Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Ita's voice tells anecdotes of her life about close losses, which allows us to glimpse her fears and her relationship with oblivion, while she reflects on the similarities between decomposition, life and cinema.

A message, a voice note and a memory that will never be erased.

A young woman murders her ex-partner and his new girlfriend in La Plata.

A Rock Star trafficker, his five professional bodyguards, an infiltrator and Nikita, a hitman who does the dirty work of the intelligence services. Sex, drugs, rock and roll and death threatening them all.

Short film made in After Effects

Chaco Nataxalá (documentary series), Lo Que Se Cocina (documentary), Shadows Behind (experimental), El Maquinador (animation), Pez Gordo (fictional series), Memorias (documentary) and Iridescentes (documentary) are presented in the same function to know part of the contemporary Chaco audiovisual production.

A racehorse keeper, a trainer and a young man who gets over his wife's infidelity wins with his horse and becomes a singer.

David, a young rapper from Guinea known as Black Doh, stows away on overseas ships to the “land of Maradona”. His friends, his family and his mother remained in Africa, whom he never saw again. He records his first album with songs in soussou, French and Spanish. Years later, his first album arrives in Africa. This is a film that travels between Argentina and Africa, reflecting filial routes and roots, clashes and meeting of cultures.

Adrián is locating himself in the city when he finds out about the death of his friend Francisco. In the town where they grew up together, nothing seems to have changed, especially the friendship with El Chino and Gustavo. They work for the local mobster, but Rafael also left and returns as a beautiful transvestite.

Documentary that recounts how in 1969 in a factory on the shores of the city of Córdoba, a group of race car drivers and mechanics, under the direction of Juan Manuel Fangio, prepared the cars that ran, that same year, in the well-known race as “The 84 hours of Nürburgring” in Germany.

A university student ventures into northern Argentina in search of material for his thesis and arguments for the story he wants to tell, but with the help of his driver, he discovers an answer completely opposite to what he went looking for, and reality unfolds before his eyes. Years later, that same driver will summon him to ask him a favor.

A Silvestre Byrón experimental short film.

The background noise in a hospital: loud footsteps, ventilation noise, ventilators, constant beeping of medical equipment and above all: whirring discomfort. A stirring and touching short film from Argentina tells the story of trans girl Amado Mariana. In a hospital surgery, she is subjected to a rigorous questionnaire about various aspects of her life, such as any prison stays or sexual activity. Only at the end does it become clear why this is a film about a long, tragic family history.

Documentary about the bombing of the Plaza de Mayo in June 16 1955 perpetrated by the Argentine navy with the intention of overthrowing Juan Domingo Perón's government and resulting in many civilian casualties.

Joaquín has the power to charge cell phones or supply electricity to any device with the energy of his own body, so he takes advantage of it to make a few pesos in a city resigned to scheduled power outages. A laconic and refined comedy, touched by the grace of the extraordinary.

Dario is an editor, and not a very good person. After his wronging of a coworker develops into an international crisis, he will be subject to a curse that will render him badly edited. Now, he must right his wrong by way of Groundhog day and Dickens.

On September 15, 1977, a blind couple and their three-year-old son, Iván, disappeared from their home in a repressive operation led by the Army, the Police, and the Gendarmerie. The child was later handed over to the couple's relatives. The house was occupied for 17 years by the Guarnic Center for Retired Non-Commissioned Officers and Gendarmes. The documentary aims to rescue memory; it focuses on a single character, Negrita, the mother of the disappeared blind woman, and her struggle. The intention is to shed light on an event that was kept hidden by the official narrative, and to highlight, in Mostar, the irreparable damage it causes.

Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the forest of emotions in a dreamlike way. But it is thanks to water and its light reflections, to its transforming power that the infinite “Kosmos” plays with our uncertainty.

Documentary about the joys and sorrows of being trans.

Miriam is now settled in Israel, with a rebuilt life, a family, and the opportunity to slowly build her entire life. Belonging to a traditional Jewish family, Miriam joined the armed guerrilla movement in the 1970s. Shortly before the last dictatorship was established in Argentina, she was captured and imprisoned. In an attempt to save her life, she expressed remorse at a controversial press conference surrounding the coup d'état. Although she managed to escape death, Miriam became a hinge fraught with mistrust: for those who had been her companion, she was now a traitor, and, in her forced exile, she was left with no one to turn to and her only option was to start over.

Two sisters, Celia and Aída, lead a solitary routine that revolves around gossiping about all their neighbors. They await the arrival of Marita, Aída's daughter, who lives in Canada and is coming to take them to Toronto and care for them in their old age. A conflict arises when Ángel, the building manager, declares his love for Celia.

The election of the National Queen in General Roca (Argentina)

Nicolás and Agustina find money in a plaza; While they plan how to spend it, they come across the possibility that the money comes from fraudulent businesses. Between the innocence, the tenderness and the mischief of the adventure, the story summons the spectator to remember his own childhood.

A ghostly bubble haunts the empty trading floor and conference rooms of La Bolsa, the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange building, as filmmaker Carolina Fusilier tries to locate a missing photograph of her father when he worked there during Argentina’s 1990s financial crisis. This search melds autobiography and science fiction, as arcane computational mechanisms—humming, flashing, bleeping—track the liquid undulations of trade.

The secret story of Evita Peron's dead body.

Lila is a dreamy girl who can't resign to accept reality as flat as she perceives it, hence she uses her imagination and her skills to modify it.

A girl survives among the wreckage left behind by an invading army, searching for shelter and food. But when she accidentally kills a bird, the fragile emotional balance that sustained her begins to crumble.

Sissi is at El Imperio pizzeria when a man kisses her boots. On her way to the Obelisk, her gaze fragments and the city transforms: Sissi appears on a throne, observing everything from above, mistress of her own empire.

It's the story of a small family who gathers to celebrate an intimate wedding in a country house. The young couple getting married are undecided, consulting their relatives about what to do, and they pitch in, trying to help them, while more relatives arrive and begin preparations for the party.

A documentary that reconstructs, through the victims' testimony, the history of the most brutal clandestine center that operated in Mendoza from 1975 until the end of the military dictatorship. A document that provides information on the operations of the Mendoza Police Intelligence Department, which operated in the Police Palace, two blocks from the Government House. This material exposes those responsible for kidnappings, torture, and disappearances in Mendoza.

A melancholic pension where a solitary adult meets a woman.

María cooks while Pablo, her partner, is immersed in front of the TV. Serving dinner, María finds that at the end of the recipe there is no there is always a good dish

Two strangers meet in a bar and after sleeping together for the first time they secrete a substance that adheres them forever.

She is ten years older. He doesn't drink wine. An unexpected visitor threatens to ruin a date that seems destined to fail.

One more vacation that Lucía spends in San Bernardo. At eleven, this desolate coastal town does not seem to be the best plan in the midst of a family crisis. However, the breakdown in her family and that seemingly empty environment push Lucía to discover herself.

A world and utopian sexuality built on rubble covered with viscous moss. Entities that emancipate themselves from their reproductive functions, from the binarity of gender and from the hierarchy between species. Defamiliarizing, altering perception and disrupting the usual modes of knowledge, to give substance to other possibilities, opening other avenues to the imagination. "Extys" celebrates the effect that escapes from the gesture, the distorted causalities, the power of a pleasure that no longer has a center, the body in permanent mutation. It is the introduction of a fiction where bodily sensations emancipate themselves from the envelope and become worlds, electricity, impalpable.

From the DAC Foundation we have carried out the Argentine Cinema Goes to School program since 2014, bringing national cinema to young people who are pursuing their secondary education throughout the country. The work with the CEPT (rural educational establishments in the province of Buenos Aires) arose from getting to know them within the framework of our activity, and that is how we set out to make this film to publicize this peculiar type of teaching and the exchange that occurred. with our program.

Two of the four children of actor and director Gustavo Garzón have Down syndrome. Gustavo looked for a way to make them happy and let them express their concerns and, in this way, he found the theater group "Sin drama Down", which Juan Laso has led for more than ten years.

Like almost all of Edmo Cominetti's films, in this, his first film as a director, he presents an important social situation plagued by conflicts that arise in a town. It was presented as a Chaco Film production. This film was shot in partnership with Edmo's brother, Sóstenes Luis Cominetti, being a kind of rehearsal.

A pizza delivery man is constantly late for work. His boss gives him one last chance to keep his job. When he arrives at the delivery address, he meets his ultimate idol, the rock star Charly Dopamine and his girlfriend Lucy.

Espionage, intrigue, and passion surround the revolutionary invention of a secret weapon. A film that echoes with the world war, by German exiled filmmaker James Bauer.

Two groups of marginalized people, of different generational composition, dispute the modest geography of a square, in the most perfect synthesis of Caetano's recurring theme: the confrontation of poor against poor as the atrocious symptom of the loss of political consciousness.

Lucas is nine years old and El Pira is eight, thought he seems older, like all dogs. In the immensity of the countryside, in the darkest of nights, they wait. A flapping of wings from afar, that small colored ball, one loose tooth, the bicycle's chain, Astro's rocket launching, the light of the steam in the pool, Bela's gaze, the juice, and the cookies. In the horizon, the first lights. Lucas switches off the flashlight they were playing with and gets ready. Sometimes a scary story can also be a story of courage.

Miguel returns to his homeland with anticipation, ready to showcase a film he stars in at a local film festival. His heart yearns for the thunderous applause of adoring fans, yet reality may paint a different picture. In this poignant essay, we delve into the nuanced shapes of loneliness, even amidst company.

The life of Juan José Gorasurreta is pierced by images. In his new feature film, the historic film society programmer appropriates the films that made him in order to find new relationships and patterns and thus generate a convergence between his personal life, that of Argentina and that of cinema. In The Absences his travels coexist with Orson Welles, activism, Fernando Birrri, the Cordobazo, his studies, Eva Landeck, family, Carlos Echeverría, the Trelew Massacre, Nagisa Ōshima, censorship, film societies, the Malvinas war, his short films. The randomness of this list vanishes as the film progresses, and gives way to a synapse that is as logical as it is moving. “It is a portrait on how Argentine history and my encounter with films designed my sensitive areas” —as he did with his own story, no one could define The Absences better than Gorasurreta himself.

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

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.

An engineer takes charge of a mine in the north of the country and a local landowner opposes him by all means.

A young prince, Hamlet, must travel the halls of the Teatro Argentino in La Plata to expose the farce of his uncle's reign.

Two friends decide to form a 'tango-trash' band. The woman of one of these friends is kidnapped by the leader of a female gang, bringing consequences in its aftermath. This all happens in the precarious urban regions surrounding the European-like city of Buenos Aires; in these areas everything resembles the universe of Western films.

Thomas, a salesman, is transported to the land of the dead to meet his wife one last time.

Flor, Marce, Gina and María make up Danza Combate, a group of feminist women who campaign through dance in social marches. After publishing a photo of herself with exposed breasts and raised fists, it goes viral and sparks a fight on the networks.

A film director who, due to his passion for carrying out his feature film project, is about to lose his house due to a mortgage and turns to a childhood friend who is a bank manager, who offers to cancel the debt in exchange for him vacating a house occupied by homeless people.