Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

“Between Empty Spaces” explores the silent dissolution of a relationship trapped in monotony through a deeply visual narrative that isolates the characters within the spaces they inhabit.

A girl wakes up scared in the middle of the night convinced of hearing a monster under her bed.

This collective documentary, created by the Social Narrative Creation and Circulation workshop at the Leonardo Favio CPA in the Municipality of Quilmes, aims to disseminate the activist work that retirees (jubilados) are carrying out against the current government's hunger and plundering policies. We hope its dissemination will encourage all young people, retirees, workers, and the unemployed to join the fight against these hunger and austerity policies.

Before leaving Buenos Aires for a new job offer abroad, Mati decides to embark on a last project with her best friend Nico; recording a sound portrait of the city. Together they wander the streets that marked their friendship, while they face their own doubts and uncertanties about the future ahead.

Eve and Adam live on a study shelf. Amidst cables and animated objects, they discover (or invent) the secret of their existence. A playful, philosophical game about creation.

A gentle animated short about Pluma, a little pig adapting to life in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A great book, loosely adapted for the screen, about curiosity that opens doors, the manipulation of time, and transgression in love.

Argentina. 1977. Ministry of Economy. Physical bodies disappearing. Informational bodies hijacked. Acts of love and resistance. Institutional misunderstandings that persist.

A reflection on the exile of an entire intellectual, scientific and academic elite that was forced to flee Argentina due to the political violence of the sixties and seventies.

Hand held shots of my house and family cuts to a long take portrait of a cat.

Berta Ritvo is 105 years old and has lived through the decline of a flourishing country, such as Argentina in the early 20th century, to the destruction of its economy, society, and politics. Wisely recounting her experiences in Jewish movements and sociopolitical activities, Berta introduces us to a world filled with anecdotes and vitality.

The circus arrives with its artists to the town, and the people hide the chickens. The documentary introduces us to the creation of the show and the experiences of the troupe, in an incredible record of acrobats, trapeze artists, tigers and interviews, which give it a modern feel and take it away from the beaten path.

The film uses the technique of collage on found footage, combining images from graphic media of the time with a speech by General Juan Carlos Onganía, the then president of Argentina. While Onganía's voice extols the virtues of the self-proclaimed Argentine Revolution, the images contrast with scenes of repression and poverty.

A young man meets a boy who tells him that he is going to make the worst mistake of his life, believing him was the worst mistake of your life.

A barefoot figure walks among the stars. A Guarani voice that sounds distant wonders where does this river lead? Poetry transports us through images that appear like flashes from a dark dream, with jaguars that watch us, machetes that threaten us and jungle landscapes that do not exist. A sound reflection on the jungle and death.

Mounting sequences on patterns that make up a description between the world of entertainer and reality. The material found (found footage) is film bought at Sunday fairs but there is also material filmed by the mountaineer.

An experimental filming exploration of the details of the work "The Garden of Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch.

A childhood trauma haunts Pilar, transforming her everyday reality into a series of strange events that make her confront her darkest memories.

During a workday in the neighborhood, we immerse ourselves in the daily lives of a group of women as we delve into their emotions and reflections. As we follow their work routines, we discover how belonging to an organization has had a profound impact on their lives.

Juan arrives in Buenos Aires, autumn seems to never arrive. Things are starting to get strange.

Citizen in trance is a mixture of documentary observation and experimentation. The film humorously portrays a whole gallery of characters, objects or humans, who parade through the city. Little by little a secret story is emerging, a melodrama taken from an old radio drama that only the mannequins in their shop windows know: as in any tragedy, death will be inevitable. An unusual and ironic documentary where the montage of images “stolen” from the street pay homage to the anti-heroes of the city.

Fourth therapy session. Manuel begins to think it’s not working. Still, he keeps trying—until his hands become steel.

The lives of Ana, Haneen and María are crossed by the imaginaries of their Italian, Ranquelian and Syrian identities. Their stories, inherited and their own, intermingle with the dust, the desert and the plain of the immense land of La Pampa.

A man misses his friends and loved ones.

Cell phone cameras, WhatsApp messages, memes and TikToks portray the unique life in confinement that a Buenos Aires building adopted during the 2020 pandemic. The hilarious everyday life built by the neighbors becomes the best shield to face the approaching collapse.

A portrait of Nicéforo Galván's house after his death.

The weavers of western La Pampa invite us to their stalls, tell us about their lives and teach us about the tradition of wool craftsmanship.

During the 2001 argentinian crisis, a family moves out to Montevideo, in an attempt to leave the ghosts from their past as they cope with the death of a loved one.

Reflections of Latin American cultural identity through flea markets, between trash and treasures. Unusual, archaeological and anti-capitalist universe that explores the sustainability of the circular economy through recycled objects.

Juan and Lucía play hide and seek in the forest. After playing for a while, Juan loses Lucía and when trying to find her he also gets lost. Until he finds a cabin and what was a game becomes a reality.

A video letter that Hirsch made for Hans Hurch after attending the 2012 Viennale

"A documentary of high plasticity, with geometric framing, a radical editing that links long slow-paced shots with close-ups of sand, skin and nets that tell the story of a day at an Argentine beach" Ángela Lopez Ruiz.

Can objects be carriers of something beyond their essence? A group of filmmakers seek for an answer to this question while a young man films and creates new memories from the lost objects of unknown people, giving them new meanings.

A documentary about six protagonists at the 34th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Transvestites, Bisexuals and Non-Binaries, held in La Plata, 2019. Through their political activism, participation in workshops, and marches, an intimate map of one of the most powerful feminist events in Abya Yala unfolds. Valentina, Urraca Negra, Micaela, Romina, Alicia, and Tata represent diverse struggles and identities. Their stories speak of a collective desire for freedom.

Rocío, a 17 year-old transgender girl in Rosario, fights for her identity amidst bullying, discrimination, and oppression. She champions LGBTQ+ rights, standing strong as a beacon of hope for those seeking acceptance and equality.

Claudia and Martín have been looking for him for years. Days pass and the relationship deteriorates until an unexpected event revives it: Martín meets a couple who has it.

A short film set in Argentina in the 1920s, in one of those ballroom dances that served young singles - and not so young - to meet their potential partners. What happens is that if one is missing a part of the body, a leg, or a part of the arm, the task is particularly complicated.

A strong east wind brings snow, rain and also memories of her father. Only a few objects, newspaper clippings and diary entries make him present. But Maia would like to know him better, to piece together a complete portrait from the fragments. For this reason, she leaves Argentina, the land of her home, and travels to the West Bank, where her absent parent comes from. But at first she finds only more ruins, the remains of houses destroyed by the Israeli occupiers. As slowly as the calm sea ripples, the author's pilgrimage to her roots turns into an encounter with an entire nation that has been stripped of its home. The shared experience of loss helps her to fill the empty space in her heart.

The invisibility of women's imaginary lives with creative spaces that allow elucidating new ways . The question: what is a woman?It´s answered with a chorus of voices and doings related to bread that is built , materializes and collapses. A cycle that reinvents itself.

Unlike most works of that era that revolved around tango, the fictional film tells the story of a young opera singer. Following in Ferreyra's footsteps, the film explores the streets of La Boca, the port, and the bar, with a marked realism even as the fictional narrative—a young fisherman becomes an international opera star, leaving her humble girlfriend behind—drives the action forward, culminating in a drama with an unexpected ending.

Minerva is an artist from Chaco who revolutionized art forever, she disappeared turning her life and work into a myth. Where is Minerva?

An instant during the pandemic where the body remains motionless and wandering in the absence of the sun. The hours pass and the first rays of sunlight sweep through the space, widening it, the body is revitalized, regaining movement. An ode to the sun.

Latin urban artist Callejero Fino brings his chart-topping Argentine cumbia and reggaeton sounds to the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires for the first time in an exclusive show.

Veronica is known for falling in love with her middle aged teachers. One day, wondering why this is, she has an epiphany.

Isolated incidents and events filmed in a travel compose a biography of the person who are filming them. Showing his own evidence, defining, deciding, loosing or diffusing his point of view. Can we deceive oneself? What an image can do over us? Fingir (to Pretend) try out a definition, but it's in herself things essence, to unknown their meanings.

The king of a failing kingdom kidnaps Super Frog and his son for an unusual favor.

Carla travels to Costa Rica with her three daughters in order to explore the place where the plane in which their father was a passenger disappeared. Throughout the trip, the four of them decide to make a film that ends up capturing much more than that search