Rafael is a poet who lives with his best friend, has a sad job in a gray office and a wornout relationship. The city is collapsing due to a heat wave that makes adults feel sick, but also gives them the opportunity to feel again.
Rafael Federman
Felipe Saade
Paula Grinszpan
Mariel Fernández
Laila Maltz
Federico Dopazo
Lorenzo Bigliardi
Vicente Strubin Contin
Rafael is a poet who lives with his best friend, has a sad job in a gray office and a wornout relationship. The city is collapsing due to a heat wave that makes adults feel sick, but also gives them the opportunity to feel again.
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her a Great Dane named Apollo. The huge dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life.
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.