Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

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.

Documentary that rescues the present and the heritage of murguero art in the city of Buenos Aires, through the testimony of the directors of four murgas from different neighborhoods (Boedo, Palermo, Saavedra, La Boca), in a journey that investigates life of the artists of the carnival and in the way of developing this street art with a presence of more than 60 years in the carnivals of the city.

Documentary about the story of Ángel Belisario Gutiérrez, a taxi driver from Buenos Aires who spent his childhood in a lumberjack village lost in the mountains of Santiago del Estero. There, he was imprisoned and joined the fledgling Guevarist guerrilla group founded by the ERP.

A railway fan embarks on a journey through the stations of the now-defunct Buenos Aires Province Railway while addressing, from his particular point of view, a tour of the last fifty years of Argentine history.

The movie about the greatest serial killer in history, who never existed.

In Villa 21, in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires, two gangs clash and apply their own codes. A trial convicts and sentences one of the gang members to death. A story of love, moral codes, and revenge.

Visual artist and photographer Martín Barrios is an inveterate traveler. His thirst for adventure began at age 17 when he picked up his camera and set off on foot through Latin America. His photographic records capture people from every continent and offer a reflection on joy and sorrow across all geographical regions.

A gay couple discusses showing affection in public, in a world where we have been taught not to be equal.

Set in the Argentinian coastal town Villa Gesell, built on sand dunes in the 1930s, “The Dunes Said” delves into the town's origins, creating a parallel fiction in which an interrupted report on sand dune memory opens up to let us ponder wider themes of the relationship between humans and nature and how history is created.

Lulú goes to a bar every night in Buenos Aires, she has a coffee, a smoke, and stops to observe. Meanwhile, mirrors confront her with the passage of time and fantasy will become an escape from her daily routine.

An analysis of the social, cultural and institutional environment that surrounds the problem of gender violence in Argentina based on the story of the survivor Ivana Rosales. In addition, the patriarchal network of power that runs through institutions, and the role of the media and stereotypes. A documentary by Susana Nieri.

Animated short film that narrates a tree's biological cycle.

After meeting the Scottish/Canadian animator Norman Mc Laren at a documentary and animation film festival in Cordoba in 1962, Bras experimented with the technique of "direct scratching on film" by synchronising the image with music and noises. In "TOC TOC TOC TOC" Bras recorded on the optical soundtrack of 16mm film the sound of a pencil tapping against a table. Then, seeing the drawing of the optical sound, he invented graphics that he scratched with the pick of an old phonograph on the veiled film.

Produced by Casa Lepage, it is the first appearance of tango in the cinema, as it contains brief scenes in which the dancer El Negro Agapito demonstrates figures.

A girl finds herself troubled after her boyfriend decides to leave the country with hopes for a better tomorrow, having to figure out how to go on

During a disturbing windstorm on the plains of La Pampa, Argentina, a girl falls in love with a mysterious wild boy.

A group of friends decide to spend the night in a field where a supernatural being resides, who asks for offerings in exchange for help.

A collage about the end of utopias made with found footage from the 70's and scratched 16mm film stock intervened with solvents.

An intimate story about the construction of identity and the consequences of defying gender norms within Mexico's conservative upper-middle-class society. The Way You See Me traces a ten-year journey from hyperfemininity toward a defiant masculinity. What began as an experiment to challenge the idea that testosterone justifies male behaviour gradually evolved into something far more complex, confronting the filmmaker's body, voice, relationships and sense of self. But the personal keeps opening onto the political. Conservative upper-middle-class Mexican society doesn't just shape us into rigid gender roles; it recruits us as enforcers of those roles too, compelling us to monitor and regulate one another. Shot over a decade, this is one of the most comprehensive and candid explorations of what it means to transition, revealing the intertwined power dynamics between class, gender and systemic violence in Mexican society.

The intimacy between Manuel and Fermín begins to crack when Fermín starts a new job and the pressure to fit in reawakens old fears. Outside, hateful rhetoric begins to echo again; inside, their love is confronted with uncertainty.

A young man is forced to confront his past when he leaves his childhood home behind.

Dozens of cans containing student films from the 1960s and 1970s, believed to have been lost during the dictatorship, turn up at the National University of Córdoba. Half a century later, these images bring back the passion of a generation and the abrupt end of their dreams.

Antu is a 10-year-old girl who was born blind. Thanks to her unusual sensitivity and curiosity, she discovers the world around her in detail. Aboard an old truck, she travels across Argentina with her parents, showing films in small, forgotten towns and imagining the stories she will never be able to see.

The unusual story of two FBI agents tormented by Dr. Zarlanga, which includes exorcisms, demons, fighters against the Pope, wrestlers, priests, robots and much more.

Thousands of Argentine descendants of native cultures live in Buenos Aires, a city that has historically forgotten the preexistence and existence of these peoples. Four people in this situation tell us what it is like to grow up in a family and social environment that denies them their roots and their culture; In addition, they tell of their personal struggle to meet again and strengthen ties through cultural activities. In this search, the four paths come together through the worldview of the original peoples; making an invitation to reflect on consciousness, and the relationship of humanity with nature.

A journey into the bodily emotions conveyed by nature. Contemplation in dialogue with intimacy and vastness. Projected on Super 8 film with three projectors.

A tribute to the great comic book superhero, in the style of a silent film. The Man of Steel, driven by the overwhelming need to do good, thwarts a criminal act without receiving any recognition. On the contrary, and quite unexpectedly, he is attacked by the victim of the robbery.

A group of clumsy and horny tourists get lost in the mountains and encounter a rare cannibal breed.

Floggers: a passing fad or a new culture that will endure? Another strategy to induce teenagers to consume excessively? These questions are unraveled in this documentary by the protagonists of the phenomenon: shopkeepers, hairdressers, teachers, and, of course, the floggers themselves.

Hugs transcend the simplicity of a gesture; they unite, shelter, forgive, appreciate. They can speak more than a thousand words, filling the soul with warmth and tenderness

Lines of light, ink and blood draw a dark map of southern introspection.

An Argentinian road movie that follows a gaucho and his little boy on a journey to the sea.

An Argentinian road movie that follows a gaucho and his little boy on a journey to the sea.

A group of young writers, entangled in their relationships, argue about success, love, and death. The night's tide brings to light what was previously hidden and some weaknesses.

Don Videla is a cinema operator, 80 years old and 65 years old, he crosses the streets of San Juan on his bicycle to get to the Municipal Cinema and show films. A film crew accompanies him to trace the traces of the cinemas he passed through.

The Gran Chaco is a dry woodland covering more than one million square kilometers across Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. It is among the regions experiencing the highest global rates of deforestation for large-scale agriculture. What they are experiencing is the not-so-slow rise of the soybean tide. It is coming in from all sides, squeezing communities onto ever smaller patches of forest - green islands in a sea of monoculture. They are the primary causalities, and often targets, of land speculators, agribusiness conglomerates, and political leaders. People are being fenced in and fumigated like the soybean that surrounds them, many ultimately having to move towards towns and cities.

A young woman mobilized by her own experience with Shibari, will seek to learn and teach this practice without risks. To achieve this, she will tie strong knots, again and again with the conviction that breaking taboos defeats ignorance.

A search for those fragments of memory that cannot be contained in a photo, which symbolizes the infinite exercise of writing memory.

The autobiographical films made by German-Argentine experimental artist Marie Louise Alemann explore performativity and layers of the self. Paulo Pécora's portrait of Alemann, recorded in 2013, pays her loving tribute. Alemann's figure gradually comes into view from amidst a sea of black-and-white Super 8 grains while her voice speaks gently about how cinema entered her life.

In the heart of Eurasia, H. discovers humanity's best kept secret (and perhaps its last hope). From San Salvador de Jujuy to the desertic and mountainous confines of the Chinese State; H., generic Argentinean system of programmer police, persecuted and tortured Russian cryptographer, Islamic cyber-terrorist adrift in an unfinished beta desert, disembodied prison guard, mutinous prisoner, a mark carved in the ruins of a very old wall, dust of a planet in retreat, involuntary banner of a rebellion.

An employee who stays up late begins to notice strange things in the company where she works. She will not be able to end her day without first discovering what is happening.

A group of young people live in an overcrowded reform school and carry out some activities offered by the system. In the film workshop they watch films, they participate with great enthusiasm; they tell some stories about the place and are filmed. Little by little and for various reasons they have to distance themselves.

Two twin brothers fall in love with the same woman.

The town rebels against a landowner in La Rioja.

In the small towns of the Argentine pampas, the quadreras, horse races over short distances, continue to be a passion. In Saladillo, Buenos Aires province, Pablo, a photographer for the local newspaper, with a degree in personnel compression, knows that after 57 years it will not be easy to find a job. His survival and that of his family now depend on the rain not causing the cancellation of a square, since with an ingenious artisan photo-finish system, he is responsible for the final verdict of an arrival, which avoid arguments and conflicts.

This is a film about buttons (the ones in clothing) that play soccer. Soccer with buttons? Yes, but the buttons don’t move on their own; they are moved by Rómulo Berruti and Alfredo Serra, veteran journalists, long-time friends, eminent conversationalists who are fans of soccer-playing buttons

Maria, a doctor from Santiago serves in a rural hospital in Southern Chile. When 12 years-old Paola visits the hospital, Maria finds out about her terrible secret. Suspecting a family drama, Maria decides to follow the girl to her home.