Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

The musical by Pepe Cibrián Campoy and Ángel Mahler tells the story of the deformed Quasimodo and the gypsy Esmeralda in which love triumphs over beauty.

At the Borda psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, two patients find a breather in art from their monotonous daily life. Documentary that goes through the contradictions between the field of dreams of the interns and the harsh reality of the hospital.

Semi-documentary about Galicia made under co-production with Uruguay.

Ulises Dumont worked in more than one hundred films, more than one hundred characters, enough to overflow his soul. Through fragments of each one of them, this documentary-tribute tries to recreate, based on the elements offered by each testimony, the life and the sensitive and multifaceted personal universe of this genius of Argentine cinema and theater.

Documentary about Carlos Olmedo, a founding member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Argentina.

Lucía Lubarsky investigates her relationship with the men in her family and her brother's life. What were their desires, their silences and mandates? She interviews different men and meets Bicho, Andrés and Emmanuel, diverse men who seek to build themselves as men far from what was expected of them.

Two friends go camping at Lago Verde.

Ana, raised in the bosom of a structured family, goes through her adolescence. Between drawings and emotions, she tells us about a Friday in her life, where everything that has been postponed appears and only the truth can save her from herself.

In 1929, Le Corbusier travels to Buenos Aires to give a series of lectures on Modern Architecture. During his visit, he proposed an urban plan for the city. Since his trip and for more than twenty years, he would obsessively develop his proposal, trying by all possible means to make the plan for Buenos Aires a reality.

They open, for them and around them, the path of self-management: that of bodies, territories, communities and struggles.

Documentary about the bombing of the Plaza de Mayo in June 16 1955 perpetrated by the Argentine navy with the intention of overthrowing Juan Domingo Perón's government and resulting in many civilian casualties.

Joaquín has the power to charge cell phones or supply electricity to any device with the energy of his own body, so he takes advantage of it to make a few pesos in a city resigned to scheduled power outages. A laconic and refined comedy, touched by the grace of the extraordinary.

Film that rescues the history of the origin of rock in the city of Santa Fe (Argentina) as part of the cultural movement that broke out and promoted the decade between 1965 and 1975 artistically and socially.

Dario is an editor, and not a very good person. After his wronging of a coworker develops into an international crisis, he will be subject to a curse that will render him badly edited. Now, he must right his wrong by way of Groundhog day and Dickens.

A person's life is at stake when he is surprised by an unexpected guest.

Finisterre is a trip back to the beginning of a story. It is the trip of Laura, my grandmother, to her hometown in Galicia, after 60 years of having emigrated to Argentina. During this trip through the "Terra Galega", Laura meets her two children, whom she has not seen in 15 years. Memory seems eroded by time and it is reunions that thrill and move. The uprooting of migrants has left an indelible mark on Laura. Finisterre tells of an old age in motion, of giving himself at the end of his life the possibility of remembering and forgiving the past.

An elderly couple runs away in a stolen car. Stalked by a storm and a mysterious car, the couple must arrive to destiny in order to continue the trip. They won't lose their cool mood.

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.

Documentary about the joys and sorrows of being trans.

It tells the story of three Malvinians who for various reasons were forced to leave the islands and move to mainland Argentina.

Two sisters, Celia and Aída, lead a solitary routine that revolves around gossiping about all their neighbors. They await the arrival of Marita, Aída's daughter, who lives in Canada and is coming to take them to Toronto and care for them in their old age. A conflict arises when Ángel, the building manager, declares his love for Celia.

The election of the National Queen in General Roca (Argentina)

In a hot, deserted neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, three kids and a dog rest in the shade of a tree. The deep, drowsy hum of siesta is in the air, but the calm is broken by small cracks in the everyday routine. Suddenly a strange light floods everything, and time seems to shatter.

Medea is banished from the kingdom she had arrived in years before, married to Jason. In her wanderings, she ventures into desolate lands and encounters other tragic heroines who help her devise her plan of revenge.

Victor, a prestigious commissioner, lives tormented by his past. In an attempt to wash away his guilt, he attempts to transform himself into a messianic being.

A mysterious traveler journeys and arrives at a portside neighborhood where he finds what he has been seeking: a mysterious light that irresistibly draws him in. A guard will endlessly bar his way

Four friends open MISHIGATA, their own craft brewery. Not knowing that the traditional brewery of the KRAUSE family has existed on the same block for decades. Who makes the best beer in the neighborhood?

From the road to the river, passing by the large oil companies and their private ports, we find ourselves in the most powerful oil complex in the world. One thing is to have read about it, another is to get inside the monster. One thing is to hear the shocking export figures or the controversies over the “settlement of foreign currency”, another is to approach this circuit that unites soybean fields, mega-plants that put their tentacles in the Paraná and reach the Chicago Stock Exchange, where it ends up being decided how much it costs you to eat.

A short documentary that begins with an experience of Uriel, a young trans man, and then draws an analogy with a part of human identity tied to the name we are given at birth.

In a Buenos Aires hospital, Dr. Esteban Rubinstein tackles general medicine from an extramoral viewpoint. Basing himself on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical oeuvre, in his office he builds with his patients a space of reflection on the body, health and sickness.

A drama that revolves around the speculations made by a widow woman taking advantage of the sympathies aroused by one of her three unmarried daughters.

Inspired by surrealism, a quiet picnic quickly turns into a portrait of being hunted and seeking escape.

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.

In the 19th century, a little-known event occurred, given its importance: the largest war in South America, in which four countries were involved. Was it a war between countries? Did Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay join forces against Paraguay? Why is it called by so many different names?

An intriguing ritual execution involving cannibalism.

Mía and her mother start a journey without destination after a family fight. Now, they will have to endure the wait.

The romantic story between a young employee and the seller of a bookstore whose father wishes to marry her with an older man.

Experimental film, based on the life of a suburb boy.

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.

After a party, dazed by music and substances, he and she take refuge in a bathroom. They share a common desire: not to sleep again.

Having broken free from the domestic violence she suffered during 39 years of marriage to her ex-husband Amando, Martha tells her granddaughter Daniela, who is beginning her career as a filmmaker, to make a film out of the personal memoirs in which she narrates her painful past. In this process, despite having gotten a divorce, for over 15 years her family has continued to pressure Martha into spending time with her abuser.

Telma is 74 years old and has some dreams to fulfill. One of them is to reunite her daughter Lili with her first love, a Malvinas soldier with whom she exchanged letters during the 1982 war. Telma will try to reunite them to make the promised meeting happen after 35 years.

Aspects of the life of a group of fishermen.

A love lived like a dream leaves an indelible mark. Between grief and desire, a young woman confronts the fear of recognizing herself and discovering who she truly loves.

An intimate story about the construction of identity and the consequences of defying gender norms within Mexico's conservative upper-middle-class society. The Way You See Me traces a ten-year journey from hyperfemininity toward a defiant masculinity. What began as an experiment to challenge the idea that testosterone justifies male behaviour gradually evolved into something far more complex, confronting the filmmaker's body, voice, relationships and sense of self. But the personal keeps opening onto the political. Conservative upper-middle-class Mexican society doesn't just shape us into rigid gender roles; it recruits us as enforcers of those roles too, compelling us to monitor and regulate one another. Shot over a decade, this is one of the most comprehensive and candid explorations of what it means to transition, revealing the intertwined power dynamics between class, gender and systemic violence in Mexican society.

Studying for a degree, getting her license, getting pregnant: Maru tries to achieve these supposed milestones of adulthood, but everything seems to go wrong.

At a Halloween party, a sinister clown that emerges from a tube television manipulates the guests’ minds toward self-destructive behaviors.

In 1975, in the city of Rosario, Pablo Reinstein was kidnapped and murdered by a gang of amateur criminals made up of Miguel Cazón, Hugo Risiglione, and Luis González. All three were arrested, charged, and sentenced to prison. Years later, upon their release, Cazón and Risiglione were murdered in the same way they had Reinstein. Little was known about González after his release. Although various versions circulated, his fate remains shrouded in mystery.

Two hitmen, Bola 8 and Poitín, arrive at a hotel in the middle of the night with the intention of killing the man responsible for stealing money from their boss. However, they don’t expect the job to spiral into a series of unfortunate accidents.

Locked up and under surveillance, a retired terrorist recalls, through magazines and advertisements of defunct airlines, fragments of a past shared with a woman who is no longer there.

A girl wonders about love. About the soul of the world. Is there such a thing? A common code? A shared thread? She thinks about the ways we celebrate love. Chinese tradition carries centuries of wedding rituals — but in a globalized world, these customs begin to blur. She wonders then: what happens when we forget? Is there something tradition can still tell us about who we are?

Documentary about Estela de Carlotto, President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who in her home, amidst a few photos and many memories, reconstructs her family's history for her grandson, Guido. She speaks, looking into the camera and addressing her grandson directly. He has yet to recover his true identity and should have turned 33 this year. She tells him about his parents' lives and her own life, as if assuring him that even if he never sees it, he will have the chance to relive his story, just as she would have liked to tell it to him.