Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Story of a ordinary human being who, by chance, take possession of the money that was stolen from a bank, thinking that will solve all his problems.

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.

An advertising creative dies unexpectedly while working on an idea for the launch of an anti-cold pill. From then on Pedro, one of his old colleagues, begins an intricate search in order to discover the departed's idea, taking over his place and making use of his original notes and thoughts. Along the way Pedro comes across an orphan, a street child that will unconsciously and eventually lead him to a new and singular idea.

Francisco and Sol were raised outside the system, in a religious community called La Familia Internacional. In an attempt to free their voice and reconfigure the puzzle of subjectivity, the recovery of the past through memories allows to bring up events that had been previously denied.

The carnival is coming soon. We witness the ritual of “cleaning the meat” performed by the “gauchos” who unfold their knives. The bucolic landscape mixes with the city streets. Slowly, everything fills with colour, feathers and semi-naked men. Face masks begin to cover the faces and alcohol disinhibit the bodies.

Argentinian Drama An avant-garde young man rents a room from an older couple in Argentina. As his eccentricities become increase, they come to grate on his conservative landlords, who try to control his behavior more.

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.

Returning from Switzerland, a young investigator meets María, his father's new wife. They immediately feel an irresistible attraction, which he tries to overcome by mixing it up with another woman.

Luisa discovers in the briefcase of Alberto, her husband, a fiery love letter, in which he is portrayed as an impetuous lover.

Life in a Neuquén fort during the Conquest of the Desert.

The pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján causes the meeting of people of different classes.

A singer falls in love with a woman. He must disguise himself to win her heart.

This is a film with music. Or about the music and texts that accompany, in a poetic way, a decisive battle between Unitarian and Federalists. The vicissitudes of the birth of a nation based on the play written by Mariano Llinás and Gabriel Chwojnik, whose images achieve some hypnotic strength.

María Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83) met when they were 14 and 17, and they danced together for nearly fifty years. In all those years they loved and hated each other and went through several painful separations. Now, at the end of their lives, the two dancers are willing to open up about their love, their hatred, and their passion. In "Our Last Tango" Juan and María tell their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, who transform the most beautiful, moving and dramatic moments of the lives into incredible tango-choreographies. These beautifully-shot performances compliment the soul-searching interviews and documentary moments of the film to make this an unforgettable journey into the heart of the tango.

In the urban jungle of Buenos Aires, Cichonga is the toughest badass around, until his nemesis steals his beer, the secret to his might and superhuman strength. Cichonga will have to pummel his way through to recover what is his.

A man with seemingly unwavering ethics is challenged by his new boss, who believes everyone has a price and it willing to prove it. In this Capra-esque tale no one leaves unscathed when principles and pragmatism collide.

A frustrated film director convinces famed actor Jorge Marrale to play his father, a gambling merchant who, after taking a trip to the Grand Canyon in flip-flops, has supposedly lost his life after falling off a cliff.

Marcelo makes a living as a painter in a Buenos Aires square, with other street artists. Rejected and lonely as a result of his family's break up, he devotes himself to his girlfriend, and dreams of a happy future together with her. She, however, has other plans, which, along with Marcelo's discovery of the reasons for his family's separation, create increasing conflicts between them, and make Marcelo face reality more clearly.

Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos was an artist responsible for the creation of a work that it was as ephemeral as it is eternal. He was born in a traditional family, but some years later the curiosity for the art scene, night life and avant-garde development pushed him to live within the iconoclastic and unbiased young 60's crowd.

A porteño tango singer is kidnapped by a UFO and taken to Madrid, London and Paris.

A film about Carlos Gardel's meeting with José Razzano, his love affairs, and his death.

It tells the story of a people who stood on the side of the freedom, civilization and progress, but also some who are on the side of unbridled capitalism and race. However, they is still a possibilities of utopia and solidarity.

A traveling coffee vendor lives in an astronomer's laboratory.

The time is the summer of 1982, and the Falklands war is at hand when the young "Argie" follows a British woman home and is stopped from raping her only because she starts to speak to him in Spanish, soon they enter into an ambivalent relationship, undecided as to whether they love or hate each other, or both. They end up on the streets when she is evicted and life becomes even less stable.

After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.

A young man decides to join the army. He becomes the drummer in the military band, and his everyday life is now a combination of military training and music. What does the Argentine Army do these days, more than thirty years after the dictatorship? What does it mean to be a soldier in a country without wars?

Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.

Short tribute to Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, better known by his stage name "Bola de Nieve", a successful Cuban singer, composer and pianist.

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.

A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.

A Latin American horror anthology where filmmakers from conjure shadows rooted in their land, their ghosts, and their history.

A musical with different singers, musicians and Argentine comedians of the eighties.

Three stories inspired by stories by Juan José Saer. A police officer returns to his hometown to investigate a murder; a teacher complains about a horse that has been abandoned. One day, a man is found dead, and there is no trace of the horse, which is the only witness to the murder.

In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.

Matias is a young man living his dream as unattainable. Nicholas, his best friend, will confront the social environment that undermines their aspirations.

Two married men make a short trip to relax

A young woman must alternately live with her separated parents and while her mother gives her a severe upbringing, her father amuses her with his carefree life.

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.

The queen shined as the headliner on Saturday night with a mega iconic show. Between glitter, aesthetics and hits like Good Luck, Babe!, she created a party full of freedom and attitude.

A couple, stressed from being confined to their apartment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, decide to spend a weekend in the countryside. The owners of the villa they have rented offer to stay with them and take care of them as if they were in a five-star hotel, but their offer hides other intentions.

The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people.

In a popular auction that matches the sinister and colorful of a circus of phenomena, a couple adopts children in exchange for their belongings. The children there acquired, usually mutilated, are in their new home in order to prepare for access to the Peronist education program taught in only 10 state institutes.

Argentina is a country with an extensive and varied cinematography. Within this enormity, there is a rare, atypical… bizarre cinema. Bizarrofilia aims to investigate the origin and meaning of the word “bizarre”, how the passage of time implies reinterpretations of some works, and focuses on the contemporary production of films that aim to distance themselves from any mimetic representation of reality… although in a country like ours reality always surpasses fiction.

A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.

During the Rosariazo of 1969, two young people, a university activist and theater student and a freelance photographer and cameraman for a TV channel, fall in love.

Following a night out full of unsupervised fun and uncontrollable chaos, Perla wakes up seemingly unable to remember anything. When her acquaintances demand answers for her erratic behavior the night before, she finds herself struggling to put her life back together before her mind spirals out of control.

Olive farmer Pascual del Vecchio ends up in a coma due to the shock of seeing his wife Graciela’s infidelity. But when he awakes, he thinks he is a Sicilian mafia boss, and starts tasking his youngest son, Miguel, with carrying out his “criminal” orders. With Graciela out of town on a semi-permanent vacation, the situation comes to a head for Miguel: after a year of pretending to be a Sicilian mobster, his girlfriend Gina, whom he hasn't told about his father’s mental state, will visit the family farm for the first time. But Gina won’t be the only one arriving, as Miguel’s older brother Felipe, who’s also in the dark about Pascual’s new persona, unexpectedly returns with a business deal to run by his father. Miguel must find a way to save his family’s past life or get them to accept the new one.

Flinderella lives in a terrace and that's her world... A sad, dark, cold and lonely place that is transformed into a magical space, thanks to the light of our heroine's soul. Alongside her live her guardians of the heart: a magician, a fairy, an angel and a jester: they help her, accompany her and give her strength when she feels lost. Her joy and her ability to feel and dream make Delfina, her sister, hate her, envy her and try to destroy her. Delfina has everything that can be bought with money and lacks everything that comes from the heart. Such is the strength of the soul of our “Princess of the Terrace” that she manages to reverse Delfina's superficial and frivolous world. In this terrace love arises, since Max, a writer who lives nearby, manages to see everything that happens in the house of the evil Delfina and in the dome of the sweet Flinderella. A new tale with a great love story.

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

"My footsteps are the wind that blows through those valleys, dancing to the rhythm of the invisible."

Clara and Alejandro move into a new house. A few days later, he goes on a work trip and she is left alone, surrounded by moving boxes. That chaos makes her accept a series of random invitations that will take her away from the hermetic world she lives in.

Ben sets out on an adventure with his new family, experiencing life for the first time.

Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.

Years after being disqualified in a big fight and leaving the country in disgrace, an Argentinean boxer returns to restore his honor and reunite with the young son he has never met.