Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A film about the Argentine opera

A marginal writer falls in love with a millionairess. A story with sex, poetry, transvestites, kidnappings, children, love, heartbreak and lots of cocaine.

The work and thought of Mauricio Kartun, in a journey that takes as its temporal axis the staging of his play Salomé de chacra. His work, his obsessions, and his personal method.

A man tries to break away from the routine of the isolated town where he lives by using new social networks that, some say, would make it possible for him to meet potential lovers.

The true story of composer Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera, completed by him in Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt and rediscovered, thanks to a miraculous chain of events.

Horacio, an extremely misogynistic and sexist businessman, arranges a blind date with Olga, a pregnant woman. Horacio suggests they spend a day outdoors, away from the city, and Olga accepts. However, once there, Horacio is knocked out and kidnapped by Olga, who confesses her true intentions: to subject him to a unique experiment to bring about a complete change in him.

A documentary about the alleged Nazi cure homosexuality conducted by a Danish doctor who experimented with a young homosexual in the concentration camp. After the war, he took refuge in Argentina until his death in 1965.

The incredible life story of a man who overcame his sorrows and anguish is captured in the documentary. Such was his determination to live and his innate talent that the forces of fate could not resist him. He became a respected figure in the world of jazz, one everyone wanted in their band.

A personal tribute to the liturgy of cinema, to its ghosts and its dreams.

Breif essay about the present, cinema, Buenos Aires, and humanity..

Sound Design for Cinema in Argentina, by famous Sound Designers

Hot young lass Bunny runs out on the vicious Mr. Fritz. Brutish masked wrestler Arcano, venomous femme fatale Illmiora, and Illmiora's equally spiky partner Cherie all go looking around the city trying to find the evasive Bunny while amiable nice guy Luigi finds himself caught in the middle of the whole chaotic mess.

Mía and her mother start a journey without destination after a family fight. Now, they will have to endure the wait.

Augusto, a nice guy, starts experiencing nightmares where he's brutally killed after a reencounter with an ex-friend

This documentary tells the fascinating story of Benjamin Sisterna, one of the world's most important snail collectors. Originally from Vera, a small town north of Santa Fe, he began selling bread on the street at the age of eight to support his family and went on to become one of the founders of a company that changed the history of the alfajor and Mar del Plata: Havanna.

Laura is in a relationship with Killi, a Spanish missionary trying to support a cultural center in Greater Buenos Aires. But the couple begins to suffer due to the cultural center's imminent closure. Two students offer them a place to continue teaching. However, Laura's confusion about what direction to take in her life further complicates things.

A bankrupt artist executes his last work.

Childhood memories. A torture interrogation scene during Argentina's last dictatorship.

Franco, a young writer, embarks on a train journey to Casa Bamba, the town of his childhood. During his journey he will be reunited with memories of an old friendship and will seek to come to terms with the feelings he once had.

An ode to shame, failure and disgust. Let's remember this short film as the first time of the band Winona Riders in high definition, and perhaps the only one. Taken from 2023's "El Sonido Del Éxtasis", Gold and Purple is (and from now on will be, immortalized) one of the most demanded songs by the public, both live and in their day-to-day lives. If you're stripped naked in front of a camera, it's hard not to relate, that's how we came into the world.

A man wakes up to a message from someone telling him they are at his home.

1920. The music of a bandonéon reaches the ears of little Aníbal and changes his life forever.

It summarizes the encounter, at the end of 1999, between the bewildered Victoria and a man who has just arrived from Madrid to meet her on the last day of the millennium. The minimal dramatic substance of this situation acquires a singular character insofar as that man is her father: the girl is 27 years old and it is the first time she is going to see him.

Two musician brothers buy an old house where the Rockers from Hell used to rehearse, the legendary heavy metal band of the '80s, which they say made a pact with the devil to achieve success.

Two friends go camping at Lago Verde.

In 1929, Le Corbusier travels to Buenos Aires to give a series of lectures on Modern Architecture. During his visit, he proposed an urban plan for the city. Since his trip and for more than twenty years, he would obsessively develop his proposal, trying by all possible means to make the plan for Buenos Aires a reality.

I decided a long time ago not to make synopsis of my films anymore. I want people to arrive without knowing what they are going to see. There won't be a trailer either – they're misleading and never really reflect the spirit of the movie. Thanks for understanding.

They open, for them and around them, the path of self-management: that of bodies, territories, communities and struggles.

José owns a window and door shop that is on the verge of bankruptcy and plans to emigrate abroad in hopes of finding a better life. José is single and unable to compromise.

A surf rock band and a group of agogo dancers accidentally arrive in the city of Azul to host a political rally at the Rural Society Hall. Under the leadership of the manager and the local drug dealer, the foreigners barricade themselves in, ready to confront the zombie priests, but the owner of the place has other plans.

A taxi driver who works at night takes us through different stories unfolding simultaneously in the city of Buenos Aires. While she desperately searches for an organizing principle that gives meaning to her life, the other characters are pushed to their own limits.

A group of teenagers gather one night and begin telling legends about witches from different countries, but along the way, something unexpected happens that will change their lives forever.

Inside an armored truck, three men wait for an order. They have been in there for several hours without being able to get out. The demonstration that threatens them is getting closer. When the action seems to start, something is wrong...

The film integrates four stories that take place in “Misiones”, a unique frontier province in northeastern Argentina. They are stories born from the tumultuous dynamics of their migrations and the restless coexistence of their cultures in contact. They tell with their own voice the small great conflict of living crossing those borders in everyday life. The subtle and permanent tension between nationality and identity, in an audiovisual essay on daily life on the Argentine-Brazilian border. A wide river -the Uruguay- that runs between the two countries does not stop a long history of common experiences, despite official efforts to establish national differences at the border. There, language becomes emblematic every time a local - no matter which side of the border - speaks “portuñol”, a hybrid variety of Spanish and Portuguese.

During the Falklands War, a young second lieutenant is forced to confront the dilemmas of obedience, honor, and endurance. Amid violence, fear, and uncertainty, the inner surge for dignity and survival prevails.

An atmospheric and dreamy picture poem from Argentina's vast La Pampa region, where ancient stories of spirits are evoked in dark and evocative images between reality and the beyond.

Two petty criminals force a drunk to reveal the location of a sum of money to pay off a debt. Everything goes awry when the information they gave him makes them fall prey to an ancient entity.

With Fer Dente, Franco Masini and Nahuel Pennisi. He puts humor and artistic talent, Roberto Peloni. A magical musical. A blockbuster of the stature of Broadway. A story to connect with our essence.

Dorotea, perfectionist and authoritarian, prepares the celebration for her mother's 70th birthday. Her brother accidentally dies before lunch and Dorotea, along with the family, come up with an absurd plan to prevent their mother from finding out.

This is a love story, that of a circus family: the Magotes. A month before the start of their 8th season at Aguas Verdes, Pablo, a trapeze artist and juggler, has a stroke and wakes up completely blind. But the show is starting, and it's time to get back into the ring.

A man arrives in a rural area of the interior of Catamarca. What at first seems to be his salvation, gradually begins to become more complicated. Believing he can escape a dark past he ends up involved in a much worse present.

The business of exclusive television rights in football meets resistance. PAREStv, a community channel, privileges its commitment to the community and risks an economic and judicial battle against the most powerful company in the country.

Clouds, mostly filmed frame by frame on the outskirts of Quarzazate, Tabount, Morocco.

A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.

A comedy of misunderstanding, which between lights and fireworks, explores the power of the game and shows us that you can be an adult even if you believe in Santa Claus.

Fiora and Martina are cooking. The situation stages the real bond that exists between them. As they eat lunch, Fiora relives a story from the past. Martina wants to know more and decides to question her.

12 kilometers is the story of two women and nature. Of the future of life in the rural world. Of the power of women, of their unavoidable will. Of a bond between a mother and her daughter.