Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

In a disturbing climate, a man and a girl seek to escape a curse: living imprisoned inside a film.

A group of robbers rob a photo novel publishing house and take refuge in a seaside town. It was never released commercially, only exhibited on television.

A tragic melancholy filled Ema's life, tired of loneliness she drowns in films and wine, looking for fresh air in a cigarette when a banal accident will lead her to discover a new kind of emptiness, an eternal limbo in beyond.

Tomás and Agustín are dedicated to different healing disciplines: Tomás works in palliative care and Agustín in biodecoding. A trip to the south of Argentina, where Tomás will run 120 km and Agustín will photograph him, becomes an opportunity to heal their relationship and face their conflicts.

Two young people meet at a film festival. She shares with him a song she composed. Then they have coffee and talk. Three times.

Video art examining the proliferation of single-use plastic bags set to the music of Pia Burnette and Felix Kubin.

The wait, a place and a poem

Inspired on "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" and the works of Man Ray, the film explores the present as a point in time and space where every instant, past and future, collide.

Wara, a teenager from the Puna, moves to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jujuy. While she is going through uprooting as well as the mourning for the death of her grandmother on her father’s side, questions arise in her that she will solve through a dialogue between her voice and her violin.

A stage direction assignment. Six versions of a man's confession about beating his daughter.

The story told in first person by the workers of a dairy company who decide to form a work cooperative, after being left adrift.

Three teenagers spend a summer together in the mountains. Tensions grow between them as well as violence which emerges at some point. The seriousness of the situations they experience and their consequences will be unsuspected.

Urquiza Hill, former city of Paraná. The redirection of the pandemic and the subsequent restructuring of the social fabric brought changes in people's lives and in the river. While watching a period documentary, a mysterious character narrates the events that have occurred in this region once the wetland disappeared.

Two independent filmmakers who decided to make a short film starring the five toads that Rocío found in the garden of her new premises.

Sitting on the sand we see the future oil in the grains of the Atlantic coast. Walking from poetry and dance, we disarm ourselves in videos with no more meaning than the desire to resist and re-exist other realities.

Buenos Aires. a soccer academy for children. a day of games away from home. a twelve-year-old boy, his father and coach, his mother, his little sister, other families, a pool table, a defeat. we played but...

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team—created twenty years ago to investigate forced disappearances and clandestine burials—is working in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, where a mass grave containing the remains of more than 120 people has been discovered. "The Last Confine" is a documentary about the exhumation of this grave, about those working to identify those buried there, about the hopeful search by family members, and about the story of four of them who managed to recover the remains of their loved ones after twenty-seven years of waiting.

Image and imagination; sight and blindness; memory and hearing; fiction and reality. Like a puzzle, the documentary assembles the sensory experiences of seven people with varying degrees of vision, broadening our understanding of the role of the senses in each human being.

The life of María, abused by her father and sold to a human trafficking network that exploits her and forces her into prostitution.

Honik's first film in nearly forty years explores the myriad possibilities of digital video by creating an analogy with the four natural elements. The fifth element projects human essence as waste, with a dumping ground serving as metaphor for a medium capable of endless production of images.

In a quiet small town, a group of friends decide to get together at the gas station but, for some strange reason, they are unable to find each other.

Garbiñe Ortega, Artistic Director of Punto de Vista, came up with the idea of creating a collective audiovisual project in which several filmmakers would make a filmed letter addressed to another filmmaker they did not know personally and who was as far as possible from their own cinema. This is how THE LETTERS THAT WEREN'T AND ALSO ARE was born. The result is an exciting journey through their affinities, their admiration and their creative processes.

The jockey and owner of a horse is seduced by a woman while criminals dope the animal, turning it into a crack.

A suspicious Chinese yerbamate on sale in a supermarket will cause human carnage by possessing a conventional mate, turning it into a powerful killing machine that can only be eliminated with a bit of cinema.

Known for her fierce attitude, La Locomotora Alejandra Oliveras is preparing for her final fight, which symbolizes the struggle she takes on outside the ring against machismo and her quest for equal opportunities for women.

Animated short released during the 1970s, when tension escalated between neighboring countries Argentina and Chile which almost led to a war. The film was produced by the Argentinian military dictatorship at the time. It informs about the dangers of having an undefended border.

The relationship between the deceased writer Haroldo Conti and the young film director Roberto Cuervo in the 1970s. Three decades later, Andrés Cuervo, Roberto's son, recovers the footage filmed by his father and creates a long-delayed portrait.

Poetic and political portrait of the city Córdoba in Argentina.

A 1920 film.

My mother died ten years ago, and I remember almost nothing about her. The documentary was born out of the need to create a story so I could say goodbye, a quest that takes the form of a personal essay with a narrative that at times resembles a fictional story.

A mixture of abstract images and, as if out of a Man Ray painting, a large mouth in the foreground with red lipstick slowly devours a raw liver and then goes on to eat a postcard. Meanwhile, romantic Neapolitan songs play in the background. As Andrea Giunta says: At the same time they function as a hyperbole of the feminine in a register impregnated with pop aesthetics (they are perfect lips and make-up), but in which the flesh introduces an element of deep transgression, with scatological tensions.

The film follows a group of young girls in a boarding school.

Power in the Desert traces the ripple effects of the lithium boom across three distinct regions- Argentina’s Andean highlands, Chile’s Atacama Desert, and California’s Imperial Valley- where local communities find themselves on the frontlines of the clean energy future.

Explores the figure of the labor attaché as a diplomatic figure that emerged during Perón's first administration in Argentina. This initiative represented a cultural conflict by opening spaces in Argentine politics, such as the foreign ministry and foreign relations, to workers.

Meri unearths memories about Osvaldo, her father, a militant and leader of the Workers’ Party in Argentina. Much like piecing together a shattered vase, she delves into the chronicle of the first accusation of gender violence within that organization. The story winds through both party and family archives, intertwining with the portrait of her mother, Flavia. The director reconstructs her family history, which is, in turn, the history of the party and the political history of the country. An unsettling journey of discovering and yet still loving a father who unveils his monstrous side, “Internal Newsletter” stands as a testament, reflecting on the personal and political upheavals that bind three generations of revolutionary activists.

She is beautiful, he is not; She is famous, he is not; They met on different walks of life, destiny offers them an attractive but risky opportunity. Will they take it?

Documentary about the life of six sons of disappeared parents during argentine dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

Mendoza, Argentina, 2002. In a country in crisis and marked by street violence, Boby, an entrepreneur, creates a TV show to sell home video cameras. The program is based on a contest that rewards the most violent footage of all those filmed by people on the street.

The night falls and darkens the world. A world consumed by time, by the abandonment of the urban landscape of La Plata. The monochrome enhances the desolate state in which the protagonist finds herself, who, in the flow of her emotions, faces the dilemma of choosing between turning the page or holding onto a relationship that no longer exists

Complete concert of the rock opera "INDIO", written by Horacio Bidarra and Miguel Bertolino. 04/25/2014 - Municipal Theater May 1, Santa Fe, Argentina

Victor, a prestigious commissioner, lives tormented by his past. In an attempt to wash away his guilt, he attempts to transform himself into a messianic being.

Miguel, a rookie field reporter with more nerves than experience and a strange devotion to a holy card featuring Yanina Latorre’s face, is assigned to cover the birthday celebration of Niki Takitakis live. What starts as a social event gradually spirals into chaos: the presence of a congressman accused of corruption, knives, and an angry neighbor bursting in with insults and inappropriate comments turn the coverage into an increasingly absurd spectacle.

Fran works at the Lanari Institute. His discussions with his lab colleagues range from science to national politics. Outside the hospital, they protest to defend public education and scientific research.

After moving into her first apartment, Malena finds a mysterious diary with mind control exercises. The readings will lead her to get away from reality and plot a plan that she does not yet understand.

A short film about love, in which we observe not only the beginning of the relationship between life and death, but also the origin of life itself.

From the road to the river, passing by the large oil companies and their private ports, we find ourselves in the most powerful oil complex in the world. One thing is to have read about it, another is to get inside the monster. One thing is to hear the shocking export figures or the controversies over the “settlement of foreign currency”, another is to approach this circuit that unites soybean fields, mega-plants that put their tentacles in the Paraná and reach the Chicago Stock Exchange, where it ends up being decided how much it costs you to eat.

Rocío González was always a soccer lover. Not being on the court as a player, she chose to find her place as a referee. From his place he develops the exercise of justice inside the field, and sometimes outside as well.

Short film directed by Mariano Peralta.

Inscrutable and solitary, in the absence of interaction with other people, a man develops a particular relationship with his washing machine, deciphering words among the repetitive sounds it emits as it runs, as if it were trying to tell him something.