Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

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.

The Transfiguration of Light is a documentary that intertwines memory, poetry, and visual experimentation to reconstruct the legacy of the Santa Fe Film Institute, founded by Fernando Birri. Through interviews, archival footage, animations, and his poetry, the short film seeks to reflect on resistance, Santa Fe's film culture, and the collective act.

Teo and Mikey are inseparable friends - until a small betrayal sparks a fight before their school’s year-end show.

For many years, Bariloche has been a graduation trip destination for thousands of students. This film documents one of those journeys from the inside, shot entirely handheld, as an intimate archive of an experience that repeats itself while remaining unique

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.

Five sleepless women on a fleeting trip to an island in Ramanegra. A forgetfulness and the fear of not knowing what could have happened. Female paranoia, morbid imagery, and jokes that end in mistrust between them. Conspiracy theories, complicity, and suspicion. Insomnia, the discovery of a dead hand in a forest, a comet... A fragmented and psychedelic tale. A perfectly possible living nightmare.

As he walks in front of the camera, he unfolds the stories of a Jewish immigrant family, the games of childhood, adolescence, and the conflicts of a generation marked by the vicissitudes of recent history.

After years of delay, a long-planned journey finally begins. The filmmaker imposes a quiet rule: only one shot per day. This self-imposed rhythm becomes a daily ritual of observation, recording, and reflection. What emerges is a filmed diary—a chronicle of wonder that maps both external landscapes and internal states. Each image carries a lingering question: what does it mean to continue making films? Through unfamiliar territories, filmmaking transcends documentation to become an act of presence and an attempt to rediscover meaning. The result is a meditation on cinema itself—its persistence, solitude, and transformative power over the everyday.

It tells the life and work of a rebel priest in a town called Felicia, Santa Fe. He manages to build a church and a school in which he buries a letter intended for the generations of the year 2000. His constant conflict with the Santa Fe curia leads to his exile during the military coup.

Revolving around the reconstruction of the life story of one of the leaders of the group murdered in November 1975, Héctor Samuel Pringles, aged 31 (an event produced by the self-styled Pío XII command or Mendoza Anti-Communist Command, with the participation of official vehicles of the provincial State), the documentary attempts to rescue the feelings, values ​​and experiences of popular militancy in that province.

A documentary promoting the ancestral and contemporary vision of native communities. Through the voice of Daniel Paruru, chief of the Ngāti Ruatākenga hapū of the Whakatōhea iwi (tribe), and his son Danny Jr., the documentary explores the Maori perspective between the scars of the past, the challenges of the present, and their vision for a peaceful future.

Simón is a Holocaust survivor. At a family gathering, he talks with his grandnephew Julian about life, his experiences and, in particular, about his brother Jacob.

Gloria sneaks into a stranger's house and examines every corner until she finds what she is looking for. The excitement of the dirt and chaos around her produces a rhythmic orgasm.

After a long day of work at the comic book store, Radio can only think about one thing: hanging out with his friends.

Sabrina, Mariela, Cristina and Micaela are bus drivers on the 130 bus. Each of them defines herself through her relationship with their job. They face the daily challenges of being women in charge of a bus, each one bringing her unique and special personality to the job.

An echo of images superimposed on themselves. Double exposure, and copied in Cyanotype on super 8. with General Treegan

Accumulated life experiences. The expansion of an edge south of my watch.

Animated series that tells the adventures of an intrepid and funny girl from the Buenos Aires suburbs who faces a variety of situations related to sexual diversity, gender and children’s rights (present in Comprehensive Sexual Education) in which she brings her unique and original point of view. Throughout five episodes, the series seeks to rethink gender stereotypes - as socially established norms -, to reflect on the diversity of possible family structures, and also to investigate the practices of discrimination and segregation that circulate in our society.

Short film by Juan Basser

Why is the bombing of Buenos Aires a forgotten event? Why was such a massacre carried out? Why were the victims never remembered? Is the bombing on June 16, 1955, a prelude to the violence that the country would experience in the years to come? These are all questions that the documentary seeks to answer through the voices of some of its protagonists and the reflections of cultural, journalistic, and political figures in the country.

US based filmmaker and Huarpe descendant, Cristina Kotz Cornejo is guided by Huarpe leader, Maria Zalazar who introduces Cristina to the culture and ceremonies of modern day Huarpe descendants in what is now known as San Juan, Argentina in this short 360º personal documentary.

She is beautiful, he is not; She is famous, he is not; They met on different walks of life, destiny offers them an attractive but risky opportunity. Will they take it?

A young man meets an old countryman who convinces him to dig a well in the middle of the field. When the old man refuses to reveal the purpose of the task, the young man warns that it could be something more than a simple gauchada.

On a long, rainy day, the four Democáticos teams compete for victory in the club's most important tournament to date.

Over the course of one year, Narcisa Hirsch left a super 8 camera on a tripod in a paddock near her house in the Patagonia. When she was away, she gave instructions to activate the camera to a local farmer who looked after cows in the area.

A man with severe stomach pains discovers that a demonologist accidentaly opened a portal to hell inside him.

Short film based on "Golett's Attempt", a story by Eduardo Abel Giménez.

A chef decides to give his latest cooking show a blood-red ending with a unique dish.

A teenager with eating and behavior problems goes to live in the countryside with her father. The mother, who lives in another city, can no longer handle the situation. Everything gets even more complicated. She needs to express what is happening to her.

The shared journey of three women on a train, a mystery lurks in the past of each of them.

A Chilean-Argentine intervention that mixes dance and cinema, in which outstanding dancers "come back to life" through their movements. They appropriate public and emblematic places in the city of Santiago that, paradoxically, are empty. Les Revenants is a work-installation consisting of six different dance solos, which were recorded in emblematic buildings in Santiago that were empty due to the pandemic. These records were projected in different places in the city -such as advertising posters, walls and screens-, in what was its premiere, during Santiago a Mil 2021.

Stéfano, a multifaceted actor, faces a new audition for the role of his life. Is he sufficiently prepared?

A young man named Simón is imprisoned for his revolutionary ideas.

The story of a Moroccan girl who accompanies her mother, a house cleaner, from house to house. It's Christmas, and the girl thinks that there is a very rich count who gives gifts to everyone except her.

This documentary portrays the return to Argentina of Juan “Tata” Cedrón, one of the most innovative tango musicians, who for political reasons went into exile in Paris. After living in France for 30 years, where he edited more than thirty records and took tango to the entire European continent, Cedrón decides to return to Argentina in search of what he lost but never forgot.

A documentary about domestic workers and their peculiar relationship with their employers. Rich and poor, under the same roof, share entire lives and as a consequence, very complex emotional ties arise.

A large building and its inhabitants are the protagonists of this documentary in which they reflect on and project their lives, their frustrations and their dreams from the cozy isolation of their micro universes.

In a park, two people dance to find a way out and encounter many fantasies in the process.

22 Falklands War veterans relive their experiences 40 years later in a moving, human account.

Documentary about the life story of one of Argentina's sports idols. One of the forty-three soccer players who won a World Cup, a fight. Filmed in Mendoza, Santa Fé, Rosario and Buenos Aires.

Peronoise is a being who tells us a story, who proposes the senses as currency instead of using Argencard or Mastercard, who presents and provides emancipation as a path, who establishes a Ministry of Hearing, who announces that we can dance, that it's a party!, whose enemy is Dr. Mutantis, the white male patriarch of holy causes from the Austro-Hungarian suburbs.

Nineteen-year-old Sereno spends time by herself at a weekend home, recovering from a suicide attempt. Her friends come over to visit with the hopes of helping her find herself again.

Living in solitude, a young man with no name spends his days taking photographs of what remains of an environment he once inhabited. The catastrophe feels as near as endless. His body is slowly left without time nor shape. Meanwhile, out there, the world moves on.

Reflections and film fragments refer to the origins and validity of the Historias Breves Short Film Contest. The last twenty years of argentinean cinema in the eyes of filmmakers, producers, film critics, and other film industry players.

Rural melodrama about the social and humanistic events that occurred at the dawn of the past times.

The film, which contains exterior scenes filmed in the Paraná Delta, narrates a confrontation between troops from the Argentine Naval Prefecture and some silk smugglers on the Paraná River.

Three films reflecting upon the way in which image and speech control relate to one another. Dallas is a Fire exposes the racist speech in the archives of the Dallas TV in 1970. Sent to Lie investigates the surveillance methods applied to the Qom indigenous community with the argument of preventing COVID-19. In Non-Stop, there’s an attempt to build over history and beyond the inaccessible images

An e-mail and a found book are taken as evidence for an investigation: through analysis from a forensic software a relationship between what is built by humans and the spread of a virus is sought. What is the secret relationship between stones and pixels?

For 8th March, Dior asked me to share my interpretation of femininity in the world of animation, a project that reflects my own personal experience and shows the contemporary representations of women.