Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Based on an investigation of local botany, this film is an attempt to expand the possibilities of the archive. Under the cloak of cicadas, the plasticity of matter expands between poetic and philosophical reflections.

Using a technique that blends real-life footage with reconstructed environments, the epic finds its place in this short film, which echoes statements by English pilots praising the skill and bravery of their Argentine counterparts, given the problems they caused them despite being at a marked technological disadvantage.

A boy is harassed by a cell phone application.

Maria disappeared in a road of the Northwest of Argentina in 2011, Laura was kidnaped in the midst of a fierce dictatorship in 1978, and Ema was appropriated by Indians in 1875, in the middle of La Pampa. They all share a common destiny: they all vanished into air. In a recurrence close to a habit, every one of the last three centuries expresses a singular path to women’s existence.

At the end of the world, we follow the only two remaining creatures: One covered in grass and one covered in hair.

Elda Cerrato was an artist that set out to conquer materials. Her prior biology studies, her research with geometry and pictorial scales materialized in experiences with papers and pigments over wood, fabric or rice paper, giving shape to a body of work dominated by abstraction and symbolic narrative. “Energy transforms until it forms an image,” she would say, and that statement becomes palpable in her series La epopeya del ser beta, inspired by Aldo Pellegrini’s poetry. With the conviction of exploring other formats, drawings and paintings from this cosmological period are animated in celluloid. Shot on 16mm film and produced in collaboration with artist Ramiro Larraín, Algunos segmentos is a plastic unit of abstract motives and color planes to the rhythm of the music by the Improvisation Group of La Plata (GILP).

The story of two sisters who, with powerful conviction, a great heart, courage, dedication and social commitment, unite to build local activism.

An entity lost at sea takes different shapes while looking for shelter. It discovers a lighthouse amid a desert surrounded by a forest. In it, it will discover a guide in its rambling.

Hirsch’s first steps in filmmaking were documentations of her performances and happenings in public spaces. These were collective actions, filmed initially on 8mm or 16mm film, which record the reactions of a randomly chosen spectator.

In the Argentine province of San Juan a group of army men and women prepare themselves for earthquakes and natural disasters.

Martín, a wealthy Buenos Aires man, who has fallen in love with a girl in a San Rafael bar.

A woman carries a film chassis, receives an unexpected call, and cries.

Facundo witnesses a terrible scene of violence from his father towards his mother. The next day, she disappears. Facundo must be working all morning with his father in the field, knowing that he is to blame for his mother's disappearance.

Seven friends enjoy the potent nature that surrounds them in a cabin in the middle of the mountains. This film is part of the frame by frame diaries series Denegri has been making since 2008.

Short by Maia Navas

Two women set the body and a mourning process in motion. They gather to remember and dance the teachings of Verónica. Going out dancing is a decision and learning. Also a great possibility of transmuting pain into beauty and a commitment to life.

Record of a transition. A vulnerable and rebuilding body open to care and affection.

Guadalupe is a woman who has the desire to be a mother and, given her impossibility to fulfill it due to various difficulties, an unforeseen alternative arises.

Documentary that explores the legacy of the Guarani Mayan people in the Misiones jungle, which is perpetuated through children's singing.

The life and music of Walter Malosetti, one of the most important guitar and jazz exponents in Argentina.

Urquiza Hill, former city of Paraná. The redirection of the pandemic and the subsequent restructuring of the social fabric brought changes in people's lives and in the river. While watching a period documentary, a mysterious character narrates the events that have occurred in this region once the wetland disappeared.

Essayistic documentary short film that proposes a tour of Paraná during the mandatory preventive social isolation decreed in Argentina on March 19, 2020. While observing the urban geography in an exceptional state, fragments of reflections by world-renowned intellectuals regarding the pandemic situation are heard, in the voices of local journalists, actresses and actors.

In an abysmal desert, Fofi, a Tyrannosaurus rex, is looking for water, spots an oasis, but gets stuck in a puddle of tar. Parka, the dinosaur goddess of death, appears to take his life, Fofi manages to escape and reaches the oasis. Parka, humiliated, moves into space and directs a meteorite towards planet Earth.

After several failed attempts to rent a house to move in together, three transvestite friends, Medi, Afrodita and Chenix, want to rent a house that they love, but they lack a guarantee and eighty thousand pesos to get everything they need to enter the house. They plan the way to get everything, but faced with the obstacles that arise due to the fact that they are transvestites, they come to the conclusion that there is only one way left to get the house they long for.

In the town Porto Soberbo, Brazil, Edu is on vacations and watching Argentina's 2022 World Cup Quarter-finals game against The Netherlands together with his family.

A man who wins a beauty contest travels to Hollywood with his friends and there they are hired to work on a farce about gaucho life.

Tomás and Bruno meet after leaving a party, where one of them realizes that he has just been bitten.

Nube is a drawn (and animated) child who comes to life to befriend their author and show him that there are other possible worlds.

Various electronic eyes from mobile phones tell the journey of a group of young migrants. With no job opportunities in Germany's first lockdown, they leave Berlin to work and live in a remote flower factory.

A recurring dream disturbs Juan. Together with his psychologist, he will try to understand what is happening, while the line between dream and reality blurs.

"Yours the Power and the Glory" seeks to portray the implication of religion in pop culture, exploring the religious roots of art that dominated the gaze. Why do we feel so attracted to religious symbology?

Light goes haywire and the specters spread all around. A man seems to attend the end of all things, even rush it. The first part of the Phantasmorasi Project, a series of works made from materially-intervened paper printouts.

Rodolfo and Leticia are staying at the same hotel, in adjacent rooms separated by a closed-down door. He has doubts about what to do. Finally, he leaves, and while Leticia sees him walk away, she remembers the moments in which she hoped he would approach her.

Color documentary with music by Waldo de los Ríos about the tourist landscapes of Argentina.

Film made up of two independent films: Martínez Estrada y su tiempo, a montage film with events that occurred in Argentina between the '20s and the '70s, and La cosecha, a complaint against the excesses of the bureaucracy and the conspiracy against the work of a farmer, based on the homonymous story by Ezequiel Martínez Estrada.

Film produced by the Grupo Cine Testimonio that brings together short film works from the period 1983-1985. It includes the shorts The Nose, Not So White, Not So Indian, For Our Land, and La Cruz Gil.

A European tour of this Argentine musician living abroad precedes his return to his hometown of Salta. Later, his gaze on the world and reflections on art.

Juan, a boy from a town in Buenos Aires, is very excited about reaching Karen's 15th birthday, the girl he is in love with.

In front of the camera, the face of the poet Jorge Calvetti (Jujuy, Argentina, 1916-2002) is shown serene, worthy, deepened by the signs of the life.

Documentary about the Atlanta soccer club, on the year of its 100th aniversary.

Eric (the only protagonist) flees from outside stalking and returns to his refuge, where he believes he finds safety and appeasement of fear. But there he will face his own fears, perpetual jailers, which hinder his development and increase his cowardice towards life.

It tells the story of a Kolla community that is three thousand meters above sea level, isolated in the mountains of Salta and very close to the Argentine-Bolivian border. There, in an area declared inhospitable, five hundred inhabitants face harsh living conditions in a place where the only presence of the Argentine State is the school.

This is the story of a young woman, the mother of a baby who she tries to please. Laura and Mateo have just moved into a new apartment to start their lives over.

Motivated by unexpected family news, Andrea's pregnancy, her teenage niece, the director begins a search about the reasons for unplanned pregnancy and responsible procreation.

Sofía accomplished many things in her life. She started a beautiful family and gave love to many people. Sofía has also experienced some very sad things: the death of her father in the San Juan earthquake of 1944, the disappearance of her son during the dictatorship, forced exile at the age of 67… Despite all this, she is not only alive, lucid, and active, but also has a surprising sense of humor and optimism.

Antonio is a sculptor who continues to work but has stopped exhibiting. His wife is worried that he spends too much time alone in his workshop. One day, she receives a phone call from a friend to invite them to the opening of an exhibition. This motivates Antonio to return to exhibiting. But he is depressed to discover that most gallery directors find his work old-fashioned. His family gets involved behind the scenes.

Documentary about Tito Ingenieri, a man from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Quilmes, sculptor and craftsman, dedicated to blacksmithing and glass. Tito has the particularity of having built his house with glass bottles. Thousands and thousands of bottles of different shapes and colors that refract the south wind and the sun's rays.