
Luis Alberto Lamata
Director · b. 1959 · Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan filmmaker born in Caracas in 1959. Nominated for the Goya, he has received awards in Havana, Biarritz, Cartagena, Sochi, Trieste, Berlin, San Sebastián, Sundance, and Montreal. In Venezuela, he has won the Premio Nacional de Cine, municipal award, critics’ award, authors’ award, and, on several occasions, best film, screenplay, direction, and audience award at the Mérida, Margarita, Oriente, and International Caracas festivals. With more than fifty television titles, he has worked on miniseries, feature films, and soap operas in his country, as well as in Mexico and Peru.
Movies2
- Movie6.0MysteryDrama
"Al Borde de la Línea" is the story of Claudia, a 16-year-old girl who works as a chambermaid in a rundown hotel where she is sexually abused by Rodriguez, the owner. She decides to escape with the help of her friend Alma, an older woman who is also a maid and Salvador, the driver of the morgue's van who is desperately in love with her. The night they have planned the escape, everything changes. Claudia runs away with Juan, a singer she met that day in the hotel's bar. Events unravel and bring them all back to the hotel "Crepúsculos de Venecia" a place of encounter, obsession, and betrayal. Their fate lies in Claudia's hands.
Al borde de la línea
2007 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ComedyEladio is a failed actor who has spent years in obscurity working maintenance at a TV station in the capital. When he’s forced to return to Maracaibo to care for his teenage niece —a fierce, guitar-playing rebel— their worlds clash. Amid loud music, insults, and generational conflict, Eladio accidentally reinvents himself as an acting teacher… and ends up entangled with one of the city’s most notorious crime syndicates. What follows is a hilarious, heartfelt, and uniquely Latin American story about rediscovery, family, and the absurdities of adulthood —at any age.