Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

The annual short film competition for directors organized and produced by INCAA presents six new works.

Eduardo, an exploitative farm owner, is taken to an end-of-harvest celebration organized by his laborers. Over the course of the party things become strange, until the workers reveal their true intentions with Eduardo.

A silent city symphony, projected from gorgeous black and white 16mm film. Materia vibrante lets the resonating frequencies of the urban environment create the inaudible hum that keeps the engines of society running, absent of the inhabitants running around like little ants toiling away.

One night strange things begin to happen in the house; the water and the dampness start taking control and invading the place which forces Napo to face an invisible enemy and his own inner fears.

Documentary about the Protestant Lutheran community of the Evangelical Church of the Río de la Plata in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, which shows how Luther's reformist gene persists in a country monopolized by Catholicism.

Sitting on the sand we see the future oil in the grains of the Atlantic coast. Walking from poetry and dance, we disarm ourselves in videos with no more meaning than the desire to resist and re-exist other realities.

Velva can't fall asleep and looks for a webcammer to accompany her in her insomnia. In the darkness of her room she finds a live, almost unclothed woman lying down and touching herself on the screen. After coming together with her, Velva finally manages to fall asleep.

Two teenagers discover the secrets of the universe (and themselves) among the limited space of four walls.

It tells the reality of a woman from the town who, to give another ending to that story, is determined to search for the man who was part of her life twenty years ago. That man, a boy by then, had escaped from his family's house in the Salta community to seek life as a boxer in Buenos Aires where he eventually fell out of the ring and out of life. At the same time, this woman tries to build a world more worth living in her poor neighborhood together with others.

Alfredo Stroessner was the longest ruling dictator on the South American continent, controlling Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 with an iron fist. Opponents were imprisoned, tortured or killed. In Guapo’y, Celsa, now in her 60s, looks back on that horrific period. Forty-five years ago, pregnant with her son, she was imprisoned and tortured. Later she learned that her husband had also been tortured and then murdered. After eight years, she was reunited with her mother, who herself had been imprisoned, and the two women talk about the traumatic past. We also hear the perspective of Celsa’s son. Celsa fights the demons in her mind with homemade herbal infusions and herbs applied to her body. The beauty of nature, which provides the herbs she carefully gathers, contrasts starkly with the horrific memories.

A group of young people live in an overcrowded reform school and carry out some activities offered by the system. In the film workshop they watch films, they participate with great enthusiasm; they tell some stories about the place and are filmed. Little by little and for various reasons they have to distance themselves.

Two adopted children on their first day in the new house, find themselves alone and decide to investigate it.

Carolina is the youngest of three sisters living confined in their home. Every day, their mother brings her a pig that she must kill herself, while the older sisters, Estefanía and Tatiana, have to cook it. Afterward, they all sit down at the table to eat. Their lives are defined by the ritual of cooking and eating, all while their mother torments them. As time passes, this dynamic becomes increasingly apparent.

On August 17, 1993, a unique and, to this day, unrepeatable social and cultural event took place at Lisandro Olmos Prison: a rock, punk, and metal festival for inmates. A quarter of a century later, with the recovered images, we can try to understand what it was like to be part of such a risky yet significant endeavor.

A Mario Bocchicchio and Maximiliano Sans Super 8 color short film.

A journalist travels to write an essay. He stays at a remarkable mountain hotel where he uncovers a sinister past. As he begins investigating this event, he is drawn into a nightmare whose sinister characters threaten his sanity.

The town rebels against a landowner in La Rioja.

Piki is celebrating his birthday and he tries to get rid of his king-size mattress. By surprise his friends come to his house to celebrate, interfere with his impulse and worsen his mood. Altogether an extreme idea arises that will provoke the liberation of Piki.

Micaela and her mother Yurquina begin a journey in search of their grandmother Felipa, the last inhabitant of the forgotten and extraordinary landscape of Cerro Quemado. It is the poetic portrait of a world about to disappear, the meeting of three women united by an indigenous past.

Maria, a doctor from Santiago serves in a rural hospital in Southern Chile. When 12 years-old Paola visits the hospital, Maria finds out about her terrible secret. Suspecting a family drama, Maria decides to follow the girl to her home.

Flor, Marce, Gina and María make up Danza Combate, a group of feminist women who campaign through dance in social marches. After publishing a photo of herself with exposed breasts and raised fists, it goes viral and sparks a fight on the networks.

A critical memoir about revolutionary violence in Argentina in the 1970s.

Between the 1990s and 2000s, an enigmatic Cuban man visits an Argentine family again and again. From fragmentary memories, contradictions, and silences, the question of how identity is constructed arises.

A short film based on a real case that describes the behavior of a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder confined to his home.

A young man embarks on a terrifying experience that leaves him trapped in a state of paralysis, where a dark presence stalks him and plunges him into an abyss of fear and despair.

Fritz Wessel arrives at a remote village in search of an inn where he can finish his novel, but it won't be so easy: it's there that he finds his worst nightmare and something more than just the end of his book.

A young woman enters religious life with deep devotion and humility, dedicating herself to caring for the sick and marginalized. As her health deteriorates, her silent suffering becomes a testament to her faith and compassion. Through quiet acts of service and unwavering love, she transforms the lives of those around her, leaving behind a legacy of holiness that transcends her earthly existence.

Luisa, a young woman who works cleaning a school is left alone to finish her shift. While cleaning a room, she discovers lots of blood on the floor, setting a series of strange and inexplicable events.

The film documents part of Pablo García Borboroglu's incredible work conserving penguins in Argentine Patagonia and New Zealand, which earned him the Nobel Conservation Award. For more than 30 years, he has dedicated himself to protecting and raising awareness about the 18 species of penguins that exist around the world.

A photographer goes to work at a party. There he meets Sátira, a singer who will transform his night in an unexpected way. Among drinks, cigarettes and glances that say more than they should, the night becomes a scenery for tensions, complicities and small escapes.

After moving into her first apartment, Malena finds a mysterious diary with mind control exercises. The readings will lead her to get away from reality and plot a plan that she does not yet understand.

A short film about love, in which we observe not only the beginning of the relationship between life and death, but also the origin of life itself.

Short film by Gabriela David based on a story by Juan José Manauta

A paradisiacal town may not be so.

Breif essay about the present, cinema, Buenos Aires, and humanity..

Mechita, was a fabulous railway pole in the Buenos Aires plain, today two locals undertake the task of exposing their village through art. Juan Doffo and Pirulo Giommi, a self-taught blacksmith who feeds his work from railway remnants.

Carlos is a commissioner who is separating from his young wife Carolina, who is having an affair with Gómez, a police officer who is under Carlos' orders. He finds out, and plans to murder his wife and her lover.

The Vinchuca Cartel runs the city, the police can't stop them and The Mayor was Kidnapped. Only two friends, two brothers, two men totally insane... are the only hope.

Film made up of five short documentaries about the city of Buenos Aires made between 1958 and 1964: Good morning, Buenos Aires, The Anonymous, The First Foundation of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires in a T-shirt.

An aspiring singer sees himself succeeding in Paris and Buenos Aires.

In a winter of northwestern Argentina, a young woman, a sheep and a llama dance to take off the cold

A musical about an interdimensional love story.

A strange character wanders through a surreal world, while thinking about past and present loves in this music video, part of Tute's Palabras Imposibles project.

Monica contracted polio at age seven, during one of the national epidemics in 1957. Although the disease confined her to a wheelchair, with great difficulty moving her four limbs, Monica has worked as a private English teacher and, more importantly, has been the mother of a daughter who is now 15. After the birth of her daughter, Monica felt the need and the impulse to make a documentary about her "colleagues," mothers in similar situations, a task she undertook with the help of her documentary filmmaker husband.

A version of Bizet's play made with animated puppets satirizing President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Through his eyes and through her ears, we join a blind girl and a deaf mute boy on a night in which they will try to stop being invisible to other people.

An ice cream man’s murder, the owner of a laundry, black bananas, bored young people, philosopher cops, and parallel universes.

A hunter gets caught in a circle that invariably lead him to madness.

Australia, 1915. A young miner decides to change the course of his life. Determined to succeed, he joins the army with the hope of coming back as a hero. In France, he chickens out as he watches his mates die. In a fit of madness, he crosses the battlefield facing the German machine guns.

Lejos De Los Focos is a story of a particular moment in the life of No Te Va Gustar that at the same time is part of a very complex and unique year for everyone. It accurately and honestly describes the details and processes of the record that saved them as a band, reunited them as a family, and gave them hope to put a concert tour back together and play live.

In the Argentine pampas, the lands around Colonia Hansen are among the most fertiles in the world. For a long time, millions of cows were pasting there in the open air. It was said that the best beef was Argentine.

Urban everyday life, repetition as a way of life in a world overloaded with information where the return to synthesis is a necessity for the creator.