Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

The plot is set in 1966 when an Argentine scientist carries out a space plan to compete with the United States and the Soviet Union in the arrival to the Moon.

Alejandro Maly delves into the life of the Argentinean ventriloquist Chasman and his famous alter ego Chirolita. From the remembered duo, this documentary explores the relationship between ventriloquists and their dolls.

Rubén is 77 years old, lives in Bernal and for almost three decades he has refused to leave his house, even though there is no apparent reason to justify it. His three nephews, very different from each other, try to reveal the cause of the confinement. But Manija, Rubén's former friend (an affable hermit), hides a grudge and perhaps the key to the mystery. real tragicomedy.

A boy meets his ex and together they make a short film about their love story.

Based on Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," they play on the dehumanizing theoretical line and childhood memories of a dictator.

Víctor, a reclusive, obsessive man, moves to an apartment in impeccable state. During his first night there, a damp stain appears on his room’s immaculate roof. The stain begins to grow until it’s everywhere.

They tell Martín a story for the day of respect for cultural diversity about the Spanish invading America. Upon arriving home, Martín wants to share with his parents the exciting story he heard, but they pay no attention to him.

A group of friends, the windows of buildings at night, Chacarita's cemetery, a road trip and tree tops are mixed together with sleepless city lights.

From a small town between mountains, the voice of an old peasant emerges to make present a lost memory: the solo death of one of his closest friends. Some horsemen, also old friends, embark on a restorative odyssey.

“What future are we in?” Asks one of the leading girls in the short film by María Alché, a memorable actress in the role of a holy girl in the film of the same name by Lucrecia Martel.

A boy who is doing compulsory military service in the navy has a confrontation with a superior over the love of a woman.

Juana Rouco Buela had a dream at the beginning of the 20th century: to liberate women from an economic system and a patriarchal authority to which they were subjected. She found in anarchism the space for her struggle. Thus, she laid the foundation for women's rights today.

A paleontologist obsessed with making a historic discovery illegally returns to excavate a unique fossil, but her ambition drives her to sacrifice everything.

A woman wakes up injured and disoriented, with unexplained marks on her body and a mysterious box on the table that seems to hide answers she can't remember.

Between 1976 and 1983, Argentina suffered a terrible dictatorship that claimed thousands of lives and stole hundreds of children. Stripped of their identities, the children of the disappeared were raised in lies. Some live in Europe, unaware of who they are. Carla Artés, after years of living in Madrid, returns to Argentina to testify against her appropriator.

Five men work on the fourth basement floor of a large company. They share a credo: to go unnoticed, to not stand out, to be forgotten. But one day the balance is broken, because no one can be invisible forever.

A student leaves medicine to pursue singing and his girlfriend falls in love with his brother.

The struggle of two rural teachers to rebuild a school destroyed by a tornado.

Florencia lies to her daughter, mother, and sister to have a sexual encounter with Agustín, her ex-husband. Her mother’s emergency surgery will expose her lies and Agustín’s disaffection. However, this will allow her to put an end to their marriage for good.

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary, crossing borders and archives. One day, he arrives at an electronic recycling workshop where the ghost of a working poet manifests itself. The search takes an unexpected turn and he sets out, in the company of his cat Pendrive, to explore the links between technology and memory. In times of environmental crisis, overproduction and acceleration of consumption, he wonders: how will history be written in the future?

A Mario Bocchicchio Super 8 short film.

Floggers: a passing fad or a new culture that will endure? Another strategy to induce teenagers to consume excessively? These questions are unraveled in this documentary by the protagonists of the phenomenon: shopkeepers, hairdressers, teachers, and, of course, the floggers themselves.

Barbara is a teenager overwhelmed by her parents' relationship, by the contradictions between her desires and the society she lives in, by love, heartbreak, and misunderstandings. One early morning, she drives 100 kilometers back from a party in Villa Mercedes with her boyfriend Federico, two friends, and a lot of alcohol. Amidst death, helplessness, and incomprehension, her 80-year-old grandmother Olga's story appears at the perfect moment, with the precise wisdom and understanding of a family history of Italian immigrants that repeats itself through generations; with the perfect magic and timing, and a bridge between life and death: the perfect beauty to drain so much pain.

In this punky, tragicomic DIY gangster film, a queer gang of carnival musicians engage readily in clashes with the police.

Moralizing film produced by alt-right Argentine aristocrats. The plot follows multiple characters from the city, denouncing their vices. Ultimately, they will have to pay the price for their "sins": a reformatory or an asylum.

A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.

Zebras follows the team representing Argentina at the 2014 Street Child World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. The film shows the training, the economic difficulties, the first trip by plane, the pressure of the competition and, above all, the struggle of the 9 boys to face their own limitations and demons and give the best of themselves.

This documentary explores the theatrical work of Eduardo Pavlovsky, while also examining its connection to his era and his social and political commitment. It also includes footage of rehearsals for a stage production featuring excerpts from his plays, with Tato himself performing on stage.

An intimate, amiable and yet unforgettable symphony of the life of every country town in the world in several vignettes – even if this focuses on Colón, a couple of hours north of Buenos Aires. Both lyrical and modest.

Antu is a 10-year-old girl who was born blind. Thanks to her unusual sensitivity and curiosity, she discovers the world around her in detail. Aboard an old truck, she travels across Argentina with her parents, showing films in small, forgotten towns and imagining the stories she will never be able to see.

A young woman follows a boy walking ahead of her. Little by little, the distance closes. She speaks to him, but he doesn't listen. She hurries and takes his arm, knowing that after saying so many words that meant nothing, there's only one left that explains everything, and she must say it. She says it. But to get to this point, Alena had to walk alone much longer than those few meters that led her to reunite with him and herself.

A woman appears in a random kitchen with a stranger. Things pop out in the kitchen out of nowhere. Puzzles, keyboards, tomatoes and rice. To sustain and obsess with each other.

A trip to a football match is the perfect excuse for Lionel, Andrés and Alan to continue learning aspects of their strange friendship.

The work and thought of Mauricio Kartun, in a journey that takes as its temporal axis the staging of his play Salomé de chacra. His work, his obsessions, and his personal method.

A story of a long distance relationship between two young gay men that takes a twisted turn.

Rob, a young Berliner, travels to Iberá, that place about which so many legends are told, in search of his roots, but instead of exoticism, he finds misery.

A documentary about the alleged Nazi cure homosexuality conducted by a Danish doctor who experimented with a young homosexual in the concentration camp. After the war, he took refuge in Argentina until his death in 1965.

What starts as a local search for a missing cat quickly spirals into a trap. To find the truth, a police officer is forced to survive an ambush orchestrated by the ghosts of his dark past.

The story told in first person by the workers of a dairy company who decide to form a work cooperative, after being left adrift.

Once again, the night sets in the city. Two young people look through faces on a phone, deciding and agreeing. ’He’s hot, him too.’ The decision is made before sunrise – a biology student with beautiful curly hair and shiny skin.

This is a recently-found roll of Super 8 in which we can see black and white photos (several childhood and family memories, some images that were to appear in other films by Narcisa) interspersed with fragments of the Bariloche landscape. Perhaps the discards of the past will make up the films of the future.

They open, for them and around them, the path of self-management: that of bodies, territories, communities and struggles.

William Puente, an anonymous accountant, is mistaken for Gómez, a lobbyist wanted for regulatory offenses and shadowy ties. Forced to assume the identity of the man he should fear, he discovers in power an irreversible vertigo. Between his own life and the intoxication of influence, he must decide who he is willing to become.

Explores the figure of the labor attaché as a diplomatic figure that emerged during Perón's first administration in Argentina. This initiative represented a cultural conflict by opening spaces in Argentine politics, such as the foreign ministry and foreign relations, to workers.

Inside an armored truck, three men wait for an order. They have been in there for several hours without being able to get out. The demonstration that threatens them is getting closer. When the action seems to start, something is wrong...