Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

When a child goes with his parents and older sister to a beach in Las Grutas, he accidentally touches a magic rock in a tidepool and starts perceiving reality in a different way.

David, a young rapper from Guinea known as Black Doh, stows away on overseas ships to the “land of Maradona”. His friends, his family and his mother remained in Africa, whom he never saw again. He records his first album with songs in soussou, French and Spanish. Years later, his first album arrives in Africa. This is a film that travels between Argentina and Africa, reflecting filial routes and roots, clashes and meeting of cultures.

This film tells the story of Chief Inacayal, who ended his days in the Museo de la Plata with his family. His remains were returned to his territory in 1994, but a group of university students discover that his remains are still in the museum.

The protagonist crosses an entire territory while looking for the healer of the neighboring town to heal him from the evil that afflicts him. In his hands he carries only a small tree, the fruit of his own garden—his only belonging to him—his, to give as payment for his salvation.

A university student ventures into northern Argentina in search of material for his thesis and arguments for the story he wants to tell, but with the help of his driver, he discovers an answer completely opposite to what he went looking for, and reality unfolds before his eyes. Years later, that same driver will summon him to ask him a favor.

A compilation of the origins of Argentine cinema up to the 1960s.

Part of a documentary-type projections made in Argentina by Federico Figner.

Synopsis, by Lucía Seles: “for me this video is like going to listen to guns and roses at the silver cemetery”

A romance overflowing with gaucho sentimentality that takes place at a time when, since the citizen did not enjoy the freedom of conscience that came later to grant the secret vote, the inland populations were fatally enslaved by the caudillos.

Conti, a muscular office worker, arrives at an important company in order to meet with Fonseca, a director even more muscular than he is. Being sent there to sell, he is sucked into a world in which one’s image, power, and body hide their fragility.

A troupe of bodies in trance. Frenzied figures against a white brick wall that is colder than death.

Alfredo Arias is an Argentinian artist whose nephew decides to follow him around through one year of work to study his creations and make this documentary.

Triggered by a dream, and through the use of photos, 3D animation and refined sound design, this moving first-person work evokes the relationship between Argentinian state policy—in the wake of the wave of privatization in the 1990s—and the death of a young father, a worker dismissed from the state-owned gas company.

A rainy day in San Luis

Based on the assassination attempt of Napoleon III and his wife, the Spanish Eugenia de Montijo, carried out on January 14, 1858 by a group of four Italian independence fighters led by Felice Orsini.

A 1927 Argentinian film by Luis Moglia Barth.

Ecosystem is an analogy between the city of Buenos Aires and a garden. Through irony, it tells how the trees and the weeds hoard most of the nutrients, thus opening an inevitable breach with the rest of the garden, which struggles to survive.

A car salesman recounts his professional journey, from a clumsy beginning marked by invasive treatment and failed demonstrations to a successful fluency. This film Martínez Suárez made on commission for the Argentine automobile factory IKA.

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

An imaginary community is forced to watch the same film over and over again until a young couple joins a clandestine group that preserves old films.

Sunday afternoon at Las Heras Park. People and dogs pass by, and others enjoy while seated. It’s serene. It is a happy time. The film tries to share that afternoon under the linden trees, which are the most protective.

After the death of explorer Emilio Lanzetti in 1920, allegedly at the hands of a primitive indigenous community during his search for a mythical place called the Black Rainbow, Fernando, his son and pupil, decides to embark on an expedition to continue his father's last work. His thirst for revenge and his ambition will make his journey a true descent into hell, for those lands hold a dark secret. The white man should never have challenged nature or embarked on that journey.

Three immigrants living in a Buenos Aires immersed in the profound economic, political, and social crisis that erupted in late 2001 and early 2002, where they are forced to constantly rethink their movements and reflect on what they were in their country of origin, what they are in this new land, and what their children will be here or there, somewhere in the global village.

It's a difficult journey to be Jewish without being one originally. It's a challenge, and yet there are those who choose to convert to Judaism. This documentary tells the story of a group of seekers determined to live through such a difficult time and try to transcend it.

Two police officers approach a rabbi suspected of having marijuana, check him and when they are about to discover it suddenly the three of them move to another dimension. This crazy and musical comedy shows the journey of these men through an unknown parallel world.

The documentary invites you to discover the life, thoughts, and behavior of Raimundo Ongaro, a revolutionary trade unionist who founded the CGT and was a vanguard of the working people.

Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the forest of emotions in a dreamlike way. But it is thanks to water and its light reflections, to its transforming power that the infinite “Kosmos” plays with our uncertainty.

The story of this film begins at the moment when the artist and his work become independent forever. Gorriarena dies and his work begins an existence where the author is not there to explain it, replace it or modify it. The mounting of an exhibition is the excuse to explore both material and ideological decisions that coexist in the work of an artist. The film explores some of these decisions and their results, trying to show which gestures of love, trust, order, admiration or greed it arouses, and in the process tries to find the painter's way and perhaps, only perhaps, to get closer to his truth. A truth that is expressed through colour, critical and biting realism, ironic denunciation and energetic resistance to being "accused" of being a political and social painter.

A short film for tourism promotion and dissemination produced by the State through the National Film Institute, showing the city of Bariloche in spring.

1959 Argentinian short

The Carapintadas, so named for their use of camouflage paint, were far-right military activists who staged uprisings between 1987 and 1990 against the constitutional governments of Raúl Alfonsín and later Carlos Menem in Argentina. Narrated using archival television, radio, and print footage, Carapintadas reconstructs the group's uprisings to halt the trials of those responsible for the military dictatorship.

40 aniversario del grupo Les Luthiers

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.

Bautista always gets scolded for his mischief, but he manages to get out of trouble. His mom believes only half of what he says. Every day, she asks him to go buy something for cooking from the store a few blocks away. Bautista loves to ride his bike and explore his neighborhood, greeting his neighbors. There is only one thing he is afraid of: the old man by the stream. He doesn’t know if he really exists or if it’s just a story his mother made up to scare him, but just in case, he never goes near there. They say the old man by the stream patiently waits by the shore of Las Piedras Stream until children appear, puts them in his bag, and doesn’t come back for several days…

Juana, a young Bolivian woman, gets a job in a sewing workshop in Buenos Aires. In exchange, she has to leave her husband and son behind in Bolivia. Upon arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that the promised workshop is a prison where work is carried out under inhumane conditions. When Juana receives news from home, she tries to escape by any means possible.

An original and particular moving night at the opera.

Marcelo wants to see her daughter to celebrate her birthday. The only problem is that he has a restraining order.

Documentary about the Afro-Peruvian music group Los Negros de Miércoles"

An elephant born in captivity seeks to achieve something resembling freedom.

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.

Joaquin starts to dream with a girl that decided to walk away from his life. This dips him into sadness and loneliness, and sleep to see her in dreams became his only incentive of life. He starts to find a way to combine those two states, reality and reverie, no matter what it takes.

Two police officers approach a rabbi suspected of having marijuana, check him and when they are about to discover it suddenly the three of them move to another dimension. This crazy and musical comedy shows the journey of these men through an unknown parallel world.

Mateo and Pedro used to be boyfriends. Days, weeks, or even months after their breakup, they meet again and spend the day together. They both talk: about the past, about the future, about the present, but do they belong to each other's past, future, or present?

A woman travels to the mountains during her period so as not to upset her family.

Claris and Oli, two fans of a fishing reality show, dream of a different life as they wander through a supermarket that they have turned into their makeshift home. Among the aisles and products, they face the reality of living on the margins.

Vera goes through a series of dreams in which she struggles to reach Cancun, a destination that everyone seems to reach easily, but which for her becomes unattainable.

"Gold of Cuba" is a documentary by Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Saderman that shows the development of Cuba through the promotion of its main industry: sugar. From the discovery of America to the figure of Reinaldo Castro, National Hero of Labor as a sugarcane cutter, the film discusses the introduction of mechanical harvesters, including the African slave labor that would later be replaced, with the abolition of slavery, by Chinese sugarcane cutters.

Nicolás, a DJ overwhelmed by his past, meets a disturbing neighbor who introduces him to a cult made up of eccentric clowns. Between laughter and tension, the young man discovers a strange escape from his problems that puts his sanity to the test.

A canceled author fights, by her own means, against a society that has excluded her from the literary world. Through her alter ego, Ernestina, and her inspiring muse, she recounts her version of the truth.