Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Two hours of videos, testimonies and exclusive material about Patricio Rey y Los Redonditos de Ricota, a look at the band's career.

MONTAGE is a film record of the Montaje/Lachenmann recital presented by the Proa Foundation on November 8, 2013 in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Series. The recital project revolved around three Pieces for three soloists by Helmut Lachenmann, a nucleus that manifests itself as an index of radicalism from which a story of the direction that guides the career of its author can be undertaken. The program concluded with the simultaneous performance of those three Pieces, a version that appears in the Lachenmanian catalog under the name of Montage and for which there is no score or record. What is heard at the conclusion of this documentary could be the only record, so far, of that ghost version that the composer advises not to try.

A fugitive and two married couples get trapped in a mine.

A verbose taxi driver transports a mysterious passenger in the night of Santa Fe. 10 minutes, which will be described as a simple trip, are, in reality, the irrevocable destiny of an existence on top of a car.

A large building and its inhabitants are the protagonists of this documentary in which they reflect on and project their lives, their frustrations and their dreams from the cozy isolation of their micro universes.

A man arrives in a rural area of the interior of Catamarca. What at first seems to be his salvation, gradually begins to become more complicated. Believing he can escape a dark past he ends up involved in a much worse present.

A day in the life of Tito, a 10-year-old boy who juggles in the street.

The romance between a female singer and a tango composer.

Lila, Ámbar, Marcela and Lisete, sex workers, have formed a family in a shared apartment. But Lisete's tragic death and Marcela's departure leave Lila and Ámbar facing an uncertain future. In their search for a new direction, Miriam appears, and she will change their lives in an unexpected way.

Bautista always gets scolded for his mischief, but he manages to get out of trouble. His mom believes only half of what he says. Every day, she asks him to go buy something for cooking from the store a few blocks away. Bautista loves to ride his bike and explore his neighborhood, greeting his neighbors. There is only one thing he is afraid of: the old man by the stream. He doesn’t know if he really exists or if it’s just a story his mother made up to scare him, but just in case, he never goes near there. They say the old man by the stream patiently waits by the shore of Las Piedras Stream until children appear, puts them in his bag, and doesn’t come back for several days…

The night falls and darkens the world. A world consumed by time, by the abandonment of the urban landscape of La Plata. The monochrome enhances the desolate state in which the protagonist finds herself, who, in the flow of her emotions, faces the dilemma of choosing between turning the page or holding onto a relationship that no longer exists

After recording the first episodes of their podcast, three friends decide to rest for a weekend at Gabriel's vacation home, where they will begin to live strange situations.

Documentary about the social and economic policy of the country in the first years of the Justicialista government. Considered a lost film.

Aníbal Disanti, a man without aspirations of grandeur, or perhaps with the grandeur of everyday life, fights "El Mono" Gatica. The glory of having faced the Champion fills his life. However, misfortune soon strikes, and fate, which always gives and takes away, pits Disanti against Storti. The boxing arena is packed, punches fly back and forth, Storti falls again and again. The judges refuse to stop the fight, the crowd grows wild, and death, ever watchful, crowns the night of sorrow. Gatica, Storti, and Disanti are forever linked.

A woman hides in the forest, attempting to become one with the landscape.

Seeking to escape the road and her role as a mother, Pilar reunites with her friends for a sweet weekend. Over the course of the night, the reunion turns into a nightmare when they begin to die one by one, savagely murdered with candy. As they fight to survive, they discover that behind the crimes lies an old story of revenge.

Lisa is a chaotic and directionless young woman who, forced by circumstances, lands a job for the first time in her life, convinced that the hard part would be getting through the interview and being accepted. However, she soon discovers that the real problem isn't getting in, but rather understanding why she was hired. In an office where no one can clearly explain their role, tasks are contradictory, and hierarchies are based on absurdities, she must confront a working world that seems as chaotic as her own life.

One day a mysterious lady appears at Detective Henry Chandler's office who wants to know everything related to the Froggy, an extraterrestrial race that plans to invade Earth to find the Krown crown, which grants certain powers to control time. Unfortunately, Chandler is not a highly skilled detective.

A story about hope, despair and disagreement, where a writer and a prostitute, who have lost everything, travel to the south. Looking for answers; driven on paths towards nothingness.

A documentary video-essay that reflects on the feeling of belonging to a territory and its people.

Sonia Sánchez was a teenager from Chaco who had just arrived in Buenos Aires when she was captured by a human trafficking ring. A documentary about her transformation from prostitute to militant and writer, a role from which she fights against sexual human exploitation.

A former librarian plunged into misery settles in a shanty town, where he will discover love and witness -and to a large extent the protagonist- of extremely dramatic situations, before leaving in a new direction.

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, at the age of 22, made his directorial debut with this little-known auteur short film, based on one of his short stories, which contains the seeds he would develop in future works: loneliness, the conflicts and morals of society at that time, its loss of identity, and literary themes. Although Torre Nilsson himself used to define "The Wall" as "a sin of youth," it already reveals a different kind of cinema, with a certain expressionist touch, a reflection of his literary restlessness and an early and natural rejection of the commercial vision of cinema at that time, a rejection he would maintain throughout his career, in which he would crash against another wall, that of censorship, more than he would have liked.

Portrait of the mythical ballerina Iris Scaccheri, made entirely with photographies.

In April 2014. S/Y Selma Expeditions sailed off for a trip called 'Selma - Antarctica - Perservance'. This one year-long trip started by sailing around Cape Horn from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean to Australia. There, in December 2014, the Selma crew took part in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. After that they started their sail to the coldest and most inacces...

A rich and orphaned heiress tries to establish a school in the Southern Lakes, but her uncle sets many traps for her.

An intimate portrait of the relationship between Horacio Salgán, a legendary 98-year-old tango pianist, and his son César, also a pianist, who plays his father's music in his shadow. They recently met again, after 18 years without seeing each other. Just when Horacio is about to retire and pass on his musical legacy to his son, a sudden illness forces them to live together.

A man is persuaded to enter a brothel; once inside, the staff will pressure him to use their services, and he will not be able to leave until he does so.

At an amusement park, a group of children and teenagers are trapped in a curse that connects them to a parallel world.

A tragic melancholy filled Ema's life, tired of loneliness she drowns in films and wine, looking for fresh air in a cigarette when a banal accident will lead her to discover a new kind of emptiness, an eternal limbo in beyond.

A group of aliens travel to Earth to issue a warning to humanity.

Angelín is the most famous fugitive in the area for stealing mushrooms from the Cameros mountains in Spain. In this instructive, he teaches us his tricks to avoid being caught.

Inspired on "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" and the works of Man Ray, the film explores the present as a point in time and space where every instant, past and future, collide.

Wara, a teenager from the Puna, moves to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jujuy. While she is going through uprooting as well as the mourning for the death of her grandmother on her father’s side, questions arise in her that she will solve through a dialogue between her voice and her violin.

Me gusta cuando hablas, explores a day in the life of different women and feminist diversity: an erotic poet, an influencer, an environmental activist, a land worker, a company CEO, a housewife. What image represents your feminism?

The daydream of being locked up.

Urquiza Hill, former city of Paraná. The redirection of the pandemic and the subsequent restructuring of the social fabric brought changes in people's lives and in the river. While watching a period documentary, a mysterious character narrates the events that have occurred in this region once the wetland disappeared.

Like a playlist, there are songs, there are questions, there is an anniversary and a boy who misses another. There are many more things that appear in a linear way but that, in practice, take place all at once-all the time and shape the idea of something greater.

Buenos Aires. a soccer academy for children. a day of games away from home. a twelve-year-old boy, his father and coach, his mother, his little sister, other families, a pool table, a defeat. we played but...

Two soldiers escape from their enemies. They talk about why they are persecuted. The slightest doubt. The oldest seems to go crazy with the music he hums. The minor, scared, shoots. He understands why they escaped, he fell prey to the lie and changed sides.

Carlos flees to the mountains to find safety from the Argentinian dictatorship forces in 1976.

In a quiet small town, a group of friends decide to get together at the gas station but, for some strange reason, they are unable to find each other.

The jockey and owner of a horse is seduced by a woman while criminals dope the animal, turning it into a crack.

Lautaro, an apathetic young boy, arrives at a border town in the province of Misiones, Argentina to visit his uncle Miller. But upon his arrival, an employee tells him that Miller has crossed to Paraguay. As the days go by, Lautaro is immersed in a jungle environment that encourages him to make a profound introspection.

Animated short film that narrates a tree's biological cycle.

Héctor and Alvarito survived a perverse system that deprived them of their freedoms and rights, imprisoned in the Colonia Montes de Oca for more than 50 years. Today, they are part of a project that confronts the mental asylum logic and seeks to give their lives a new meaning.

Roger Franco is a "Class Z" director who, while filming his new feature film about a monkey rapist, must confront not only a member of the technical team who "doesn't understand his filming style," but also a bloody and perverse alien invasion.

A meeting by chance. Without wanting and without planning, a whole day together.

Mama, Papa and the two kids try to break into showbiz as a singing quartet.