Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Pedro, a gastronomy student, must face a challenging test in which he will be evaluated. In an attempt to overcome this situation, his imagina- tion will help him escape the reality he is immersed in.

Short film based on "Golett's Attempt", a story by Eduardo Abel Giménez.

A Chilean-Argentine intervention that mixes dance and cinema, in which outstanding dancers "come back to life" through their movements. They appropriate public and emblematic places in the city of Santiago that, paradoxically, are empty. Les Revenants is a work-installation consisting of six different dance solos, which were recorded in emblematic buildings in Santiago that were empty due to the pandemic. These records were projected in different places in the city -such as advertising posters, walls and screens-, in what was its premiere, during Santiago a Mil 2021.

In the future, the planet is devastated by pollution. Five-year-old Anahí accompanies her mother to exchange scrap metal for some drinking water. On the way home, an evil figure takes possession of the precious liquid, triggering a tragic end for this mother and daughter.

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.

A filmmaker meets her ex-boyfriend, who plays a role in her new film, in which the authenticity or falsity of a kiss in a gay scene is debated, with backstage included. Metacine or metagay? Gay cinema within cinema or cinema within gay cinema, variations of a daedalus of representations. "The current boyfriend" feeds on lateral humor, on the political of desire as a talk in the kitchen, on the flicker-free observation of who we are and what we pretend to be, as a nucleus that is reinterpreted with always different gestures, once as drama and another like comedy, almost without knowing which is appropriate.

Segey Spivak Laurson is a Soviet painter based on the other end of the planet: Argentina. His only obsession is to paint the Iguazú Falls. Soon to fulfill that dream, a call from Russia changes his plans.

A middle-aged woman will try to become a mother even if she doesn't have the support of her husband.

Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by way of 60s consumerism, pop art, linguistics, DIY ethos, and disturbing childhood imagery.

Two women live together in a house: one is an actress of underground theatre rehearsing her next play and the other is a cat lover widow.

An ice cream man’s murder, the owner of a laundry, black bananas, bored young people, philosopher cops, and parallel universes.

After discovering their deceased father's secret, Two families become entangled in all kinds of conflicts. Fights, lies, love, and friendship intertwine in this atypical screwball comedy.

During the state terrorism in Argentina, women prisoners and detainees who disappeared were subjected to situations of violence marked by a hierarchical gender relationship. Eighteen survivors from various clandestine centers and prisons across the country speak about their experiences and memories.

Following the disappearance of Tomás, a 12-year-old boy traveling to school by bus, the city of Santa Fe connects via radio and begins a search.

A documentary that links the stories of three women from the football’s world in Argentina, connected with the feminist movement. Juliana, a feminist football coach from "La Nuestra" the oldest low-income community in the city of Buenos Aires; Luciana, a teenage player of Villa 31; and Lorena, a player of the National football Team, cross their paths pursuing a common goal: no more generations of women without a field to play in.

More isolated than the sea, always light and powerful: confusion, my sister, the woman with 100 heads. Loosely inspired by the collages and graphic novels of Max Ernst.

A hot summer siesta in Santiago del Estero. A storm is coming. Motivated by boredom and guilt, a boy decides to invoke the spirits of the mountain.

What motivated you to continue studying film?

Adrián is a dedicated violinist who lives with his younger brothers. Chaos erupts when a rat invades his home and he is forced to face an unresolved family grief.

Through personal reflections, Lick Fire explores the joys and struggles that arise from the vast realm of imagination, while pondering the future implications of artificial intelligence in bringing these imagined worlds to life.

Two women in their privacy. Both naked, stained. The red color makes everything stranger. What are we watching? What are we hearing? Can we trust our senses?

The musical by Pepe Cibrián Campoy and Ángel Mahler tells the story of the deformed Quasimodo and the gypsy Esmeralda in which love triumphs over beauty.

At the Borda psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, two patients find a breather in art from their monotonous daily life. Documentary that goes through the contradictions between the field of dreams of the interns and the harsh reality of the hospital.

Martín is a 35-year-old banker obsessed with his career. Having a child is not a priority for him and for his wife it is. Lucía will then appear with an eight-year-old son, the product of a fleeting relationship with Martín, who will resist accepting paternity outside of his plan.

Ulises Dumont worked in more than one hundred films, more than one hundred characters, enough to overflow his soul. Through fragments of each one of them, this documentary-tribute tries to recreate, based on the elements offered by each testimony, the life and the sensitive and multifaceted personal universe of this genius of Argentine cinema and theater.

In the streets of Buenos Aires, an enigmatic character emerges from the garbage.

Castagno found the door that unites our world with the one of the malignant Suckling men. He decides to demonstrate it to Morales, his Psychiatrist, and at the same time to alert him of the danger they're involved. But already it is too much behind schedule: Morales sleeps over that door...

The shape of the sunflower divides our view of city life, juxtaposing three moments in time that create a dialogue with one another.

Directed by Bolivian-born filmmaker Humberto Ríos (working from Argentina, where he was based), this 65-minute color documentary chronicles the struggle of Bolivian miners and peasants in the period leading up to the de facto government of dictator Hugo Banzer, who came to power with U.S. backing. The film offers a critical warning about the rise of dictatorships across Latin America, situating Bolivia's social conflict within the broader wave of imperialism and military repression sweeping the region at the time.

It tells the story of three Malvinians who for various reasons were forced to leave the islands and move to mainland Argentina.

In 2017, young Mapuche Rafael Nahuel was killed by police in the Patagonian forest. Site visits, court proceedings – the film unites the elements involved in solving the crime. Meticulously observed: the struggle for civil rights and narrating history.

"In 2010 I filmed the encounter commemorating the Bicentennial of the Argentine Republic. In the passing years I sporicadally edited the material. I projected it. I seal it. Recently I projected the images again and in some way I saw a group of young, strong and beautiful people to which I belong and represents me. Collating this images with the present, I also saw a void and a debt."

Gonzalo, a young man in modern-day Argentina, leaves adolescence behind and heads toward adulthood. His quest to find himself will mean facing difficulties, his fears, his frustrations, and also leaving the safe world of home.

A young man recovers his collection of red cars only to realise that the scale of his fantasies has changed.

Ricky is a scientist accused of committing a terrorist attack after sowing a plant that destroys the power and communications network. Hidden in his lab, he tries to understand why the plants are not bearing fruits.

Expuesta brings to light the extraordinary photographic archive of Andy Cherniavsky, one of the most renowned and prestigious photographers in Argentina and Latin America. Andy carved out a unique place for herself as a photographer in a world that was dominated by men, as was the case in Argentine rock for decades.

Digital animation short about the feelings brought about by a sexual encounter. A hybrid tale of erotism, accidents, and S&M spirit.

In 1999, an Argentinean traveled to the Malvinas to make a clandestine film. How to make your 15 minutes of fame last forever?

The villain commits a crime involving a strange drug.

A documentary on the life and work of Swedish/Argentinean photojournalist Leonardo Henrichsen (1940-1973), a known international news cameraman whose final image shot was his own death on the hands of a soldier, while capturing images from an attempted military coup in Chile on June, 1973.

After losing his partner, Pedro decides to empty the house they shared in order to start again, embarking on an inner journey full of memories and pain.

Argentina, 2038. The country seems abandoned, and the first extraterrestrial experiments occupy mountains and roads. A father travels with his eight-year-old daughter, who is experimenting with telekinetic powers, and a baby. Portrait of a deeply Argentine dystopia.

Andrés and Joaquin embark on an odyssey that leads them to visit various clinics in the city of Buenos Aires and puts their relationship to the test.

A gay couple arrives to a mysterious "gay friendly" hostel to solve their marital problems. There they will experience all kind of weird and supernatural situations with the Hostel owner, a vampire.

The reeds lean over the water. There is no nostalgia. A letter filmed for Rafael Maino in 1984 with stories of the filmmaker as a memoir of a paradise. A paradise formulated over seven years by the friendship between Rafael and Narcisa: "if there was a fight, it is something bigger than you and me, it is the fight between two myths". This film can be considered as part of the series of the diaries together with Orpheus and Eurydice.

Construction of a story between a father and a daughter, as a documentary essay, investigating the history of the town of Federación, Entre Ríos and its consequences, which have directly affected its inhabitants and the protagonists of this documentary. The film takes place on a journey through the personal construction of a space that the filmmaker did not know and the exploration of an inherited memory, as well as the story and memories of historical and personal events by her father.

Francisco Santos embarks on a journey of remembrance through the figures of his four grandparents. In an archaeological quest through objects and voices that hold the traces of another time, Francisco grapples with the grief of his paternal grandparents' deaths and transforms his relationship with his maternal grandparents, who are still alive. His personal process leads him to question the role of images in the construction of memory, which ultimately leads him to the very heart of his passion for filmmaking.

At dawn, Osvaldo, a maintenance worker, carries out cleaning tasks along the riverbank. Among the debris, he finds peculiar objects, which he carefully sets aside in a separate bag. Later, sitting by the water, he examines and draws the ones he finds most interesting—an activity he practices daily during the short break he gets from work.

Adriana wakes up peacefully until a message alters her daily life.