Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A woman spends the last weekend in her summer house where her daughter died at sea a few months earlier.

Documentary portrait about a third-year ENERC student, who spends more than eight hours at school arguing that it is his "second home."

The audiovisual shows the perspective of the sister of Tamara Salazar, a victim of femicide in Corrientes. María, that is her name, describes one of the protests in front of Criminal Court No. 1 of the City of Corrientes. There he had managed to circumvent the police fence with his cousin and his nephew. Between laughter and questions, her voice traces a dialogue where she questions the actions of the forces, while demanding against the acquittal of her sister's murderer.

Malvinas ex-combatants talk about their daily lives on the islands. Feelings, emotions, sadness and courage are mixed in these stories of the protagonists of the war.

A man plays a chess game against a very particular opponent.

Argentine telefilm directed and produced by Carlos Lozano Dana.

Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to stop being a princess. But this princess does not live in a castle but in a tenement guarded by her father, and there is no prince to come to the rescue but a plan that includes sheets, a baby call and a terrace. Who said there is only one way to be a princess?

Count sheep. Trying to sleep while having insomnia.

Lucía has just been dumped by her boyfriend, the mysterious and elusive "Muchii." This opens the door for Lucía to keep a diary, which will lead her to find those responsible for all her previous romantic failures. Her plan is to discover a way out of the depression she finds herself in.

The story of a man looking for a woman whom he thinks he met a year ago. Love, poetry and the absurd, in homage to a mythical work of French cinema.

A ladybug flies over a spring landscape that is invaded by rain. She is swept away by the water and falls into a colorful dream along with a cockroach. While the cockroach is drinking water, the ladybug wakes up and begins to fly.

In the Bora community of Pucaurquillo, Peru, a subtle invasion is underway that threatens their cultural identity: the gradual loss of oral transmission of the Bora language to new generations, the increasing consumption of television, the construction of a road that will connect them to the district's commercial center, and the resulting deforestation.

An environmental documentary about threatened Argentine species.

Documentary about the chamamé accordionist Raúl Barboza, born in Buenos Aires in 1938.

The documentary filmed in 2000 portrays the consequences of the neoliberal policies of the 90s that destroyed the production of yerba mate in Misiones. This is how the socio-economic bomb that would explode in December 2001 was prepared.

It portrays the attractive personality of this painter who, defying the blindness that cornered him, develops an original and unique artistic production among his own, whose study and observation theme has been the ancestral relationship between man and the earth, imbricated in rites and customs. of daily practice and pre-Columbian roots.

The devastating defeat of the Argentine soccer team in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and the crisis of the criollo style of play, fundamental in the history of Argentine sports.

Documentary that reflects on the figure of the men whose children were kidnapped and disappeared during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. Men who from the first moment shared with their wives, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the search for their children, but without actually organizing themselves into a group that would provide them with a space of visible recognition for the rest of society.

Plastic artists from the western neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires tell us about their lives linked to art, where they deal with topics such as constant learning, the legacy of their teachers, the influence of the neighborhood, their similarities and differences, the economic difficulties of the artistic activity and the need to be loved. These are some of the themes that make up this different view of a group of artists-neighbors from some Buenos Aires neighborhoods.

The film is the confrontation of archival material rescued from the television news of the last military dictatorship in Argentina between the years that go from 1976 to 1983 and the documentary tour to different places in the City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires , Córdoba, Tucumán and Neuquén, in the so-called Clandestine Detention Centers (CCD).

Through five episodes, this documentary delves into the history, landscapes and dreams of Argentina. Conceived as a journey into the interior of anger and hope, the film is inspired by a text by the director himself that expresses in each sentence the meaning of each of his films and summarizes the entire spirit of his work

Immersed in the Buenos Aires Pampean plain, the towns that still survive the disappearance of the train, adapt to the new conditions of existence. One of its inhabitants travels in his railway vehicle, built with his own hands, and which is now a fundamental part of his daily life. His journey merges with that of other residents who join in the reconstruction work of these abandoned roads.

The film shows in a quiet tour of Spain, the inhabited streets of Madrid, the beautiful and imposing Roman Aqueduct of Segovia, the solid Renaissance architecture of the El Escorial Monastery, the beauty of the magical design of the Alhambra in Granada and the Mosque-Cathedral in Córdoba.

An 8-year-old boy learns and explores in the thick of the forest. Carmelo's parents, like many neighbors in the area, left the city to live in the middle of nature. On this thorny and contradictory new path, the forest lurks and plays with their inexperienced wills. Thus, they attend the inevitable lesson of the Monte School.

Portrait of the situation of the Ramón Carrillo neighborhood, in the City of Buenos Aires, and of the people who were relocated more than two decades ago, coming from the buildings that were destined to be the largest pediatric hospital in Latin America, later called "Albergue Warnes".

In April 2014. S/Y Selma Expeditions sailed off for a trip called 'Selma - Antarctica - Perservance'. This one year-long trip started by sailing around Cape Horn from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean to Australia. There, in December 2014, the Selma crew took part in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. After that they started their sail to the coldest and most inacces...

Martín Negri is an environmental controller living in Bahía Blanca, whose hotspot is the city's Petrochemical Complex, located in Ingeniero White. Martín suffers workplace retaliation for refusing to be corrupted and falls ill.

For this valiant knight, life is a videogame where he destroys, plunders, and levels up. But all that is about to change.

A film that sets a magnifying glass on the representation of lesbians in fiction products that were broadcasted on Argentine television from 1992 to 2014 on over-the-air channels. Based on interviews with professionals from various disciplines and archival images, the documentary reveals a negative characterization that predominates in the representations. The characters lack social depth and are distant from reality. The small screen presents us with lives marked by a dramatic coming out of the closet or, even worse, their permanence in it. The voices of Albertina Carri, Ernesto Meccia, Analia Couceiro and Vir Cano reflect on fictions from their backgrounds and their own life stories.

A documentary essay about Argentinian trans activist Maite Amaya.

Audiovisual research conducted from a Lesbo-Trans-Feminist perspective during the years 2009 and 2010 in the city of La Plata.

A documentary that chronicles the lives of three political activists in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s: José Luis Nell, a member of the Peronist resistance; Lucía Cullen, a social worker and FAP (Peronist Armed Forces) activist who disappeared during the last dictatorship; and Carlos Mugica, a leader of the Third World Priests who was murdered by the Triple A in 1974. Using valuable archival material and the testimony of those who knew them, the film reconstructs their personal and political stories, the ties that united them, and the events in the country between the overthrow of Juan Domingo Perón in 1955 and the rise of the last dictatorship in 1976.

Using archival material from Argentine television programs from 2001 and personal television archives from 89-91, Marilina Giménez, the director, traces part of her personal history in which she narrates her first lesbian relationship with Marina La Grasta, musician of the current group Ibiza Pareo. "If our desires are impossible we will be a mystery": the symbolic violence of les no representades is transformed into a banner of rage and pride.

A dream can change your life. So can a nightmare.

Ashkasha is a living being guided by curiosity. This causes her to lose her head and get trapped in the depths, where is submerged on a discovery journey.

A portrait of a drag queen disturbed by the monotonous routine of her forties. Self-absorbed, she survives the mornings with cigarettes. A cup of coffee that escapes her, indifferent cats and the exhaustive cleaning of her house that always seems dirty, will be the excuse to enter a little world with monsters.

A recurring nightmare immerses the filmmaker into a visual research in the first person. Beginning with the 1955 bombing of Buenos Aires, the film elaborates a disturbing essay about violence. Combining a variety of different materials the director follows a line of thought that starts with his grandparents at World Wars I and II, and passes through Vietnam and the atomic weapons, reflecting about the kind of world we make for ourselves and for coming generations.

Observations of two filmmakers (or how to start filming a new space). A work of mise-en-scène in two gazes, on an empty space that never stops moving.

One night, two shirts, the end of a friendship.

The filmmaker accompanies Sara Mamani to her hometown of Salta, revisiting the places of her childhood and adolescence and her beginnings in music with Cuchi Leguizamón. At her home in Buenos Aires, where she has lived for many years, Sara recounts her musical journey, interspersed with archival footage of her performances, including one with Jaime Torres. Finally, Sara travels to Jujuy to participate once again in the Tilcara Carnival, as she has done for so many years—a popular festival that nourishes her words and her music.

In a three- dimensional futuristic city, live two-dimensional beings, that are controlled by surveillance systems. One of them, BUG, will seek to overcome all the obstacles in order to find out a trascendent discovery. Without a single word, BUG talks about reality and virtuality, power and poetry, uniformity and imagination.

Garbiñe Ortega, Artistic Director of Punto de Vista, came up with the idea of creating a collective audiovisual project in which several filmmakers would make a filmed letter addressed to another filmmaker they did not know personally and who was as far as possible from their own cinema. This is how THE LETTERS THAT WEREN'T AND ALSO ARE was born. The result is an exciting journey through their affinities, their admiration and their creative processes.

This medium-length documentary film, which is also slightly advertise-driven, goes through the process of selection and training of young talents at the River Plate Soccer School that was run by Carlos Peucelle, and it also documents the Argentine history of the most popular sport, combining archive footage (including a recorded training of River's "La Máquina" team) with cartoons designed and directed by Oscar Desplats, Carlos Ávila and Oscar Grillo.

Documentary about the life of Homero Expósito, enormous tango poet, author of "Naranjo en flor", among many other essential songs of citizen music.

Animation that tries to make a synthesis of the history of the working class in just over a minute.

Darío is a young man who lives alone and has a weakness for friar's balls, but he can't get them because the neighborhood bakery is closed for quarantine. He spies on the neighboring house and accidentally meets Daiana.

A Silvestre Byrón experimental short film.

A Silvestre Byrón experimental short film.

Video documentary about the December 2001 crisis in Argentina.

Through different experiences and memories from inhabitants of the Cuban city of Holguín, this is a documentary about how soccer works both as a means to enjoy the body and for the building of social bonds.