Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Patricio Coll explores Santa Fe's oldest buildings following a chronology, a geographical logic, and a series of documents that facilitate an appreciation of what is seen.

Survivors of the Shoah and the last Argentine dictatorship recount the horror they experienced in places of repression and how they managed to rebuild their lives. The documentary explores the need to recount what happened, the responsibility of survivors, and the usefulness of words as a tool for building memory.

After a long day of work, Luna arrives home to rest until a strange noise wakes her up.

Bahía Blanca was one of the cities in the province of Buenos Aires most severely punished by the last military dictatorship. Its de facto powers silenced and perpetuated a situation of impunity for hundreds of crimes committed against its population. Through the testimonies of survivors and victims' families, the influence of civilian complicity before and during state terrorism is reconstructed. Gaining insight into the places that served as clandestine detention centers also helps lift the veil in a city where justice is making progress in bringing those responsible to justice.

In a warehouse, the remains of an abandoned mural are found. A broken mirror of collective memory, a puzzle to be reconstructed so that the university and society can recover their history. Because nothing is ever completely erased or rebuilt, but it does become transparent when the "Notes of Memory" are recovered. Thus, the fragments of political participation and repression at UNCuyo in the 1970s are united.

Miguel Ángel Molfino is 65 years old and a writer. In his youth, he was committed to the revolution. The Argentine civil-military dictatorship tortured and imprisoned him. His entire family experienced the tragedy of exile, kidnappings, and death. In prison, writing became his lifeline. What is said and the silences, the power of the word, is what this documentary explores.

In 1976, the Ford Falcon ceased to be a family car and became the preferred vehicle for kidnapping people during the civil-military dictatorship. The complicity of the iron that had the most fans during the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina.

Letters, photos, furniture, hats, pipes, combs, eyeglasses, pens, pen holders, infinite books. An inventory of all, almost all, or simply some of the things that rest in the neocolonial house of a man whose name was Ricardo Rojas and who, one hundred years ago, wrote a delirious book called Eurindia.

Ana, caught in an endless insomnia, drifts between her daily life, her sister's incessant sleep, and an enigmatic nocturnal world.

A 1930 documentary short film.

Mónica is in a slump after her divorce and tries to overcome her crisis by reconnecting with old girl friends, lost over her married years. This includes her best friend from high school, Virginia, whom she visits. Virginia is on a personal quest to contact other-dimensional beings. Things get complicated for Mónica.

GerenciaMiento reviews the privatization experience that "La Academia" had between December 2000 and July 2008.

Set in Argentina during the aftermath of the 1983 return to democracy, this film depicts the historic Trial of the Juntas, where military leaders responsible for crimes against humanity during the dictatorship (1976-1983) face justice.

Juana, a young nun plagued by visions of several crimes she committed as revenge for her brother's death hires the services of a hitman to aid her in her suicide, but it all begins to fall apart when he begins to have a crisis of faith.

Sergio is the caretaker of the old Córdoba Brewery site, deeply absorbed in routine and memories. One night, he crosses paths with Laura, an old friend who encourages him to let go of his isolation.

The deterioration of its international image, as a result of the failure of recent invasions, will lead the Great Northern Empire to attempt to change its strategy.

5 moments on the sun king's agenda. Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca

A woman remembers the encounter she had with a stranger, and the afternoon she spent with her around a derelict country house in Colonia Benítez, Chaco Province.

A sensorial approach to a territory that is as close as it is strange: the food-producing farms that surround large cities as La Plata (Arg.). This documentary presents Javier Paniagua and his family inhabiting a network of tasks, problems and choices of special scope. The commitment to produce healthy food for their community, told by the producers themselves. Located in El Pato, Berazategui, Javier’s farm is part of the largest horticultural belt in Argentina. Despite the difficulties in accessing land and technology, this territory is also the setting in which thousands of families choose a life in coexistence with nature.

Film documentary that reveals the story of six murders of popular militants by the CNU: Pampa de Laturi, Carlos Scafide, Mario Gershanik, Néstor Hugo Dinotto, Graciela Martini and Luisa Corica. At the same time, we see the first trial of Indio Castillo and Pipi Pomares, ideological leaders of the CNU.

A boy is summoned, through a mythical character, to the past of an oppressed people, where a logging company exploits workers and forests alike. In his particular odyssey, he will witness events that will identify him with the history of different peoples who are one.

Behind a three-meter-high wall, crimes of the imagination are concealed. This film is presented as a great fable within another to accompany women sectioned in a neuropsychiatric hospital who present themselves as artists, poets, and gardeners. Setting aside diagnoses and scientific knowledge about madness, we will accompany the imagination of women diagnosed as alienated to release them randomly from their own poetry.

La traviata, an opera in three acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, was staged at the Teatro del Libertador in December 2023. It was an innovative staging using recycled materials, with the performance of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba and the Cordoba Polyphonic Choir together with a notable cast of soloists and the general direction of maestro JongWhi Vakh.

Levon looks after a friend's apartment for a few days while she is away. In the house he finds a lingerie hanging and is tempted to try it on.

In this short film we accompany Sasha Gigliani, soccer player and Miss Argentina, for an entire afternoon, from her weekly beauty routine to her work as an athlete and influencer on the Estudiantes de La Plata field.

A musical where you go from one location to another according to the emotions of the songs

Compendium of videos animated by Ayar Blasco until 2022. The film, released directly on YouTube, includes recurring characters such as the Spoiled Child, the Rasbernardo Kitten and the first installment of the Disney Mouse in stop motion.

Short film directed by Mariano Peralta.

A documentary about the housing situation in Buenos Aires. It shows how access to housing, which is both a human and constitutional right, is an issue that affects all social classes since it is entangled with the market.

The friendship and innocence of two teenagers is compromised when they discover that one of them is pregnant.

Waldemar does not sleep well; A strong glow haunts him in his nightmares.

Ana waits for her dad to come by and finally listen to what she has been longing to tell him for years. When she understands he is not coming, Ana will reach out to every piece of technological device at her grasp, in attempt to have that talk. But technology will fail. Or maybe what will fail is the human capacity for communication.

Molain is looking for Albertine, a girl he met in the past, whose the only thing he remembers are her eyes.

In the era of bedazzlement, the night has become extinct. Shadows have disappeared, and what is left is the realm of evidence. The inhabitants flee to dark spaces in which to take shelter from an unbearable glow, and the holes on the earth’s surface become their refuge. This experimental video works on the light-shadow binomial by relating basic principles of photographic technique with the universe of caves, hidden spaces linked to the origin of human life.

H is an adult man who frequented porn theaters in Mar de Plata for much of his life. After a transformative experience, he reconsiders his way of connecting with society.

In the 1960s, filmmaker François Thierry began work on a film about his friend, the writer and activist Jean Genet. Throughout the 1970s, the production documented a series of encounters in South America, spanning from Chile to Argentina. However, the film remained unfinished. Fast forward to the present day: Miguel Zeballos takes up the mantle, drawing from Thierry’s discarded footage and concept to embark on a new project. Amidst a wealth of materials, “Jean Genet Ahora” navigates through time with inventive and thought-provoking techniques to craft an energetic portrait of the moment, its creators, and the poet himself.

A funeral home is hired to transport a body to a neighboring country, but an irresponsible employee loses the coffin in the middle of the street in a town in Entre Ríos. From there begins a power struggle to manage the situation among the inhabitants of the town. But that coffin hides something that unleashes a silent race of greed and betrayal to see who gets it.

From 1956 to 1980, midwife Marta Rosignoli led a network of fourteen midwives dedicated to the trafficking and sale of babies in different areas of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through dramatizations of the events, archival material from the case file and the testimonies of three victims of appropriation, the documentary delves into the mechanisms used by Rosignoli to carry out the illegal purchase and sale of newborns.

A man anguished by a disturbing job, and her: an enigmatic woman who wanders the streets, trying to seduce with her beauty anyone who can help her and rescue her from her madness. Together, trapped in a strange and desolate world, they will experience a strange relationship between the Shadows of parallel worlds...

Immersive short film, through a monologue we explore the mind of a person aligned in an increasingly chaotic world

A man is attacked inside his house, during a stormy night. A power outage occurs and the man murders the intruder. She tells her daughter what happened, while she waits for the police. His daughter makes a tragic decision.

Norman's stepfather is mysteriously killed. With the help of his friends, Freddy and Dan, they investigate what happened. Suddenly a horde of zombies attacks them. Somehow both incidents are connected with a book that brings the dead to life.

Experimental short.

Acmé addresses the stories of two young people who live in Patagonia Argentina and live with HIV.

The granddaughter of a lighthouse keeper is outraged by her own father, who finds out about the connection when he is dying, after being strangled by the young woman's grandfather.

The first film made in Santa Cruz deals with a murder that occurred in a ranch, some 80 kilometers from the Perito Moreno glacier, where the real and the imaginary mix.