Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

What seemed like just another ordinary, unbearable commute will turn into a decisive debate for Rubén with the least likely of his companions.

Friends conduct a seance to summon a demon.

A Super 8 film found in the street and labeled, “Journey to Port Stanley, 1981”; through cuts, Baca divides the Malvinas landscape more and more, until making the different achieve the category of thing.

A woman driven by misery to a path of degradation until the inexorable end of which the tango symbolizes, at the same time, her condemnation and her liberation.

In an isolated neighborhood of monoblocks in the city of Santa Fe, deceit, friendship, dreams, love, disagreements, passion and death, are some of the elements that mark the fine line that exists between the real world and the one we imagine.

Environmental groups oppose the urbanization of the Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve, and one of the company's executives falls in love with a conservationist photographer.

A documentary about the afro uruguayan community that lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ulises is a young and innovative documentary filmmaker who films from his window. Without a script, pure chance, any corner. He seeks total objectivity and little by little a series of small everyday stories begin to take shape. He is very sure of his idea, but at the same time very close to it. Thus, without knowing it, he is putting the camera where it should not. What if someone else was waiting for those images to put together "another movie" in which Ulysses ended up being responsible for a crime? A story of dense and dreamlike air, of suspense and seduction.

Ivana a women of about 25, lives with her boyfriend Gregorio,a temperamental only son who loves his mother. Ivana is obligated by Gregorio on a strict diet because he see her prone to gaining weight. However, a sharo turn in her life will have to face his worst enemy: herself.

Amalia arrives at Olga’s house to celebrate her birthday. At the party, they discuss taboo subjects: one’s daughter is dating a bisexual boy, while the other’s granddaughter sells erotic content online. Uncomfortable, Amalia seizes an opportunity to leave. Back home, she reveals her best kept secret.

A cockroach crawls into a man's ear.

We all like to go for a walk and so do our souls.

In a town in the Argentine Northeast, the initiated make a pact with the Devil in exchange for musical talent. A documentary that explores the origin of chacarera and its link with the process of crossbreeding in America and its relation with the Salamanca.

A journey to the Buenos Aires underground tango culture, where the elusive soul of tango is to be found... Even after a century of history, after enshrinement as the national music, after rampant commercialization and packaging for export, the tango still speaks to the Argentine soul. Subtango shows how tango music, dance, art and poetry are an essential part of the emotional expression of regular people, featuring the gamblers, ramblers and barroom prophets of the Buenos Aires night, playing weather-beaten accordions and singing old tangos of heartbreak and resentment.

Julia and Mateo, two young lovers, are having a date. The paths of love will guide them were they desire.

Three boys, sons of the suburb, the street and the economic depression, stroll for a microworld where the crime, the incomprehension and the solitude are their permanent companies.

Mauricio Wainrot is a prominent Argentine choreographer with an international career. After joining the Contemporary Ballet of the San Martín Theater in 1968, he directed 165 works in world-renowned companies. This documentary pays tribute to his life and work, celebrating his legacy in dance.

In an undetermined place on planet Earth, in an unknown time of our calendar, Zoilo lives with his family (his grandfather, his uncle and his 2 cousins, Isha and Damiano) in a vacant lot surrounded by ruins. They seem to be the last survivors of a civilization, they live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is only one collective routine: keeping the fire alive.

Guided by the voice of Roberto Sánchez himself, Mato’s camera reconstructs the memories of the childhood, family and friends of the “neighborhood kid” and Elvis fan who became the idol of an entire country. The miraculous crossing between a life story and a reality that overflows every riverbed imaginable.

Florencia “Hana” Ciliberti converses with her contemporaries at her workshops. From closeness and humor, she builds a narrative about music in visual art in Argentina, alternating testimonies, music videos, performances and archive material.

Hugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969).

A young woman introduces her boyfriend to her extravagant group of friends who she asks to keep up appearances. They decide to subject the young man to an uncomfortable game, which leads to an argument between our protagonists and the owner of the house.

A journey through faith and life of Christian people in an emblematic church of Buenos Aires.

In the last decade, Argentina has become a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking. There are the pimps and corrupt state officials who make human trafficking a great business. On the other side, there are the victims. But going through all this framework are the clients, always safe from any condemnation. The gaze of Whole Woman rests on them, the men.

Lucio is staying at his sister's house. He has no job and spends his days reading, drawing and watching television. When his sister and her boyfriend leave for a short trip Lucio takes over the whole house but strange things begin to happen.

First spoken short film of Argentine cinema.

A portrait of Argentine director Gastón Solnicki's family over the course of the second half of the 20th century, Papirosen follows four generations still troubled by a war that’s never spoken of. The film juxtaposes different periods with their native image formats, along with landscapes, characters and international political events, as it focuses on a singular decade of a nouveau riche Argentine Jewish family, and the new generation’s introduction into familiar traumas and vitality.

We follow the daily operations of the Garden Gnome Liberation Front, as the meaning of freedom is put into crisis.

Bruno, a young musician without talent, tries to compose the perfect song to get a music producer to accept his solo album.

Santiago and Soledad's marriage is going through a terrible time, and they feel desperate. So, they go in search of something forbidden and terrifying that they've heard about.

Nahuel, a young marijuana addict, must solve the mistery of why he sees his uncle's dog as a stuffed animal and what the poop circles he makes in the yard mean

"My footsteps are the wind that blows through those valleys, dancing to the rhythm of the invisible."

When Lucas stops attending the football tournament matches, the dynamics of his friend group change completely. Julia, his closest friend, will do everything she can to keep the team together, although her attempts to bring Lucas back might end up having the opposite effect.

A particular, subjective and capricious view of the city of Rosario.

Marianela, a 19-year-old girl, has to reveal a secret to her complicated mother during a chaotic birthday party while dealing with a bigger issue: a mysterious corpse in her closet.

Mía, a recently heartbroken film student, falls in love with her new classmate, Mateo. As the bond becomes obsessive, her stability crumbles and the boundaries between reality and fiction begin to blur.

A strange creature, which can only live inside a human body, escapes from a group of military men who want to hunt it in a decaying futuristic world. On the verge of being caught, his last escape is to possess the body of a man.

Three different stories to choose from, taking place at the same time and intersecting at different times: in all of them, the audience actively participates in the story. Two sisters suffer the harassment of a stalker; a woman with psychiatric problems sees her traumas repeated over and over again; and a young woman obsessed with a dead teenager, physically identical to her.

In a world where technological progress is conceived as an arrow pointing forward, why do some people insist on continuing to work with equipment others refer to as obsolete? Analog Thinking answers that question by documenting the meticulous work of those who choose that path. The screen becomes filled with wonderful objects—optical toys, cameras, projectors, film stock cans, moviolas… And the testimonies from those creators invite us to discover a universe that has a lot to do with both craftsmanship and the collective experience—an instance of thinking with your hands that is only possible with curiosity and patience. And among the words, practices and artifacts, Analog Thinking also saves a place for the images that are born from all of that. And it reminds us that, even in this digital age, they still have a lot to teach us about waiting and making mistakes, surprise and beauty.

The world's best sommeliers have three days to demonstrate the results of a whole life devoted to study and learning. The competition is very high, and the prestigious World Sommelier Competition is held to crown the best in the trade. A documentary from Argentina that introduces us to a refined world, where there can be no other way than absolute dedication to detail and perfection.

Film is based on the cartoon character Don Pancho Talero and his family.

Adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story "A country doctor"

Based on the first monologue of the director's one-person play by the same name. The character goes to a psychologist to talk about the gestation and birth of her drag persona.

A scammed man is involved in a robbery by mistake, so he goes behind the thugs and thus cleanses his honor.

A group of mothers whose children suffer from refractory pathologies found in cannabis oil a better quality of life for their sick children. However, they need to fight for its legalization.

A José Burone Bruché's animation short film from the 40's.

In the small towns of the Argentine pampas, the quadreras, horse races over short distances, continue to be a passion. In Saladillo, Buenos Aires province, Pablo, a photographer for the local newspaper, with a degree in personnel compression, knows that after 57 years it will not be easy to find a job. His survival and that of his family now depend on the rain not causing the cancellation of a square, since with an ingenious artisan photo-finish system, he is responsible for the final verdict of an arrival, which avoid arguments and conflicts.

Thirteen friends gather to celebrate Vicky's birthday. This is the first time many of them have seen each other. Resentments, guilt, pain, and the fabrications of memory are revealed throughout the night. Shortly before blowing out the candles, we learn that Vicky's brother had died in a car accident during her birthday party... three years earlier.

Tomás is a musician who, during his adolescence, shared some of his projects with his brothers, Benja and Santi. After Benja's death, the family lives on with his memories of videos and photos, while Santi and Tomás encourage them to pursue what they always shared: music.

Carlos "El Negro" Moreno is a documentary film that chronicles the life of the labor lawyer from Olavarría who was kidnapped and murdered in Tandil by the last military dictatorship. After 35 years of darkness, justice has been served in the city of Tandil. This is the first case from the dictatorship brought to trial in Tandil, for which three military personnel and two civilians were convicted.

An inside look at Cristiani Studios during the making of Peludópolis. This making-of documentary contains the only known surviving footage of the now lost film