Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Situation 1: Mondongo, a duo of Argentinian artists, create a work inspired by The Art of colors, a treatise by Johannes Itten. Situation 2: A filmmaker begins a portrait of them.

A nanny from the Belgrano neighborhood maintains her job as an actress in the intimacy of her work.

Marco and Tomás, two little brothers, are struggling to survive in the hostile Andes mountains as life below a certain altitude has become perilous. With danger lurking from below, they have no option but to embark on a journey towards their ultimate hope: the summit.

The great Schettinimous used to be a “psychomagician” artist, renowned in his youth. In present day, now an old man, he is invited to a television show to be parodied by the interviewer, which gives way to an emotional release that will put every decision he ever took in doubt.

The story of Olexandr Savchenko (“Sacha”) - one of 26,000 children treated in Cuba after the Chernobyl disaster.

A woman separates from her husband when she hears him name a certain Mary in his dreams.

Martin is dealing with an existential crisis and he's tired of his Venezuelan girlfriend. He goes back to his childhood home and starts falling back in love with his childhood friend, who is now a single mom.

Centered on a trade fair of products for women, the work's sarcastic and biting perspective falls on both the men who build that "world" (workers and businessmen) and the women who support them. Through techniques of distancing, mostly of image from sound, the artist developed a poignant reflection on the social debasement of and discrimination against women carried out by products that supposedly exalt and distinguish them.

A small mountain village sees its traditional way of life threatened. It's difficult to live off the land, and there's also a lack of water. A tourism project and the promises of politicians in the midst of their campaign are forcing them to question where to go next.

Documentary about the War of the Triple Alliance based on the paintings by Cándido López.

On 10 December 2024, at around two o’clock in the afternoon, a homeless man immerses himself in a lake in a Buenos Aires park and disappears. From this news item, the filmmaker reflects on the films that will never be made and those that may still be possible.

Crafts, foods, popular festivals and other aspects of the Diaguita-Calchaquí culture in the Yocavil Valley.

A person's life is at stake when he is surprised by an unexpected guest.

A reflection on the passage of time and the use of an emblematic space of Buenos Aires as the Abasto. In more than 100 years, many stories have gone through the central construction of this traditional neighborhood, which functioned as a fruit and vegetable supplier market to later become Abasto Shopping, a daily and constant movement shopping center, which has been consolidated as one of the most successful in the Argentine capital.

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos Aires.

According to its authors, it was filmed using the Wookee Dogma, and it is the film that accompanies Semanita.

Five high school classmates fail an exam and must take it again in December. Looking for revenge, the group, led by Miguel, decide to come up with a plan to pass the exam no matter what, but they do not measure the consequences.

Valeria is a scientist who is striving to prove the existence of a type of energy unique to living beings.

Documentary that revolves around the figure of Mario Arnedo Gallo, renowned folklore musician and composer –father of Diego Arnedo, bassist for Sumo y Divididos- born in Santiago del Estero in 1915, where he lived until moving to Hurlingham in 1947.

A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.

A story of absence and emptiness.

Ben sets out on an adventure with his new family, experiencing life for the first time.

Under the influence of a drug, Lara is forced to experience a party on a loop.

A documentary about the life of the cycling idol, Antonio “Payo” Matesevach from San Juan, which covers the scenes of the remembered events of the sixties and seventies.

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.

On feminism and state terrorism. The case of Ana María Cámara, forcibly disappeared in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Dori, a retired woman addicted to the lottery, resorts to necromancy to try to make money after the death of her neighbor, unleashing terrifying consequences.

A retrospective of a number of UFO cases in Argentina.

How to Be Happy, the new documentary-style essay by Ofelia Fernández. A journey that blends humor with heartbreak, exploring digital life, anxiety, and the search for connection in an age of hyper-connected loneliness.

The late 1980s. A young man shoots a film on VHS confronting his landlords, who are trying to kick him out of the house they share. Soon after, in his new apartment, the young man continues the film, this time confronting his ex-girlfriend about an infidelity.

Friendship through the passage of time. Football matches, anecdotes and reflections on amateurism.

How does a community process the silent complicity behind the disappearance of a teacher during the last civil-military dictatorship? Where are the traces of the denunciation? After the kidnapping and disappearance of Spanish teacher Luis Oscar "Pato" Lacoste, the governing body of the National School of Lobos (Buenos Aires province) classifies his absence as "abandonment of duty." Silvana, a teacher recently arrived in the town, tries to reconstruct an unresolved past.

Two very competitive friends decide to take a car trip together along a lonely provincial road, when they unexpectedly become stranded in the middle of nowhere.

A young man is betrayed by the people of his own neighborhood.

Telma is 74 years old and has some dreams to fulfill. One of them is to reunite her daughter Lili with her first love, a Malvinas soldier with whom she exchanged letters during the 1982 war. Telma will try to reunite them to make the promised meeting happen after 35 years.

Aspects of the life of a group of fishermen.

Enrique Neira, a man abandoned by his wife and who deals with his schizophrenia and his son's obsessive-compulsive disorder, makes a movie about him being a priest and fighting with the demons who affects his life

A reflection on success and happiness from the observation of the world of amateur awards granted to artists and communicators.

The Luján River, the Basilica and an amusement park. Fabián, set designer and creator of horror labyrinths, builds the Ciclón Fantasma. Alejandro and Rosa walk along the riverbank looking for fossils. The characters seek to make their dreams come true in a space full of myths and beliefs.

A couple is invited to live an experience in an old mansion.

A mother in 1985 Buenos Aires defends her 15-year-old son's possible homosexuality to a conservative headmistress who might kick him out of school.

Mara, a young speleologist, lives with her father Horacio, a rural veterinarian. Both emigrated to Italy from Argentina decades ago. Horacio makes one last trip, curing animals in the mountains, before dying. Mara, some time after her departure, meets Roy, a Dominican boy who arrives in town seeking asylum. They become friends. She helps him speak Italian and teaches him about the caves. Together, they take an excursion inside a cave. There Mara will meet her dead father and they will talk about what they never talked about before. Film about close ties, identity, uprooting and the force of nature.

While the Bolivian flag is raised by military hands on a pontoon of the Bolivian Naval Force, a civilian swimmer is ritually prepared to enter the waters of Lake Titicaca naked to cross them towards the Island of the Sun. This short film is the record of a poetic act that connects a deep wound Bolivia faces due to its denial of access to the sea with a war conflict still vivid in the memories of Argentines.