Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A zombie outbreak begins at a call center. How long before anyone notices a difference?

When a constant sound stops, the butler of the house discovers the peace of silence and the madness of repetition.

Kaleidoscopic, fractal and hallucinatory autopsy of an identity card.

A woman remembers the encounter she had with a stranger, and the afternoon she spent with her around a derelict country house in Colonia Benítez, Chaco Province.

Ángel Rivero is a charinguero from the suburbs. He lives his life following old gaucho customs and with total devotion to Gauchito Gil. He finds refuge in his pagan religion, tormented by the mysticisms and folklores of his past.

When the reserve near his house is on fire, Pedro finds a scared dog and takes her home. While it isn’t easy to convince his parents, Kuky stays and the two become best friends.

Since his childhood, Juan Chico has known that his community hides stories marked by pain. Born in the heart of the Chaco mountains into a Qom family, he left his job as a bricklayer to investigate the causes of this silence, starting with a question: ‘Why don’t I speak my mother language? This question leads him to discover a series of historical events that beg to be unveiled until he transforms the silence of his peers into an unstoppable tide of voices that challenges an entire nation.

With first-person accounts, the documentary narrates the educational project that the Fundación Eva Perón launched in 1951 and that the 1955 coup d’état tried to erase. Today, those young students who were summoned review their history

This film captures the essence of the marches to make feminism and sexual dissidence visible in the Argentine Republic. Through a series of visual records, the participation of women, lesbians, trans and other groups is documented. Image and reflection emphasize the importance of empowerment, the achievement of rights and the occupation of public spaces. A presentation on camera of movements that meant and mean a true political and social revolution, demonstrating the strength and determination of feminisms in their fight for equality and justice.

Maty, stressed out, searches the web for some help to at least get some rest. He finds it on a site that induces him into a hypnosis, which becomes addictive and makes him lose track of time; life and death pass him by

At the agricultural school, a girl enters her first day of classes in a desperate search for a new life. That same day, in front of her eyes, she experiences how a classmate faces the same situation from which she was escaping. Martina (12) decides to change schools after years of being harassed by a group of classmates. The story shows the pain of the mistreatment and cruelty to which she is subjected and highlights the crucial role of teachers, preceptors, family and community in the detection and prevention of bullying.

A girl suffers a car accident and during her coma has a psychedelic trip in which it is impossible to distinguish what is real and what is not. An adventure will unfold in which she will cross dimensions within her own mind and escape from her inner demons.

Adaptation of "Los sabuesos" written by Sófocles in the 5th century B.C.

The colonial usurpation of the Islas Malvinas is expanding into the Atlantic Ocean, and the natural resources of the province of Tierra del Fuego are being illegally exploited. Through different perspectives, the documentary addresses the geopolitical importance of the South Atlantic for the future of the region.

A meeting of languages through flamenco dance in its evocation of the figure of Eva Perón, which seeks to artistically present a historical fact, inviting the public to reflection and debate.

Documentary about the Servian Circus, its owner and creator (Jorge Servian) and the artists who participate in it.

A man who has suffered a recent loss maintains a tense relationship with his neighbor, all immersed in a mountain town affected by an apparent ecological disaster.

Ernesto, a lonely middle-aged man, works as a cab driver at night. Under the appearance of a monotonous and apathetic life hides the abyss of a dark personality.

This film portrays the life of Osvaldo, the screenwriter behind the most delirious presidential speech in Argentine history. Fiction is combined with real historical events that occurred in the Argentine Republic during 1996.

A brief chronicle of the filming of Los chané.

The forest becomes inseparable from the singing of Chevugi, the oldest inhabitant of the åché community, who finds in the bushes his source of vitality. To listen to the forest is to listen to Chevugi's pre'ê, a prayer that remembers those who are no longer there.

A series of portraits ordered alphabetically by the names of their protagonists, whose common denominator is their non-existence. A film made with mixed techniques: generation of images and texts with AI, and handcrafted intervention on paper.

It tells the story of the long Malvinas conflict, usurpation, dispossession and war. The story of a daughter of a soldier who after the conflict decides to visit the islands to look for her father who never returned.

The obsession with an addiction can get us out of control.

Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca

Alfonsina is sick of the way her friends treat her, so she invites them to her birthday party and gives them a drug that makes them feel bad about themselves to get some sense of revenge. Meanwhile, her crazy neighbor is convinced that Alfonsina is having an affair with her husband.

Found footage worked with bleach and masks. The title is a play on words between the technique used on the material and the images of the emulsion. Set to music with a Kiss song performed by The Replacements.

Short film.

“The Labyrinth” can be seen as the culmination of Rubio's formal and musical experimentation, using many of the resources of his previous works (overprinting, figure movements, dizzying montage).

Alex is a middle-aged man who lives disconnected from his emotions and spends his time watching films at his own theater. Until one situation, external and unexpected, intervenes in his world of comfort and awakens him from his lethargy.

"Huesos de azúcar" is an animated short film that achieves a crush in just 7 minutes. A sort of timeless lapse where we enter an interdimensional portal.

A couple decide to leave the apartment in which they’re living. As the day of the move approaches, the preparations become stranger and stranger, and she begins to doubt. Where are they heading?

During the 1980s, Hirsch made a series of documentary films about various events in the city, like the appropriation of a monument in PICHÓN EN LE OBILISCO.

Seferi thinks of his past while he cannot open his pool. Above all, he misses his mother. In turn, Darío wanders around the cemetery offering his songs. He seems to have a lot of work.

The multiple meanings of water, embarking, being on a journey, yearning for the shore. This short film is inspired by Homer's Odyssey, an epic about adventure, nostalgia, and survival, as well as Ulysses, an icon submerged in the vicissitudes of human existence.

Adaptation of the novel La Prueba by Cesar Aira.

It is Sunday, December 18, 2022. Argentina is playing the World Cup final against France. A family prepares to watch the game.

Two people with helmets. A series of seemingly useless actions. A place from another time. The helmets are, they are. Together they do, undo, ruminate, move looking for a way to be in the world, between poetry and life.

On a winter evening, Lisa walks back to her house and feels a guy stalking her back. Fear invades her, but she pretends to walk normally as she strategizes to get there safely. When he manages to slip away from the hunter, he feels that he can no longer accept this situation and decides to go looking for him.

The days are like birds, they come and then they go, and they always leave a wound of light. The birds and the days is an allegory to creative freedom and the impediments and other problems that creators usually have.

Black and white documentary film, produced, scripted and directed by the Lumiton technical team, filmed in 1933 in Paraguay, during the Chaco War (1932-1935), premiered on August 1, 1934.

Guillermo Sánchez stands the test of time with a trade of more than 130 years. A few kilometers from the town of Rosario del Tala, shoveling in sun and shade, it weaves its history with grains of sand.

A young woman wanders aimlessly, drowning her thoughts and reflections under the incandescent lights of the city of Resistencia. the incandescent lights of the city of Resistencia.