Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A video club clerk, a porn buff, a beer and cigarette buddy, a heavy metal-loving biker, and a fan of modern teen horror all fall into the basement of a video store and become, respectively, a man. wolf, a zombie that later mutates into a satanic leader, a smoking zombie, a punk and a hooded knife-maker. As if this were not enough, the spiritual leader of this horde of infernal beings is Dr. Vornoff, a scientist who has become a Satanist.

A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.

A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.

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.

A rural family consisting of Ñancul, a teenager, his mother, and his father are being visited by a priest who wants them to join the congregation. Ñancul’s mother, influenced by her son's odd behavior and the priest’s words, comes to believe that her son is possessed by demons.

Mercedes, a widow of eighty and fearful of loneliness, falls in love with Sebastian, a writer sixty years younger than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in her wrinkled and slow body that which prevents her from living their love as it should be lived.

Three young men must hide a corpse in the rural area of the Buenos Aires province. After finding out, mid journey, that the body wasn't fully dead, they decide to kill him off and go to the house of one of their uncles to bury it without him noticing

Muriel and her mother leave their home for good and a freak occurrence leaves them stranded in the country. They beg a woman to let them stay and a shaky friendship develops between the two families.

October 1982: War is waged between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. A British soldier stumbles upon an Argentinean soldier. They share a few minutes of uneasy respite before national hostilities re-emerge.

The life and work of Guido Buffo, an artist and scientist whose passion for knowledge and art is intertwined with his love story with Leonor. Through a journey through key moments in his life, the short film explores his vision of the interconnection between art and science, as well as his profound love for his wife and daughter, who inspire him to build an enduring legacy: his chapel in the Córdoba mountains.

In some way, this furiously independent film works as a visual extension of the book “Subjetiva de nadie”, where Vieytes made a very unique fusion of criticism and poetry." FERNANDO MARTÍN PEÑA

The brigade agents are ready for another dangerous mission and must fight a group of ninjas.

An adaptation of "Recursos Humanos". Gabriel Lynch, a somber supervisor of the printing division has just applied for the manager's position, but his dreams will be dashed when the position he thought was his is stolen by Constantino - a junior whose only Grace, it's being the son of someone important within the company. From this moment on, Gabriel will stop being just another office worker, to carry out a revenge that will change everyone's destiny forever.

A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.

To avoid imprisonment, a woman pretends to be crazy after killing the man who blackmailed her sister.

Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is clueless about Marcello's sexuality and the two become close friends. One night after many drinks Roberto has sex with Marcelo and must confront his feelings and the potential ridicule of his family.

A portrait of the legendary bombist in the final stage of his life. Vitillo Abalos, member of the legendary Argentine folkloric quintet, Hermanos Abalos, embarks on a musical adventure that will become his last legacy.

A man finds himself trapped in an endless loop, constantly controlled by someone who keeps giving him more than he can chew.

"The Shadow of the Angel" tells the story of Ella, who awakens bloodied and wounded in a swamp near an abandoned convent, in an undetermined space and time. In that convent, a young composer has been murdered when she was about to finish composing a musical piece that would open the doors to a world of spiritual purity. As she discovers her new environment and her own identity, Ella must fulfill the mission of finding and completing the scores of the unfinished work. On the way to this mission, Ella (guided by a mysterious little girl), discovers her own "shadow": Dark Ella, a kind of double of herself who has become stranded in a time loop inside the convent. She must confront her own sadness and discover her connection with her dark self. Only by receiving the inspiration that allows her to complete the scores, Ella will redeem and free the spirit of the composer, her other self, and herself.

A mother recounts the different stages experienced by her family.

Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..

To save her businesses from ruin, a woman about to marry must find another woman a husband.

It tells the story of several girls who in one day are going to have a bad, very bad time. A La Plata school as the omnipresent scene in the seven protagonist women.

The life of the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel, his emergence, his mother, his loves, his friends etc.

Four men, known for their reckless actions, are arrested one night after ruining a dinner party. They are soon released and go to visit their uncle who is sick. The four of them decide to travel to Africa to try to find a cure for their uncle, but they get into a big mess.

Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.

Jessica attends a yoga class that may expand her universe in an extreme way.

Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Ethel and Gogó). Noticing that their sex life becomes boring, they cheat on them with co-workers. This is discovered and they are fired. Then, they get employed in a beauty institute, where they have many women at their disposal. Their wives learn of this mischief, and go to look for them at the institute, generating hilarious situations.

Tobias moves into a house, finds himself completely alone, unaware that he is about to embark on the most terrifying experience of his life.

Gualtieri is an apathetic ex-cop, fighting himself, almost nothing excites him. That is why he accepts an easy job in the jungle of the triple border. Investigating how and why a person was killed becomes the key to revealing other truths that should be buried under the wet red soil of the place.

The film is a fictional chronicle of a resonant police case that occurred in the city of Catamarca: the crime of the young María Soledad Morales, which had great public repercussion due to the links with the power of the culprits.

An early black-and-white mood piece, Rejtman’s lyrical short film fuses a young couple’s passage into early adulthood with a journey through Buenos Aires in the quietest moments at the very break of day.

The Salerno family is celebrating. It's Grandma Adela's birthday. However, in a conversation between women, Adela reveals a familiar truth that had never come to light.

Martin goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives. Lightning strikes and there is a car to disappear.

Alberto and Jorge are employees of a pharmacy. One day, by mistake, they give a client a bottle of poison in exchange for a medication that she had to start ingesting 48 hours later. Realizing this, they decide to go out and look for her with the only data they have: her first name, her striking clothing, and that she was driving an imported motorcycle. So they launch into a crazy race against time touring the fashionable places of the Buenos Aires night, helped by a woman who claims to know the mysterious girl on the motorcycle.

The cast of Margarita takes to the stage to perform the series' hits in a show that combines magic, dance, and theater.

Short documentary about the passion of Argentine Tango. The self-management of street artists who make a living from this dance and its music. The documentary calls young people to visit and frequent "milongas" and other tango places where this dance culturally identifies us as Argentines.

A wealthy young man gets involved in criminal activities and decides to go to rehabilitate himself in the countryside.

In the delta islands of the Paraná, a woman is the object of desire of the village's men.

During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are about to fall: the love of a father towards his son choices, the unconditional love of a friend, the homefeeling of a neighbour who's almost part of the family. On the edge explores those extreme experiences that confront us with our prejudgments, exposing them and giving them a new meaning.

After a wild party at Rainbow Day Care, Dolores announces that it's time for a nap. The Power Rockers don't want to follow her rules. Then Baby Marciano shows up and invites them to Planet Me, a planet without rules, where everything is possible.

El Mono relojero is a 1938 Argentine animated short film directed by Quirino Cristiani. It is the only film from this director that exists up to this day, since all his other productions (including the first two animated feature films, El Apóstol (1917) and Sin dejar rastros (1918), as well as the first animated film with sound, Peludópolis (1931)) were lost in a series of fires at the facilities where the negatives and copies were stored.

Pablo is a young man who makes a living cleaning windshields. With a conflictive family environment and the challenge of spending all day on the street, he faces indifference and rejection while fighting not to lose hope.

Film made to commemorate the first 10 years of BAFICI. The film alternates fictional scenes of a couple of spectators in different situations at BAFICI, with interviews and testimonies of important figures in the history of the festival. The first series captures a certain spectator spirit of the festival, while the second accumulates successes, built by reading texts and with interviews with central actors of the film scene in Argentina.

As a result of heatstroke and alcohol, the Falopa Renger embarks on an odyssey to hunt down a red-clad outlaw, or so he believes.

Lila, a young Korean-Argentinean girl, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Her father, Antonio, arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier, and decides to bet everything on the promise of a young immigrant's dream.

Milton Douglas writes a story where he is the protagonist. His character finds pages throughout the day, which narrate events that will inevitably happen to him, culminating in his murder. Milton Douglas also dies without knowing he is a character in a story.

In this acoustic session, Margarita, Merlín, Daisy, Rey and the rest of the band play the songs that captured our hearts.

An elephant torn from her family, ill and locked up for half a century; an industry that is reluctant to cease to exist; economic and political interests that ruined her life; and a society that has changed forever. Caravan is the story of the elephant Pelusa and the historic journey that will make her the first elephant in South America to cross two countries. Risking her life to touch another elephant for the first time, Pelusa´s caravan will undoubtedly set a precedent that will not only leave the business of elephants in captivity mortally wounded, but will open the possibility for 10 other elephants that are in captivity today in Argentina and more than 40 in the region. What justifies captivity during a lifetime of a species? Does the fact that the existence of wild animals in zoos continue to be legal makes it an ethical attraction? Is it possible to reconvert zoos into a conservation space?

A murder is shown in three different points of view in La Plata.

Pablo and Mariana, a young creative couple expecting their first child, discover Pablo is HIV positive. The news forces their separation. Pablo turns inward towards an ever increasing isolation. Mariana works with her theater students on the fears and prejudice of the new generation. Their child brings them back together again and they find a common goal in life.

Because podcasts have a limit, a person who loves his mother + his father would want to make ice or steel or else have a cemetery so that his mother does not suffer for anyone.

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.

Set amidst a backdrop of political unrest and oppression in Argentina following the coup of the late 1980s, this impressive drama dwells upon a May-December love affair between a boy and a woman suspected of political subversion. When seventeen-year-old Pedro defiantly befriends political fugitive Sofia and provides her shelter, he creates a deep rift between himself, his family and his friends. Sofia is hunted because she was at one time in love with a Communist sympathizer. At first the relationship is purely platonic as Pedro helps her recover from a 23-day long flight that has left Sofia weak and starving for sleep. But as time passes, Pedro becomes increasingly involved with her and his schoolwork begins to suffer. Gradually he falls in love with her and she with him. But as the political situation grows more oppressive and the government steps up its search for subversives, the two begin making desperate plans to flee the country.

Emilia is a young psychiatrist living in Buenos Aires with her boyfriend. She has a steady life but is not fully satisfied. She receives an invitation to go back to her hometown in Patagonia to spread Andrea's ashes, Emilia's best friend who died five years earlier.