying and he accompanies her through the passing. Her death transforms the days that follow.

The movie tells the history of a young student who aspires to be a medic,and along with his family fights to go through the difficulties and pain of being poor in Chile: marginality, vulnerable neighborhood, overcrowd house, uncertainty, lack of money, exploitation, but, over all, the terrible feeling of injustice and being crushed if not humiliated if they aren't lucky enough.

In a visual correspondence, two young, experienced filmmakers share little pieces of their lives and what has led them to tell the stories they tell and become the creators they are today.

Mora is 13 years old and intends to become a "gaucho". She questions school and asserts her individuality towards her parents, two environmentalists from Italian-speaking Switzerland whose dream of autonomy turns into a nightmare.

Jaime, who's been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house in the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse's darkness.

It is the beginning of the winter. Diego comes to New York for the first time trying to come in terms with the memories from those other winters, shared in the woods, in another country, with the man he lost.

Gaspar is back in New York working for a couple of days, caught between the taxis and his faults in French. He is supposed to have lunch with his father right before flying back to Brussels. They have not seen each other for a few years now. Something tells him it is wrong. Something tells him it is right. Trying to find ways to evade the silence, Gaspar will have to stop evading himself.

Martin (33) goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives. Lightning strikes and there is a car to disappear.

After my house burnt down, I travel through Chile trying to reconstruct memories of my childhood. On the background, a country that reconstructed itself omitting its own history.

Jose and Manuel are climbing the Montserrat mountain. They have not seen each other in some years, and they are in Spain for a funeral. It is a narrow, winding, uneven path up the mountain that makes communication difficult, until they reach an appropriate place to rest.

Estranged siblings Genevieve and Stephen are caught in their father's cabin during a thunderstorm, emptying it from what it used to be. The electricity fails and they slowly find the calm that they were looking for.

Joe is sixteen years old. He is learning how to play the piano and sometimes he hangs out with his good friend Jimmy. He was born in Maine, but now he lives in Boston. He lived in several foster homes, but his dads, Dean and Joe, adopted him three years ago. Now he is mostly worried about the lyrics for his new song.

A family gathers at their summer house on an island. Waiting for the last member to join them they wander around absorbed by the overwhelming nature, unaware of the devastating news awaiting them.