Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Agustín is all alone in his house during a storm. When he goes out to the backyard, something attacks him.

Among the belongings of a dead father, two manuscripts were found during the COVID 19 quarantine, and are used by his daughter to try to reconstruct the past and weave uncertain hypotheses about what she will never know

The vast majority of the population is infected by a strange virus that makes them act like animals. The responsible are a group of oligarchic vampires that seek to totally devastate Argentina. Their new plan is to resurrect the dead and form an army of zombies. In an inhospitable place a group of Non-Infected Catholics survive.

Part of Historias Breves 9, directed by Judith Battaglia

It traces the history of foreign debt from its beginnings, exposing the fraud behind it. Based on the lawsuit filed (and won) by Alejandro Olmos against the state, when he felt harmed by the foreign debt. A historical document.

Documentary about a meeting of motorcyclists in the south of Buenos Aires.

César, a 19 year old, is the singer and leader of the murga group 'Los locos no se ocultan'. Now he must come back to his native town in Bolivia, where he will channel his creativity in the creation of the first murga group in his homeland, with the help of old and new carnival friends.

Documentary about the so-called "Crazy Strike," a strike led by members of the Federation of Naval Construction Workers-Autonomous (FOCN) between October 1956 and November 1957, the largest strike by the Argentine working class in the 20th century.

A girl from Argentina writes a diary from Beijing. At the same time, she writes another diary--one invented--of what she would be doing if she were in Buenos Aires. Both diaries overlap while the girl, in Beijing, tries to find Shendy Wu, her best friend of childhood,a Chinese girl who lived in Buenos Aires until the age of five, before turning to China.

The third and last part of the trilogy where we see Moacir as a film director: the film and the scenes that Moacir conceives and shoots - scenes entertained, tragic, dramatic and romantic - with its particular cinematic and aesthetic style. On the other hand, we see the behind the scenes of the construction of this film: a documentary that shows Moacir conducting his fictions, in everyday familiar situations.

On the first day of class, Sebastián meets two of his new schoolmates. The three kids come to the conclusion that all the teachers could die at that exact moment and it wouldn't change much: right after they say it, the music teacher falls as if she were struck by lightning.

Carla, an art curator, obsessively prepares the most important exhibition of her career. Between the weight of expectations and institutional pressure, one particular work begins to torment her. As the opening day approaches, Carla sinks into a state of isolation, insomnia, and paranoia, where the line between reality and hallucination becomes increasingly fragile.

Narcisa Hirsch was born on 16 January under the sign of Capricom. These diaries labelled Capricorn 78 show an approach to everyday life with unusual tenderness and beauty; a baby bird that a child lovingly cares for; a calf being born: cats and dogs: a house in the snow; a fire, Narcisa on the grass; Narcisa swimming; a full life.

Carolina's destiny is shaken by the arrival of Sebastián, who at first makes her live a life of dreams and romance, but little by little traps her in manipulation, control, and abuse, until she becomes a shadow of her former self.

Carla lives with her partner Nicolás. At mealtime they begin to have seemingly insignificant disagreements that reveal deeper problems in the relationship but above all in Carla's psyche. Every time she cooks she experiences regressions to her childhood that are increasingly difficult to control and awaken her darkest thoughts.

For the first time, María Elena Walsh's autobiography is brought to film. She herself tells us about her parents and the games of her childhood. And, later, her trip to Paris, the music hall, her first children’s verses and some personal confessions.

A couple is invited to live an experience in an old mansion.

The life and music of Walter Malosetti, one of the most important guitar and jazz exponents in Argentina.

It's late, she just wants to get home.

It tells the story of a Kolla community that is three thousand meters above sea level, isolated in the mountains of Salta and very close to the Argentine-Bolivian border. There, in an area declared inhospitable, five hundred inhabitants face harsh living conditions in a place where the only presence of the Argentine State is the school.

A boy meets his ex and together they make a short film about their love story.

Three rooms, three different moments of a relationship.

Years after the death of their parents, two stepbrothers reunite to steal bronze epitaphs from cemeteries, but not even the loot can redeem or remedy the impossible.

The story of the rebirth of Federación, Argentina that in 1974 was flooded by the waters of the Uruguay River and subsequently destroyed by the government to be relocated and rebuild, told by its characters.

On June 29, 1973, an attempted coup d'état took place in Chile. Leonardo Henrichsen, an Argentine cameraman and correspondent for Swedish Television, filmed his own death at the hands of a military patrol. These images foreshadowed the true face of state terrorism.

A young woman asks a friend of her mother's to help her come out of the closet, in exchange for doing her a similar favor.

Philanthropist P.T. Barnum runs a successful traveling circus where he exhibits freaks and deformed people, whom he mistreats and exploits. Soon, the freaks, led by the Marsupial Man, will rebel in a bloody riot

Nicolas De Tracy's Stand-Up Comedy Special

A call that changes everything and a moment of doubt.

Cholo Cabrera returns sick from his trip to Africa. Unprotected sex and extreme experimentation have infected him with a new disease: cidra. Now, his skin pigmentation is changing, and the massacres begin.

A girl finds herself troubled after her boyfriend decides to leave the country with hopes for a better tomorrow, having to figure out how to go on

Andrés and Ana find themselves caught up in the impossibility of crossing a bridge. Isolated, they engage in a discussion that revolves around their own fears and disappointments, searching for a way to finally cross to a place that will lead them to a new destination.

Daniel Zuccala carries the wounds of a childhood marked by his father's demands and his early death. Lost in a world of excess and violence, Daniel seeks to numb his pain with drugs and crime, until his abuse blinds him. When he is about to commit suicide, a story he hears on the radio ignites a spark of hope. Moved by that signal, he begins a path of redemption that leads him to transform his life.

Patricia Kendra Juyphi tells the story of how she migrated from his country Bolivia, to Argentina cutting ties with his parents. When his son Brian is born, she gets back to confront them and tell them who she is now, and that they have to accept it.

Hugo Baretta is a paradigm of a generation that comes mostly from middle-class Catholic homes and who turn to armed struggle as a means of liberation. Through the stories of fellow militants, young people, and analysts of that era, we will piece together the life and activism of one of the first Montoneros cadres in Córdoba. We will find the man in the militant, the dreams in the ideologies, and the convictions in the actions.

Bruno is a young magician. He travels without warning to visit his sister Delfina, who, along with her partner Leonardo, is renovating an old hotel to get it up and running. The place is in chaos due to the terrible flood that affected the entire city. Living in the hotel are Rita, the former owner of the business; Quique, his brother; Catalina, their niece; and Pablo, the maintenance manager. Bruno's plans are subject to possible changes when he meets Lorena, Leonardo's sister.

Roberta decides to recover her precious collection of “Frutillita” scented cards, currently in the hands of a cruel childhood friend.

Structured in chapters, the film moves from the aftermath of the 1967 war to mass demonstrations and training grounds, where men, women, and children practice survival and resistance. The camera’s proximity, switching between black-and-white and colour, treats cinema as witness, archive, and rallying cry.

While Phineas and Ferb make their invention for the day, Perry the platypus is on a mission to save his mother.

Neither the skin nor the filmic material is exempt from the temporal becoming and its consequent growing degradation. Both have such a fragile sensitivity that their potential for intervention seems to be infinitely finite, yet a common point seems to open a gulf between them: memory. However, one point in common seems to open an abyss between them: memory. How does dermatological memory operate? The photographic archive sends us back to vital mummification. Virtual skin and digital body exchange mails.

A nightmare turns a lonely man into a fly and makes him escape from himself to freedom.

After crossing a road in Salta, a pig dies after being run over by a bus transporting the bullies of a football club.

Catalina discovers that the night she imagined as the most boring turns into an exciting adventure that changes her life forever. Her relationship with her grandmother opens the door to a wonderful world of warmth in the form of a hot water bottle.

Through time always a fierce contrast exploding until death.

DIARIOS PATAGÓNICOS 2 explores Narcisa Hirschs everyday life, travels and friends that reveal their working methods.

Discovered by chance in a forgotten closet, a set of 35mm rolls lay abandoned for decades. Once a forensic expert's photographic material, these photos now offer a glimpse into his world. As he uses his camera in his free time to escape and relax, his passion for categorization and behavioral patterns manifests in both his personal and professional life as a forensic researcher. This short experimental film explores the challenge to consider the impermanence of life and our place in the universe.

Every Christmas, Jorge and Jorge Jr. decorate their house in a special way. The people in the village call it 'The House of the Lights'.

Two characters realize that they are part of a short film, and their existence is bound to it's duration. The protagonists will look for the way to transcend the short film and hopefully save their lives.

In an empty theater, the rehearsal of the play starring Julio, a young and popular actor, is interrupted by Marcelo, the old man who plays alongside him. The rehearsals turn into a nightmare, as he is overcome with rage and confusion.

Las Palmas is a town that had promising beginnings due to the installation on the site of the Las Palmas sugar mill of the Hardy brothers. Thanks to this establishment, at the end of the 19th century the town became the first town to have an electrical power network in Argentina. The mill's bankruptcy process - which began in 1971 and ended with the auction of the properties in 1993 - meant the elimination of the main source of work in the town.