Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

After being scorned out of her small hometown, Aurora returns as a millionaire to exact revenge on those who humiliated and ostracized her.

This film follows the crisscrossed fortunes of, among others, a rock musician, a flight attendant, a dog walker with an alarming penchant for over-the-counter medication, and a cab driver, who doesn’t really care about his life spiralling out of control, as long as he can sit in his old Renault 12.

Cayetano (Jorge Porcel), a mediocre talent agent, traveling to Mar del Plata with his wife, Carola (Susana Traverso), to fix the contract Jose (Mario Sapag), representing an unknown wannabe comic number in different places. On the road they see a sign advertising that announces the latest film from actor famous erotic films, Federico Lupa (Alberto Olmedo). The praise of it cause a bitter argument between the two. Once in the city and with the excuse of having a lot of work, meets Cayetano José and together they go to the casino and how much fun with beautiful young woman crosses their path. The accident causes the car to Carola descomponérsele amid torrential rain, it Federico Lupa precisely who stop to help and take her home ...

Mica can't decide about her relationship with Juan. It will be Delfi's mission, with Lucía and Milagros, to help Mica make a choice.

A seductive anthology of gay short films that proves desire knows no borders. Contains the following shorts: [1] Metamorfosis (2020)(Sandro Arceo Espinosa)… [2] Pensadero (2022)(Matías Dinardo)… [3] Locas perdidas (2015)(Ignacio Juridici Merillán)… [4] Ahorita (2021)(Laurier Fourniau)… [5] Mon Dieu (2020)(Angélica Germanetti)… [6] Fin de semana bisiesto (2020)(Daniel Rivera)… [7] Pico de Orizaba (2017)(Jaime Fidalgo)

Two rival families of different origin join the force by the love of two young. The journalist Ariel Cohen falls in love for Carla Rosi, while investigating his father, Giancarlo, a wealthy shady business that is congressional candidate with presidential aspirations.

The adventures of the man who had no childhood, smart for business, but a lover of innocent jokes.

Living the mundane existence of a professional bodyguard, always in the shadows of his clients, Ruben decides to make a change that will finally give him a personal connection outside of his solitary world.

A thriller centered on a man who is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

A doctor—on orders from a sentient brain—kidnaps intimate couples and takes them to his mansion as prisoners. He injects his subjects with a substance to 'enhance' their sexual abilities. The curious doctor then forces his hostages to have sex. While they are making love, he drains a fluid from them, which he needs to prevent himself from transforming into a monster.

A mechanic discovers the fossil of a huge carnivorous dinosaur, unleashing a war between scientists, mayors and neighboring towns to keep “the biggest dinosaur in the world.” Among bone thefts, replicas and a mayor obsessed with creating Dinolandia, anything goes when it comes to surviving.

Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unexpected reaction—but then he meets someone else.

A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.

Two guys as different as a watchmaker and a television editor have to free Carlos Gardel's soul from a strange pact with the devil, who has it trapped. To break the spell, these fans of El Morocho del Abasto, and improvised exorcists, need to find a mythical figure of such popular force as Gardel: the great Diego Maradona.

Mario, a university professor, uses his research on the writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada to escape from his past. Settled in Bahía Blanca, the new city seems to be the ideal place for him to forget, until a chance encounter with an old friend unleashes the worst of dangers.

A beautiful young girl tired of waiting for his boyfriend to propose to her, will generate a series of amorous misunderstandings.

An ordinary man's romantic trip to Argentina turns to horror when vicious drug dealers hold his girlfriend hostage and force him to do a job for them.

Mario, “el Rulo,” is a wanderer who travels the country giving artistic performances. One day he passes through the town of Carlos, a municipal employee who dreams of being an artist. A friendship is born between the two of them, and Carlos leaves it all behind to follow Mario.

In a world where fame is measured in likes and followers, Gaspi, a social media icon who had been absent for years, decides to return to the digital stage with a video that promises to reveal everything. Through a deeply intimate narrative, Gaspi shares his journey of introspection, the shadows behind popularity, and the unexpected turn his life took away from the spotlight.

Matias is a young man living his dream as unattainable. Nicholas, his best friend, will confront the social environment that undermines their aspirations.

A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.

This is the story of a successful family of artists and an unlikely blended family, told through what for some is the worst Argentine film in history and for others, an object of devotion.

Mirta is a university student in Buenos Aires, in the politicized Argentina of 1974. After the 1976 coup d'état, she and her boyfriend are forced into exile in Stockholm. The exile will contribute to the destruction of the couple, and Mirta must then find her own path.

A woman and her daughter live in the unreality of a fantasy life, but soon this magic is interrupted by the disappearance of the mother.

A wealthy man comes to Buenos Aires to avenge the death of his young brother. He starts a relation with a suggestive blonde singer from a nightclub run by a mafia boss. One of the musical numbers is made by Michelle, a well-known American transvestite and is the first appearance of a transvestite in an Argentine film, something daring for the time.

Arzabal wins land on the border. When he arrives to settle in, he finds himself confronted by the local political boss, unenthusiastic about his landing. Based on the play by Mario Arregui.

A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.

A camping trip for a group of friends turns into an unexpected nightmare when one of them encounters a mysterious stranger.

A separated yet self-sufficient craftswoman puts up a friend who is also separating. The hostess has three teenage children, and the arrival of her guest will interfere with their domestic harmony, apart from slowly but surely causing a hormonal surge in one of the boys.

Writer-director Pablo Agüero's feature debut follows Inti (Joaquin Aguila), a 6-year-old boy caught up in the madness of post-"Dirty War" Argentina. Upon her release from prison, Inti's mother, Alba (Dolores Fonzi), a former dissident, whisks him away from his grandmother's care. Still unsure of her own direction in life, Alba takes Inti to live in a hippie commune in Patagonia. Velvet Underground founder John Cale co-stars.

In the 60s and thanks to the epistolary exchange, the young filmmaker Manuel Antín and the famous writer Julio Cortázar devised four films. An ocean away, a fruitful collaboration and genuine friendship are born.

The film is about three friends in Buenos Aires: Paco, Salvador and Dino, going through their common history at three moments in their lives: the years '76, '89 and 2003.

The nightmarish tale of two siblings cruelly separated as kids. The youngest, Elena, is confined to the world of darkness, where she leads a miserable life. The eldest, Facundo, remains in paradise, where he lives a peaceful life as a doctor with his wife and two daughters. 25 years later, the two are reunited to face the family tragedy that separated them.

A young woman runs away from a dark entity and an incestuous nightmare.

María is a taciturn and reserved Argentinian woman who lives in Barcelona. The death of her grandfather, the last survivor of the family, forces her to return to Indio Muerto, a lost corner of Argentina. After an interminable trip, she arrives at the inhabited field only by the persistent wind and clouds of dust that increase the solitude of the place. Unexpectedly, she decides to stay.

A massacre tinted Cascallares with blood and time covered the events with a cloak of silence. Ten years later, a group returns to the place to investigate. They will soon turn into corpses one by one. History repeats itself.

Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him.

Eager to have a crystal ball, a child works to buy it but is accused of a robbery he did not commit.

In a world where women rule and men are meant only for breeding purposes, two women start a revolt against the system when they begin to believe that the men are treated poorly.

Mariel wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. With the support of Luciana, who is also an actress, she has already rehearsed the part. But during the audition, Mariel realises that Luciana is trying out for the same role.

A criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.

An older married couple – Harvey and Janet – on a Saturday morning as Harvey recounts a horrific nightmare in which he learned from a phone call that one of their daughters had been killed. As Janet realizes that many of the details of Harvey’s dream are in fact quite true, the phone rings, and Harvey answers it.

In a small circus deep in the Andes, a delusional performer named Loy dreams of building a miraculous show. But when his final act begins, reality refuses to behave.

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.

Carla meets his boyfriend's family for the first time on Christmas Eve, but a small confrontation with Susana, her mother-in-law, and Susana’s special dish of vitel toné will take the evening to its breaking point.

Paloma is a young adult who finds herself living in automatic mode, following every imposed social norm, already working in an office and living alone in a studio apartment. Her daily life passes fleetingly and with little taste, until one night, after a long day of work, she receives an email titled FOR MY FUTURE SELF, which prompts her to change her life.

Claudia shows up at a bar to meet Luis, a doctor who contacted her through a dating app. Claudia doesn't suspect what fate has in store for her. A kidnapping that ends with an inevitable and unpredictable death. A suspense story with surprising twists until the last second, narrated in a sequence shot without cuts.

After many years away, Ariel is summoned by his distant father to his childhood home in the bustling Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires, known as El Once. Over the course of seven days, during the vibrant holiday of Purim, Ariel seeks to reconnect with his father, who runs a Jewish charity and is regarded as a big macher in the close-knit community, but was frequently absent due to his obligation to fulfill the Jewish quorum of having 10 men present at all funerals.

Leonardo, an optimistic travel agent, falls in love with Lucía, a mother trying to rebuild her life. But to become part of the family, he must first accomplish the most difficult task: winning the hearts of her two children.

Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.