Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

The light and the noise stain the dark night.

Moncha, a cocuy artisan, and Miriam, a notable scientist specializing in botany, undertake a long struggle to legalize the cocuy. The cocuy is an ancestral spirit drink obtained from the agave, the “miracle plant”. This drink was banned in the 50s, which meant decades of criminalization of a people and their traditions. The two women will face large corporations and will manage to transcend the history of a country that is beginning to recognize its cultural value.

Camil, a writer who suffers from a psychological block, stops feeling her partner. He focuses his energy on his latest book called "She Was Always There" and becomes obsessed between his writings and Bhela. Until they meet again underwater.

It deals with traditions related to cattle and horses as well as changes in the agricultural economy in the region of the Sierras de Elizonda , in the Sierras de Valle Fértil , on the way to Valle de la Luna in the province of San Juan

In 2002, Ana, at the age of 24, began teaching dance classes in La Cava, a low-income neighborhood. There he meets 6-year-old Maria. In 2010, they make the decision to make a dance piece where both will participate in the creation as colleagues. But something unexpected happens and they have to suspend it; Ana, 33 years old, is pregnant and María, 16 years old, is also pregnant. Today, already mothers, they come together again to give shape to the work.

After having spent more than 25/30 years in music, six rockers, each in their own way, walk this winding and mysterious path of creation. How difficult it is for them to get out to work in the face of a changing system. The film tells his deepest thoughts about music. We see them at home, in small shows where only a few friends and a few fans attend. Also great shows, where the whole world applauds them. The film portrays the problem of being geniuses and how difficult it is to make a living from music while being authentic.

Any given night, in any place, anything can happen where football is life itself.

During the pre-Christmas period of December 1975, the daily lives of the inhabitants of Monte Chingolo were disrupted by an attempted takeover of the Domingo Viejobueno Battalion by militants of the PRT-ERP. What do they remember? What did they see? What did they hear and feel during those days? The memories of that time intertwine like a collage, inviting collective reflection on memory.

A boy's difficult childhood leads him down a path that is difficult to escape.

A documentary essay based on materials, both original and sourced, created during the strictest isolation. Accounts of a world that suddenly became unrecognizable. Voyeuristic and intimate, it is a provocative and irreverent film.

Renata is an opera singer and composer who, at the age of 37, has reached the limits of fame within her profession. About to premiere her new work, death surprises her before going on stage.

Film directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of Alton Films, and summoned Luis Sandrini to star it. The result was catastrophic and all copies of the film were destroyed, therefore it is considered to be totally lost.

Martín García, a small island located at the entrance to the world's largest estuary, the Río de la Plata, has been the scene of exploits and hardships, poetry and suffering, epic poems and exiles. Its secrets will be revealed with the help of a journalist, a photographer, and a cartoonist.

In December 1977, two French nuns, Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet, were kidnapped in Buenos Aires by a squad of commandos from the Argentinean Navy. They were held and tortured at the ESMA - the School of Naval Engineering and were never seen again. Moving tale based on letters Alice Domon sent to her family and friends back home as well as on the testimony of many friends in Argentina who remember her humanity and courage. She shared the lives of those in need, helped heeling their sick and bringing in their crops. And she raised their political awareness - which brought her to the attention of the regime. A film retracing recent history that is by no means in the past.

"From Horror to Hope" takes a look at the main events of the period 1976-1983 and 1983-2006, compiles unpublished material from the period and gathers testimonies from representatives of various spheres of Argentine society.

At an immersive theater play, the line between fiction and reality becomes blurry and the spectators start fearing for their lives.

In the dense haze that rises from the countryside, a meek voice speaks about an overseas journey, about an unknown language, about the effort to tame with children and words a plain of horror.

When the pandemic first struck, Argentinian filmmaker Virna Molina was working on a documentary about the struggle for equal rights for female workers at the Buenos Aires subway. The project came to a standstill, but then Molina decided to go ahead with her film after all—however, it turned out very differently from the original plan.

It is the year 2040, the world has been invaded and destroyed by a race of aliens several years before. Humans are losing the war and are betting everything on artificial intelligence.

Short film animated with the "scratch on film" technique, scratched directly on 16mm film and then toned with solvent inks. The soundtrack belongs to the Bongo Band.

When illustrator Gusti’s son is born totally different than expected, the father has to find a new, personal way to accept the situation.

At a maximum security prison, a boxer searches for his freedom and receives advice from the leader of the cell block , along with a group of young men who want to be millionaires and another one who has just been imprisoned for murder. The director of the films coexists with them and obtains a portrait from the edge.

A small village lost in the middle of a vast pine forest in the north of Spain. A place that hides ghosts and does not remember. My family's stone house, locked with three padlocks. During a traditional celebration, the eligible men cut down the tallest, longest, and straightest pine tree and plant it in the village square. My great-grandmother and her daughter were killed in the same spot 70 years earlier. A double femicide, committed in front of everyone, but never spoken of until now.

Anthropological drama that tells the story of Juan Belmonte's family and their fight against vineyard contractors in Mendoza.

"The young Susan seems doomed to a life of toil. She lives with her faither in a lodging house and together they earn their living by dancing as a tango couple in a seedy nightclub. Since mother left them, the two have had an incestuous relationship. Father is on the booze. When his alcoholism eventually lands him in jail, Susan decides to become a prostitute: it is the only way she can earn enough money to get her father out of jail. She meets another prostitute, Lili, who personifies everything that Susan is afraid of: physical decay and failure. Despite this fear, a bond develops between the two women. When Susan gets an influential lover, it looks as if she will be able to escape her sad existance. But her past continues to haunt her." - IFFR

Accompanied by his mother, cousins, aunts and uncles, director David Blaustein retraces the steps of his Jewish ancestors, who fled Europe in the 1920s hoping to find in Argentina the land of their dreams.

La Revolución de Mayo (in English: May Revolution) is an Argentine silent movie premiered in 1909. As the name denotes, it is focused on the events of the May Revolution. It was directed by Mario Gallo, and it was the first Argentine film with a plot.

Considered to be the first full-length Argentinian fictional film, based on the novel by the same written by José Mármol which is the first Argentinian fictional novel.

Twenty years after peace activist Im Su-kyong swore that she would cross the border between North and South Korea on foot, Argentine documentary filmmaker José Luis García goes in search of the young woman who was once known as "The Flower of Reunification." (TIFF)

A young man discovers a film festival that ends in seven days. Racing against the clock, he tries to come up with an idea that could become his project.

A young musician is obsessed over a woman.

Fonso, Las Paritarias, two clowns, a stray dog, gay cops, a biker and his girlfriend, and a cursed poet inhabit the irreverent and metafictional world of Fonso y Las Paritarias.

Dr. Fernández and his son Emilio arrive at Juan's remote countryside after 21 years. Trapped by the Falklands War, two desperate families become intertwined in a twist of fate.

At a traditional bowling alley in Mar del Plata, Midna is dumped by her girlfriend Dani through a voice message. This triggers in her an episode of anger and violence.

Pedro is 15 years old and lives in the Piñalito Norte neighborhood, deep in the Misiones jungle. While his rural school teacher assigns him a practical project related to the Malvinas conflict, his father and brothers involve him in a nighttime outing in the woods. They are armed with rifles and shotguns. They are searching for intruders who threaten to occupy their land and exploit it illegally.

Seferi thinks of his past while he cannot open his pool. Above all, he misses his mother. In turn, Darío wanders around the cemetery offering his songs. He seems to have a lot of work.

In 2005, the Argentine government had the White Room of the Casa Rosada, one of the most solemn places in the presidential palace, where ceremonies such as the taking of oaths of Ministers and Secretaries of State, presentation of credentials of Ambassadors of foreign states, are held. , wake room for high personalities and, even, on some occasions, transfer of the presidential sash; to carry out a series of live concerts where the great names of Argentine music performed. This is the recording of the concert that Pedro Aznar gave when it was his turn in the aforementioned cycle.

A girl searches for soda in the middle of the night, but suddenly she begins to think that someone is chasing her.

In northern Argentina it is said that La Salamanca is a sacred place. They say that it is a cave, a clearing in the mountains or a bend in the river where whoever has enough courage can invoke the Devil (the “Zupay”) to propose a pact: his soul in exchange for a gift. The first step is to renounce the Christian faith.

Adrián and Vanesa are a young married couple going through financial difficulties. Although Adrián works, the money is no longer enough to pay the household bills. Adrián's mother proposes to Vanesa to join in an enterprise: bring men to the house so that they pay her for having sex. Vanesa faces the new family business and the money begins to arrive, but secretly for Adrián, who does not know about his wife's new job.

Wake Up! It's Yesterday is a journey to the mind of a queer cotton candy vendor on their way home from work.

"The sensitivity allows human beings to unite and connect through sympathy and relationships, as a fine layer that perceives and decodes non-verbal impressions; in other words, allows them to return to a nonspecific and uncoded state in which bodies vibrate in unison." (the8fest)

There is no record of the only goal that won Boca 42 years ago against River in the superfinal.

Marc, a young borderline, tries to commit suicide by throwing himself on the train tracks and is stopped by a policeman who will try to convince him to give up his idea.

TM stands for “tuyo/mío” (“yours/mine” in Spanish): an idea related to found footage practice but also to the hypnotic rhythm of 35mm film frames cut in half by a 16mm film projector. What you hear is what you originally saw.

From the rediscovery of Argentine documentary cinema, cruelly persecuted and hidden by the Argentine dictatorship, filmmakers from very different political and social backgrounds embarked on a collective aesthetic and counter-information movement that accompanied the struggles against the neoliberal project of the 1990's and uprising of December 19 and 20, 2001. From this movement, a reactivation of Argentine documentary filmmaking was generated, which today, almost coming full circle, is more present than ever.

A magician tries to do a hypnosis trick in front of an audience

An old gaucho in the countryside awaits his fate. Student short film.

In a vibrant nightclub in Brazil, a cheeky sticker beckons shy Suki to "LICK ME." In a moment of impulse, she takes the risk and licks it, unwittlingly unleashing her wild side. Will Suki be forever enslaved to this insatiable, demonic appetite?

This short film is a historical drama that explores the personal stakes behind Argentina's fight for freedom. Unlike large-scale war epics, Haspert focuses on the intimate, human side of the revolution.