Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Family portrait, depicting broken bonds, past experiences, reflections, and the desire to close the most painful chapter of their lives

A girl wonders about love. About the soul of the world. Is there such a thing? A common code? A shared thread? She thinks about the ways we celebrate love. Chinese tradition carries centuries of wedding rituals — but in a globalized world, these customs begin to blur. She wonders then: what happens when we forget? Is there something tradition can still tell us about who we are?

"A Sailor's Story" is a self-referential documentary that recounts the most important events in the filmmaker's life through an imaginary character, a sailor who arrives on the Cuban coast with his plastic raft to meet its people and their idiosyncrasies, portray the current reality, and look back on the island's revolutionary history through the testimonies of its inhabitants.

A young girl visits the Planetarium with her father and discovers that, in millions of years, the sun could absorb the Earth and extinguish everything. Since then, she develops an obsession with this omnipresent star, which reminds her every day that everything has an end.

The film begins with the label "The Monument to Christopher Columbus" and has a subtitle that completes it: "Donated to the municipality of Buenos Aires by the Italian community on the occasion of the first centenary of Argentine independence." The film records multiple events, over a little over a year, “from the arrival of the various parts of the monument, and the construction of the base, to the erection of the statue.” The first images are dated May 1920 and The last ones correspond to the day of the inauguration of the monument, June 15, 1921. During that period the film documents the arrival at the port of the monument in the hold of the ship “Olimpo” until its inauguration with the presence of President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

On a night full of familiar and unfamiliar faces, parties and paranoia, Lucas walks the streets of Buenos Aires as usual, devoted to his noble task of ensuring the enjoyment of others, while dealing with his mind about to overflow.

In a near future, during a relentless summer break and the imminent arrival of a solar eclipse, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place among her family and other girls her age. As the moon seems to “eclipse” animals and people around her, she searches online for some escape. She discovers “shifting,” a practice done by teenagers who believe they can cross into another reality through lucid dreaming. As the nights grow longer and lonelier, Bego takes solace in the virtual world.

In an Argentina where President Milei has died and the vice president has taken office, Pingo and Anisman are two friends who want to take advantage of the free organ market to pay the rent.

40 years after the return of democracy in Argentina, Lucas, Sonia, Tália, Iván, Nadia, Damián and Bruno meet to record stories about their childhoods in dictatorship.

VERÓNICA and PAMELA are spending the weekend in a distant countryside house, but their romantic getaway takes a terrifying twist when an unknown presence starts knocking on their door.

Juan (24) is desperately looking for inspiration to write a short film. In every daily activity he carries out, the search for an idea is an invariable constant. While he travels his adventure, luck is not with him.

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.

Henry and Román discover they are two supporting characters in the story of Flore where they are her sisters’ “boyfriends.” Both of them return to the story again and again in order to boycott it and, at least once, get to be the protagonists.

Germán Abdala es un luchador y a través de su incansable pelea contra el cáncer y lo peor de la política, se narran los últimos quince años de la República Argentina. Germán Abdala is a fighter and through his tireless fight against cancer and the worst of politics, the last fifteen years of the Argentine Republic are narrated.

In the province of Neuquén, in Argentine Patagonia, workers at the Zanon ceramics factory opposed their employer's layoff plan, which included laying off more than half of their workforce to avoid permanent closure due to the crisis. In October 2001, the workers took over the factory and have since continued production without a boss. They thus demonstrated that it is possible, in times of crisis, to offer work to others and contribute to the continued solidarity of society when the State fails to provide solutions.

Through a succession of flashbacks, a grandfather tells his grandson about the outstanding episodes of the 1890 revolution, known as the "Revolution of the Park", against the government of Juárez Celman. Between the armed confrontations and the exaltation of the figure of Leandro N. Alem, the evocation includes a synthetic love story and culminates with the celebration of the second presidency of Hipólito Yrigoyen.

David, a 23-year-old, finds himself deeply unsatisfied with his love life. One day, a casual yet magical encounter will change forever the colour of his life.

Documentary short film that portrays the taming of horses.

Nesquick has a guy in the trunk. The other, Diego, tries to convince him to open it because he is drowning, but Nesquick doubts that it could be a death trap.

A passionate young man can't forget the love of her life, who is about to get married. Passion will find its way but with fatal consequences.

“My life was the same as that of thousands of gringos: I plowed and sowed the land, and went to the bar on Sunday.” Such is the refrain throughout LA PAMPA GRINGA, which endeavors to relate the sense of community built by the European settlers who in 1865 first colonized the town of Esperanza, located in Birri’s native province of Santa Fe. Largely consisting of juxtaposed daguerreotypes from the period and newspaper printings, LA PAMPA GRINGA exhibits Birri’s ability to weave narratives out of historical documentation in deft, admirable form.

An independent movie maker, with the only one dream; to make a movie about flying saucers attacking the city of Buenos Aires. But due to a strange disease, that dream becomes a horrible nightmare.

"El Concierto Subacuático" is the sixth music DVD released by Argentine rock musician Charly García. The DVD contains footage from the artist's concert at the José Amalfitani Stadium on Friday, October 23, 2009 (a concert that was considered by many to be García's "return" to the Argentine stage after a long rehabilitation from drug addiction). The title refers to a phrase that the musician himself said during the concert "This is the first underwater concert in the world" because the show took place during torrential rain.

Javier Lombardo lived a “normal” life. Children, a wife, success as an actor and writer, recognition, public affection. Pure happiness. Until he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. And his life changed forever. What is the meaning of life when illness strikes? How do we redefine who we are, what we dream of, what we desire? Why do we get sick? What is the purpose? These and many other questions unfold throughout the film, which attempts to illuminate all the possibilities we have for living a full life despite Parkinson's disease. Understanding the disease is the first step to feeling alive again. Even if only for short periods.

Every Christmas, Jorge and Jorge Jr. decorate their house in a special way. The people in the village call it 'The House of the Lights'.

Celina can't stand the city anymore. She was born in a rural town and traveled to the great metropolis in search of fortune. Now she returns home after many years. Mauricio Matzkin is a humble businessman who cares for his mother. Hugo, Celina's brother, lives in the suburbs with his father and his ailing mother, now with Celina again. Hugo owes Matzkin money, and Mauricio tries to recover it. And so a story begins.

Between his heart and mine, there was one step and the doubt of whether one step was enough.

Gabriel Bañuls embarks on his ultimate quest to witness his favorite team reclaim the Libertadores title.

Celeste and Adela, driven by an urban legend, will enter a library in the middle of the night to read a sinister book that belonged to a maniacal killer. But what the girls don't expect is that the maniac's ghost will appear to tell them and make them experience the tales hidden in his book.

They tell Martín a story for the day of respect for cultural diversity about the Spanish invading America. Upon arriving home, Martín wants to share with his parents the exciting story he heard, but they pay no attention to him.

From a small town between mountains, the voice of an old peasant emerges to make present a lost memory: the solo death of one of his closest friends. Some horsemen, also old friends, embark on a restorative odyssey.

Damián (10) begin to attend a school located next to a jail, in his birthday received a invitation and wait, anxiously, for the 11:40 hour.

The role of men returning from the war; it is the end of the battles and ideologies.

The history of the Argentine railways, from 1857 until the crisis of the current transport system. The closing of branches of the railway lines turned towns whose main source of work was the train into ghost towns. The privatization of the lines caused the dismissal of tens of thousands of workers as well as the deterioration of public service, causing in turn the increase of motor transport and the multiplication of automobile accidents.

Harassed by his anguish, a dejected young man decides to get out of bed.

A film director and his actress, on a shared personal quest, wonder what connects them while making their new film, which deals with the life of whales.

Dozens of cans containing student films from the 1960s and 1970s, believed to have been lost during the dictatorship, turn up at the National University of Córdoba. Half a century later, these images bring back the passion of a generation and the abrupt end of their dreams.

Pabli is caught between fiction and reality. Interrupted by different characters, he tries to justify his desires as childhood memories, mother-son fantasies, love and fear of death emerge in a cinema open to the public.

Two sons of gravediggers at Chacarita Cemetery reunite years later. One believes that the stolen hands of the leader never left. To prove it, he requests access to the tomb. Amidst suspicion and invisible watchers, power seems to remain where there was amputation

A film about lights and shadows.

The story follows a gold-hungry prospector who, after encountering a shaman, embarks on a journey of inner transformation.

Based on his own short story, the film deals with the theme of infidelity.

Virginia and Mecha have a seemingly ordinary phone conversation. While chatting about trivial matters, they question each other's memories. As the conversation progresses, something begins to change.

After making a deal that could clear his debts and free him from the criminal underworld, Fabián sets off for home. But a shadow lingers at his side, and the night that began as a path to freedom is about to become endless.

An art restorer is working on her latest assignment: a painting of unknown origin. Following a series of discoveries, what begins as mere curiosity quickly turns into a nightmare, plunging her into a spiral of madness and terror.

José, a racist conservative, feels invaded when he hears hip-hop music in his parochial tango bar; an internal conflict ensues, and he realizes that he is the true outsider.

It is the first installment of a series of films titled Downtown Life, which is the result of the happy meeting of two friends who get together to film for the pleasure of walking and observing the city in which they live and where they grew up. What they see is the city that belongs to them, and turning that fact into a film is the way to share that belonging with others. Each observation, be it the movement of traffic at a street intersection, be it the force of the wind exerted on a branch, be it the rhythm of pedestrians at night, contains a form and a story and the confidence that they can be transmitted to whoever. be open to that contemplation.

In 2013, Pablo Murúa, son of Argentine actor and director Lautaro Murúa, died. Driven by the need to heal a bond fractured for years, his son Gonzalo decided to embark on a journey through the history of the "ungovernable" Pablo. In a reconstruction of his own and others' memories, Gonzalo delves into what he believes constitutes his father: the stories he never published.

A young man roams the city of Córdoba in his motorbike. A female friend remembers him.

Don Videla is a cinema operator, 80 years old and 65 years old, he crosses the streets of San Juan on his bicycle to get to the Municipal Cinema and show films. A film crew accompanies him to trace the traces of the cinemas he passed through.