Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

“In Portugal, music videos were called telediscos. This is my teledisco from Astorga, focusing on the Panero family.”

Javier Borges wakes up alone and abandoned on the shore of a beach outside Punta del Este. After a long walk, he finds a ringing cell phone. When he answers it, he discovers that his new boss will give him instructions on how to start working as a secret agent.

In her first film, writer-director Julieta Margenet explores what stepping out in obedience and starting her career as a filmmaker feels like through a story that explores faith, fear, and unconditional love.

Nicolas De Tracy's Stand-Up Comedy Special

Orchid is the new Adult Sex Education teacher at High School 69. An unexpected position in her final year of teaching. This isn't a normal school; the evolving diversity and free teaching will transform her life.

Visual metaphor of virtual life: an endless cycle driven by bots and algorithms, where connection is instant but loneliness persists. We think we move forward, but always return to the same point.

On the shores of Embalse Lake, in the Argentine province of Córdoba, lie the ruins of three large hotels belonging to the Navy’s social welfare program. Construction began in 1940 on land and with funds donated by the national government, and was abandoned unfinished in 1949.

Following a recent breakup, Selva returns to her childhood home. There she meets her mother, with whom she will share a weekend filled with recriminations, complaints, and also moments of understanding. The days they spend together will mark the end of one grieving process and the beginning of another.

The CNBA is plagued by bullies, and a wild dwarf, by pure chance, gains divine powers, becoming Virgoman. He will try to put an end to the era of bullies.

A chronicle of legendary Argentine folk-protest singer Mercedes Sosa’s years of exile through her unpublished letters and photographs, blending personal memory and political history.

A death forgotten in time is the genesis of this story where dramatic elements intertwine to create an atmosphere of high psychological suspense.

Four Legs is the story of four friends who find themselves in different life situations, and who confess their weaknesses and strengths to each other, turning this into a continuous satire. Anita is a politician's secretary trying to make a name for herself at all costs; Cepi is a very humble young woman who plays the lottery; Sonia studied psychology and constantly questions her friends; and Sole is constantly concerned about her physical appearance.

A girl falls asleep during Film History class. Big mistake.

Portrait of women where they look at the images of their own faces and reflect on that experience.

Oscar, a devout priest and pastor of Corrientes, is interrupted one afternoon by his sister, Mariana, who informs him that someone is waiting to confess. The person waiting in the confessional is Damian, an unemployed thief who reveals he has killed a young man. Oscar begins to suspect that the victim might be his missing nephew. Now, Oscar faces a profound moral dilemma: he holds information that could finally give Mariana the answer she’s been desperately searching for about her son’s whereabouts, but revealing it would mean breaking the sacred seal of confession, a violation that could lead to his excommunication from the Church he has devoted his life and faith to.

Francisco Javier de Amorrortu, 75, dedicates his days to a solitary struggle against ecosystem predators. He lives in what he considers to be his paradise on earth: "El Campito," located in Pilar, where he has managed to harmonize the schizophrenia that began to develop in his mid-life.

A cinematographic interpretation of Julio Cortázar's famous short story "Continuity of parks" (Continuidad de los Parques). A girl reads in her armchair; a stranger enters her home.

A glamorous thief and her accomplices pull off the ultimate heist.

Three young people and a child take a car trip but never reach their destination. The case reaches television and a media network emerges in which three television programs speculate about the cause of the disappearance. The young people and the child had been in a car accident. The truth never reached the media.

After more than four decades in which fifty Uruguayans voluntarily fought alongside the Nicaraguan people in the 1979 revolution, several of the protagonists must overcome their fear of stirring up memories that left an indelible mark.

A young boy dreams and draws about an apparently fictional father figure. He materializes in real life, starring surrealist and colorful scenarios.

Documentary about the trial in Rome, which began in October 2006 and sentenced several of the military personnel who served at the ESMA during the last Argentine military dictatorship to life imprisonment. The film records instances of the judicial process that took place in Italian courts and includes testimony from mothers, grandmothers, and daughters of the kidnapped and disappeared Italian citizens.

The beginning and end of the Malvinas-Falklands War was marked by two images that were very famous worldwide and it’s constant reproduction in the news made them settle in the collective memory of society. 40 years after the conflict, the protagonists of these images recount how they experienced media exposure, pride, humiliation and their relationship with the memory of the war, based on the images that immortalized them

Sentimentally turbulent images prompted unconsciously by the end of times. A picture of light and water... and there's some blood in it too, given the course of human events. At some point I will have no choice than to call this a political film. "This storm is what we call progress." -Walter Benjamin

Doña Isabel de Gandolfa tells us how to make a Revuelto Roberto, a delicious meal made with some ingredients of peculiar origin.

In "Este río, estas islas…", Surraco narrates the life and work of the Entre Ríos poet Juan L. Ortiz.

After a long day of work at the comic book store, Radio can only think about one thing: hanging out with his friends.

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.

Documentary about the signs and premonitions the recovered grandchildren experienced before learning their true identities.

Juan works as an office worker, and after spending several months overworked, he suffers from stress. One morning he falls asleep while working and dreams about being stalked by something or someone he doesn't recognize: exhaustion.

Neither the skin nor the filmic material is exempt from the temporal becoming and its consequent growing degradation. Both have such a fragile sensitivity that their potential for intervention seems to be infinitely finite, yet a common point seems to open a gulf between them: memory. However, one point in common seems to open an abyss between them: memory. How does dermatological memory operate? The photographic archive sends us back to vital mummification. Virtual skin and digital body exchange mails.

Mate is the national drink of the Argentina. 90% of the yerba mate that is consumed in Argentina and 60% of the one that is exported to the world, is produced in the province of Misiones, located in the Northeast of Argentina. There, thousands of children under age and more than 25,000 families who work in the yerba mate crop, suffer from inequality and extreme poverty, as a result of corruption and public-private complicity. Declared as National and Cultural Interest by the Chamber of Deputies and the Honorable Congress of the Argentine Nation; Free of Child Labor is an original production documentary by Posibl., which tells the cruel reality of the children who work and live behind the yerba mate harvest, the national drink of Argentina.

Through a series of short documentaries, Bicontinentals tells the story of how science is produced at the Carlini Base in Antarctica, Argentina. During the summer season, dozens of research groups arrive at the base to carry out studies on the soil, water, animal and plant life, and the human impact on this particular ecosystem. The production of knowledge in Antarctica by Argentine scientists contributes to our country’s claim of sovereignty over this territory and to the fact that more Argentines can know what is there, as well as to international cooperation in research on climate change that affects the whole world.

The multifaceted essence of the marches and demonstrations in Argentina reveals the transforming and vibrant power of the street. This scenario brings together celebration, memory, education and the world of work. The intensity and diversity of the demands are palpable in the fervour and solidarity that constitute past and present struggles. The role of popular mobilisations is crucial in shaping the identity and social development of our people, while the public space becomes a stage for vindication, celebration and collective memory

A young office worker returns from his vacation one Sunday night. He begins to imagine going back to work and the routine that overwhelms him and that depresses him beyond measure. The next day he gets up and makes the decision that something has to change in his life once and for all and forever.

Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic, the ever-curious Alice ventures beyond the bounds of imagination and explores new states of consciousness. In this journey, challenging the boundaries of mind and reality, she discovers that each individual harbors their own allies and adversaries within. Submerged in the confines between dream and wakefulness, Alice finds herself trapped in a surreal and disturbing world, a dreamlike and tumultuous version of Wonderland. In this realm of absurdity, where conventional rules twist and turn, Alice must unravel the mysteries of this world and find her own way back home.

Animated series that tells the adventures of an intrepid and funny girl from the Buenos Aires suburbs who faces a variety of situations related to sexual diversity, gender and children’s rights (present in Comprehensive Sexual Education) in which she brings her unique and original point of view. Throughout five episodes, the series seeks to rethink gender stereotypes - as socially established norms -, to reflect on the diversity of possible family structures, and also to investigate the practices of discrimination and segregation that circulate in our society.

Short film directed by the great Titi Ramirez filmed in the city of Campana (Province of Bs.As) in 1972 in super 8 mm.

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.

It’s the year 2005 and Ramiro, an exemplary student, meets Matias at a school night party. Encouraged by his rebelliousness, he experiences transgression for the first time, beginning what seems to be the start of something more than a friendship.

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.

Lucas, a young introvert boy, is left alone at home while his parents are on a small vacation. The tranquility is broken when a mysterious shadow begins to stalk him. As he investigates, he uncovers dark secrets and must face his worst fears to free his home from this terrifying presence.

Following Bolivian miners in their daily work, where they talk and share anecdotes while some transport materials or make dynamite. The workers exchange words before heading towards the depths, where the detonations are carried out prior to the extraction of material.

A special secret group tries to prevent an alien invasion.

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.