25 Watts is a 2001 Uruguayan urban comedy drama film directed and written by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. The independent film picture stars Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi, and Alfonso Tort. The film received a total of ten awards and three additional nominations, including Best Feature Film Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Best First Feature Film Award at the Havana Film Festival, and others. Plot The film covers 24 hours in the life of three youths in Montevideo. The story is about three young boys, Leche, Javi and Seba, trying to survive until Sunday. They have a lot of problems regarding studies, girls, and their lives consist mostly of drinking or sleeping or meeting strange people like the crazy delivery boy, a retarded drug addict, and a philosophical counter clerk at a video rental store. Javi has landed a job driving a sound truck that plays the same radio spot for pasta all day long, while his buddy Leche, who is supposed to be studying for his exams, instead finds himself having sexual fantasies about his tutor, and Seba is waylaid by a handful of small-time dope dealers when all he wants to do is go home and watch the porno movie he's just rented. Cast Daniel Hendler as Leche Jorge Temponi as Javi Alfonso Tort as Seba Valentín Rivero as Hernán, a blond friend Walter Reyno as Don Héctor, Javi's boss Damián Barrera as Joselo, Héctor's son César Herrera as Neighbor in elevator Judith Anaya as Leche's grandmother Federico Veiroj as Gerardito Valeria Mendieta as María Silvio Sielsky as Pitufo, the Guinness records freak Claudio Martínez as Kiwi, young man with ball Teresita González as Neighbor with chair Roberto Suárez as Gepetto, the pizza man Gonzalo Eyherabide as Sandía, the video club owner Robert More as Rulo, a junkie Carolina Presno as Beatriz Nacho Mendy as Chopo, Rulo's friend Leo Trincabelli as Menchaca, Rulo's friend Luis Villasante as Waiter Marcelo Ramón as Bouncer Daniel Mella as Lalo, Beatriz' boyfriend Exhibition The film first previewed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands on January 28, 2001 but was not released fully in Uruguay until June 1. The picture was screened at various film festivals, including: the Karlovy Vary Film Festiva, Czech Republic; the Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland; the Warsaw Film Festival, Poland; the Medellín de Película, Colombia; the Latin America Film Festival, Poland; and