Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A social worker at an elementary school is assigned to the case of a student who hasn't been attending classes for weeks. When she arrives at the boy's home, she discovers an unexpected reality.

Insomnia overwhelms Carlos, who must face his insides in order to catch some sleep, even if that means confronting the unknown.

Brings together the perspectives of 40 Ibero-American photographers to build a collective narrative about the women and LGBTQIAP+ people who experience football from the stands.

Beatriz Conde, a prestigious audiovisual producer canceled for a transphobic comment, tries to save her career by creating a series about inclusion, but she must confront her own prejudices and the chaos caused by her niece Kiki, an enthusiastic yet disastrous assistant.

The story follows the conflicts and romances on a farm in General Alvear, known as Pampa de la Varita. Amidst men on horseback, scrawny dogs, and chickens, confrontations, jealousy, threats, escapes, and romantic boat rides unfold, while popular celebrations with guitars, cueca dances, gatos, and malambos are showcased. The central narrative revolves around the main couple, played by Filo Fozatti and Silvia Pérez, whose love faces difficulties. Filmed outdoors, the movie utilizes natural light and real locations, highlighting places like the "Las Ninfas" lagoon.

Analía and Andrés are neighbors but barely know each other. On the night of December 31, 1999, both are forced, for different reasons, to spend New Year's Eve alone.

Lorena and her friend Agustina go together to the wake of an old acquaintance.

Lito is a capybara who, with his mate gourd and thermos, is always ready to make friends with the local wildlife, creating new discoveries, games, and ideas to the rhythm of chamamé music. Always near the river, he encounters ducks, herons, armadillos, jaguars, and caimans.

A young man moves to a new apartment and finds a weird box with a VHS tape on it that he doesn't remember having. When he reproduces the tape, he discovers something imposible: the content of tape shows fragments of his own life! What started because of curiosity now becomes a nightmare when the frontier between the tape and reality breaks.

A documentary that portrays the territorial and environmental conflict in the San Matías Gulf, Patagonia, Argentina. Through an audiovisual approach that combines documentary and dance video, the film invites reflection on the effects of extractivism on the territories and the resistance that is being woven together by coastal communities.

Documentary about Estela de Carlotto, President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who in her home, amidst a few photos and many memories, reconstructs her family's history for her grandson, Guido. She speaks, looking into the camera and addressing her grandson directly. He has yet to recover his true identity and should have turned 33 this year. She tells him about his parents' lives and her own life, as if assuring him that even if he never sees it, he will have the chance to relive his story, just as she would have liked to tell it to him.

Andrea’s life is at a turning point. Her Black identity takes center stage, straining her relationship with Valentina, her white girlfriend. Andrea seeks refuge and understanding within her Afro community. Their love must either transform or come to an end.

Tomás and Agustín are dedicated to different healing disciplines: Tomás works in palliative care and Agustín in biodecoding. A trip to the south of Argentina, where Tomás will run 120 km and Agustín will photograph him, becomes an opportunity to heal their relationship and face their conflicts.

Queer horror short directed by Samuel Esteban.

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.

A women's soccer team has to confront its internal conflicts in order to survive deep in the field.

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

In June 1998 my older brother was murdered, that same year I was receiving my degree as a classical dancer. In the final exam I had to take a choreography, but I couldn't do it, I fell in the middle of an exercise and ran away. Something was incomplete, until today.

The legacy of the chanaes in the Province of Entre Ríos, through the voice of Blas Jaime, descendant and last speaking chaná together with the latest research by the group of archaeologists reconstruct the cultural legacy. The ceramics, the landscape and orality transport us to harmony with nature, where time is an incessant river of no return. Art and its function, landscape and its adaptation, voice and identity coexist in the Huella Chaná.

For decades, visual artist Eugenia Bekeris dedicated her work to keeping alive the memory of a genocide. While discussing the wounds of the past with her family, she begins a new series of drawings that distance her from the horror and lead her into nature.

The story of a Moroccan girl who accompanies her mother, a house cleaner, from house to house. It's Christmas, and the girl thinks that there is a very rich count who gives gifts to everyone except her.

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.

Los Cometas de Boedo is one of the oldest and most traditional murgas in the city of Buenos Aires. During the eight months of preparation for his presentation at the Buenos Aires carnival, the director has filmed all aspects of his life.

A grandmother and her granddaughter watch the debate of the abortion and reproductive rights law on television, in Argentina, 2018. As they listen to the speeches, they take a position about it.

The Tupac Amaru neighborhood organization, led by Milagro Sala, carried out impressive construction, cultural, educational, healthcare, and dignified projects for vulnerable sectors of the Jujuy Province. On January 16, 2016, Milagro was arrested because her actions affected the economic and political interests of the Jujuy ruling class. Many cooperative members who participated in this epic plot were gradually arrested. In a trial riddled with irregularities, they were convicted.

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.

Three films reflecting upon the way in which image and speech control relate to one another. Dallas is a Fire exposes the racist speech in the archives of the Dallas TV in 1970. Sent to Lie investigates the surveillance methods applied to the Qom indigenous community with the argument of preventing COVID-19. In Non-Stop, there’s an attempt to build over history and beyond the inaccessible images

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.

In success, they left music. In oblivion, they left everything else to come back.

Part of the trilogy inspired by Jean Genet's play "The Maids," along with "The Murderous Maids" and "The Maids Go for a Drive."

A clay animation that tells a short story about the day when souls are expected to descend to Earth. Every November 2, offerings of bread are placed on the table along with food and drink for the souls. This belief reflects the cyclical concept of time and life in Andean cultures, guided by Pachamama (Mother Earth), which is still prevalent in northern Argentina.

On December 8, 1977, twelve people who regularly met at the Santa Cruz church were kidnapped at the direction of infiltrator Alfredo Astiz.

Bruno, a young film student, discovers one night that the path he always takes to return home from university is blocked by a strange presence. A kind of dark silhouette that appears only to vanish without a trace. Every night, without exception, the same phenomenon repeats itself. In his desperation, Bruno turns to Clara, a fellow student, who will help him unravel the mystery. Caught between an enigma that seems unsolvable and a romance overshadowed by fear, Bruno and Clara will walk together down the dark path laid before them by the shadow's appearance.

stone age Age of water. Lightning defines the age of the future. The age of the future is a skeleton of lightning.

Short documentary that narrates the lives of the villagers in the Quebrada de Humahuaca

Lucas gets a mysterious call that tells him about the connection between his mother's death and the luz mala. Intrigued, he goes to the country house he grew up in to try to get some answers.

A married woman tries to start a new life but discovers that desire can be a dangerous path with no return. (Inspired by the legend of "El bolsadito" from San José del Rincón; Santa Fe, Argentina).

A mixture of abstract images and, as if out of a Man Ray painting, a large mouth in the foreground with red lipstick slowly devours a raw liver and then goes on to eat a postcard. Meanwhile, romantic Neapolitan songs play in the background. As Andrea Giunta says: At the same time they function as a hyperbole of the feminine in a register impregnated with pop aesthetics (they are perfect lips and make-up), but in which the flesh introduces an element of deep transgression, with scatological tensions.

A Zombie virus stalks Argentina. A couple, Lola and Vicente, are driving towards an area that promises to be safe. With 25 km left to go, the car breaks down, leaving them stranded in the middle of the countryside.

Throughout his childhood, the filmmaker Cristian Pauls vacationed in Fortín Tiburcio. Half a century later, he returns to the small town. Against all odds, his journey –and that of the film– moves away from a nostalgic reconstruction to become an update of a distant but still tangible past.

"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)

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.

Julián Castillo's life left its mark on various aspects of Santa Fe. His death, too. Through the stories of family and friends, we explore Juli's history, activism, and art. This documentary is a tribute, an exercise in memory, and a collective call that still demands justice.

Eri wanders through the vastness of the mountain when one night the dense Darkness encounters her. In their confrontation, both discover themselves.

Starting from the absence of Elida Passo, the first woman to make her way in the Argentine university after confronting the University of Buenos Aires in court in 1883, the documentary recovers her struggle and redefines the conquests that seem natural today.

A woman travels to the mountains during her period so as not to upset her family.

Francisco, a 35-year-old filmmaker who secretly works for a delivery app, has a date in Belgrano with Belén, 28, whom he has just met. As he tries to impress her, they both discover a deep and unexpected connection.

In Mar Chiquita, Julia goes through a crisis with her boyfriend during their first vacation together. Sergio, the hotel owner and a bohemian ex-boxer, accompanies her in her grief through physical training.