Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Chicha Mariani, Nicolás Berardi, and Cielo Tailmitte Toncovich tell us about the past and present of the houses on 30th Street (the Mariani-Teruggi House), 63rd Street (El Bichicuí), and 139th Street in La Plata, which were surrounded and raided in November 1976 by the last military dictatorship. Despite the fierce attacks, the murders, and the abduction of babies, memory lives, circulates, and is shared in these houses today, enabling us to continue building ourselves collectively.

A history book, a film saved from the dictatorship, an exiled film director, and a collection of pirated films. The filmmaker traces the images of the women who led to the triumph of the longest strike in Argentine history.

An independent movie maker, with the only one dream; to make a movie about flying saucers attacking the city of Buenos Aires. But due to a strange disease, that dream becomes a horrible nightmare.

An abstract telegram : fragmented memories of living in Argentina's zip code 1640.

After their house collapses, a young woman and her mother argue in the hospital about their future and that of their baby.

A Man from Atlantis is a poetic documentary that follows Ricardo Montans, a legendary Argentine freediver who has spent much of his life underwater. Once a car mechanic in Buenos Aires with dreams of becoming an engineer, Montans abandoned dry land to descend into the depths — first as a maintenance diver, now as a freediver. In Honduras, where he founded the Freediving Caribbean School, won the 2023 Caribbean Cup and established depth records, he trains to dive beyond 100 meters on a single breath battling fear, silence, and the dreamlike pull of the deep. The film explores a life suspended between the two great human longings: to fly, and to breathe underwater.

Through the lens of Milagro Mariona, journalist and activist, this documentary reconstructs her story and exposes the flaws in a judicial system that failed to protect her. Using testimonies, archival footage, and collective memory, 22 Times Paola Tacacho reveals a web of institutional violence, but also the strength of a family and a movement that transformed pain into struggle and set a historic precedent: the removal of the judge who failed to act with a gender perspective.

Julián Castillo's life left its mark on various aspects of Santa Fe. His death, too. Through the stories of family and friends, we explore Juli's history, activism, and art. This documentary is a tribute, an exercise in memory, and a collective call that still demands justice.

Francisco, a 35-year-old filmmaker who secretly works for a delivery app, has a date in Belgrano with Belén, 28, whom he has just met. As he tries to impress her, they both discover a deep and unexpected connection.

What does it mean to disappear? Based on the personal archive of her detained and disappeared uncle, this short film brings together images, texts, and audio recordings as traces of a fragmentary presence: to disappear is not to die, but to remain suspended between life and death.

“In Portugal, music videos were called telediscos. This is my teledisco from Astorga, focusing on the Panero family.”

Three young friends must find a way to get to Mar del Plata to throw what will be the biggest party in the history of their high school.

In her first film, writer-director Julieta Margenet explores what stepping out in obedience and starting her career as a filmmaker feels like through a story that explores faith, fear, and unconditional love.

Nicolás, a DJ overwhelmed by his past, meets a disturbing neighbor who introduces him to a cult made up of eccentric clowns. Between laughter and tension, the young man discovers a strange escape from his problems that puts his sanity to the test.

A man working for a U.S. company arrives in a coastal town in Mexico to supervise the construction of the first hotel in the area. He starts feeling uncomfortable as the townspeople express their frustration over the invasion of their beaches, until one night the confrontation reaches a breaking point.

What was meant to be a temporary three-month caregiving arrangement turns into a five-year battle for the adoption of a young girl, as two friends challenge an adverse system and traditional concepts of family.

Short film made by Walmo.

Short film made for IDAC.

In the mid-90s, the upbringing of triplets is altered with the arrival of Ana, their younger sister. Through a family trip, the director portrays this bond among sisters.

Visual metaphor of virtual life: an endless cycle driven by bots and algorithms, where connection is instant but loneliness persists. We think we move forward, but always return to the same point.

Following a recent breakup, Selva returns to her childhood home. There she meets her mother, with whom she will share a weekend filled with recriminations, complaints, and also moments of understanding. The days they spend together will mark the end of one grieving process and the beginning of another.

While telling her daughter a bedtime story, Mailin pieces her memories back together. What could have been a fairy tale turns out to be the story of a young girl who suffered abuse from a priest for 15 years. It’s a long journey towards healing and justice, but also the chance to offer her daughter the childhood she never had.

Diana wakes up in her beach house when her ventilator fails. In an imaginary conversation with her father, Astor Piazzolla, she reveals what she could never tell him in life, until her final words reveal that she, too, has died.

Lucía is a psychologist who works for Line 117, assisting victims of domestic violence. One stormy night, a dark force breaks into her home and attacks her. Obsessed with discovering her attacker, Lucía is drawn into a spiral of shadows that draws her to the cursed lair of Guri, a worshiper of Mithras, a pagan deity.

A group of seemingly unconnected people find themselves trapped in Buenos Aires. While trying to solve the mystery, a young woman realizes that, due to her family's actions, she may be the next victim.

A deadly epidemic has wiped out most of the population. A father (Fede Sánchez) ventures into the empty, silent streets of a deserted world to fulfill a single promise: to bring his daughter (Lila Stampacchio) a gift on her birthday.

A light essay, of wind and memories.

A woman comes to understand her son's transition after meeting a young trans man from her small Town. In him, he sees a reflection of what her son could aspire to be if he had more confidence. This experience ultimately serves as a bridge for her to reconnect with her family and with herself.

Egaña train station, Argentina, 1942: Driven by the honour of their father's memory, two poor Italian immigrant brothers, face a duel against two rich and insolent french men around a billiards table.

Santino and Luna embark on a trip to the Argentine coast in the hopes of mending a crumbling relationship. The news of a job opportunity for Luna, which would take her far from the country, opens a wound that already seemed inevitable: the end of their relationship. Unable to let go and afraid of growing without her, Santino plunges into a spiral of contradictions that push him to sabotage what little remains between them.

On a Monday morning in Berlin, Rachelle is driving home. Issaka, far away in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, writes her a message. Rachelle replies with one of her special messages, a reminder of the long night. Her nocturnal journey took her through Tiergarten. Surrounded by darkness, places seem smaller, almost unreal. A cinematic nocturne that appropriates space through language.

Four friends perform a ritual in the woods to find The Saint. As they make their way through the paths, they reminisce about the adventures they shared, in an attempt to forget that this is probably the last time they will walk through the forest together.

Trains arriving at the Parque Patricios subway station in Buenos Aires. A man runs.

Film based on the memoirs and recollections of Ismael Viñas: legendary political figure, economist, founder of Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MALENA), former Undersecretary of Culture during the Revolución Libertadora. Viñas reappears in front of camera after twenty-six years in self-imposed exile, first in Israel and finally in the US. During a series of conversations with Montes-Bradley in Florida, USA, Viñas reflects on his youth, on his brother David, on his father, a well political character during the times of Hipólito Yrigoyen, and a Federal Judge in Patagonia during the uprisings portrayed in Rebellion in Patagonia[64] in the early 1920s. Viñas also recalls his imprisonment during the Peronist period, and with particular emphasis his relationship with Ernesto Che Guevara, and Salvador Allende amongst many other relevant figures of the period.

In an abandoned chapel, where it seems even God has left, a man prays with faith to what remains of a Virgin. His prayers are answered, and a miracle occurs.

Flavia, a former professional karateka, and her husband Rafael are going through a marital crisis because he can't find a job. On her mother's advice, Flavia gives her husband an ultimatum to resolve his employment situation. The crisis between them forces Rafael to return to his neighborhood, where he meets old friends who offer him a return to his former life as a drug dealer, which only unleashes a spiral of deceit and violence.

When Roque learns that his ex-girlfriend, Mili, is in a relationship with Cecilia, a woman who severely abuses her, he decides to go and rescue her. Upon arriving at the house, after an argument, Roque fires his gun and ends up killing Cecilia. But when the dead don't rest in peace, it's because they have unfinished business with the living.

Silvina is a teacher about to retire who, following the arrival of the coronavirus, must confront a new way of teaching in a digital universe of which she is no longer a part.

Sebastián, a night guard in Ciudad Jardín, is patrolling during his shift when an alarming call leads him to discover that his workmate Carlos has disappeared and a strange red light is pouring out of a sewer. As he follows it, Sebastián enters into hidden tunnels that reveal a dark truth about the neighborhood.

But in Rafael in Rio (1977), the stability between the voice and the images drifts, as well as their relationship. What we see is Maino diving into the ocean until he becomes just a point on the horizon, and we (and she) can no longer reach him.

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