Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

The romantic encounter and misunderstanding between an aristocratic model and an actor.

A childlike man named Johan (Norberto Trujillo) is guided by the voice of his father (José Luis de Madariaga) to defeat the demons that have taken over his town and save it.

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by Cortázar inspired by the life of Charlie Parker, it shows a fragmented narration and remarkable formal aspects.

An amateur singer leaves his town to go to Buenos Aires. In town he falls in love with a girl, but he won't be able to get rid of his fat girlfriend that he left behind in town.

Alan, Dante and Pedro are three friends who grew up together from an early age. One of them ends a long relationship with his girlfriend and remains disconsolate. His two friends decide to lift his spirits by organizing a party.

A very high quality show with a great display of scenery, choreography, costumes, lighting effects and incredible multimedia work. It presents a story full of emotion and joy, with the participation of the protagonists of the soap opera "Violetta" and a musical repertoire that includes all the hits, as well as great surprises.

Mónica organizes a birthday dinner for Martín. In a world where everyone lies, the only truth lies in thoughts. An acid comedy that reveals what we never say.

For over six years, Javier and Valeria have been trying to get pregnant. At work Javier is approached by Camila, a coworker, and tells him she is pregnant with his baby. In the following days, his relationship—indeed, his entire existence—starts to fall apart.

After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.

A man returns to town after a long time and meets his ex-girlfriend, who is married to a husband in desperate economic situation.

Rosario, Argentina, the 80's. The story of three girl friends in their twenties, Julieta, Leonora y Romina, who have crazy rock-groupies lives, that get involved in a bizarre mafia chantage, after Leonora falls in the hospital.

Javier is in love with Romina. At a party, we hear his thoughts and sometimes he even talks to us. Playing between reality and fantasy, Javier will try to overcome his fears and get the girl of his dreams.

Two young documentarists travel around a forsaken island in the aftermath of a cataclysmic volcanic eruption. Their wanders lead them to the encounter of Professor Pereda, an acoustic geologist, conducting researches on geo-acoustics.

The reunion of three friends, among tango, dance, music and the opportunity of a trip that will take them as in their good old days to travel the route of the country.

A married woman with a traumatic past embarks on an affair with a younger married man.

Emanuel travels to visit his grandma Catie, who lives in the countryside. He has a feeling this is going to be their last goodbye. His mother's looking after Catie and she has decided not to speak a word about grandma's diagnosis, because she does not want to embitter her. Emanuel does not agree with this decision, but on the other hand, he is also hiding his own sexuality to his grandma. Every little moment shared among them, makes strengthen family ties while mismatched feelings emerge. Emanuel should reconsider if things are really better left unsaid.

When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.

A woman who's just about to commit adultery gets compromised due to an unpredicted mistake during her adventure.

Follow two passionate football referees, Mariano and Luciana, as they navigate the challenges of their job, revealing the deep love they have for the football game and the struggles they need to go through while dealing with mistakes and self-criticism.

Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief given up for dead gives them a hand.

A detective becomes involved with two ladies while investigating the kidnapping of a Japanese businessman.

A couple splits up and gets married to other people. After the man dies, the woman becomes delirious and thinks she's found him again in heaven.

After discovering their deceased father's secret, Two families become entangled in all kinds of conflicts. Fights, lies, love, and friendship intertwine in this atypical screwball comedy.

A bachelor, sheltered by a wealthy aunt, sees the ghost of his girlfriend appear every night. But she isn't dead, and they end up getting married.

The film depicts an eccentric Argentine family consisting of an elderly woman, her son, and the maid. Their relationships with each other and the outside world are closely linked to the dictatorship that grips the country they live in.

Malena, a young photographer, finds a box of family memories while helping clean her parents' house. Among the objects, she discovers some old VHS tapes that belonged to her grandfather, whom she never met. Through these recordings, Malena delves into her grandfather's passions for tango, embarking on an intimate journey that also leads her to self-discovery.

Gonzalo Romero, a young Argentine lawyer, struggles to find his place in a world ruled by pessimism. When his father and brother are assaulted by the nephew of a senator, he sets out on a long journey to bring the aggressor to trial.

A man is chased by a mysterious person who wants to end his life.

Mariana doesn’t like her name and starts calling herself Gloria. Her parents split up before she was one year old and today, like many separated couples, they are brought back together under the same roof only because they don’t have a decent job. Cristina, her mother, rents a part of the house to her ex-husband for a bit of extra money. “Francia” talks about those people who will never travel far from their home, where they take refuge, for good or bad, from all disgusting things in the outside world. Meanwhile, Mariana puts on her headphones when she hears her parents fighting. Those fights which now serve as a relief to the helpless.

A Chilean spy pretends to love an Indian woman, the only one who knows a secret passage in the Andes mountain range.

Argentina's Eva told from the perspective of journalist Rodolfo Walsh the remarkable story of Eva Peron. The obsession of this writer and journalist in the reconstruction of the history of Evita is both rebuilding your own life and death and the fate of the Argentines. Considered a saint for the humble and a myth to the world, Argentina's Eve is the story of a heroine of the twentieth century was the World with the promise to return and be millions. The film is made of a 70% cut-out animation and 30% in archive footage, based on the designs of master Solano Lopez.

A documentary about a young man with a strange condition that causes him to suddenly fall to the ground at random moments.

El origen del mundo is a short film that stages a tableau vivant of Gustave Courbet’s provocative painting of the same name. Captured in a single, continuous 10-minute take, the film centres on a model, Leila, posing to recreate the painting’s composition, while the director and crew discuss its historical censorship, the nature of the gaze, and the interplay between cinematic and painterly framing.

Based on stories of strange aquatic monsters—such as Nessie in Scotland and Nahuelito in Argentina—this feature-length documentary focuses on an expedition organized by Clemente Onelli, director of the Buenos Aires Zoo in 1922, to hunt a live plesiosaur in Patagonia.

The villain commits a crime involving a strange drug.

Gripped by the blind faith of her father, Reverend Pearson, Leni accompanies him on his evangelical mission. A banal accident forces them to stop at El Gringo's garage. When the Reverend becomes obssessed with saving the soul of Chango, the mechanic's son, Leni realises the time has come to take her fate into her own hands.

A rumbera who is left for dead on her wedding day returns as a ghost.

A parallel police group attends a scientific conference and goes into action. Their mission: disrupt a gang of criminals that rob a memory bank.

Clara and Alejandra await a person that never arrives. Between the ups and downs of discovering the reason for the wait, we are plunged into the universe of their relationship, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality and getting carried away by the theatricality of everyday life.

Two orderlies pretend to be surgeons to impress two young doctors and conquer, through several scenarios. Finally, they are discovered when they had to operate on a mafia boss to remove a bullet.

An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.

At 24, Paula wants to be an actress, but if she doesn't find her rent money she'll be homeless in 24 hours. Paula is so desperate that she seriously contemplates becoming a prostitute.

Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cup of coffee on the bench outside Antonio's shop. At midday the church bells ring, summoning the villagers to mass. In the early evening, they all share a meal together. And so life proceeds in Jotuomba, the days languidly drifting into one another; the only variations seem to be in the weather. But, one day Rita arrives looking for a place to stay.

The action begins in 1847 with the arrival of the first German settlers in southern Chile. Don Vicente Perez Rosales is in charge of welcoming the immigrants who arrive by boat to the remote areas of Villarica. After the customary speeches promising loyalty to their new homeland, the settlers begin to work the land. Years pass. Frustrated Daniel, his noble brother Simón, and sweet Dora are three of those pioneers whom history revisits in their youth to explore a triangle of love and desire.

Crime-picture dealing with car thieves.

Set during the centenary celebrations, it narrates the frustrated loves between a man from high society and a woman with a hectic romantic life.

Nahuel, a young marijuana addict, must solve the mistery of why he sees his uncle's dog as a stuffed animal and what the poop circles he makes in the yard mean

An obsessive reporter is locked in an asylum where some murders will take place.

An American producer arrives in Argentina searching for its most representative artists to film a movie. A group of imitators will try to convince him that they are the real artists he is looking for. The film was conceived as a showcase for the successful radio group "La Cruzada del Buen Humor", the precursor to what would later become "Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor", alongside the Cuban vedette Blanquita Amaro.

Bego, a housewife in a mid-life crisis, lives bored and afraid of being inconsequential, however, her life evolves into a mysterious game once she enters into a cult that preaches three days of darkness...

Tomás is a teenager whose life, as always happens, changed from one moment to the next. But that present awakens a latent past that must be resolved in order to face the uncertain future.

Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by ‘black frost’ which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely and self-assuredly she begins to influence their familiar routines. The bewildered farmers yield to Alejandra’s interventions: she dons Heribertos’ dead wife’s clothes, accompanies Benigno to a greyhound race and wins young Lucas’ friendship. Shortly afterwards, the frost disappears.

Three young boys who live in the same neighbourhood and go to the same college meet three girls. They start picking up on them but they end up falling in love.

History tells us that Hitler died on April 30th 1945 by committing suicide with a single gunshot to the head; but what if history is wrong? Based on interviews with eye witnesses and years of dedicated research, this film dramatisation explores the possibility that Hitler didn't die in Germany at the end of the war, but instead escaped from Berlin by air and made his way to Argentina. This is the gripping story of what might have happened; the CIA s possible involvement, his life in Patagonia, the escape routes and the astonishing fact that Hitler may have had two daughters.