Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A paradisiacal town may not be so.

An actor who plays a district attorney who lives for his country, a unionist who trafficks a minor to a congressman just to extortion him, a journalist willing to do anything to stay on TV, and a young director who gets on a Yatch to shoot a film without knowing he's the bait for the rest of them.

Juan, a student at an agrotechnical school, feels pressured by his religious environment. Going through an entire day at school will lead him to make a decision.

Mechita, was a fabulous railway pole in the Buenos Aires plain, today two locals undertake the task of exposing their village through art. Juan Doffo and Pirulo Giommi, a self-taught blacksmith who feeds his work from railway remnants.

Dario Lizardi's life moves as randomly as the rollers of Ailén, his slot machine. Everything he lost during his 35 years of gambling addiction wasn't enough to take him off his obsession. Convinced that luck must be worked, that the most you know your slot machine, the closest you are to luck, Darío dreams of the day Ailén will give him back everything he gave. For that to happen, all he needs is to get a coin, pull the lever and make the rollers roll once again.

Loaded with food and items for a subsistence of several weeks, four people occupy an empty apartment. Beyond their names, little or nothing is known about them, nor what relationship unites them or what are the reasons for their being there. Little by little, data is appearing that could suggest some kind of secret cell.

An aspiring singer sees himself succeeding in Paris and Buenos Aires.

When the construction of the Aswan High Dam threatened to destroy the Ancient Egyptian monuments of Nubia in the 1960s, archaeologists from around the world came together to save these precious pieces of history. One of those heroic researchers was Dr. Abraham Rossenvasser, a self-taught Egyptologist from a small, poverty-stricken Jewish colony in Argentina. While Rossenvasser’s expedition rescued thousands of historical treasures from imminent destruction, his story is not often told. In From Sudan to Argentina, Charlottesville-based filmmaker Ricardo Preve rescues the legacy of this forgotten figure, and ensures his deeply impactful work can be celebrated. Told largely through the eyes of Rossenvasser’s daughter, Dr. Elsa Rosenvasser Feher, this documentary shines a well-deserved spotlight on the remarkable efforts of a man who committed himself to preserving crucial parts of history for generations to come.

A strange character wanders through a surreal world, while thinking about past and present loves in this music video, part of Tute's Palabras Imposibles project.

Historias Breves is the INCAA short film contest that, since its first edition in 1995, seeks to stimulate the production and direction of short films, so that filmmakers can capture new cinematographic trends and aesthetics in practice.

As Laura uncovers the secret history of Yenia, the perpetrator of a homicide, admired for her commitment to ideals and her unwavering ethical integrity, she will revisit her own story, her relationship with exile and the world, art, adulthood, and death.

A version of Bizet's play made with animated puppets satirizing President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

A 1937 unreleased film.

In the early 1990s, a group of film buffs set out to film a VHS version of Hamlet in a theater burned down during the Civic-Military Dictatorship. The Prince would then become a driving force behind the struggle to reopen the Film School, which the same dictatorship had closed.

An animated short film about oil.

From a rural community with goals that seem utopian in that context, Garisto goes through a dystopian universe: today's Haiti, destroyed by both nature (the terrible 2010 earthquake) and man (governments and the presence of Minustah, the UN's armed forces that occupy the territory).

In a middle class family in Buenos Aires, a conflict arises between their two sons. One is a carefree playboy who spends his nights on cabarets. The other, a promising engineer who is the pride of the family.

A personal essay about television and memory. A round trip between history and autobiography: from a personal memory of the first television to the earliest memories of television in Argentina.

Lucía only had to check for a technical glitch. A room, a radio on, a voice not registered in the system. But something in that signal is familiar to her. In this tale of suspense and phantom sounds, what's truly disturbing isn't what you see... but what you hear.

A masked woman tries to reach the surface of the sea.

Kill, una banda tributo a Kiss

Pato is an officer in charge of interrogating detainees at a clandestine detention center. A strategic kidnapping leads him to the capture of Javier, a teacher, and his partner, Magda. From this moment on, Pato and Javier experience a strange victim-victimizer relationship, rife with subjugation, denigration, punishment, and psychological torture.

On his birthday, Claudio spends his time at work. As the day progresses, Claudio waits for some gesture that does not arrive, which, added to different misunderstandings, will lead him to anger.

A documentary with some fictional elements that explores the Brandazza case, considered one of the first (or the first) cases of forced disappearance followed by torture and death. This case is unique in that it occurred in 1972 during the Lanusse dictatorship.

Short film by Iván Fund

An experienced fisherman is hired to try to find something that, apparently, is simply a fantasy installed in society.

Documentary about a group of ex-combatants from the Malvinas who return to the islands in the company of a journalist who records a chronicle of the memories, mixed feelings and longings for belonging that keep the dream of eternal return alive.

Omar, a Moroccan haunted by a dark past, lives in Argentina with his grandson Rahmi, who loses himself in gambling games. Omar confesses to his grandson that he will soon die and that his last wish is to die in his homeland.

An exchange student hits the streets of Berlin. Between two languages ​​he thinks about the day's transfers. Little by little he discovers that this impossible place of exercise makes his days more fragile.

On a desolate rural road, three nuns are returning from mass when they suffer a punctured tire in front of a grocery store. Aurelio and Ernesto help them change the tire. Grateful, they buy them a bottle of gin without knowing that they are victims of the two friends' trap.

The monotony of everyday life is a constant in human life. It can be tiring, but in some cases, like Juan’s, it can go beyond the limits of reality

For decades, visual artist Eugenia Bekeris dedicated her work to keeping alive the memory of a genocide. While discussing the wounds of the past with her family, she begins a new series of drawings that distance her from the horror and lead her into nature.

Patricio Crom is an antique guitar collector; that is why, when he runs into a star-rosette guitar -like the one Gardel used-, he sets out to recover its original sound. To do this, he gathers guitarists and specialists who help him achieve the hidden sound of tango.

A trip to the ruins of Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas.

The documentary is set in the Argentine puna, where the strong sense of belonging of its inhabitants is shown through two significant events: one is the "Bullfighting of the headband", the only bullfight in South America, where the bull is not hurt ; The other is the conflicts over land ownership that broke out at the end of the 19th century between landowners and Puno, centering on the bloody battles of Cochinoca and Quera.

Luis, a piano teacher who has passed the age of 90, keeps a collection of antiques that he collected throughout his life. He would need to sell some parts to survive, but he never makes up his mind. What would life be without so many fascinating memories?

The Vote is a portrait of the time. The national filmography has vast examples of how politics is conceived (and filmed is overdetermined) as a ladder to obtain positions of power by power itself, as a shortcut in a personal career. We wanted to say that politics is, above all, a tool for transformation, for profound change.

The Tupac Amaru neighborhood organization, led by Milagro Sala, carried out impressive construction, cultural, educational, healthcare, and dignified projects for vulnerable sectors of the Jujuy Province. On January 16, 2016, Milagro was arrested because her actions affected the economic and political interests of the Jujuy ruling class. Many cooperative members who participated in this epic plot were gradually arrested. In a trial riddled with irregularities, they were convicted.

Animated short film by Simon Feldman, based on his story "Juan el zorro".

Sometimes the interpretation of a dream has the simplest of meanings.

The universe is a strange place, even stranger than we can imagine. Nightmares converge and intertwine in the dark universe of Fiction Crew, an anthology composed by twelve stories part of the same reality.

Over the past 30 years, the art-form of Rap has been adopted and adapted to voice the realities of the impoverished and oppressed while becoming a highly coveted and controversial commodity. Buenos Aires Rap explores Hip-Hop culture's influence on Buenos Aires, Argentina and Buenos Aires' influence on Hip Hop culture.

A doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of incidents.

The City of Replicas is Famaillá, a town in Tucumán governed by the Orellana Twins, two brothers obsessed with building architectural replicas and establishing the city as the National Capital of Twins.

A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.

After 40 years apart, three women reunite in an apartment frozen in time. Amid silences, tension, and awkward humor, the meeting exposes everything left unsaid and reveals that the past is far more present than they realize.