Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

On a distant planet, a solitary man must face his deepest traumas to find the courage that could save all of humanity.

In 1971 there was an Argentine women's soccer team that represented us in the World Cup in Mexico. They traveled with the little they had and tried to survive for the duration of the World Cup. There they were covered in the newspapers and in their country they were invisible.

Mariano and I separated. We had been together for nine years. In these videos we are in the middle of our relationship. We are on a trip, we are in love, we know that love is ending but not that it is going to end for us too. I wanted to make a documentary, a travel diary. Today in these videos I find something else. An intimacy that no longer exists, stopped in time.

A woman burdened by a memory recounts her feverish and senile decisions.

Reflection on the war in general and the Malvinas war in particular. Darío, a former combatant who, together with his daughter, recreates the war in a field and on a terrace. Through representation, they share their versions of the events, which also reveal a distance and generational crossover.

Version of the texts of Sahagún's indigenous informants about the arrival of the Spanish to America.

Chiqui is a fifty-year-old woman with a mild mental disability. She is an only child, single, and has never been known to have a relationship. She lives in the house she inherited from her parents and shares it with her cousin and her cousin's family. They have assumed authority as owners of the house, relegating Chiqui to a limited life. This family's situation will change when Chiqui introduces Bocha, her boyfriend, on Christmas Eve. His mere presence will change the entire course of life in the house, leading Chiqui's family to dark corners.

A group of young actors attempts to recreate some of the key scenes that tell the story of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, the guerrilla group created by the Chilean Communist Party, 10 years after the start of the dictatorship of the genocidal Augusto Pinochet in December 1983.

Live album of the eponymous concert by the Argentine heavy metal band O'Connor, recorded at Teatro Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 14, 2008

A classic short from FARSA Producciones.

A strange monument in the Pampa de Achala, Córdoba, holds a hidden meaning. Yet there are always those who are astonished and begin to ask questions. The answers ignite passions that lead us to the past and the future, and to the discovery that Argentina's aerospace history began in the breathtaking landscape of the High Peaks. A group of young people from the Traslasierra region and an experienced engineer recreate the historic feat that placed our country at the forefront of scientific development.

“I could draw a line through my life, a crack, everything changed after that. At the age of thirteen, I lost what I loved the most.” A woman decides to free herself from a disturbed relationship from her past that, in many ways, has determined the course of her life. She puts the pieces together and carries out a reenactment.

Malena, a lonely and distant young woman, receives the news that her sister Maia committed suicide. Malena must undertake a trip to her hometown to recognize her body and deal with the bureaucracy that comes with caring for a deceased relative. At the same time, she will try to understand what she feels and the relationship she had with her sister, to go through the grief and accept her departure.

Half a ton of explosives demolishes in front of thirty thousand people the building complex that served as a shelter in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal. On March 16, 1991 Narcisa Hirsch records it in a unique way: that giant becomes a cloud of dust that, as a natural phenomenon, covers the town with all its remains.

A medium-length documentary which consists of a portrait of Stef, the director's father. The film shows their relationship as they go on an emotionally charged journey, through a reunion after a long time, with all the people who make up their chosen family, in which Stef has left their mark, through the lives of all those people.

A room, a train station on fire, a flower you see again, a human being from her imagination and time, uncertain. All the thing that exist fit in the word "backpack". All the promises in the world fit in a word, and all the things are internal, personal, nationals.

Mara, a lonely woman, lives in a dystopian, nocturnal and monotonous world that follows an endless cycle of work and consumption. She keeps a big secret, a small flame of fire locked in a metal box. But as each passing day the flame loses its intensity, she must develop an escape plan to keep it alive.

An investigative documentary that delves into the world of youth football geared towards export. It offers a detailed look at the development process in diverse contexts, from local clubs to those linked to European teams and investment funds.

Ramones Pasión Argentina is a documentary that captures the “Ramones mania” experienced with great fervor, mainly during the 1990s, beginning with that visit to Buenos Aires in 1987, and continuing through its lasting legacy many years after the band Ramones disbanded.

When a new box arrives in the attic, it is checked by a little ghost girl.

Martin celebrates his fourteenth birthday with his shoeshine friends. Between superstitions and a land that comes to life, their bodies will only be flesh under a few light flashes.

One night Tomás and his boyfriend Piter hide in the bathroom of a seedy bar after being attacked in the street. Locked up, they believe they are safe, but the tranquillity will soon be interrupted by a mysterious shadow that Tomás will have to confront.

Documentary that rescues the present and the heritage of murguero art in the city of Buenos Aires, through the testimony of the directors of four murgas from different neighborhoods (Boedo, Palermo, Saavedra, La Boca), in a journey that investigates life of the artists of the carnival and in the way of developing this street art with a presence of more than 60 years in the carnivals of the city.

Documentary about the story of Ángel Belisario Gutiérrez, a taxi driver from Buenos Aires who spent his childhood in a lumberjack village lost in the mountains of Santiago del Estero. There, he was imprisoned and joined the fledgling Guevarist guerrilla group founded by the ERP.

Anthropological documentary about Pepe Núñez, a luthier from San Luis.

Life and use of a newspaper, from its preparation and distribution until it becomes a paper boat as a toy for a child. It won the silver bear in the Festival of Berlin.

A railway fan embarks on a journey through the stations of the now-defunct Buenos Aires Province Railway while addressing, from his particular point of view, a tour of the last fifty years of Argentine history.

A group of young people navigate personal and collective situations during the birth and development of their activism in a social neighborhood with unique buildings constructed in the 1970s. They reconcile and confront ideas and build connections with the neighborhood, while dealing with their own conflicts.

Refugees in Their Own Land is an intimate portrait of a man and what belongs to him, an inner struggle forged by the forces of nature.

Fernando Lugo is the first president of the center left in Paraguayan history. He took office in 2008 and carried out a series of measures that put the traditional parties on a war footing.

It is a brief diary in which the succession of shots explores the complexity of the most immediate daily environment and the transition from black and white to color.

The movie about the greatest serial killer in history, who never existed.

In Villa 21, in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires, two gangs clash and apply their own codes. A trial convicts and sentences one of the gang members to death. A story of love, moral codes, and revenge.

Documentary that explores, from a trans perspective - no longer as objects of study but as producers and enunciators of content - the way in which trans men relate to existing audiovisual products and feminisms.

Visual artist and photographer Martín Barrios is an inveterate traveler. His thirst for adventure began at age 17 when he picked up his camera and set off on foot through Latin America. His photographic records capture people from every continent and offer a reflection on joy and sorrow across all geographical regions.

A gay couple discusses showing affection in public, in a world where we have been taught not to be equal.

A diary by: Ignacio Lopardo and Nerina de León Tonno for the week of Monday, May 25 to Saturday, May 30.

Some of the materials and studies that were made during 2015 for the conformation and creation of the short film New life. The selection, the re-appropriation and the montage of them, conform a new poetic that has a direct relation with the final work and at the same time opens a space that allows us to glimpse the creative process, transforming itself into a piece in itself. Materiales is like the B-side of another cinematographic work, as in the old 7-inch vinyl sigles.

Edgardo "Cacho" Pallero, as a person, will offer a glimpse into the era, the commitment of young people in the 1960s, their ideological and political stances; and, in Pallero's case, his filmmaking training, taking on the role of producer from his earliest days.

Luciano leads a depressing life, his days ticking by as he continues to smoke and drink. One night, Death appears to do his work.

Set in the Argentinian coastal town Villa Gesell, built on sand dunes in the 1930s, “The Dunes Said” delves into the town's origins, creating a parallel fiction in which an interrupted report on sand dune memory opens up to let us ponder wider themes of the relationship between humans and nature and how history is created.

Lulú goes to a bar every night in Buenos Aires, she has a coffee, a smoke, and stops to observe. Meanwhile, mirrors confront her with the passage of time and fantasy will become an escape from her daily routine.

An analysis of the social, cultural and institutional environment that surrounds the problem of gender violence in Argentina based on the story of the survivor Ivana Rosales. In addition, the patriarchal network of power that runs through institutions, and the role of the media and stereotypes. A documentary by Susana Nieri.

The Buenos Aires Children's Trust is a center dedicated to protecting disadvantaged children. In 1939, the world's first symphony orchestra, composed exclusively of blind young people, was founded there. For decades, eleven teenagers devoted themselves to music body and soul. Basilio, the last survivor of that orchestra, is about to retire. The film shows how Braille scores are made and read, how the instruments are played, and describes the story behind each of the Trust's rooms.

Film/Concert mixture, showing the story of an Asspera fan going throughout a day in his complicated life, interspersed with footage from the band's show at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium in 2014.

Ina, a 25 year-old dancer comes back home by public transport, exhausted after a harsh routine day. Gaia, her flatmate and also a dancer, invites her friends to have some drinks. Ina tries to avoid the people around. Although she seeks refuge in her room, she can't keep away from her own insecurities and sexual identity conflicts which she starts to explore through movement.

An animated short film directed by Víctor Iturralde.