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Vueltas de la Rueda

Twists of Fate

Stories of the human soul

«La vida da muchas vueltas.» Life takes many turns.

Fiction made to be watched on your phone: one person, one screen. Each story happens in a specific place, with its people, its language and its music, and every episode opens on a question in its first three seconds.

In development · nothing released yet

The series and stories on this page are in development. No episode has been published yet.

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Two forms

One wheel, two ways to turn

The series

12 episodes · about 90 seconds each

Each episode answers one question and opens a bigger one, so you always want the next. A whole season can be watched in one sitting.

«Una Vuelta»

One Turn · a complete story in one clip

A full story in 60 to 90 seconds: who someone is, what they want, the turn, and an ending that lands.

Made by the CEMI Media team with artificial intelligence. Every character is fictional.

The series

Five places, five questions

Each series has its own community, language, light and music. Here is where each season begins; the ending stays for the screen.

In development

La Libreta

Community
Dominican · Villa Consuelo, Santo Domingo
Language
Dominican Spanish
Genre
Family-secret melodrama

Yaritza, a clinic bookkeeper who left her Santo Domingo barrio, comes home for her grandfather’s nine nights of prayers and finds his credit book: forty years of the neighbourhood’s debts.

The season question

What does Yari owe, and to whom, by the night of the 30th?

Where it begins

Episode 1, «Fiao»: a thumb runs down the book and stops on her own name.

In development

Costurera

Community
Mexican · Mexico City
Language
Mexican Spanish
Genre
Secret identity

Lupita sews the masks for the wrestlers of a Mexico City arena. At night she is La Golondrina, an undefeated masked luchadora nobody has been able to identify.

The season question

Does La Golondrina’s mask reach the night of the wager intact, and which of Lupita’s two lives survives with it?

Where it begins

Episode 1, «La puntada»: mid-bout, fingers find the seam of the mask and the stitch gives. In the front row, an older woman knows that stitching.

In development

Ascensor

Community
Chilean · Valparaíso
Language
Chilean Spanish
Genre
Noir mystery, in black and white

Every night at 23:00, a Valparaíso hillside funicular that closed years ago runs once, empty and lit, and brings the night watchman one object from a life he thought he had left at the bottom of the hill.

The season question

What did the ascensor see the night of its last run, and what did Balta’s hand on the brake have to do with it?

Where it begins

Episode 1, «Las 23:00»: on the car, Gaspar’s hat.

In development

The Interpreter

Community
Haitian-American · Miami
Language
English, with Haitian Kreyòl
Genre
Medical-legal thriller

Nadège, a Haitian-American medical interpreter in a Miami hospital, hears an injured construction worker say in Kreyòl what he will not say in English, and has to decide, case by case, what an interpreter owes to the words.

The season question

What does an interpreter owe the words, and what does Nadège owe her father’s, twenty years late?

Where it begins

Episode 1, «Sign Here»: a consent form at the bedside, and in the room, the man paying the bill.

In development

Concho

Community
Dominican · Santiago de los Caballeros
Language
Cibaeño Spanish
Genre
Time loop

Freddy drives a concho, a shared taxi, on one fixed route in Santiago de los Caballeros, and the same Friday keeps repeating. The loop breaks only when every passenger gets where they truly needed to go.

The season question

Who is the passenger the route is really waiting for, and where does Freddy truly need to go?

Where it begins

Episode 1, «6:47»: a woman flags the car at the corner, gets in and says the driver’s name before he has spoken. The dashboard clock reads the same minute as yesterday.

«Una Vuelta» · One Turn

Eight stories, each in a single clip

Four in Spanish and four in English. Each one resolves inside its own clip; here is only how it begins.

  1. «Cambio»

    Spanish · Santo Domingo · 90 s

    A boy pays for the morning bread with a 2,000-peso bill the colmado cannot change, and the bill sits on the register all day while the regulars talk.

  2. «Night Shift»

    English · a city hospital · 90 s

    A hospital laundry worker has quietly kept alive a courtship of unsigned notes between two people she has never met. Tonight’s note is different.

  3. «La Promesa del Mar»

    Spanish · Rincón, Puerto Rico · 90 s

    On the anniversary of his brother’s drowning, an old fisherman rows out at dusk with his brother’s boots, meaning to let them go at last.

  4. «Third Mainland»

    English · Lagos · 90 s

    Stuck in traffic on Third Mainland Bridge, a bus conductor offers the one empty seat to whoever tells the best reason to reach home.

  5. «Subtítulos»

    Spanish · any city · 75 s

    Every night a teenager subtitles films for her deaf father. On his drive she finds the one file he watches most, with no captions at all.

  6. «Checkmate at Closing»

    English · a city park · 90 s

    For a year a park night guard has answered, one move a night, a chess game someone leaves on a stone table. Tonight the other player is waiting.

  7. «El Último Tango del 48»

    Spanish · Buenos Aires · 90 s

    Two passengers in their seventies ride the last 48 bus every night, at opposite ends, never speaking. Tonight the driver puts a tango on the radio.

  8. «Harvest Login»

    English · a farm, anywhere · 75 s

    An elderly farmer makes her first video call to her son abroad, with the phone propped the wrong way round.

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