The “pelopincho” pool, an icon of Argentine popular culture, was born in San Carlos Centro, Santa Fe. Fabrizio and Sol, from a generation subsequent to the Benvenutti Brothers, creators of the pool, reconstruct its history and that of their parents through their childhood memories.
Fabrizio Benvenutti
Himself
Soledad Arias Echauz
Herself
Liliana Delia Arias
Herself
The “pelopincho” pool, an icon of Argentine popular culture, was born in San Carlos Centro, Santa Fe. Fabrizio and Sol, from a generation subsequent to the Benvenutti Brothers, creators of the pool, reconstruct its history and that of their parents through their childhood memories.
Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.
At age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, also working for the Mafia controlling child exploitation in one of Argentina's busiest train stations. He tries to rescue her from this cruel life with no future. But to do so, he must confront the ruthless adult gang leaders, as well as the young kids who protect them, believing that this Mafia is truly their only option.
Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.
Marc-André Leclerc, an exceptional climber, has made solo his religion and ice his homeland. When filmmaker Peter Mortimer begins his film, he places his camera at the base of a British Columbia cliff and waits patiently for the star climber to come down to answer his questions. Marc André, a little uncomfortable, prefers to return to the depths of the forest where he lives in a tent with his girlfriend Brette Harrington. In the heart of winter, Peter films vertiginous solos on fragile ice. He tries to make appointments with the climber who is never there and does not seem really concerned by this camera pointed at him "For me, it would not be a solo if there was someone else" . Marc-André is thus, the "pure light" of the mountaineers of his time, which marvel Barry Blanchard, Alex Honnold or Reinhold Messner, interviewed in the film. An event film for an extraordinary character.
Two brothers compete in the world's deadliest underground fighting tournament, where they must decide whether to play by the rules or to cast their honor aside and team up to bring down the dark syndicate running the tournament.
At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons.
Germán is invited by Fernando, a new friend from his Taekwondo training, to spend the holidays with his closest friends at a beautiful country house in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. In a “men only” environment, where hunky young studs bask in the hot sun, play in the pool, smoke pot and drink, some desires and doubts manifest themselves with more intensity than usual.
A famous TV weatherman, Miguel Flores, becomes public enemy number one when he fails to predict a terrible hailstorm. He is forced out of the big city, Buenos Aires, fleeing the capital for his birthplace of Córdoba. The result will be a voyage of rediscovery that is as absurd as it is human.
The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.
Felipe a wealthy businessman who has been quadriplegic, due to an accident, is looking for a therapeutic assistant. There are several highly qualified, but he decides to take the assistant of his gardener, Tito who has decided to resign.