Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Victor reaches "adulthood" having left behind everything he dreamed of. Until one day his insignificant life takes a turn, fulfilling one of the small utopias of the year 2000: telling his boss to go to hell.

Nina and Fermín spend the night in the neighborhood where their father is a security guard. Between lights and shadows, they walk, play, eat. Nina observes others in silence, as though she were looking at herself in a mirror that is about to break. The night moves stealthily on, while other children watch them from their windows.

Never released film made by the plastic artist Nicolás Rubió

Agustín, a comic book illustrator, doesn’t want to continue drawing. Perhaps he’s a talentless man, or maybe he just doesn’t feel like it. One day he has a dream in which he barges in her ex-girlfriend’s place. That same day, he wants to prove if everything is still there, the way he left it.

What do a young man in love in the mountains and a caged thrush have in common? A couple of men on a farm looking for a child and a dog obsessed with burrows? A man looking for a friend with whom to share the town's popular festivals and a gang of bikers who don't want to return home? A bath in the north that reflects all the stars at night and a father who remembers the Balkan war? A fox and a desert in Catamarca and the exploitation of lands in Patagonia? The Mapuche resistance, the lost languages ​​and the fishing boats of the Argentine sea? Frankenstein.

A family tells what they had to do to get to the fifth floor of their home

A couple, a relationship, the feelings that are mixed with fantasy, the presence of the other is real or only what the mind allows to be embodied exists.

A journalist travels to write an essay. He stays at a remarkable mountain hotel where he uncovers a sinister past. As he begins investigating this event, he is drawn into a nightmare whose sinister characters threaten his sanity.

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

Three teenage boys love soccer, are troublemakers, and always lie to their teachers and miss class. They are always up to no good. And they aren't alone. Their families are surrounded by restlessness. It almost seems like a so-so movie about teens from Argentina. But when one of the boys steals a gun from another boy's house, things start to take a different turn. There is an accident, and the boy disappears. Where did he go? Sometime later, the two boys and the missing boy's sister head off to an unknown location. With the accident as the starting point, the film turns into a little odyssey within the heart of Buenos Aires.

Quinta Seré, previously known as Mansión Seré, is a sports club where a clandestine detention and torture center was working during Argentina's last militar dictatorship.

Coco's Moon is a feature-length fiction film that tells the story of a man who falls in love with the Moon. What hidden desires manifest in a being who seeks love in the cosmos? A dramatic comedy that flirts with magical realism and absurdity, typical of the Selenophilic relationship of Coco -our protagonist- and the chaos in the family and social world.

Milena is the grandmother. Laura, the mother. Both are interviewed by Facundo, the grandson and son, about their motherhood and experience within the family, until a dark episode that was not talked about for 40 years comes to light: Laura's first pregnancy.

Julián, an ordinary boy, discovers a bag filled with money. Committed to finding the bag's owner, he unwittingly plunges into the world of violence that the city of Paraná has to offer.

While she awaits her husband's return, Catalina receives a surprise at the door of her house

Two Argentine soldiers, complete strangers, find themselves face-to-face in a foxhole during the Falklands War, forced into a tense and unexpected encounter at the edge of survival.

It could be "one day more or one day less" in this particular organization of the audiovisual field, the conflicts within it today overwhelm them. Family and union discussions will confront the proud owner of a Cine Snuff production company.

In a modern world, Cupid tries to make certain characters fall in love with his accurate arrow, but they prove to him that they don't need the mischievous little angel to choose their soul mate.

After some problems with his colleagues due to a mental condition, Christian is summoned by his boss for a discussion, where he suffers different hallucinations.

Eva, the eldest of three siblings, lives in Villa 21-24 in Barracas. She dropped out of school and goes out to collect cardboard with her father, Ramón. While caring for her siblings as if she were their mother, she undergoes a change that transforms her life.

A chance encounter at a party reunites two old childhood friends, forcing one of them to confront the secrets of her past and the reason why she disappeared without a trace.

In the hours leading up to the National Chamamé Festival, the Federal campsite and dance hall are invaded by devotees and those curious about this music, which is more than just a musical genre. It's an excuse to come together, an identity, a way of life. These gatherings, the zapadas, the free dancing, the lulling sound of the accordion, and the rebellious cry of the sapucay transform this place into something like an Eden on earth, a paradise, Chamamé Paradise...

Laura is Juan's girlfriend. When Juan finds out that Marcos, his ex-friend, has a new girlfriend, he tries to conquer her to get revenge on him for the past. Jealous Laura turns to her ex to try to make Juan jealous.

Lucho is a 14-year-old boy who is about to discover a new world. A story about the beginning of adolescence in Buenos Aires.

The movie of the yutuner Matias Ponce

Short by Maia Navas

Story of friendship between Maria and Brian that lasts over time, despite the distance, and their socioeconomic differences.

During the 90s, Daniel Brusca was a successful businessman. As the owner of a taxi company, he was surrounded by the world of Argentine show business and politics, and he emerged victorious in trotting races. 30 years later, he still pursues glory while constantly remembering, in every space and object, what he used to be.

Waldina, the flowers seller of the little town of Arcabuco, has died. Her son Humberto arrives from the big city and decides to make the last delivery of flowers to her clients without knowing that in one of that doors could find his happiness.

Set on the Argentine coast in 1870, a man pretends to be an outlaw to catch an army deserter.

An open book is the window to enter this protest short film about the wait for a permit to plant a laurel tree in the River Plate. The Viceroy, king and queen must all sign the authorization. Too much time for such a vital wish. Stop-motion animated cutouts take us on the complex path of bureaucracy to accomplish a simple action. The landscapes change to the beat of the music for the story to move forward and grow just like that tree they wish to plant.

During a hot summer siesta in Entre Ríos, Malena terrifies her younger brother Santiago, with a legend in which children are watched over by pigeons and captured by a hideous monster if they don't nap. Bored of doing nothing, Malena goes out to the nearby bush with her cell phone to look for the internet, without imagining the consequences that a simple walk in the sun can unleash.

This documentary is the crisscrossed story of the three-day tour of three cartoneros living in Villa Jardín, Partido de Lanús, a place located on the edge of the Riachuelo and next to the ruins of a gigantic abandoned factory, now converted into a field.

An hypnotic musical with ghosts, young skaters, a "cumbiópera" in three acts and an epilogue. A ballet of visages, gazes, desire, love, drama, tragedy and shooting.

A photodocumentary about dancing: Seen through the dance studio Arte XXI, where it investigates the motivation of the movement in the human body.

Convicts, scammed people, addicts, musicians in trouble—all of them look for Joe Stefanolo, the criminal lawyer who’s been fighting for more than four decades to bring the spirit and ideals of rock to justice.

Raúl is a construction worker who fights for the social rights of his profession. He also deals with other problems, including his 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy.

Espionage, intrigue, and passion surround the revolutionary invention of a secret weapon. A film that echoes with the world war, by German exiled filmmaker James Bauer.

A lonely archive worker’s monotonous routine gives way to hallucinations that spiral from sensuality into paranoia, as a deadly presence begins to hunt her through the corridors.

The Gauchos del Mar brothers explore the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), aiming to unite and construct bridges through surfing and the ocean.

Quintín, a vibrant young artist, and Ernesto, a rigid banker, live side by side yet worlds apart. In fleeting encounters, small gestures hint at the quiet tensions and unexpected bonds between them.

Kamatsu is an 80 year old Japanese man who came to Buenos Aires more than five decades ago because he heard that there was a hen that lay green eggs. In a game of expectation and reality, this documentary continually stumbles over its own preconceptions. The initial idea of understanding the migration, identity and tradition of a Japanese migrant derives in the story of some eggs, some notebooks and the authors' search for vision and meaning.

This video shows the studio recordings of Charly García and his band for the album Piano Bar

Geoffrey Cardozo (English) and Julio Aro (Argentinian) are Nobel Peace Prize nominees for their joint work in a historic humanitarian cause—the restitution of the identities of Argentine casualties during the Malvinas War. Elma Pelozo is 80 years old and the mother of Gabino Ruiz Díaz, a young man who died during the war, and who remained buried in the Darwin cemetery for three decades as a “soldier only known by God.” Gabino is one of the Argentinian heroes who gained back their identity thanks to the work done by Geoffrey Cardozo and Julio Aro. Elma has two dreams—meeting Geoffrey Cardozo, the person who buried his son with honors, and traveling to Malvinas to visit his grave.

A colt trainer who arrives in a town in Salta tries to win over a young woman.

Two old friends travel to the Argentine coast for the weekend and have a fight on the road. They make up after a night trip, recovering the youth that was dormant within them.

Selena Prat visits her childhood home accompanied by Martita, her mother's best friend. The house is now a gym run by Omar Patiño, Selena's Clint Eastwood, a tidy man who has managed to keep the gym running for 40 years, much longer than Selena's family. The protagonists take a tour of the gym and its memories from 1985. The old rooms of the house where the treadmills are now located, the room of Sarita, the grandmother's caregiver, the living room, the patio, the kitchen, and the terrace, which is now the weight room.

Mora and Roberta, a lesbian couple, want a child. But who will be the donor? The two decide that Mora's brother Felipe, Argentina's top turkey-inseminator, should be the lucky provider. Poor Felipe gets more than he bargained for when he flies in from the country. He wants to visit his girlfriend, to visit his sister, and to meet with a business partner. The ladies have another plan, a plan to extract their desire. Their hope is that Roberta will easily seduce Felipe after he consumes the buffet of oysters, Viagra, and other assorted snake-oil aphrodisiacs. Poor Felipe has a lot to digest in his one night in the city. He finds out that Faustina, his devoutly Catholic fiance, is pregnant. He learns that his sister is gay (and that she wants more from him than a visit). On top of all of this, his (hopeful) future business partner is poisoned. Nothing goes as planned during Felipe's hilarious night in town.

A documentary that reconstructs, through the victims' testimony, the history of the most brutal clandestine center that operated in Mendoza from 1975 until the end of the military dictatorship. A document that provides information on the operations of the Mendoza Police Intelligence Department, which operated in the Police Palace, two blocks from the Government House. This material exposes those responsible for kidnappings, torture, and disappearances in Mendoza.

A world and utopian sexuality built on rubble covered with viscous moss. Entities that emancipate themselves from their reproductive functions, from the binarity of gender and from the hierarchy between species. Defamiliarizing, altering perception and disrupting the usual modes of knowledge, to give substance to other possibilities, opening other avenues to the imagination. "Extys" celebrates the effect that escapes from the gesture, the distorted causalities, the power of a pleasure that no longer has a center, the body in permanent mutation. It is the introduction of a fiction where bodily sensations emancipate themselves from the envelope and become worlds, electricity, impalpable.