Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

After meeting the Scottish/Canadian animator Norman Mc Laren at a documentary and animation film festival in Cordoba in 1962, Bras experimented with the technique of "direct scratching on film" by synchronising the image with music and noises. In "TOC TOC TOC TOC" Bras recorded on the optical soundtrack of 16mm film the sound of a pencil tapping against a table. Then, seeing the drawing of the optical sound, he invented graphics that he scratched with the pick of an old phonograph on the veiled film.

Mourning (noun) 1. Sadness that you show and feel because someone has died, or because something no longer exists or is no longer the same. 2. Clothes that people wear to show their sadness at someone's death. Fiction.

From the perspective of youth in 13 towns across Argentina, this article recounts the changes the pandemic brought about in terms of school, socializing, and the virtualization of all gatherings, as well as how all of this impacted youth emotionally.

Silent black and white movie by pioneer of argentine cinema Eugenio Cardini.

Produced by Casa Lepage, it is the first appearance of tango in the cinema, as it contains brief scenes in which the dancer El Negro Agapito demonstrates figures.

A warm memory of Tucuman childhoods called Tapalín: a clown who shouted "Long live the Homeland!" thirty years ago on TV. Now he lives without frills. It narrates the relationship between Tapalín, the singer Carlos Geomar and César Quiroga who live in the same body.

Documentary about a meeting of motorcyclists in the south of Buenos Aires.

An essay in two movements and two voices about the violence of images. An attempt to move from a refutation to an affirmation of another origin and other symbolic horizons.

César, a 19 year old, is the singer and leader of the murga group 'Los locos no se ocultan'. Now he must come back to his native town in Bolivia, where he will channel his creativity in the creation of the first murga group in his homeland, with the help of old and new carnival friends.

Animated short film by Víctor Iturralde.

Belisario: the great little hero of the cosmos focuses on the adventures of a little astronaut mouse who travels in time to inscribe his name in the history of Argentine astronautics. Throughout his travels he will witness the most relevant events and face unthinkable dangers that he must overcome to survive.

Two brothers heredates the ice cream truck of their grandfather. They have different opinions about what to do with it.

Julia and Tomás are together. Somehow. It's not quite clear how, but they're together. They spend the day together in an apartment. More or less alone, but not entirely. They do their own thing, waste time, and have adventures.

Short documentary film about an educational experience that took place in a neighborhood of Rosario.

A nervous, careless recording of a trip through India and Nepal at the beginning of the 1970s. Fleeting impressions of faces, landscapes, temples, people and things. Images that, having been captured in a ephemeral medium, proceed to fade away (although without aging), alongside the river of time.

In Argentina, the daily life of the Mapuche families, where the men work in a self-managed abattoir.

In a not-so-distant future where death is no longer definitive, a body whose resources are exhausted can have its consciousness survive in a digital limbo, then come back in a different body. That doesn’t come free of charge, however. After 100 years as data, Rana returns to life in a makeshift body, the only one he can pay for. He returns to find his son, now an old man, who defies the system by choosing to die naturally and disappear forever.

A documentary about the clandestine torture and extermination center that worked on El Club Atlético.

Documentary that chronicles daily life at Maison Michel Sarrazin, a palliative care home in Quebec where different patients spend their final days. Men and women facing death try to reclaim the dignity that illness has taken from them. The camera accompanies those intimate, everyday moments where life and death brush against each other: a caress, a conversation, a shared silence between those who care and those who say goodbye.

Film made by Julio Irigoyen in 1929.

A journey into the bodily emotions conveyed by nature. Contemplation in dialogue with intimacy and vastness. Projected on Super 8 film with three projectors.

A tribute to the great comic book superhero, in the style of a silent film. The Man of Steel, driven by the overwhelming need to do good, thwarts a criminal act without receiving any recognition. On the contrary, and quite unexpectedly, he is attacked by the victim of the robbery.

Alicia immerses herself in a fantastic world, where she faces personal challenges and meets various eccentric characters who, through dance, accompany her in her process of self-discovery.

Alma, a teenage girl, doesn't feel anything in his life due to the death of her grandmother. While she sleeps, she meets Muriel, a teenage boy whoe remains in coma after an accident. He will guide Alma during her las minutes alive, while she thinks in the hug that she couldn't gave when alive.

How much does the distance between a mother and daughter weigh? You could say that distance drives a letter. A young student celebrates her birthday in Argentina and films for her mother in Spain. Along with film, she finds a space to surprise herself and play again, where a lemon can be the entire Earth or the exact distance between two bodies while dancing.

Iván wants to emigrate to the United States. He doesn't care about what he's leaving behind, not even his relationship with his girlfriend Claudia, whom he hasn't yet told about his decision. Iván must sell his grandfather's house in order to travel. Memories of his grandfather, an immigrant who struggled to build a home and a future for his family, leave Iván conflicted about the direction he should take with his life.

Carmen, a young dancer, is unable to complete her choreography because she feels trapped by unknown hands.

Floggers: a passing fad or a new culture that will endure? Another strategy to induce teenagers to consume excessively? These questions are unraveled in this documentary by the protagonists of the phenomenon: shopkeepers, hairdressers, teachers, and, of course, the floggers themselves.

A short version of the classic vampire who, voracious and sensual, consumes his submissive victims without ever becoming satiated.

Documentary addressing the intersex community's struggle against non-consensual medical interventions.

In 1976, during the military dictatorship in the Yungas region of Jujuy, Sara discovers and accidentally injures a mystical creature, a winged boy she calls Angel. Sara decides to hide him in her house and nurse him back to health. They become friends until the political situation affects her family and her freedom.

Two neighbours share an impromptu dinner after crossing paths in the hallway

The Dalton brothers, fourth generation of a circus family, have traveled the world experiencing both success and failure. Today in Catalonia, a new generation will host the Carpa Revolució, bringing the history of the circus to life, where magic, memories, and the future will take center stage.

In a medieval dungeon, a prince has been imprisoned for more than twenty years for an alleged crime. His testimony supports some fantastic facts, which is why he is identified as a person possessed by the devil or insane. A sorcerer, spokesman for the King, visits him periodically to achieve his improvement, so that the prince is released and is in a position to become the future king. The prince is not willing to deny what he saw. But the sorcerer offers him a deal that puts the values, truth and justice of the entire kingdom at stake. Príncipe Constante reveals the true story behind a lie that accompanied us from our childhood until today. But now the truth is known.

The script is a free adaptation of the short story “Letters to a lady in Paris” by Julio Cortázar. Andrés is a veterinarian who suffers from a strange anomaly: from time to time, he vomits little white bunnies. Naturally, one is not going to comment on it, so he does his best to hide it. It wasn't so terrible, once he got into the unvarying cycle, the method. The problem is that there are now ten of them.

In the midst of the incipient confinement in a neighborhood of monoblocks lost in Formosa, Eric asks his friend in a playful way: what are you going to do next when this is over? Viral audios increase paranoia among neighbors, something is happening but we don't know exactly what. In the distance, a neighbor hears that the police do not allow people to work, on television there are parts that surpass any type of imagination. You listen to it without doing anything, it's just that no one knows what to do, something in that entire domestic universe is slightly blurred. Bodies reduced to their minimum movements, time a thicket uneasily calm, but here in Formosa wasn't it always like this? What if something was created in that time so close that we no longer want to think? A neighbor tells another that her brother and other boys were taken away by the police, then she lights a cigarette and looks at the street: she doesn't know what to do.

This docu-fiction narrates the difficult obstacles that the student and political movements had to go through to achieve a unique achievement on the American continent: that all the inhabitants of the nation can access higher education freely and without fees.

A ballet performed by construction workers.

"We live in a violent time. The country is devastated, citizens are unprotected, and the police are corrupt. Two mafia gangs are fighting over the government of a city, and the end will be... a bloodbath."

12 kilometers is the story of two women and nature. Of the future of life in the rural world. Of the power of women, of their unavoidable will. Of a bond between a mother and her daughter.

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