Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

José, a racist conservative, feels invaded when he hears hip-hop music in his parochial tango bar; an internal conflict ensues, and he realizes that he is the true outsider.

A documentary about discrimination against Bolivian immigrants, the short film features testimony from Eugenio Zaffaroni.

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.

In Argentina 2028, the state demands that debtors pay their debts through its organs if they don't regularize their situation. Lucas, a young man trapped by circumstances, desperately tries to escape the state agents pursuing him.

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.

Animated gags made by Quirino Cristiani, Argentina's foundational animator.

A young office worker returns from his vacation one Sunday night. He begins to imagine going back to work and the routine that overwhelms him and that depresses him beyond measure. The next day he gets up and makes the decision that something has to change in his life once and for all and forever.

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

As if it were a continuation of the last 15 minutes of AB, Fund and Loza, now accompanied by Moriconi, radicalize the aesthetic procedure of the previous film made together: on the one hand, there is a free text, between poetic and philosophical, pronounced voiced by two men and a woman; on the other, a set of plans of different ecosystems, live and stuffed animals, clouds, waterfalls and lava, organized by a kind of poetic logic, makes up the visual material. The disjunction between text and image is programmatic, and in parallel they constitute a form of free poetic expression. The precariousness of existence is evidence, and the very composition of the images is in line with this empirical confirmation. The general discourse oscillates between a heterodox Franciscan Christianity and a sensitive Darwinism, and in the same way a kind of awareness of terror and amazement towards the universe is combined.

The annual short film competition for directors organized and produced by INCAA presents seven new works.

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'.

When the sky is broke we need to talk with ourselves

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.

DOGMAN! He is a highly experienced hero who guards the streets. After losing everything he loves and has fought for since he was a teenager, he faces Charly, who will reveal himself as his creator and reality and fiction no longer have a dividing line. Faced with the loss of his own identity, DOGMAN! he will try to prevail over Charly, a strange being, who seems to be able to control everything, except his own destiny.

Documentary about Osvaldo Bayer, Argentine historian, writer, journalist and screenwriter, his union activity, his investigations.

What drives a man to spend his days between the ring and work? What makes the fight between good and evil repeat itself over and over again, in the ring of a club in Buenos Aires or in the most watched TV program of the 60s and 70s?

An inclusive dance company seeks to create tension between aesthetics and the reconstruction of symbolic spaces in Argentina's history.

In Moisés Ville, a small rural town in the Province of Santa Fe, the last descendants of the mythical Jewish gauchos have undertaken the fight against oblivion: they treasure the relics of the pioneers in an impressive museum, they accompany tourists through the empty synagogues and they recall the Jewish flavors buying leicaj at the bakery. Meanwhile, everyone is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Cultural Integration Festival, the event that defines this exotic corner of the world.

A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

A young woman who works as a music store saleswoman falls in love with a popular singer.

A collage about the end of utopias made with found footage from the 70's and scratched 16mm film stock intervened with solvents.

Documentary that investigates on the effects that civic military man produced the last dictatorship in the past loving and present, allowed and prohibited relations.

A documentary that tells in a homemade and intimate way a piece of Willy Lemos' life. Willy tells the story of his life: his childhood, his artistic journey, the ups and downs that happen in the LGTBQ+ world and his story of domestic abuse.

Natalia and Daniel are blind, but that condition has never stopped them from living life to the fullest. Suddenly, something interrupts everything, imposing itself and hindering what blindness could not.

A sign proclaims, “Let Fear Burn.” Childhood sexual abuse is a silenced issue. Under the banners #IBelieveYou and #WeWillNotBeSilentAnymore, a community of survivors is moving the world to create a better future, free from violence.

This documentary is an approach to the experience of seeing and listening to the trajectory of Narcisa Hirsch, a pioneer of Argentine experimental cinema, but who has also been part of the happenings and performances of the 1960s and 1970s.

An intimate portrait of the relationship between Horacio Salgán, a legendary 98-year-old tango pianist, and his son César, also a pianist, who plays his father's music in his shadow. They recently met again, after 18 years without seeing each other. Just when Horacio is about to retire and pass on his musical legacy to his son, a sudden illness forces them to live together.

Documentary about the National Congress of Piqueteros, held in July 2001 in La Matanza, where representatives and activists from numerous social movements were present.

A short Documentary about an American ex-pat who lives in Buenos Aires and works as a city tour guide during the day and a sexual tour guide during the night. The film was first short on vision 3 negative super 8 and then refilmed we color reversal super 8 from my computer screen so that I can project it live. It is a first glimpse of my full-length feature called Monger.

Emptiness is a visually striking experimental documentary that explores the complex intersections between body, power, and faith. Through a sequence of dense, symbolic compositions, the film unfolds as a thunderous meditation on the abuses of capital and the collapse of language. Mercado constructs a stark visual and sonic architecture where medicine and religion appear as intertwined systems of biopower—structures that discipline, sanctify, and ultimately exhaust the body. Minimal yet overwhelming, Emptiness confronts the spectator with the material presence of the “body-thing,” situating the human form at the center of a critical reflection on control, belief, and emptiness itself.

Diego is a young man whose life has become stuck in the same old routine, working at a CNG station. When he gets his first night shift, a number of situations and characters appear to show him that he doesn't belong there.

A father must raise a daughter he doesn't know after the death of her mother. In a dilapidated Citroën, they embark on a journey toward their own identity, hoping to reach a destination that will contain both of them.

The island isolation of this region fostered a strong cultural identity among the inhabitants of Chiloé, a situation that still persists and demonstrates the degree of deep-rootedness achieved. The sea, rich in a variety of fish and shellfish, is the basic sustenance of the local economy. Through stories from current residents, we reflect the main aspects of life and legends in a serene and majestic setting.

Ten years after the terrorist attack on the AMIA, this documentary highlights unknown aspects, as well as links to the terrorist attack on the Israeli embassy.

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

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.

Two actors are holed up in a remote house somewhere on the Argentinian coastline. The characters crosses the space-time threshold: Leon Trotsky, in his Mexican exile, asks André Breton to write the first draft of a revolutionary manifesto.

After being fired from his job, Guillermo and his wife Silvana decide to move to the countryside with their daughter Romina. Along the way, they stop at a farm where they are welcomed by Bjorn, an eccentric Swede. The host's lifestyle awakens a certain "flower power" nostalgia in the couple, evoking fond memories of their youth. What they don't know is that they are being "captured" by a cult.

A documentary that reconstructs, through the victims' testimony, the history of the most brutal clandestine center that operated in Mendoza from 1975 until the end of the military dictatorship. A document that provides information on the operations of the Mendoza Police Intelligence Department, which operated in the Police Palace, two blocks from the Government House. This material exposes those responsible for kidnappings, torture, and disappearances in Mendoza.

In 1969, just after the Cordobazo, the workers of the FIAT factory challenged the company, ousted the union bureaucracy, and elevated the political struggle against the military dictatorship, becoming a milestone in the workers' and popular struggle of the 1970s. Forty years later, Gregorio Flores, a labor leader who participated and wrote about the era, managed to bring together several of his comrades to enhance the collective memory and open new debates that would allow us to recover and update that experience.

At the beginning of 2024, Alejandro Rubio, one of the most representative poets of the 90s generation, died. His poems and his keen analysis of the social situation still echo in the present. Martín Gambarotta, a generation companion, outlines a reading of his work where, in addition to highlighting the aesthetic value, the roots of a great friendship that our contemporary literature had emerge forcefully. A walk, a reading, an exhibition, a festival, a recital: they form a film-homage to the crystal poet-mind.

Anna and León have their last night together in full celebration of her departure to Russia. She will go with his mother and he will remain in Buenos Aires. Anna asks León to do everything possible to stop that trip; Her life is there, next to him.

She is ten years older. He doesn't drink wine. An unexpected visitor threatens to ruin a date that seems destined to fail.

One more vacation that Lucía spends in San Bernardo. At eleven, this desolate coastal town does not seem to be the best plan in the midst of a family crisis. However, the breakdown in her family and that seemingly empty environment push Lucía to discover herself.