Cinco Minutos en el Cielo

Un joven escritor de Nueva York es enviado a la sureña localidad de Savannah para informar sobre la prestigiosa fiesta de Navidad de un adinerado y excéntrico personaje local llamado Jim Williams. Cuando éste se ve implicado en un turbio caso de asesinato, entonces el escritor decide investigar por su cuenta lo ocurrido, lo que le permitirá conocer a fondo el ambiente y los estrafalarios personajes del lugar.

When El Mono dies, his three longtime friends try to recover from the loss and want to secure his little girl's future. But for Fernando, Mauricio and El Ruso this will not be easy. They decide to recover a big investment El Mono had made when he had bought a soccer player who was supposed to become a star.

En el Nombre de la Hija tells the story of a nine-year old girl whose name is in dispute. Manuela has been named alter her socialist-atheist father, but her catholic-conservative grandmother insists she should carry the name the first daughters of the family have carried for generations: Dolores. The story takes place in a Valley in the Ecuadorian Andes, during the summer of 1976. Manuela and her little brother, Camilo, are spending vacations with their cousins and grandparents at the family's farmhouse. Eager to defend her father's ideas, Manuela confronts her cousins and grandparents, but an unexpected encounter leads her to confront herself instead. Hidden in the family's abandoned library, schizophrenic uncle Felipe is devoted to setting words free from the constraints of dogmas. His wisdom sets Manuela free from her own dogmas and forever changes her relationship with words, including her own name.

Over a dozen rotten corpses slop out of a drain pipe and float down the Rio Tula. Who are they? How did they get there?
This little number has everything…

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer – surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

The perversion of a nude photographer when he gets involved with one of his most enigmatic models…

Una película basada en la novela (también conocida con el mismo título) se estrenó en 1991. Ganó cinco Oscars: mejor película, mejor director, mejor actor, mejor actriz y mejor guión adaptado, además de obtener nominaciones a otros dos.

Nació en Alemania, donde residió hasta los trece años aunque en la actualidad vive en Vancouver, Canadá. Tras graduarse en la Universidad de Londres fue investigador y supervisor en la Universidad de Cambridge. A los veintinueve años experimentó una profunda transformación espiritual que cambió por completo el rumbo de su vida. Dedicó los años siguientes a comprender, integrar y profundizar esa transformación, que marcó el comienzo de un intenso viaje interior. Mas tarde, comenzó su labor como consejero y maestro espiritual de forma individual y grupal.