Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Class B comedy directed by Julio Irigoyen and produced by his Buenos Aires Film studio. His plot is unknown.

Short film dealing with mainstream media's discourse about social programs

In April 2014. S/Y Selma Expeditions sailed off for a trip called 'Selma - Antarctica - Perservance'. This one year-long trip started by sailing around Cape Horn from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean to Australia. There, in December 2014, the Selma crew took part in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. After that they started their sail to the coldest and most inacces...

An intimate portrait of the relationship between Horacio Salgán, a legendary 98-year-old tango pianist, and his son César, also a pianist, who plays his father's music in his shadow. They recently met again, after 18 years without seeing each other. Just when Horacio is about to retire and pass on his musical legacy to his son, a sudden illness forces them to live together.

The story of some neighborhood boys, narrated with an undoubted Borgian spirit. (ucine.edu.ar)

"I am the man who walks down the street. At first there is no one. The protagonist smokes, goes to a bar, takes a bus, walks down the street, wanders around and little by little more people appear. And then more and more people, until he ends up on Florida Street, merging into the crowd."

A group of seemingly unconnected people find themselves trapped in Buenos Aires. While trying to solve the mystery, a young woman realizes that, due to her family's actions, she may be the next victim.

The Root of the Olive Tree tells the story of five Palestinians living far from their homeland who recount their experiences in the face of the intensification of the genocide and the Israeli occupation that has lasted more than 76 years. From afar, Watan, Omaima, Murid, Baylasan, and Bassel share stories of struggle, loss, and hope. Through their letters, their everyday life and memories—interwoven with the pain of being far away—they express their unwavering faith in a free future for Palestine, always with the constant support of Cuba, the country that has welcomed them.

A lucid and sensitive documentary about having roots in Buenos Aires and hence about migration, coffee, food and above all the tango.

After being fired from his job, Guillermo and his wife Silvana decide to move to the countryside with their daughter Romina. Along the way, they stop at a farm where they are welcomed by Bjorn, an eccentric Swede. The host's lifestyle awakens a certain "flower power" nostalgia in the couple, evoking fond memories of their youth. What they don't know is that they are being "captured" by a cult.

Luciana is a famous former TV presenter who is enjoying her early retirement from the media. One day, she receives a gift in the mail from one of her fans: a small, cute, and seemingly harmless stuffed rabbit. However, Luciana doesn't know it's a complex technological device designed to control and manipulate her sexual appetite.

Two prostitutes serve clients in a small private apartment downtown. In the neighborhood, a series of mysterious ritual murders keep the women on edge. One day, one of their oldest clients asks them to play a dark sexual game that becomes increasingly bizarre. The two women begin to suspect him and decide to set a trap. But evil is even closer than they imagine.

The life and thought of Uruguayan educator Jesualdo Sosa, author of "Life of a Teacher," which chronicles the events of a single school year in a humble rural school in the 1930s.

A researcher takes a tour of the Province of Córdoba, interviewing historians, ethnologists, anthropologists, and some brave elders with memories about the African roots in the place. A Province that had more than 50% of the Afro population around 1850.

Lucio Malizia, biologist and filmmaker, takes us on a journey into the project to turn the San Francisco River into Argentina's first river reserve. Through interviews with experts and ordinary citizens, he explores its waters and its stories, highlighting the river's importance for nature conservation, local production, and the recovery of the past in the province of Jujuy. We thus discover the essential role that this river plays in the life of the region and the challenge of protecting it in a complex but promising environmental and social context. A story about the relationship between nature and society, and a call to action to preserve one of the most valuable environmental resources in northwestern Argentina.

Nina and Fermín spend the night in the neighborhood where their father is a security guard. Between lights and shadows, they walk, play, eat. Nina observes others in silence, as though she were looking at herself in a mirror that is about to break. The night moves stealthily on, while other children watch them from their windows.

The night of July 18th 1896 a small group of people attended the first film projection in Buenos Aires. This is the story of three of them, who will go on to become the pioneers of south-american cinema, not without being involved in a couple scandals including a duel, a mysterious disappearance and the burning of a lab in the centric area of the city. Archival footage meets historical fact and cinematic recreation in a filmic exercise that is not interested in finding reality in fiction but quite the opposite: finding fiction in reality.

A young boy who dreams of flying finds his grandpa's old kite and asks him to repair it together

Documentary written and directed by Esteban Cadoche that tells the most outstanding sections of the life and literary work of the author of Rodolfo Walsh, and that covers the figure and work of the chronicler, writer and political activist based on the words of Eduardo Galeano, Rogelio García Lupo, Roberto Baschetti, Miguel Bonasso, Patricia Walsh, the Cubans Concepción Dumois and Gabriel Molina, who were his colleagues at Agencia Prensa Latina.

A marriage blows up during the final minutes of a crucial football game.

A collection of six short films based on six poems (Carbón, Remedio, Grito, Cariño, Entierro and Camino)

Short film by Iván Fund

A man who has suffered a recent loss maintains a tense relationship with his neighbor, all immersed in a mountain town affected by an apparent ecological disaster.

With a musical, psychedelic and poetic proposal, it portrays the editor and journalist Jorge Pistocchi and an entire generation that carries rock in its luggage, and whose driving force is to generate a space for independent thought, community action and experimentation.

Two brothers get involved in an stupid fight leading to punishment, jealousy and a search for vengeance as the entire family embarks on a trip to the countryside.

Short film by Osvaldo David and Darío Diaz

One night strange things begin to happen in the house; the water and the dampness start taking control and invading the place which forces Napo to face an invisible enemy and his own inner fears.

Documentary filmed in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. A Latinx look at one of the most important cities in the world, which was the epicenter of the pandemic. Thirteen testimonies that tell in the flesh what they lived through and how they survived. The coronavirus pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on Latinx communities. Latinos died from COVID-19 at twice the rate of white New Yorkers.

Die tote Stadt tells the story of Paul, a young man torn between fidelity to the memory of his deceased wife and a growing attraction to her living look-alike. Paul enters a series of increasingly disturbing and violent visions, and the plot takes on the subtleties of a psychological thriller.

Architectural plans, graphics of abstract forms that gradually become recognizable images, photographs of facades, descriptive texts. Perel returns to the site where the Clandestine Detention, Torture, and Extermination Center (ESMA) once operated, but this time his approach is different. Not only because he enters from a different physical location than the one that represents his entry into the social imaginary, but also because his approach aims to contemplate, no longer the construction of a new place, but the destruction of space. This annihilation, Perel seems to be telling us, brings down much more than columns, cement, and metal beams.

Alejandro Vilas is a musician and Math professor who, according to some, is physically identical to his local Argentinian idol: Charly García.

A man remembers his childhood by finding a little bottle cap.

They need what he has at all costs. It is a matter of beliefs.

An environmental documentary about threatened Argentine species.

Montage film with fragments of 30 Argentine and foreign films related to tango.

In August 1999, a group of friends began a trip through the Argentine northwest aboard a mobile home. His initial goal was to screen films for free in small towns over 3,000 kilometers. An extreme and contradictory country comes out to meet him. Kilometer by kilometer, the original certainties become more and more diffuse. During his last screening something happens. The course is totally lost.

It tells the reality of a woman from the town who, to give another ending to that story, is determined to search for the man who was part of her life twenty years ago. That man, a boy by then, had escaped from his family's house in the Salta community to seek life as a boxer in Buenos Aires where he eventually fell out of the ring and out of life. At the same time, this woman tries to build a world more worth living in her poor neighborhood together with others.

A biographical film about the Tucumán pianist Miguel Ángel Estrella, which focuses on his imprisonment in a Uruguayan prison during the last military dictatorship.

Children are the privileged victims of genocidal machines, and if they are not eliminated, they are exposed to appropriation, the loss of their identity and the dispossession of their roots. This horror experience was common during Nazism and also in our country in the years of terror of the last military dictatorship.

Things change but blood will always rule.

A medic falls in love with a young blind woman, whose father is a writer who doesn't want to cure her so that she doesn't see the perversities of the world. In the end, the medic is the son of the writer.

With the fall of communism, the rules of the eternal chess game between right and left changed drastically. Since then, the ideological battle in certain countries has been fought more in the cultural arena than in the economic one. Argentinean political scientist Agustín Laje accounts his day-to-day life in the heart of the struggle.

An electrician sent to fix a power cut at a factory, starts to hear mysterious footsteps, and when he begins to investigate he discovers something macabre hiding inside.