Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

In the 70’s, a country boy called Karau, makes his lasts attempts to help his sick mother.

The Blue Whale starts a journey to find a new iceberg for his friend Penguin who has lost his home due to extreme global warming.

To keep his daughter away from a gold digger, a millionaire hires a young man to make her fall in love.

Four teenagers occupy an abandoned house, in a working-class neighborhood in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. They seek to build a shelter where they can escape from family abandonment, neighbor´s cruelty, and the constant stalking by the police. In a seemingly desolate neighborhood, with factory sounds and rusty walls, the four teenagers are constantly observed by people around them. Inhabit narrates the transitory, the impossibility of building and creating a sense of belonging in a hostile place with a marginalizing environment.

Three generations of a family that deals in meat, the epic of a young man that manages to twist his fate, and a simple family restaurant that ends up turning into “the cathedral of Argentine barbecue.” This is the story of Don Julio, considered by many to be the best parrilla in the world.

Twenty years after the appearance and rise of the Buenos Aires Hardcore movement, its protagonists, now adults and with children, share their memories of that time: the shows, the ideal that united them and how that peculiar way of living music ended up marking them for forever. This documentary is an archaeological work to find the vital impulse of the Buenos Aires hardcore scene beyond any visual testimony that still remains on the shelves of private collections.

At 43 years old, Emiliano Deminicis is the Estrella club's all-time top scorer and promised to retire from basketball if his team becomes champion. Moments before playing the final, the last game of his 28-season career at the club of his life, Emiliano begins to glimpse an uncertain future.

Documentary about the unemployed movement in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, between 1998 and 2001.

Nahuel is looking for his mother. She's also looking for him but he doesn't know that. Togheter with his friend, a stray cat and dancer, an a large dose of imagination, they set out on a big adventure.

Documentary about a family that makes wine on the Argentine coast of the Río de la Plata.

A radio station broadcasts tango, the history and experiences of a neighborhood's residents to the world. An independent, tango-themed radio station with a strong neighborhood identity.

Mapuche, Sprouts of the Earth is composed of six short films. Short stories, independent, but interconnected by the ancestral worldview of a living people. Each one allows us to deeply delve into the Mapuche relationship with their community, nature, art, spirituality, life, and death as part of a whole.

A child meets the classic game in which you have to repeat, follow the established...

A mysterious snowfall covers a quiet and destroyed city of Buenos Aires during the 50s. Two men, armed and wearing diving suits to protect them from the snow, observe how the situation leads a distressed man, who wears an insulation suit made up of bags of waste, to despair. Desperation looms over Buenos Aires as an excruciating situation gives birth to madness. The city, and maybe the whole world, were going insane.

Two great contemporary visual artists, one Argentine and the other Dutch, embark on a difficult multi-day journey by mule to capture in situ enormous canvases of the Tigre Mountain Range (the Andes) in central-western Argentina. This immense, rugged landscape, traversed by an epic and liberating path, will impact not only their work but also the social, historical, and cultural vision of the Andean geography and the people who inhabit it.

While Valentine and Clara are having dinner at an Oriental Restaurant, something about what they can't achieve with their life's subtly ruins their mood.

Documentary about the "Pura Vida" bar in La Plata, ten years after its creation.

Clarita, a young girl, finds a poor hungry man, who gives him some coins and comforts him with affectionate words. The scene takes place on a walk and when the little girl runs back to her house, she loses the embroidered handkerchief with her name, collected and stored with love for the unhappy beggar. The plot is complicated in episodes linked to play chance.

Documentary based on the tragedy of Bragado (Argentina) in the 1930s, featuring newspaper images from the period, about the repercussions and the political prisoners there. Testimony from a group of anarchists about the movement and the danger it represented to society due to the repression and imprisonment.

Educational short about contraception and sexual education for the youth.

There's a fictional granddaughter, Nahue, who searches for her grandfather's story.

December 31, 2012. In the middle of the heat wave, a thirty-something man (Gastón Markotic) has to refrigerate the piglet that his father-in-law sends him for the end of the year. The refusal of a butcher to help him and the clumsiness of his friend Virgo (Manuel Sánchez Viamonte) result in a series of adventures through the city of La Plata.

Sergio Dicovsky was arrested and disappeared on November 19, 1974, during the government of María Estela Martínez de Perón. Mariano Minestrelli's documentary accompanies his brother, Miguel Dicovsky, in the investigation and becomes a key testimony document in elucidating the events.

There is a house being emptied. There is an auction in the neighborhood of Flores. Clients fill the place, eager to buy all kinds of objects. There is almost no filter when fighting to get the best price that belongs to the dead, the exiles, the fugitives and the soulless. A reseller who is too preoccupied with the staging, a collector with a past as a fishing worker, and the owner of an antique shop that admits to selling the affections of people, hints at the state of things.

The days between the end of the military dictatorship and the beginning of the constitutional period from 1983: political debates in the streets and the meetings of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who were waiting for the role that each political party would play to claim for the disappeared. Osvaldo Bayer in first person.

There's a magical night for the girls of San Pedro, in the province of Jujuy. It's the White Dinner, the party they throw when they graduate from high school. Romina Tejerina couldn't have it: on the day of her White Dinner, she was in prison; she had killed the baby she conceived after a rape that went unpunished.

Sofía travels from La Plata to Los Toldos, her hometown. During her stay, Sofía will assist her father, who is in poor health, with the funeral work being done by Casa Coraggio, the family business. In the history of her ancestors, each one has had to take on this responsibility and continue a legacy that spans more than 120 years. Amidst an atmosphere of life and death, Sofía struggles between following tradition or choosing a new path.

A 1926 documentary short film.

The hope of hundreds of relatives of victims of forced disappearances rests on the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which has spent 30 years recovering and identifying the remains of disappeared persons in Argentina and more than 30 countries. Nothing short of the return of the remains to their families can end this search, thus attempting to heal the open wounds.

A lost film.

The actors of "Cyrano a Franco-Argentine vaudeville" fight at the time of greatest success of the play. After a few months, the director, Pablo Bontá, decides to replace the project with a new actor. To follow this process of reconstruction is to immerse oneself in the odyssey of the independent Argentine theater.

A movie filmed almost entirely in the interior of a house on the outskirts of S.C. de Bariloche, on the shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake, over the course of one full winter and the beginning of a spring. The camera, through frame-by-frame tracking and panning shots, goes along revealing furniture, corners, objects and books, using rails in the first instance and a calibrated disk mounted on a tripod in the second. The house vibrates with its own life, revealing almost ghostlike traces and vestiges while the human presence is barely suggested. These shots alternate with others of the landscape: a lake, snow, bushes rattled by the wind, the passing of the seasons, external signs that accentuate the solitude of the interior spaces.

A short film about bullying for being gay.

The filmmaker is asked to direct a short film for the opening of a certain festival. The responsibility upsets and distresses her. She finds a solution that results in a manifest secret about fragile cinema and it’s adventures.

In 1985, Víctor Hugo Saldaño left his native Córdoba for the United States, chasing his own dream, only to enter an endless criminal and prison nightmare. A decade later, he committed a crime and was sentenced to death twice in a biased judicial process tainted by discrimination, which keeps him on death row in a Texas prison to this day.

Two 16-year-old boys have a sporadic romance, promising to meet in a place 60 years later, today is that day.

Documentary that explores the tragedy that occurred at gate 12 of the River Plate Athletic Club on June 23, 1968. Ribs, arms, legs, heads, chests, all shattered by the lightning force of thousands of people. Blood trickling down the steps. A sporting celebration with an absurd epilogue. Why?

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The intimacy between Manuel and Fermín begins to crack when Fermín starts a new job and the pressure to fit in reawakens old fears. Outside, hateful rhetoric begins to echo again; inside, their love is confronted with uncertainty.

Dozens of cans containing student films from the 1960s and 1970s, believed to have been lost during the dictatorship, turn up at the National University of Córdoba. Half a century later, these images bring back the passion of a generation and the abrupt end of their dreams.

It showcases the journey of three women from the Upper Valley of Neuquén and Río Negro, and their activism for cannabis medicine. They are Carmen, Paula, and Fernanda—a doctor, a veterinarian, and an activist—who share their connection and their struggle from a scientific, political, and feminist perspective.

The camera takes in the Patagonian pastures, then the faces in an old warehouse, and transparent photos of Patagonian scenes. Everything is filtered by an amber light. (Narcisa Hirsch Filmoteca)

Based on his own short story, the film deals with the theme of infidelity.

"Dense Flow, Red River,” an immersive uterine exploration in a sonic key.

Two prostitutes serve clients in a small private apartment downtown. In the neighborhood, a series of mysterious ritual murders keep the women on edge. One day, one of their oldest clients asks them to play a dark sexual game that becomes increasingly bizarre. The two women begin to suspect him and decide to set a trap. But evil is even closer than they imagine.

Memories that begin to inhabit the empty spaces of a house. A journey in search of an answer. Through the coexistence of past and present, the director seeks to unravel our attempt to save ourselves from the clutches of time, thus exploring the fear of oblivion.

The life and thought of Uruguayan educator Jesualdo Sosa, author of "Life of a Teacher," which chronicles the events of a single school year in a humble rural school in the 1930s.

Hugs transcend the simplicity of a gesture; they unite, shelter, forgive, appreciate. They can speak more than a thousand words, filling the soul with warmth and tenderness

Explores the impact of the pandemic and lockdown in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, where confinement not only halts daily life but also exacerbates latent tensions. Behind closed doors, social masks fall away, revealing the shadows each person hides.

A marriage blows up during the final minutes of a crucial football game.

Luciano Carinsi leaves his job as a veterinarian at INTA and returns to the village to care for his grandfather, with whom he will share his last five, almost endless days.

A collection of six short films based on six poems (Carbón, Remedio, Grito, Cariño, Entierro and Camino)

Don Videla is a cinema operator, 80 years old and 65 years old, he crosses the streets of San Juan on his bicycle to get to the Municipal Cinema and show films. A film crew accompanies him to trace the traces of the cinemas he passed through.