Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Gaturro wants to have Agatha's love and while he fights with his childhood archenemy Max, he learns to be a better cat for his love, his friends, his family and his 7 lives.

We follow the daily operations of the Garden Gnome Liberation Front, as the meaning of freedom is put into crisis.

To live in peace and progress, Guillermo Hoyos must pay the price of harassment from the authorities.

The story of Julián Lamar, an Argentine actor who tries to get a part in a North American western that will be shot in Argentina.

Two emotionally charged love triangles collide as Elena accompanies her photographer husband on a work trip, falling for the sublime beauty of Patagonia and the man who guides them through it. Meanwhile, Albert, a director returning home to Los Angeles, adjusts to being a single father in the wake of his failing marriage.

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.

Several characters coincide in the game of Russian roulette, while they are playing, we will find out about their stories and their motivations for getting there.

To escape the leader of a satanic metal band and the father of her unborn child, Lucia moves to a remote cabin with her grandmother. Though safe in her surroundings, she is haunted by his memory and knows he will stop at nothing to track her down.

A writer who has just finished his novel has a relationship with a mute young woman, which leads to him being cursed by his girlfriend, Fausta, placing him in a cruel predicament. His lover and one of his best friends will try to help him break the curse and, in the process, get his book accepted by a peculiar university professor who is already aware of the author's literary past and detests it.

In exchange for the life of a Norwegian fisherman, a bankrupt industrialist gives his soul to the devil.

Rafaela is a young nun who belongs to a precarious congregation. For some time, a recurring dream has haunted her. At the same time, she is sent to a nearby town in search of the new archbishop. Along the way, she will experience extraordinary encounters that will either advance or retreat from her path.

On the 10th anniversary of Violetta’s release, Tini gets together with her former castmates to celebrate, giving her fans an intimate, unique, and unforgettable show. Tini, Jorge Blanco, Candelaria Molfese, and Mercedes Lambre gave the audience a night to remember with their new versions of five of the show’s songs.

A world-renowned pianist, at the peak of his power, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers that his nine-year-old nephew has a musical gift that could eclipse his own.

Dad Iván, is the testimony of the daughter of a Montonero guerilla leader that died during combat: Iván Roqué, the Iván in the title and father of the director. The documentary exposes in a moving way the difficult relationship between a daughter and her heroic, mythified father. At the same time it also becomes not only the reflection of a daughter but of an entire generation, about the feelings of abandoment, abscense, the tragedy, the exile and death. Feelings, ideas, dreams and facts are confronted. Tears are shed as much as admiration is expressed for the father, he is questioned as strongly as he is veneered.

Vienna, 2019 – the end of an era. The smoking ban in public places means that a part of Kaffeehaus culture has disappeared. Of all moments, this is the one that Angeliki chooses to buy an apartment with help from her interior designer friend, Carmen. Angeliki seems to have something against all of them: either the parquet floors creak, the tiles are the wrong colour or she is bothered by the proximity to a restaurant. How will she ever find a new home in this environment? Carmen feels like she’s talking to a brick wall. Moreover, she simply cannot understand why Angeliki is refusing to part with her money. A Journey from Vienna to Malaga, via salt flats overcast by mysterious shadows. A homage to the Austrian capital and the bygone splendour in ordinary things.

A widowed lawyer meets a beautiful woman who is going through her divorce and helps her get custody of her children.

A lonely guy who lives with seven dogs get a complaint from his neighbors. Will he come up with a creative solution to overcome this?

Moving between classrooms – static interiors and roaring, raucous exteriors – Leagues explores the subject of academic exclusion in native communities. Named after an archaic unit of measurement, Martel's postcolonial film depicts how education, though a social tool, can also create division and discrimination.

Greta and Bruno, her husband, struggle with grief after the disappearance of their son. Their friend Sina travels to the coast to help them sell their summer house.

Following a forgotten piece of underwear, a single who lives with his uncles has a series of entanglements.

Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.

Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.

Isabela returns to the town where she was born, summoned by Axiomas, the environmental organization she works for as a lawyer. There, she must battle against a mining company and its main protector, Governor Ribero, who is also her father.

Lidia Muñoz is a retiree who has been living in Barcelona since 1978. Lidia was forced to exile from Argentina after the military dictatorship that ruled the country at that time tried to kidnap her and make her disappear. Pregnant with her only daughter, Valeria, she managed to escape to Spain. Forty years later, she receives a summons from the Argentine Ministry of Justice to testify in the trial for the kidnapping and disappearance of Oscar Medina, her boyfriend at the time and Valeria's father.

The story of a sensual woman torn between two loves, in the setting of the beautiful Venezuelan beaches.

A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.

An older married couple – Harvey and Janet – on a Saturday morning as Harvey recounts a horrific nightmare in which he learned from a phone call that one of their daughters had been killed. As Janet realizes that many of the details of Harvey’s dream are in fact quite true, the phone rings, and Harvey answers it.

In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.

“Puntapie” is kicking the ball with the tip of the foot. Eight of the best Latin American football players face each other in a special documentary.

After commiting a terrible crime by accident, siblings Joel and Ana decide to escape to a new life to avoid consequences, needless of a forgiveness they would never be given.

Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"

Jessi is about to go to prison for ten years. But Lu and Pau, her sister and her best friend, have a plan: to rob three finance companies in a single day to get the money to bribe the prosecutor. A great plan

Rodrigo lives in Córdoba. He runs and manages his dad's cabins for tourists. Summer is around the corner. One day he meets seventeen year old Juan, who has just arrived into town all the way from Buenos Aires.

An unforgettable tour of Argentina and Latin America. A trip where you will be excited and have fun following your favorite characters behind the scenes, from the Newells Old Boys Microstadium in Rosario to the National Auditorium of Mexico City. Get ready to be part of the cutest tour.

Marta must deal with her bosses when she finds a rat inside her home. Amid a rodent infestation, fear and panic take hold of a family in decline.

Argentina: 1969: Major Molina has been sent to a military outpost in southern Patagonia to investigate the brutal murder of soldier Lito. The harsh weather conditions of Patagonia reflect the strict and cruel way in which the Colonel Hellman and his officers direct the garrison. Gradually comes to light that Lito was drugged by a fellow, Reppeto, and therefore was unable to participate in an unexpected military exercise at night. For his "disobedience", Lito was beaten to death. Molina seeks justice, aided by the deceased's family and the village priest. However, he is forced to abandon the case when the military forces take the power in Buenos Aires. Years later, with democracy finally restored in Argentina, the case will be reopened causing the abolition of military service and the military justice system.

With the expansion of television in Argentina people changed their customs and schedules. This is the story of a family father who refuses to change his own, but who suffers after having acquired a television set.

Hernán, married to Mariela, father of a son and owner of a furniture store, meets Gabriel, a young man with HIV, as a result of a car accident, whom he shelters in his home as if he were a member of the family. Various characters who, at first glance, seem to be free from prejudice, when faced directly with the disease, will have to overcome fear, lack of information, and the tendency to discriminate against this type of patient.

Forty-nine days after George’s death his wife, Alicia, calls friends who wanted to read over the letter that he left before he died. It is a very affectionate and moving letter, which addresses each of those present, knowing that his death is near. Little do they know that they are part of a ritual prepared by Alicia, with the connivance of Santiago, the closest friend of George, to bring him back to life – and that ritual, full of ghostly apparitions, traumatic and terrifying, will be gaining further life from each of the guests. The surprising twists in the plot will lead up to the most unexpected of endings.

How far would you fake it before you make it? In the bustling streets of Barcelona, a down-and-out gay actor grasping for one last shot and a financially reckless fashion influencer both suffer in silence the bittersweet truth of life as Latino migrants in Europe. They've mastered the illusion of success, posting carefully curated versions of their lives that keep their fans-and families-guessing. But an unexpected collision of their worlds will make them face the less "Insta-Worthy" side of their own stories.

When her grandmother becomes seriously ill, Camila is forced to move to Buenos Aires, leaving behind a liberal public high school for a scholastic, traditional private institution. Suddenly a senior without any friends, and with her single mother caught up in family affairs; Camila's fierce yet immature temperament is put to the test as she deals with the jarring change of scenery, and the alluring set of possibilities and experiences that lie in wait in the big city.

Sara and her nanny Yarisa have a relationship that seems to transcend their class conditions: they are the closest thing to a daughter-mother, but an accident will test their intimate loyalty and the innocent illusion of never separating.

A man is falsely accused and executed. He is brought back from the dead but suffers terrible burns on his face. He uses multiple different masks to get revenge on the people who wronged him.

A student dreams that she is the heroine of one of her history teacher's lessons with whom she is in love.

David, a young middle-class Jewish boy, overweight, homosexual and afraid of flying, returns to Buenos Aires from Europe when his uncle dies. During his time there, David learns that his mother has decided to disconnect his father from the ventilator.

The fight of a widowed and honest policeman against the prostitution mafia that murdered his mother and kidnapped his daughter.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.

The routine of a group of trans sex workers is upset when their leader, Aunt Encarna, finds an abandoned baby and decides to adopt him without realizing she is putting everyone around her in danger.

Mario, “el Rulo,” is a wanderer who travels the country giving artistic performances. One day he passes through the town of Carlos, a municipal employee who dreams of being an artist. A friendship is born between the two of them, and Carlos leaves it all behind to follow Mario.

On 9 July – Argentina’s Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record ‘Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel’, an album made in 1929 by lyricist Hector Pedro Blomberg and composer Enrique Maciel, as an ode to Juan Manuel de Rosas, leader of the Argentine Confederation.

Aballay was a bad tempered gaucho. After killing a man, the terrified look of the victim's son raised his consciousness about his savagery. Years go by, that kid's look doesn't leave him. Aballay knows that the kid will look for him.

A sedentary and superficial aspiring film editor will test his senses and emotions when he falls in love with a talented and brilliant blind cook who, paradoxically, will make him see life differently.

Faced with the loss of sponsors on the radio, René and Walter decide to take their program on UFOs to TV. Fate seems to accompany them, and that day one falls in the Esteros del Iberá. A TV presenter from the capital joins them in this reckless search.

Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.

Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.