Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Documentary that describes month by month the fall of the self-proclaimed National Reorganization Process, the dictatorship that governed Argentina for seven years. In addition, we trace the path of the candidates towards the presidential elections, the socio-economic chaos that was experienced at that time, the media, the artistic references and the world of sports, until the arrival of democracy.

This short film was filmed in 16 mm, in the city of Colón, between 1976 and 1979 and released in 1980. It narrates the turn that a man's life takes when he becomes the suspect of a crime. Isolated and under pressure, he begins to question his own identity and the boundaries between reality and paranoia. Thus, your mind becomes a battlefield.

Joan, a young man who feels frustrated and disillusioned with what his life is like, goes for a walk by the waterfront. What he doesn’t expect is the fantastical adventure that awaits.

Biopic? by Miguel Abuelo written by Fabian Casas, Agustín Toscano, and Lorenzo Ferro, who also stars in and directs the film

Sometimes the roads connect us to somewhere we want to go or with something we want, but they can also get us lost. The most important thing is the trip, that epiphany between the starting point and the end of the line.

A strange animal survives a fire and walks through a burned forest desperately searching for its home. Its nest is in ashes. In the midst of its pain, it discovers moisture in its tears, and embarks on a sensory search for something living to feed.

Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca

Miren Felder died on top of a snowy mountain after a plane crash in 1977. The director discovers secret messages from her grandmother in photographs taken by her military grandfather and offers herself as a medium in a ritual to communicate with her.

A documentary that allows us to get to know Celeste Giacchetta, a trans woman, through the different stages of her life. Celeste is preparing to attend a party. A space of resistance and fun that will change her life forever. Celeste is a mother, together with her partner Matías, a trans man. Together they went through a pregnancy that caused a sensation in Córdoba. They were the first trans couple to have a child. This film is about the search for identity to achieve freedom. It is a story about the search for one's own identity, about motherhood, about prejudice and the different forms of violence that LGBTIQ+ people suffer and have suffered.

Experimental film on the motifs of natura and image effects.

My six year old daughter, Nina, has had a connection with a tree for years. A molle that is at our house. Being aware of the fragility and impermanence of this sublime day-to-day, I kept register of that light in a s8 reel. One evening, when COVID lockdown had just started, walking with her in the nearby woods, she told me she had a tree. That the trees hold one’s memories. That you only have to hug them and they give you back memories.

"Desde lejos no se ve" is the second DVD by the rock band Los Piojos. Released in mid-May 2007, it features concerts held at the Vélez Sársfield stadium (on May 22 and 25, 2004), at the River Plate stadium (on December 20, 2003), and at the Ferro stadium (on October 22, 2004).

The first time I played The Sims I was thirteen years old. I was at a school friend’s house and we downloaded Sims 1 from Ares. I had seen before how one of my cousins played, basically it was like playing “house”, but on the computer, so I thought I was not going to like it, even though I had always played “house” with them. At that moment something happened, but what could a simple doll game do?

In the town, Axel meets Máximo, who is in a relationship with Marina but they have no children. Asking why, Axel discovers that Máximo cannot get Marina pregnant, a revelation that leads them down a darker path.

Carla lives with her partner Nicolás. At mealtime they begin to have seemingly insignificant disagreements that reveal deeper problems in the relationship but above all in Carla's psyche. Every time she cooks she experiences regressions to her childhood that are increasingly difficult to control and awaken her darkest thoughts.

Microorganisms float against a desert landscape, the lights from cellphone towers blink like fireflies, and a mysterious dialogue between two minds adjusting to a new beginning. In Sebastián Schjaer’s Like an Outburst, animals, humans, and machines seek a tenuous coexistence and different ways of seeing and living in the world.

Short filmed in Ullum in 2004

Paolina and Antonio, two siblings, accompany their terminally ill friend Giacomo in his last days of life. Wishes, dreams, and reality blend in an atmosphere that fights against the worst enemy, time.

Stories from trans women between 74 and 27 years of age. It describes practices of resignification of the effects of discursive practices of oppression and social exclusion. It interprets the recognition of the "other" from sexual diversity as a human right.

Belén has planned a meeting with her partner Lucas in an abandoned place, Belén arrives to see that nothing is what it seems.

Carla Mileo is a sports journalist and women's soccer reporter on the public sports channel. From the Arsenal Fútbol Club field in Sarandí, she tells us about her work and her path to becoming part of Argentine soccer.

Following Franco Pastura, the story is structured in two defined chapters: "Gordo puto" and "Amen". Through his register style, the director integrates himself into the story as a witness of the most intimate part of the protagonist's life. It is there where his affections coexist, in a sort of harmonious contradiction: gay-bearing activism and the everyday family life of Italian-Catholic ancestry. For its part, the music becomes the voice of what is not said by the characters' actions.

Azula is an artist from Venezuela who found a new voice in the Ballroom scene in Argentina, a cultural space that helped them recognize and express themselves as a non-binary trans person. Through the organization Socio Ballroom, Azula supports the LGBTIQ+ community.

What would happen if over the course of a week you lost any of your senses? How do you think your life would continue? Gonzalo and Carlos star in this documentary where music is the key to starting a new path.

From a lodging room, two young people who have recently arrived in a new city record a cassette for their family. It is the first time they are away from their homes.

A young lover retraces her love chronology through four audiovisual letters she sends to the women who were part of her life.

A former boxer must find a way to pay his debts before facing eviction.

A political call to action to re-conquer the endogenous landscape.

An animated self-portrait.

Sandro, a rural character from the interior of the province of Tucumán, prepares to attend a wake and tell jokes, a tradition that he inherited and has kept alive for more than fifty years.

The protagonist takes us into the routine of a work day, it turns out to be a dream.

In an era plagued by disinformation, a new superhero emerges to combat the global spread of "inFAKEtados". Meet Xika, an ordinary person with an extraordinary conviction.

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

Sergio is an employee at a funeral home. One night, his life takes an unexpected turn: he must prepare a new person to be watched, Virginia, and something in him changes.

José, a plastic artist is still not recovered from the death of his partner Marcelo with whom he worked as a duo. His manager sends him to Dario, a boxer who works as a live model and begins to exploit his body as a cab boy. When Dario is evicted from where he lives, Jose shelters him, thinking that this will help him break the block he is in. José denies his feelings for Dario because of his loyalty to Marcelo's memory and his blockage becomes stronger than ever. Dario, in his sexual quest, is drawn deeper and deeper into a world of exploitation and sadomasochism.

Brenda tries to discover what broke her family apart almost 20 years ago, while at the same time researching the life of Ángel, her uncle, who may have a connection not only to what happened to her family but also to José Ignacio Rucci's murder in 1973.

Documentary about the Riachuelo river in Argentina, the lives of its inhabitants, the historical Supreme Court ruling, the advances that have been made, and the challenges that must still be tackled.

Lucho is going through a deep depression since his dream of being a journalist was frustrated by the economic reality. One day he meets Tati, who teaches him to navigate his problems and life in a different way, thus discovering everything his head can create to feel better.

Carnival, 2022. Catalina returns to Mar del Plata after years of living abroad. With no key, no money, no phone and feeling watched and judged by everyone, she must relocate in a post-pandemic society to which she feels alien.

The personal diary of a film director who suffers a cranial contusion that reveals the existence of a brain tumor. Faced with this reality, he decides to channel his despair by making a film about his experience. Ultimately, this is a film about deprivation.

A Super 8 film by Claudio Caldini, focused on a progressive music festival

2-3 minute short films on 7 deadly sins by 7 amateur directors from 7 different countries.

Based on a Guarani legend. A strange presence lurks in the mountains of the Argentine coast.

In a lagoon area, some people see dogs acting strangely, suddenly disappearing from sight, and then appearing dead.