Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

In a small southern town, Goku turns 15. A little bit affected by his dad’s arrival, he spends the day with his friends celebrating at his sister's heavy metal band Adela show.

The documentary reflects women who have been caring for life for a long time, in the countryside, in the city and within their homes. It aims to make visible the important territorial work carried out by women, dissidents and feminist organizations in pursuit of guaranteeing the right to food; as well as to problematize gender inequality in food production, distribution and consumption models. Listening to these voices, these experiences is a challenge that we have at the University and building these bridges, highlighting the importance that women have in order to generate other food systems that are in harmony with nature and with human beings, guaranteeing access to healthy, safe and sovereign foods.

Portrayal of everyday life of Sergio De Loof, an iconic queer artist from the 80's and 90's in the camp-scene of Buenos Aires; the so called "under porteño".

Count sheep. Trying to sleep while having insomnia.

What drives a man to spend his days between the ring and work? What makes the fight between good and evil repeat itself over and over again, in the ring of a club in Buenos Aires or in the most watched TV program of the 60s and 70s?

An inclusive dance company seeks to create tension between aesthetics and the reconstruction of symbolic spaces in Argentina's history.

The Hogar Hirsch is the retirement home for German-speaking Jews in Argentina and a piece of Germany. Here, the lives of eight Jews cross, all of whom fled Nazi Germany. Here they live, work as volunteers or have worked as volunteers. The film shows what holds these people together. It tells stories of anti-Semitism, expulsion, loss and a deep-seated identity as Germans.

Martín Negri is an environmental controller living in Bahía Blanca, whose hotspot is the city's Petrochemical Complex, located in Ingeniero White. Martín suffers workplace retaliation for refusing to be corrupted and falls ill.

A documentary essay about Argentinian trans activist Maite Amaya.

Documentary that investigates on the effects that civic military man produced the last dictatorship in the past loving and present, allowed and prohibited relations.

A documentary that tells in a homemade and intimate way a piece of Willy Lemos' life. Willy tells the story of his life: his childhood, his artistic journey, the ups and downs that happen in the LGTBQ+ world and his story of domestic abuse.

"You can't kill youth." Mariano grows up wrapped in this phrase, as the most substantial legacy he receives from his aunt and uncle. Eight years after Aunt Hilda's death, he returns to the house to empty it. Memories and ghosts vie with him for the memory of a country in the face of the destruction of time.

Observations of two filmmakers (or how to start filming a new space). A work of mise-en-scène in two gazes, on an empty space that never stops moving.

In a three- dimensional futuristic city, live two-dimensional beings, that are controlled by surveillance systems. One of them, BUG, will seek to overcome all the obstacles in order to find out a trascendent discovery. Without a single word, BUG talks about reality and virtuality, power and poetry, uniformity and imagination.

Through different experiences and memories from inhabitants of the Cuban city of Holguín, this is a documentary about how soccer works both as a means to enjoy the body and for the building of social bonds.

Animated short film by Victor Iturralde

Bruno and Franco meet again several years after having lived a romance in their adolescence and during a day that they spend together, they exchange reflections on their behaviors in the past and the changes in attitude around sexuality.

A short Documentary about an American ex-pat who lives in Buenos Aires and works as a city tour guide during the day and a sexual tour guide during the night. The film was first short on vision 3 negative super 8 and then refilmed we color reversal super 8 from my computer screen so that I can project it live. It is a first glimpse of my full-length feature called Monger.

Emptiness is a visually striking experimental documentary that explores the complex intersections between body, power, and faith. Through a sequence of dense, symbolic compositions, the film unfolds as a thunderous meditation on the abuses of capital and the collapse of language. Mercado constructs a stark visual and sonic architecture where medicine and religion appear as intertwined systems of biopower—structures that discipline, sanctify, and ultimately exhaust the body. Minimal yet overwhelming, Emptiness confronts the spectator with the material presence of the “body-thing,” situating the human form at the center of a critical reflection on control, belief, and emptiness itself.

Every day, hundreds of women give birth in hospitals and clinics. One in three babies is born by cesarean section. Vanesa, Mariana, and Nayla are pregnant. Each has a different story, but all three share the same goal: to give birth naturally and enjoy that momentous moment.

His name is Ramón Vázquez. He comes from La Pampa and wants to reach Soto, near Córdoba, to reunite with his father. He has not seen him in thirty years. The difficult journey gives rise to a series of encounters on the threshold. And the light blinds.

Paz leaves the house she shares with her partner and takes refuge at her friend Lula’s place. To avoid the anguish, they spend a sleepless night between karaoke, movies, cocaine, fights, and laughter: an ode to female friendship and emotional collapse.

The story follows a gold-hungry prospector who, after encountering a shaman, embarks on a journey of inner transformation.

Two prostitutes serve clients in a small private apartment downtown. In the neighborhood, a series of mysterious ritual murders keep the women on edge. One day, one of their oldest clients asks them to play a dark sexual game that becomes increasingly bizarre. The two women begin to suspect him and decide to set a trap. But evil is even closer than they imagine.

Nina and Fermín spend the night in the neighborhood where their father is a security guard. Between lights and shadows, they walk, play, eat. Nina observes others in silence, as though she were looking at herself in a mirror that is about to break. The night moves stealthily on, while other children watch them from their windows.

A marriage blows up during the final minutes of a crucial football game.

A collection of six short films based on six poems (Carbón, Remedio, Grito, Cariño, Entierro and Camino)

Short film by Iván Fund

A silent city symphony, projected from gorgeous black and white 16mm film. Materia vibrante lets the resonating frequencies of the urban environment create the inaudible hum that keeps the engines of society running, absent of the inhabitants running around like little ants toiling away.

The documentary tells, through the life of Friar Antonio Puigjané, a Franciscan priest, a historical period in the social and political life of Argentina in which the paths of Christianity and the Revolution are inseparable and indispensable.

Flavia de la Fuente returns to the same spaces from her 15 Days at the beach to document noghtfall and the variations of darkness, with images as pleasant as they are mysterious.

On August 17, 1993, a unique and, to this day, unrepeatable social and cultural event took place at Lisandro Olmos Prison: a rock, punk, and metal festival for inmates. A quarter of a century later, with the recovered images, we can try to understand what it was like to be part of such a risky yet significant endeavor.

A Mario Bocchicchio and Maximiliano Sans Super 8 color short film.

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.

Augusto, a nice guy, starts experiencing nightmares where he's brutally killed after a reencounter with an ex-friend

Sunbathing on the roof of the house at noon, with Sapolán Ferrini and music by Sumo.

An Argentine director travels to Malvinas to explore the traces of the 1982 war. What begins as a portrait of the conflict turns into an unexpected story of friendship with the enemy.

A teacher about to get married visits a renowned makeup artist, but what begins as an intimate session soon turns into a trap from which she may not be able to escape.

In early 1970, Salvador Allende initiated a unique process in Latin America: the peaceful path to Socialism.

Made by Andrés Denegri in 2008, working with Super 8mm loops and video. Final version in 35mm. Synopsis In Latin America, the 70s and 80s were years darkened by military dictatorships, which forced a policy of terror and extermination. Many of those who lived their childhood during that period have a personal history built as an extremely complex plot. Grito works with throbbing autobiographical memories and Images that resound in the head and block the throat. It is the last step in a series of audiovisual reflections about the relationship between identity, ideology and affection. A Super-8mm and a low-quality digital video entwine in the anachronistic construction of the familiar recollection.

Trenque Lauquen's Ezequiel believes he is keeping on searching for Laura in the Argentine pampas, but the landscape confuses and disorients him, becoming increasingly jagged and disconnected: a radio that cannot definitively tune into a station. Editing cuts swallow up her world, bringing to the surface an archipelago of cinematic universes (from L’avventura to Stromboli and La terra trema), and they generate a fata morgana, capable of shortening distances between pampas and Mediterranean landscapes, between real and fictional vision, between the adult’s disorientation and the childhood’s innate and hilarious wisdom. Cinema as the art of disappearance that always leaves a trace, yet another indelible trace of one of the most important contemporary filmmakers.

The Mothers of Plaza 25 de Mayo in Rosario began meeting to search for their children who had disappeared during the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983. The documentary tells the story of each of them and how those stories transformed into a collective struggle that continues to this day. Absence is a recurring theme throughout the narrative. But, despite everything, the mothers managed to transform those absences into a powerful presence and the reason for their struggle, becoming the most active sector of the resistance against the dictatorship.

Letters, photos, furniture, hats, pipes, combs, eyeglasses, pens, pen holders, infinite books. An inventory of all, almost all, or simply some of the things that rest in the neocolonial house of a man whose name was Ricardo Rojas and who, one hundred years ago, wrote a delirious book called Eurindia.

On a quiet day in the life of a Pixar-style young woman, everything seems perfectly normal. He wakes up, listens to the radio, feeds his cats and goes about his daily routines. But an unexpected encounter in the middle of a forest changes his world completely. A mysterious vortex draws her in and drags her through a series of surreal, space-like worlds. As you travel through this strange landscape, you hear voices that seem to come from important moments in your life. The experience is disconcerting without knowing what awaits you on the other side.

Three brothers come together because of their mother's absence. Accustomed to him not being there, they downplay the situation; However, as the days go by they begin to worry. The youngest of them, Tomás, has the peculiarity of dreaming about his mother every time she disappears, which leads him to a state of constant disorientation. The response to absence will be submerged where you least imagine.

A sensorial approach to a territory that is as close as it is strange: the food-producing farms that surround large cities as La Plata (Arg.). This documentary presents Javier Paniagua and his family inhabiting a network of tasks, problems and choices of special scope. The commitment to produce healthy food for their community, told by the producers themselves. Located in El Pato, Berazategui, Javier’s farm is part of the largest horticultural belt in Argentina. Despite the difficulties in accessing land and technology, this territory is also the setting in which thousands of families choose a life in coexistence with nature.

Patricio Escobar portrays the long relationship between the Catholic Church and the Argentine state.

A South American immigrant struggles to connect with the "American Dream" during Christmas Eve.

History of women in Latin America

H is an adult man who frequented porn theaters in Mar de Plata for much of his life. After a transformative experience, he reconsiders his way of connecting with society.

A funeral home is hired to transport a body to a neighboring country, but an irresponsible employee loses the coffin in the middle of the street in a town in Entre Ríos. From there begins a power struggle to manage the situation among the inhabitants of the town. But that coffin hides something that unleashes a silent race of greed and betrayal to see who gets it.