Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

For ten years, from December 1961 to November 1971, Buenos Aires was a place where contemporary Latin American music changed forever. Young composers from all over the Americas came to Buenos Aires on scholarships to work for two years in a laboratory: the Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies at the Di Tella Institute. Half a century later, they returned to Buenos Aires, with some unfinished business.

While waiting for a friend, a girl feels a presence and strange noises that disturb her, so she must enter a labyrinthine neighborhood to escape the danger that lurks.

A being is lost in the shadows without knowing which direction to take

In 2019, a historic trial is held in Paris against three top managers of France Telecom for moral harassment that changes the way of seeing labor relations in the world. The chain of suicides generated by the company’s human resources policies generated a debate that the film has the privilege of registering as a sole witness from within the Courts during the Process.

An animated short film by Víctor Iturralde.

In 1966, during General Onganía´s dictatorship, Argentinian people never imagined that genocide was gestating before their eyes. A few years later, thousands of men and women were chased to death. The images in this documentary remind the story of trade-union leader Agustín Tosco.

When a man and a woman stay at the hotel, the ultra-religious Remedios begins to act stranger than usual, while her children begin trying to contact their deceased father using a strange book they found in the basement.

A young teenager is going through a hard phase because of his self-image and the external pressure of how he should be.

Mexican feature film

On December 20, 2001, a sculptor collects tear gas capsules, shotgun cartridges, rubber bullets, and stones thrown at protesters, and with them begins the construction of a work.

Simon Feldman's first movie, made while being a teacher at "Seminario de cine de Buenos Aires". Little to nothing is known about it, as it can't be found online. Not only that, but Feldman then remade this film but with a higher budget. The new version was made in 35mm while the original one was made in 16mm. Since the newest version is best remembered (and available online) this first attempt is eclipsed and forgotten.

“Malvinas…” is an 83-minute documentary film that narrates the post-war experience of the Malvinas but from a new – and forgotten – approach: from and reaching the meanings of the war and the post-war but only from the humanity of its protagonists. .

Since 1997, a novel and powerful manifestation of workers' struggle has taken place in Argentina: roadblocks. In this way, unemployed workers demand from the state the right to decent work and income. Based on the principles of horizontality among workers, direct democracy, autonomy from the state and power, and comprehensive training among its members, one of the most important experiences of these years was that of the Solano Unemployed Workers' Movement in Quilmes, a city in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Work, training, the democratic debate of ideas, the sharing of life, as well as the struggle for work, dignity, and social change, are some of the contents of this report.

As in a diary or a notebook, images and sounds display -in an intimate and reflective way- the emotional state during (self) exile. A film that blends languages of video art with essayistic documentary; classic B&W Argentine features and found footage with personal archival material; texts from quotes to notes on a diary. We travel to question our identity and the notion of homeland. In doing so, the body is thought of as the territory of one´s own nation. However, places change but the question remains the same: will this be my place?

A woman locks herself in the bathroom. It’s late at night and everything -and everybody- will remain outside her small, claustrophobic world. But before the new day arrives he will knock at the door. This is a combination of dance and the cinematic exploration of the tension between loneliness and contact, a tension we could call intimacy.

The doors of the sea revealed by the willing eye.

In the meeting between Bras and Norman Mc Laren, the latter explained to him his experiments with "drawn sound", how to intervene the optical sound track of 35mm film with black and transparent marks that then become noises. In this short film Bras generated small synthetic sounds synchronised with the images.

Amina, a muslim woman, opens the doors of her kitchen and reflects on the women who came before her in the recipes. She describes the act of cooking not only as work or effort, but as an act of love and a gesture that no one stops to see.

This film is a secret and also an offering. When we add our initials we are the closest thing to love, to teaching and to a certain greatness. We met in the worst year of our lives and somehow you chose to save me and I to adore you.

Ana is a twentysomething artist: she teaches art to kids, goes to parties, and tries to avoid running into her ex. A gallery owner invites her to put on her first solo show. As she scrambles to get it ready in time, she meets a new girl. Buenos F**cking Aires is a portrait of a generation immersed in the nightlife and contemporary art scene of Buenos Aires: a story about adulthood, friendship, miscommunication, and job insecurity.

After making a deal that could clear his debts and free him from the criminal underworld, Fabián sets off for home. But a shadow lingers at his side, and the night that began as a path to freedom is about to become endless.

A frustrated film director attempts to film a modern depiction of the trial of Christ, struggling with all kinds of problems and difficulties.

Documentary addressing the intersex community's struggle against non-consensual medical interventions.

Bahía Blanca was one of the cities in the province of Buenos Aires most severely punished by the last military dictatorship. Its de facto powers silenced and perpetuated a situation of impunity for hundreds of crimes committed against its population. Through the testimonies of survivors and victims' families, the influence of civilian complicity before and during state terrorism is reconstructed. Gaining insight into the places that served as clandestine detention centers also helps lift the veil in a city where justice is making progress in bringing those responsible to justice.

In the summer of 1994, on a small field in Argentina, a group of children gather to play soccer under the warm sun of siesta time. However, what begins as just another day of fun will soon become a memory.

Jonathan Benders, a successful writer, hits a creative roadblock and embarks on a journey to rediscover his inspiration. Torn between appeasing his agent and staying true to his artistic vision, Jonathan must decide whether to write for the masses or follow his heart.

The Dalton brothers, fourth generation of a circus family, have traveled the world experiencing both success and failure. Today in Catalonia, a new generation will host the Carpa Revolució, bringing the history of the circus to life, where magic, memories, and the future will take center stage.

Student documentary short film by director Carlos Vallina.

5 moments on the sun king's agenda. Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca

Behind a three-meter-high wall, crimes of the imagination are concealed. This film is presented as a great fable within another to accompany women sectioned in a neuropsychiatric hospital who present themselves as artists, poets, and gardeners. Setting aside diagnoses and scientific knowledge about madness, we will accompany the imagination of women diagnosed as alienated to release them randomly from their own poetry.

Pablo Salinas, a plaintiff attorney in crimes against humanity cases, explains the path taken by the Mendoza Federal Justice system from the dock to its conviction, drawing on solid legal work and in-depth research into abhorrent crimes around the world. Through his research, he demonstrates the complicity of civil society and the justice system with the dictatorship.

Mariano and I separated. We had been together for nine years. In these videos we are in the middle of our relationship. We are on a trip, we are in love, we know that love is ending but not that it is going to end for us too. I wanted to make a documentary, a travel diary. Today in these videos I find something else. An intimacy that no longer exists, stopped in time.

Reflection on the war in general and the Malvinas war in particular. Darío, a former combatant who, together with his daughter, recreates the war in a field and on a terrace. Through representation, they share their versions of the events, which also reveal a distance and generational crossover.

An observational documentary filmed among the Chané of Salta in 1984. The Super 8 film footage and magnetic sound recordings of this ethnographic, non-professional project, remained untouched until 2023, when Levin decided to finally edit this unique material. The resulting film is a respectful and celebratory portrait of a vulnerable yet resilient community.

30 year-old Pablo has a room for rent in his apartment. 26 year-old Francisco is looking to move out and share rent. Two mediocre lives cross paths, and a strange bond is born.

A Rock Star trafficker, his five professional bodyguards, an infiltrator and Nikita, a hitman who does the dirty work of the intelligence services. Sex, drugs, rock and roll and death threatening them all.

In the era of bedazzlement, the night has become extinct. Shadows have disappeared, and what is left is the realm of evidence. The inhabitants flee to dark spaces in which to take shelter from an unbearable glow, and the holes on the earth’s surface become their refuge. This experimental video works on the light-shadow binomial by relating basic principles of photographic technique with the universe of caves, hidden spaces linked to the origin of human life.

Malena, a lonely and distant young woman, receives the news that her sister Maia committed suicide. Malena must undertake a trip to her hometown to recognize her body and deal with the bureaucracy that comes with caring for a deceased relative. At the same time, she will try to understand what she feels and the relationship she had with her sister, to go through the grief and accept her departure.

A room, a train station on fire, a flower you see again, a human being from her imagination and time, uncertain. All the thing that exist fit in the word "backpack". All the promises in the world fit in a word, and all the things are internal, personal, nationals.

Immersive short film, through a monologue we explore the mind of a person aligned in an increasingly chaotic world

Norman's stepfather is mysteriously killed. With the help of his friends, Freddy and Dan, they investigate what happened. Suddenly a horde of zombies attacks them. Somehow both incidents are connected with a book that brings the dead to life.

At the Borda psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, two patients find a breather in art from their monotonous daily life. Documentary that goes through the contradictions between the field of dreams of the interns and the harsh reality of the hospital.

The first film made in Santa Cruz deals with a murder that occurred in a ranch, some 80 kilometers from the Perito Moreno glacier, where the real and the imaginary mix.