Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A woman and a young man, mother and son, meet on a Carnival night, creating confusion for their respective spouses.

Video documentary about the December 2001 crisis in Argentina.

A strange taxi ride less than sixty seconds long.

A journalist travels to write an essay. He stays at a remarkable mountain hotel where he uncovers a sinister past. As he begins investigating this event, he is drawn into a nightmare whose sinister characters threaten his sanity.

The Blue Whale starts a journey to find a new iceberg for his friend Penguin who has lost his home due to extreme global warming.

To keep his daughter away from a gold digger, a millionaire hires a young man to make her fall in love.

The town rebels against a landowner in La Rioja.

Four teenagers occupy an abandoned house, in a working-class neighborhood in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. They seek to build a shelter where they can escape from family abandonment, neighbor´s cruelty, and the constant stalking by the police. In a seemingly desolate neighborhood, with factory sounds and rusty walls, the four teenagers are constantly observed by people around them. Inhabit narrates the transitory, the impossibility of building and creating a sense of belonging in a hostile place with a marginalizing environment.

Paper Boats depicts the tireless struggle of a group of women, widows, siblings, and children of the 10 crew members who died in the sinking of a fishing boat.

Cámara Fría is a documentary essay made entirely from Argentine films released during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-83). It is a work of montage, recontextualizing and intervening in images. The "backdrop" of the films becomes a central element. The role of Argentine cinema during the dictatorship.

A documentary about the Costanera Sur (south boardwalk) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including Super 8 filmmakers, conspiracies, choripanes and myths.

Ariel and Franco, live their present moments together, cocooned in their inner sanctum, refuting any possibility of an 'outside'. This 'outside' does not disturb, does not destroy the couple's warmth and tenderness, but it is just.. there. And this 'outside' suggests, ever so precariously, the couple's barely perceptible boundaries.

Piki is celebrating his birthday and he tries to get rid of his king-size mattress. By surprise his friends come to his house to celebrate, interfere with his impulse and worsen his mood. Altogether an extreme idea arises that will provoke the liberation of Piki.

Documentary based on the tragedy of Bragado (Argentina) in the 1930s, featuring newspaper images from the period, about the repercussions and the political prisoners there. Testimony from a group of anarchists about the movement and the danger it represented to society due to the repression and imprisonment.

Sofía travels from La Plata to Los Toldos, her hometown. During her stay, Sofía will assist her father, who is in poor health, with the funeral work being done by Casa Coraggio, the family business. In the history of her ancestors, each one has had to take on this responsibility and continue a legacy that spans more than 120 years. Amidst an atmosphere of life and death, Sofía struggles between following tradition or choosing a new path.

Infidelity. An accusation and a cruel doubt. A planned murder or just a figment of the imagination?

Two 16-year-old boys have a sporadic romance, promising to meet in a place 60 years later, today is that day.

The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.

After years of delay, a long-planned journey finally begins. The filmmaker imposes a quiet rule: only one shot per day. This self-imposed rhythm becomes a daily ritual of observation, recording, and reflection. What emerges is a filmed diary—a chronicle of wonder that maps both external landscapes and internal states. Each image carries a lingering question: what does it mean to continue making films? Through unfamiliar territories, filmmaking transcends documentation to become an act of presence and an attempt to rediscover meaning. The result is a meditation on cinema itself—its persistence, solitude, and transformative power over the everyday.

Veronica is known for falling in love with her middle aged teachers. One day, wondering why this is, she has an epiphany.

The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a desperate attempt to understand his guilt: a tortuous guilt that provokes a deep sense of revenge. You need to find the person responsible for that crime.

A social worker at an elementary school is assigned to the case of a student who hasn't been attending classes for weeks. When she arrives at the boy's home, she discovers an unexpected reality.

Five sleepless women on a fleeting trip to an island in Ramanegra. A forgetfulness and the fear of not knowing what could have happened. Female paranoia, morbid imagery, and jokes that end in mistrust between them. Conspiracy theories, complicity, and suspicion. Insomnia, the discovery of a dead hand in a forest, a comet... A fragmented and psychedelic tale. A perfectly possible living nightmare.

Documentary produced by and starring members of the Association of Former Detainees and Disappeared. Rather than the testimony of survivors themselves, the accounts of former detainees and disappeared are presented as informed and informative voices about the process of judicial impunity that ensures the freedom of those responsible for state terrorism in Argentina, from the final document of the Military Junta to the present day.

Revolving around the reconstruction of the life story of one of the leaders of the group murdered in November 1975, Héctor Samuel Pringles, aged 31 (an event produced by the self-styled Pío XII command or Mendoza Anti-Communist Command, with the participation of official vehicles of the provincial State), the documentary attempts to rescue the feelings, values ​​and experiences of popular militancy in that province.

Paula is in her room listening to music on her Walkman, until a power outage and strange sounds interrupt her.

1889. On the occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the French Revolution, Argentina sends a dozen Selk'nam Indians to the Argentinian Pavilion at the World's Fair. The epistolary exchange between a French and an Argentine diplomat reveals the absurd horror of the bureaucracy involved in creating a Human Zoo.

A chef decides to give his latest cooking show a blood-red ending with a unique dish.

Fictional documentary that narrates the 40-year period of Argentine history from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Through conversations with men and women practicing the Yoruba religion -better known as "Santeria" in Cuba-, the documentary narrates through a simple and direct record the phenomenon of faith and how it entered their lives.

Bianca receives the visit of Eloísa, her dead girlfriend, who wants to stay

The life of the gaucho Juan Moreira, his fall into crime, persecution and death.

David and Lina met through letters during the military dictatorship in Argentina. Without knowing their future, they fell in love. Their exchange of letters forged a love affair behind bars.

The grand geography of the American continent witnesses the track of a ship through southern waters.

Every day, hundreds of women give birth in hospitals and clinics. One in three babies is born by cesarean section. Vanesa, Mariana, and Nayla are pregnant. Each has a different story, but all three share the same goal: to give birth naturally and enjoy that momentous moment.

Fritz Wessel arrives at a remote village in search of an inn where he can finish his novel, but it won't be so easy: it's there that he finds his worst nightmare and something more than just the end of his book.

Three imperfect ways of remembering. The image, the story, the sound; the gestures that survive the noise.

Marianela decides to leave the country and stops by her sister’s house to drop off some things. Amid old photos and tensions that no one mentions, the family goes through a small chaos in which everyday life becomes fragile and goodbyes awkwardly reveal love

Four friends open MISHIGATA, their own craft brewery. Not knowing that the traditional brewery of the KRAUSE family has existed on the same block for decades. Who makes the best beer in the neighborhood?

A single mother, living with her young son in downtown Buenos Aires, suffers from anguish. Based on “Tormenta de verano”, a short story by Juan José Saer (finally published as “El balcón”).

In the vibrant heart of Buenos Aires, music pulses as a collective act of passion and resilience. This documentary delves into the untold stories of the city's DIY music scene, where musicians are more than performers—they are organizers, producers, and creators of their own ecosystem. From setting up gigs to recording tracks, they embody the spirit of self-reliance and community.

The life of the last female singer of the golden age of tango, who died at 102 years of age. Nelly Omar stood out as one of the consecrated interpreters of tango and national folklore.

In the 19th century, a little-known event occurred, given its importance: the largest war in South America, in which four countries were involved. Was it a war between countries? Did Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay join forces against Paraguay? Why is it called by so many different names?

A priest hears in an act of confession protected by ecclesiastical secrecy the author of the crime of a powerful rancher that the townspeople attribute to his young girlfriend.

A humble worker, several young thieves at dawn of violence, the dream of a better present that collides with the most cruel discrimination, a car that moves forward collecting the waste of the postmodern city.

Documentary ENERC 2018

A man is persuaded to enter a brothel; once inside, the staff will pressure him to use their services, and he will not be able to leave until he does so.

A documentary portrait that encapsulates the ten lives of Gonzalo García Pelayo, producer, film director and gaming professional, in eight dizzying minutes.

The Cabrera family reunites to celebrate Christmas, this time inviting their neighbor, Pedro Osuna. What seemed like a party turns into a nightmare when a cyborg starts killing them. Only Cholo Cabrera and, especially, Pedro Osuna can save Christmas.

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Escaping a zombie horde, a girl enters an empty house to seek shelter, not knowing what she will find there.