La pobladora cine is a Uruguayan production company specializing in arthouse cinema. It emerged from Alex Piperno’s initiative to produce his own films and support projects by other directors with similar artistic visions, viewing cinema as a collaborative activity and resulting in international co-productions. Our films have been exhibited at some of the world’s most prominent festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, and New Directors/New Films.

Alex Piperno (Montevideo, 1985) is a director and producer. Through his company La Pobladora Cine, he has produced films including «Diciembre» (Lucas Gallo, IDFA 2025), «Savanna and the Mountain» (Paulo Carneiro, Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2024), «Périphérique Nord» (Paulo Carneiro, Visions du Réel 2022), «Let the lights move away» (Javier Favot, FIDMarseille 2020), and «Parabellum» (Lukas V. Rinner, Rotterdam 2015). As a director, he helmed the feature «Window boy would also like to have a submarine» (Berlinale Forum 2020) and the short film «The inviolability of the domicile is based on the man who appears wielding an axe at the door of his house» (Critics’ Week, Cannes 2011). He heads the project development space Cina Cina – Residencias de Cine.