Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A recently arrived Paraguayan illegal immigrant in Buenos Aires turns to a cousin who supports her alcoholic and abusive boyfriend.

The owner of a greenhouse tries to rebuild her life after her husband's accident. The only thing that will help her to overcome his death is fulfilling his last wish: to become compost for their plants.

Amelia, played by Paula and María Marull, is trapped by daily demands and obligations. She decides to embark on a journey to Esquina, in Corrientes, which will restore her essence, with the river, both metaphorically and literally, being one of the causes and protagonists of this dispossession. The viewer will gain access to the intimacy of the work in progress.

Rock band Don Cornelio y la Zona burst onto the music scene at the end of the ‘80s, delivering a mythical album and the best of rock poets, who is now already a legend, Palo Pandolfo.

Dismantling the home of some who is no longer here is an act of love, of memory, of mourning. July passed away recently; the camera moves around her apartment and is placed on a series of objects that act as keys to open the door to her intimacy. The voices of those who have loved her guide us while they try to prolong the farewell. In the memories they evoke, to some people July is still Julio, and those names and pronouns that blend reveal the difficulties of embracing one’s identity as a trans woman. During the journey, July’s figure is slowly brought to life, as in an invocation, called on through words, but mainly through her spaces, her things, her photographs, her wigs, her clothes, her favorite music. And a biography is weaved together, one which, like that mirror that still hangs on her wall, reflects the history of an entire community.

A musician decides to return to his hometown in the Pampas plains of Argentina to recover a guitar that belonged to his deceased mother, but in order to get it he will have to reconnect with his father, with whom he has been estranged for years.

Three men spend their days in a dying gas station, on the side of a wrecked road, on the outskirts of a small town. The three men resist and wait. They spend their time in fortuitous, random or miraculous things, hoping that something will free them for this situation. One day, the opportunity they were waiting for appears, in a different way than they imagined. Now, they will have to find out if they're ready to take advantage of it.

A retired postman recalls episodes of the Malvinas war; in one of them, a patrol of soldiers must deliver two sacks to the battle front.

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.

Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.

A girl who grew up in a boarding school where she suffered from a lack of love is set as its director once she graduates as a lawyer.

"In the heart of La Plata, three siblings, Pablo, Lucía, and Lucas, reunite to inherit their childhood home, a place filled with memories and dark secrets. At first, their return seems like an opportunity to recapture the past, but soon, disturbing events and a strange presence begin to take over."

Celia is a dermatologist who has a bad relationship with her daughter and with whom she constantly tries to reconcile, without success. One night, when going shopping at the neighborhood supermarket, Celia meets Lucy, an eccentric young woman who proposes a very strange role-play game: pretending that they are mother and daughter.

Short film made for the 2022 production chair.

To impress a millionaire uncle well, his niece poses as a house maid. When the real maid arrives, she poses as the wife.

Black humor film that tells the story of Enrique, a retired, outdated and unemployed film director, who decides to commit suicide with the help of his grandson.

Plastic artist Leo invites young Dante to his art studio and proposes a peculiar game to leave all tension behind.

Joaquin, an old friend of Pantera, has economic problems. So he decides to look for his former partner so they can start doing stick-ups again.

Sketch about the difficult world of work.

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.

Cerebro holds Corazón prisoner, who forces him to give up curved lines to feed his fetish for straight and repetitive lines. Corazon will try to use them in her favor to get rid of him.

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.

Desperate to support his family, an unemployed man is linked to a criminal who hides his past

A journey through the life and work of artist Ricardo Carpani, his artistic and ideological formation, and the importance of his pictorial output, considered a symbol of the political struggle of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Once the rise of state terrorism began, Carpani was forced into exile and spent ten years in Europe. During this period, he continued his political commitment, creating works that denounce the horrors experienced in Argentina during those years.

It tells the story of Eva, an eccentric film director who has reached middle age and leads her life between love and her profession. But what happens when life surprises us with an unexpected twist and unexpected situations that change our lives in a minute?

A father must raise a daughter he doesn't know after the death of her mother. In a dilapidated Citroën, they embark on a journey toward their own identity, hoping to reach a destination that will contain both of them.

A teacher about to get married visits a renowned makeup artist, but what begins as an intimate session soon turns into a trap from which she may not be able to escape.

Short documentary film about NAVE Arcade

It looks like it's going to rain. Yes, no doubt about it. Let's ask the horizon... over there, behind us, where the sun sets. The sun in the city hides in the concrete. The sun in nature, like consciousness, dwells in the darkness of our complex being. There will be no perpetual peace on earth or in heaven. To sleep in peace, to rise at dawn.

Gregorio (64) lives alone in a decaying house by the river, accompanied only by the memory of his late wife. His days follow a quiet routine, until every night a strange creature rises from the water to haunt his home. Isolated, feared by his neighbors, and harassed by hostile youths, Gregorio faces the dilemma of fleeing or confronting the monster. When he finally chooses to fight back, he discovers the true threat lies not only in the river, but within his own guilt and solitude. An intimate horror tale that explores the ghosts we choose to ignore.

A sadistic dentist works on a mysterious experiment, collecting stray animals. Neighbors notice the disappearances and file a report. The police assign the case to an unscrupulous detective who will bring nothing but bloodshed.

In a house where fire refuses to exist, Argentino embarks on an obsessive search for a spark. Lighters pile up, matches betray him, and the line between routine and madness blurs, as reality itself begins to blur.

El río corre, el tiempo pasa. The river flows, time goes by. 2min. Made by Andrés Denegri in 2008.

Patricio Coll explores Santa Fe's oldest buildings following a chronology, a geographical logic, and a series of documents that facilitate an appreciation of what is seen.

The Malvinas War resulted in the deaths of 649 Argentines, the wounding of another 1,063, and undoubtedly precipitated the fall of the military dictatorship. But for the conscripts, nothing ended with surrender. For the first time, they tell their story: their military service, the war, the mistreatment, the hunger, the differences with the English, the humiliation, the return home, the indifference, the suicides. They fought not only against the enemy but also against their superiors. They were victims of the dictatorship and the war: and they claim that those who call themselves heroes are yesterday's oppressors.

Miguel Ángel Molfino is 65 years old and a writer. In his youth, he was committed to the revolution. The Argentine civil-military dictatorship tortured and imprisoned him. His entire family experienced the tragedy of exile, kidnappings, and death. In prison, writing became his lifeline. What is said and the silences, the power of the word, is what this documentary explores.

In a run down office, a group of people are stuck to the ceiling by their hats. Shaking, alienated, they do not seem to notice their situation. Every time an old telephone rings the office workers start disappearing one by one. Until Hatker tries to free himself, turning his world upside down.

The simple things that a grandchild does when he visits his grandmother. Emotions and words with significant lessons that will leave a mark on them forever.

In a quiet town, a serial killer is on the loose. A group of young horror movie lovers decide to throw a party, not realizing that they have invited the killer along...

The deterioration of its international image, as a result of the failure of recent invasions, will lead the Great Northern Empire to attempt to change its strategy.

A woman remembers the encounter she had with a stranger, and the afternoon she spent with her around a derelict country house in Colonia Benítez, Chaco Province.

A filmmaking duo builds a railway draisine to portray a region where the passenger train is a ruin: the Argentine wet pampas. Together they try to take the vehicle to its destination, Espora, a town where “La fiesta de la zorra” is celebrated.

Two brothers deliver vegetables in the hills of Córdoba, Argentina. Bruno, the older brother, wants to leave the town. However, one single cigarette will make him face up to his younger brother’s torment before he leaves.

A man knocks on my door. I ask him what he needs. He doesn't answer. He looks at me for a few moments, with enormous eyes. He looks at me as one looks at an apparition. Rivers are born in that silence, in those hallucinated eyes, and they unfold a memory of water, a fragmented knowledge of tornadoes and banks, of creaking trees, of birds bathing in the rain, of men lost on some island, of drowning in the backwaters, of the splash of oars, of the shadow where the river narrows. A man knocks on my door. He says to me: You're not here, we're not here.

After a long day of work, Clarisa arrives home exhausted, where her little son is waiting for her asleep.

Gerald has a nosebleed and is used to violence. In his attempt not to face reality, he just keeps moving forward. But everything has a limit, the city and the night confront him and even if he tries to escape again, the break will be inevitable.

Compendium of videos animated by Ayar Blasco until 2022. The film, released directly on YouTube, includes recurring characters such as the Spoiled Child, the Rasbernardo Kitten and the first installment of the Disney Mouse in stop motion.

Short film directed by Mariano Peralta.