Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Excursion of the filmmaker and his uncle to the summit of Cerro Rincón, Vallecitos, Mendoza, Argentina, in December 2001.

On April 2, 2013, the city of La Plata suffered a devastating flood that claimed at least 89 lives. Residents fought to save themselves and others as the water surged upward. Those interviewed shared their experiences, lessons learned, fears, and current concerns: the awareness that La Plata is situated on a floodplain underscores the urgent need to develop the necessary strategies to prevent another tragedy.

A boy climbs a wall to take a closer look at a snail that slowly moves along its edge and encounters an alien world. Among sheets and white clothes drying in the sun, there are two young girls playing with a bag that floats above them as if by magic.

Julio arrives in Colombia in search of a better life and, in complete solitude, he wanders the city. Until he meets Nicolás, with whom he will have to negotiate his feelings and search for a common denominator that will lead them to fulfill each of their goals.

Documentary about the VII International Tourism Grand Prix of 1963. The race, which took place in several stages, had 291 entries and the participation of vehicles from various brands, including Mercedes Benz 220 SE and 300 SE models, Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint and Fiat 1500 Saloon, among others.

Película documental de montaje, describre la historia de la conquista espacial desde el primer vuelo suborbital de Alan Sheppard hasta el lanzamiento del Apolo 11. Montage documentary film, describes the history of space conquest from Alan Sheppard's first suborbital flight to the launch of Apollo 11.

A film that captures the history of San Cayetano and transcends historical data to portray the social phenomenon of the urban sanctuary that gathers the most people in Latin America.

It tells the story of Gauchito Gil and was made by the Film and Video Workshop "Proyecto Adolescente", Asoc. Civil "La Conurbana".

Federico has just come out of a neuropsychiatric hospital and begins to write a novel in which a painting teacher falls in love with Mercedes, one of his students. After a hospital inmate draws Mercedes on a sheet identical to how he imagined her, Federico begins to become obsessed with this character, confusing reality with fiction, to the point of embarking on a desperate search to find his beloved.

In the city of Mosconi, in northern Argentina, the handing over of oil exploitation to multinational companies in the 1990s disrupted the way of life of its inhabitants. The first roadblocks and the formation of the Union of Unemployed Workers arose. This movement was spreading as part of the resistance of an entire town against the high unemployment rate, the lamentable working conditions and the pollution of the environment.

My first experimental approach to cinema, at the age of 15, made as a game with friends, which results in a tribute to my favorite musicians. (Sergio Levin)

Documentary that tells the story of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. Using interviews and archival material, the film tells how and who began the difficult task of trying to identify the remains, buried as NN, of the victims of the last military dictatorship.

With teams from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, England, Belgium and Lithuania, the I Copa América Alternativa “Hombre Nuevo” took place in the Cordoba town of Colonia Caroya. With Che Guevara as a backdrop, the bet was to carry out an alternative football on and off the field.

Documentary about the Evaristo comic strip and the real character that inspired it.

When agribusiness arrived with its modernizing machine, the mountains of Santiago became a battlefield. All this blood in the mountains is a frontal portrait of the struggle of thousands of peasant families who reclaim their lands, and that of Cristian Ferreyra, a young man murdered for defending them.

A poetic essay on time and memory, a reflection on emptiness and death, a documentary about a peasant woman, fiction of that documentary, A Continent on Fire is a kind of matryoshka, a film that contains other films inside, infinite films that they try to give the same sensation that a stone falls into the water causes, something like a spiral rumbling in the thunderous silence of a forgotten town in the Patagonian mountain range.

Sebastián is moving his old office; since his son was born, he's been working from home. Old VHS tapes, photos, and papers from his youth surface, leading him to reflect on his past as a political activist in his younger days.

A university student ventures into northern Argentina in search of material for his thesis and arguments for the story he wants to tell, but with the help of his driver, he discovers an answer completely opposite to what he went looking for, and reality unfolds before his eyes. Years later, that same driver will summon him to ask him a favor.

Desperation and debt causes a man to kidnap a little girl for her ransom. It is a bold and dangerous move, but does he have what it takes to see it through to the end? Does he have it in him to do the unthinkable if necessary?

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.

Portrait of the rural school of Mina Delina.

Chinese ink is the powder or soot that is collected from the fumes produced by the combustion of resinous materials, called carbon black, dissolved in water.

A man comes across a box full of VHS, where he finds more than just old memories...

A film that captures a very short stay in Valparaíso: a tour around the bay, the port and the city center.

Hand-painted film with white lines over a baclk background.

In the geographical center of Buenos Aires, a group of friends establish a self-managed space free of prejudices under the premise of the Buenos Aires Anti-fascist Action and the SHARP (Skin-Heads Against Racial Prejudice) culture, called La Cultura del Barrio (LCDB). La Cultura gathers all street cultures and promote various aspects of counter-cultural music, literature and other arts. Within this context, they open a boxing school as well, proposing another form of playing sports in response to a selfish, racist and homophobic system. LCDB thus becomes the first and only anti-fascist sports and social club in Latin America.

Short film directed by Carlos Borcosque.

Documentary about the transition of Camilo Diaz, a trans boy from Buenos Aires who tells us his experience through an intimate story, accompanied by an interview with his parents, revealing how it was to accompany his process living it from the outside.

Before he attended school, the flowers on top of the Flower-Headed Boy's head always gave him a reason to smile. Now that school has started, he must learn how to overcome the bullying he encounters.

A young woman is escaping at full speed through a thick jungle from a ferocius beast. Suddenly, a mysterious door. Could it lead her to salvation?

Wake Up! It's Yesterday is a journey to the mind of a queer cotton candy vendor on their way home from work.

A diary by: Ignacio Lopardo and Nerina de León Tonno for the week of Monday, May 25 to Saturday, May 30.

Chandler Bing wonders who Chandler Bing really is.

What remains of a man after death? A documentary that, through interviews with his closest relatives, attempts to speak about inheritance in its broadest sense. A documentary journey through memory and grief to reveal the invisible map that builds a family.

A couple's relationship is falling apart after the death of their young son. The couple is living in a cabin in a beach town to try and mend things before they head off to Mexico for Carlos' religious work. Romina, who is battling depression, seeks out a mysterious man. In what Carlos and Romina thought would be a trip to bring them closer together only makes them realize the trip served to further the divide.

Fears and insecurities come to the surface when Julieta decides to talk to her mother about her sexual orientation.

Within an historical context of globalization and technological changes, 'Extremes' deliberates about the sociability between the occidental human race, original inhabitants, machines and nature. Development that move forward, blow away, accumulate, mix over, merge and dispose. Audiovisual poem which go through urbanity and natural environment by the combination of past and present time, native ceremonies and contemporary behaviors; spirit and matter. An invitation to think over that, in the end, we are all one.

Documentary about the celebrations for the 100 years of the May Revolution.

An Alberto Bróccoli's animation short film.

A Juan Oliva's animation short film.

Language is the liquid that we are all dissolved in. Words and desire battle amongst one another for control.

They say that summers leave memories impossible to erase, and this is not going to be the exception. Lucia, Víctor, and Dante will live the greatest crossroads of life, fall in love. Does anyone say how love should be?

Yenny is a trans woman from a town in the interior of Buenos Aires. In their childhood they had to deal with the prejudices and discrimination of the people. They lived in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship and in Mar del Plata, where they worked in theaters and cabarets. Recently, they underwent sex change surgery.