Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Lucrecia is a young actress who is offered a last-minute substitute role in the premiere of 'Antígona'. You must quickly learn the role while going through a relationship crisis.

Brenda tries to discover what broke her family apart almost 20 years ago, while at the same time researching the life of Ángel, her uncle, who may have a connection not only to what happened to her family but also to José Ignacio Rucci's murder in 1973.

A strange afternoon of soccer, physical games, rituals, beer, choripán, fat and a smoke under which the virgin, Maradona, the flag and the National Anthem appear. An absurdist look at the rituals of male friendships around an Argentine national team match.

From the music of Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla, Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou crafts a story inspired by the Pleiades, seven sisters who are nymphs who were turned into stars. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

Documentary about the Protestant Lutheran community of the Evangelical Church of the Río de la Plata in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, which shows how Luther's reformist gene persists in a country monopolized by Catholicism.

DOGMAN! He is a highly experienced hero who guards the streets. After losing everything he loves and has fought for since he was a teenager, he faces Charly, who will reveal himself as his creator and reality and fiction no longer have a dividing line. Faced with the loss of his own identity, DOGMAN! he will try to prevail over Charly, a strange being, who seems to be able to control everything, except his own destiny.

Five stories of different couples in different cities of the world: Shanghai, Asunción, New York, Buenos Aires and Chernobyl.

The seventh issue of the almanac of short stories. The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Competition and Filmmakers Support Program.

Ezequiel lives on the banks of the Paraná River, grew up in a traditional fishing village, lived a lonely and sensitive childhood with his environment, attached to his mother and sisters. He wants to be a fisherman, he learns by watching his father and his grandfather who teach him to fish and hunt.

Three friends show up for work to find they are suspects in a million-dollar scam that bankrupted the company. Stories that intertwine: sisters, mothers and wives, awkward toasts and unexpected news. A material that emerges from the theatrical scene and in its course mutates until it is configured as a cinematographic language. Disposables builds characters that consume and are consumed in an atmosphere of confinement, in a game where the crudest humor reigns.

This documentary deconstructs the life of my father, Carlos Ragone, based on his work as a photographer and photojournalist: father and daughter, photographs and audiovisuals, memory and imagination intertwine.

A young filmmaker visits her family to film and listen to their secrets and visions around desire and love. Experiences crossed by yearnings of women of different generations. File, cards and poems appear on the way. Also, clues about a childhood memory: the whistle bridge, a place in the sea where the whales approach.

Carolina is the youngest of three sisters living confined in their home. Every day, their mother brings her a pig that she must kill herself, while the older sisters, Estefanía and Tatiana, have to cook it. Afterward, they all sit down at the table to eat. Their lives are defined by the ritual of cooking and eating, all while their mother torments them. As time passes, this dynamic becomes increasingly apparent.

On August 17, 1993, a unique and, to this day, unrepeatable social and cultural event took place at Lisandro Olmos Prison: a rock, punk, and metal festival for inmates. A quarter of a century later, with the recovered images, we can try to understand what it was like to be part of such a risky yet significant endeavor.

Tina sings while cooking. Cooks for her daughter. But tonight Tina is left alone and that catches her off guard. She goes out to tour the city in a taxi. What is Tina looking for and what will Tina find?

A policeman goes on the trail of a smuggling gang whose boss wants his girlfriend.

A personal and sexual diary. A fake user’s manual whose sophistication and audaciousness free it from the traps of what has to be said and the agenda of commonplace. A discourse with disconcert and without instructions, with an exploring spirit and without restrictions.

They Shall Remain Forever is a portrait of Celia, a painter from the La Boca neighborhood who revives lost spaces in Buenos Aires. With her naive style, Celia portrays a city she knew through the eyes of a child.

Rodrigo and his mother travel to the town where his older brother just died. In this calm place they will go through the first stages of their mourning. Rodrigo will start to peer on grown-ups grief and, imperceptibly, will begin to leave childhood behind. His mother will try to uncover the mysteries surrounding that death. A story suspended in time, floating between the countryside lost places.

A reflective examination of a family making sun-dried bricks in a changing economy.

Diego is a young man whose life has become stuck in the same old routine, working at a CNG station. When he gets his first night shift, a number of situations and characters appear to show him that he doesn't belong there.

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Documentary that explores the tragedy that occurred at gate 12 of the River Plate Athletic Club on June 23, 1968. Ribs, arms, legs, heads, chests, all shattered by the lightning force of thousands of people. Blood trickling down the steps. A sporting celebration with an absurd epilogue. Why?

Marta must deal with her bosses when she finds a rat inside her home. Amid a rodent infestation, fear and panic take hold of a family in decline.

The first sequence of About Swimming is significant. Immersed in a pool, Dominique, an open water swimmer, performs an automatic routine that is nevertheless executed with care, elegance, and discipline. Her career is on the rise: she just qualified for the Olympic Games. As she prepares to fulfill one of her lifelong and every professional athlete’s dreams, she receives the news that she is pregnant. The present, which was supposed to be prosperous, has become an uncertainty for the swimmer. Only water - whether in the intensity of the sea, a swimming pool or in her bathtub at home - seems to guarantee Dominique a moment of serenity. The strength of the film directed by Manuela Aguilar and Berenice Vigna lies in the affectionate and calm view on the protagonist, who is seen in a limit situation where her family and sense of duty seem to prevail over her own desires.

Through archival footage and testimonies from professors, students, staff, and graduates, the documentary traces the history of the National University of Arts, focusing on the Audiovisual Department, while critically addressing the impact of the current government's underfunding of education and cultural institutions in Argentina.

A group of handsome young men wants to fulfill their different wishes, which only a magical dreidel can make come true. But to achieve their goals, they must go through a true journey of terror.

On the anniversary of their mother's death, brothers Enzo and Franco find a box with many old photographs. As one of the brothers is blind, the other will tell him what is in the photographs.

Adaptation to animated film for children of the classic poem of manners from Argentine literature that shows the life and hardships of the gaucho¸ character who inhabits the Argentine fields known as pampas.

The band takes the stage for the first time ever at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires, in what promises to be a night of pure decadence.

Stéfano, a multifaceted actor, faces a new audition for the role of his life. Is he sufficiently prepared?

A young man named Simón is imprisoned for his revolutionary ideas.

A typical workday in a garage located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Saavedra.

The Trans Memory Archive gathers the images and stories of trans women for more than 50 years, preserving the memory of those who suffered the outrages of the police, the abandonment of the State and the hostility of the society that witnessed, indolent, a silent genocide. Cintia, Edith, María Belén and Trachyn survived. They share with us the intimacy and complexity of those who faced injustice and pain with humor and creativity, but also with organization and community. In the style of a documentary essay, the series is structured along four axes, each one starring one of them: they talk about carnival, affection, exile and organization, and through their personal experiences they open the door to understand the reality of an entire community.

It recounts the reconstruction of the life of Ema Cabral, a Montoneros militant executed in the Margarita Belén massacre on December 13, 1976. During the course of her investigation, while Cecilia unravels the causes and consequences of the massacre, the Argentine justice system sentences eight repressive military officers to life imprisonment. But the mystery remains: where Ema's body is. Cecilia goes out to search for it but will never find it. What happens in a society that hasn't buried its dead? Unremitting to the void, the documentary filmmaker imagines what Ema's life would have been like without that December 13th.

On July 2nd, 2008, at five thirty in the afternoon, a 53-year-old man called Jean-Michel was run over by a train in Saint-Lyé, a town with a population of 3,000 located in the east of France. No one knew whether it was a suicide or an accident. The director investigates around the town, asks different inhabitants what they think of that tragedy. For many people, Jean-Michel had killed himself, after amassing too many worries and problems; the more the voiceover asks, the more mysterious it all gets. But there is a detail from Jean-Michel’s life that connects him to Argentina—he had been an employee at a phone company until a privatization left him without a job. (In)Voluntary Retirements is a documentary that shows how the kinship between Argentina’s politics in the ‘90s and France’s twenty years later damaged the lives of so many people.

Cícero is a serial rapist who drugs and abuses women who go to him seeking spiritual healing. His ties to local police and politicians intimidate his victims and their partners... but not all of them.

Carlos Gardel performing "Enfundá la mandolina", tango composed by Francisco Pracánico and written by José Zubiría Mansilla.

A group of people enjoy the day in Supaj Ñuñu.

In rural Argentina, a teenage boy joins his father back to the farm where he grew up to visit a woman from his past, until her final request forces the boy to make an impossible choice.

Antu is a 10-year-old girl who was born blind. Thanks to her unusual sensitivity and curiosity, she discovers the world around her in detail. Aboard an old truck, she travels across Argentina with her parents, showing films in small, forgotten towns and imagining the stories she will never be able to see.

A documentary that portrays the territorial and environmental conflict in the San Matías Gulf, Patagonia, Argentina. Through an audiovisual approach that combines documentary and dance video, the film invites reflection on the effects of extractivism on the territories and the resistance that is being woven together by coastal communities.

Members of the university community with musical concerns and developments come together in a collective activity that expands the work objective. The Orchestra, while continuing to be a space for meeting and recreation, is transformed into art, cultural dissemination and a life destination. The Orchestra portrays one more facet of what makes National Public Education possible.

Keili González tells of her experiences as a transvestite/trans girl until adulthood in her hometown of Nogoyá. She is one of the fundamental referents of the organized struggle for the rights of gender-sex dissidents in Entre Ríos.