Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A wild dance to free oneself from impeding fabrics, like so many ideas that bury and suffocate.

Documentary about the town of Sierra Grande, a city in the southeast of the province of Río Negro, which until 1992 relied on an iron ore mine whose mine was closed by government decree, triggering the exodus of its inhabitants.

The story of Buenos Aires' first work of rationalist architecture, narrated by its last tenant.

There is a treasure found in Paraguay containing 5,000 Baroque scores from the Jesuit era. Ricardo Massun, musician, luthier and Argentine researcher travels to Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia in search of more information to recreate the sounds of that time.

Forward. Move on is get up again

Cynthia takes us through the rooms of her ex-boyfriend's house, while she carries out her plan.

Mendoza, Argentina, 2002. In a country in crisis and marked by street violence, Boby, an entrepreneur, creates a TV show to sell home video cameras. The program is based on a contest that rewards the most violent footage of all those filmed by people on the street.

The grand geography of the American continent witnesses the track of a ship through southern waters.

Segey Spivak Laurson is a Soviet painter based on the other end of the planet: Argentina. His only obsession is to paint the Iguazú Falls. Soon to fulfill that dream, a call from Russia changes his plans.

Documentary on the formation of Triple A and the kidnapping and murder in December 1974 of Jorge Fischer and Miguel Ángel Bufano, militants of Política Obrera.

A middle-aged woman will try to become a mother even if she doesn't have the support of her husband.

La Salada is an informal fair for clothing and other products, located not far from the City of Buenos Aires. It moves millions of dollars a month and more than 5,000 people work there and many more go shopping every time it is open.

Ricardo Bar (22) is a young man who lives with his family in a little farm, in the border of Brazil and Argentina. There is mainly the jungle and the settlers, descendants of German immigrants. Ricardo doesn't want to inherit his father's land; he wants to become a pastor. Problems begin when Ricardo and the community tell the directors to stop shooting and leave. From that moment on Ricardo Bar tells two stories: one about a deal, the directors' offer to Ricardo in order to be able to shoot the film, and the other about Ricardo's life at this moment, his reaction to the director's offer, reenacted for the camera.

"My footsteps are the wind that blows through those valleys, dancing to the rhythm of the invisible."

Keili González tells of her experiences as a transvestite/trans girl until adulthood in her hometown of Nogoyá. She is one of the fundamental referents of the organized struggle for the rights of gender-sex dissidents in Entre Ríos.

A scammed man is involved in a robbery by mistake, so he goes behind the thugs and thus cleanses his honor.

In the small towns of the Argentine pampas, the quadreras, horse races over short distances, continue to be a passion. In Saladillo, Buenos Aires province, Pablo, a photographer for the local newspaper, with a degree in personnel compression, knows that after 57 years it will not be easy to find a job. His survival and that of his family now depend on the rain not causing the cancellation of a square, since with an ingenious artisan photo-finish system, he is responsible for the final verdict of an arrival, which avoid arguments and conflicts.

The young Propoleo watches the killing of his parents and he grows up training martial arts to take his revenge.

A documentary about the alleged Nazi cure homosexuality conducted by a Danish doctor who experimented with a young homosexual in the concentration camp. After the war, he took refuge in Argentina until his death in 1965.

A documentary portrait that encapsulates the ten lives of Gonzalo García Pelayo, producer, film director and gaming professional, in eight dizzying minutes.

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Shrouded in mystery, our documentary dives into the seldom-told tale of Luxembourg’s emigration to Argentina.

Juan, a 14-year-old teenager, the only child of separated parents. One day, escaping from thieves, he hides inside a shed, unaware that Germonio, a man who, it turns out, locked himself inside more than ten years ago and no one has seen him come out, lives there. Juan and Germonio, due to their ages, are very different, but they have more in common than they think. A blue flower, a candle that won't light, and a journey to the depths of their soul are fundamental elements that weave this story together.

Once upon a time, there was a film that played inside a museum. The museum had many paintings with people looking at them, beautiful and mysterious. There's a ghost and several suspects. This is a documentary experience about painting and human movements. A "Digital Tableau Vivant" that dismantles the solemnity of the museum and opens its interior to moving works that traverse time.

A tragic melancholy filled Ema's life, tired of loneliness she drowns in films and wine, looking for fresh air in a cigarette when a banal accident will lead her to discover a new kind of emptiness, an eternal limbo in beyond.

Video art examining the proliferation of single-use plastic bags set to the music of Pia Burnette and Felix Kubin.

Three blind friends share their relationship with blindness and nature in the city of Mar de Plata. Pablo Martínez is competing in the upcoming World Adaptive Surfing Championships. Alejandro helps out at a rehabilitation center for ex-prisoners while training to become a mountaineer. Micaela sings karaoke on weekends. The documentary portrays blindness not as a disability, but as a trigger for other senses more closely linked to touch and hearing.

Angelín is the most famous fugitive in the area for stealing mushrooms from the Cameros mountains in Spain. In this instructive, he teaches us his tricks to avoid being caught.

Inspired on "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" and the works of Man Ray, the film explores the present as a point in time and space where every instant, past and future, collide.

The film integrates four stories that take place in “Misiones”, a unique frontier province in northeastern Argentina. They are stories born from the tumultuous dynamics of their migrations and the restless coexistence of their cultures in contact. They tell with their own voice the small great conflict of living crossing those borders in everyday life. The subtle and permanent tension between nationality and identity, in an audiovisual essay on daily life on the Argentine-Brazilian border. A wide river -the Uruguay- that runs between the two countries does not stop a long history of common experiences, despite official efforts to establish national differences at the border. There, language becomes emblematic every time a local - no matter which side of the border - speaks “portuñol”, a hybrid variety of Spanish and Portuguese.

Wara, a teenager from the Puna, moves to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jujuy. While she is going through uprooting as well as the mourning for the death of her grandmother on her father’s side, questions arise in her that she will solve through a dialogue between her voice and her violin.

After suffering the Holocaust, Sara Rus emigrated to Argentina where she was an activist in Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora for the disappearance of her son Daniel during the military dictatorship. Her mission is to keep the memory alive. Her granddaughter wonders what to do with her grandmother's memories and experiences, what is the exact distance from the past, what to do with that legacy.

Three teenagers spend a summer together in the mountains. Tensions grow between them as well as violence which emerges at some point. The seriousness of the situations they experience and their consequences will be unsuspected.

A man has different setbacks when it comes to preparing a dinner for his date.

Fausto finds himself, as he does every day, at his routine office job. This normalcy is interrupted when he receives a call from the Devil, which Fausto dismisses as a prank. After hanging up, his glass of water explodes, and his boss, Carolina, approaches him. Fausto is shocked to hear the same voice from the phone coming out of his boss's mouth—the Devil's voice reminding him that this is his eternal punishment. Fausto knows what he must do; he takes an axe and kills Carolina. Then everything resets—the phone rings again, and Fausto is doomed to repeat the moment that earned him his place in hell, destined to relive it for all eternity.

Two petty criminals force a drunk to reveal the location of a sum of money to pay off a debt. Everything goes awry when the information they gave him makes them fall prey to an ancient entity.

Buenos Aires. a soccer academy for children. a day of games away from home. a twelve-year-old boy, his father and coach, his mother, his little sister, other families, a pool table, a defeat. we played but...

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team—created twenty years ago to investigate forced disappearances and clandestine burials—is working in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, where a mass grave containing the remains of more than 120 people has been discovered. "The Last Confine" is a documentary about the exhumation of this grave, about those working to identify those buried there, about the hopeful search by family members, and about the story of four of them who managed to recover the remains of their loved ones after twenty-seven years of waiting.

Two soldiers escape from their enemies. They talk about why they are persecuted. The slightest doubt. The oldest seems to go crazy with the music he hums. The minor, scared, shoots. He understands why they escaped, he fell prey to the lie and changed sides.

A group of friends suffers bullying, thinking of taking revenge, they discover that recent history teaches them that they should act differently.

The business of exclusive television rights in football meets resistance. PAREStv, a community channel, privileges its commitment to the community and risks an economic and judicial battle against the most powerful company in the country.

A married woman tries to start a new life but discovers that desire can be a dangerous path with no return. (Inspired by the legend of "El bolsadito" from San José del Rincón; Santa Fe, Argentina).

Recorded live at the Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires on June 28, 2013, this record captures a vibrant show with classics from his discography in revealing solo versions, three new songs premiered on this tour, plus two thematic segments in tribute to the music that inspired him in his childhood to follow that path: the work of The Beatles and Argentine folklore.

A meeting by chance. Without wanting and without planning, a whole day together.

Movie A mash-up about contemporary oral poetry, that shows and dismantle the machine that builds the current Buenos Aires underground. A fundamental journey to understand the Argentine afterpop culture. the constitution of Buenos Aires under oral poetry.

Poetic and political portrait of the city Córdoba in Argentina.

Agricultural laborers in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, harvest a field of sugarcane using machetes. The camera keeps its distance as it observes their smooth movements. Soon the rhythmic movements of the machetes develop their own choreography, whilst time appears to expand.

Ben sets out on an adventure with his new family, experiencing life for the first time.

Under the influence of a drug, Lara is forced to experience a party on a loop.

Documentary that portrays the life of Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet from the late 19th century who challenged the social conventions of her time by writing erotic poetry. Her work gave voice to female sexual desire in a conservative society. Her life ended tragically when she was murdered by her ex-husband in 1914.

VERÓNICA and PAMELA are spending the weekend in a distant countryside house, but their romantic getaway takes a terrifying twist when an unknown presence starts knocking on their door.

This is the cinematographic diary of an extended trip across the Pampas, on the trail of Guillermo Enrique Hudson, aka William Henry Hudson. Hudson is an enigmatic figure, full of paradoxes: he was an Argentine gaucho who became an English writer. He fought in the army against the “savages” but also defended them. He wrote obsessively about his native land, but never returned. In the twists and turns of the road, emerges a mix of documentary speculation, personal memory… and dreams.

A tribute to Virginia, a 23-year-old girl who apparently committed suicide in Ibiza. Excerpts from her letters to Narcisa, written on the walls, appear in the film as a leitmotif.

The Vote is a portrait of the time. The national filmography has vast examples of how politics is conceived (and filmed is overdetermined) as a ladder to obtain positions of power by power itself, as a shortcut in a personal career. We wanted to say that politics is, above all, a tool for transformation, for profound change.