Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A naive teenager faces a distressing reality that will force her to mature and face her emotions.

The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives. Unglamorous, yet enchantingly addictive and refreshingly genuine, Acuña paints a confused and uncomfortable world, and makes us want revisit it over and over again.

A group of United States marine corps veterans who were decorated for valor during combat all subsequently experience serious mental disorders. To probe the mystery and seek its cause and cure, the US government establishes a secret military rest camp where they are hidden and studied. But soon they will discover that no one is who they seem to be, revealing the real purpose of that facility.

A hitman working for Lieutenant Crinal, a corrupt local police officer. The lives of these two characters become complicated when a famous '60s diva returns to the quiet town and mistakes Roberto for a chauffeur. Their lives become inexorably intertwined in a journey against time and death.

A group of boys attending a girl's birthday celebration find her tomboyish behaviour a little too much for them to handle.

The story of the first colony of immigrants to arrive in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina.

In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.

An obsessed woman desperately fights to overcome the past that binds her.

After being fired from his job, Guillermo and his wife Silvana decide to move to the countryside with their daughter Romina. Along the way, they stop at a farm where they are welcomed by Bjorn, an eccentric Swede. The host's lifestyle awakens a certain "flower power" nostalgia in the couple, evoking fond memories of their youth. What they don't know is that they are being "captured" by a cult.

During a horse race, Ana, a happily married woman with a child, he met Captain Brown. Later, they meet again on a long train journey and inevitably love arises. Both try to forget each one on his own, however, things go more and more complicated, making it impossible to stop the situation.

Two men and a woman that blackmail a woman will pay for their actions.

A romantic comedy in a romantic comedy about love and how to build it. He is romantic, shy. She is realistic, energetic. After twists and turns, together they go home. While those credits are shown, he and she, 5 years later, end up watching the movie. They both met during the filming of a movie he directed. Currently, they are a stable couple, but going through a crisis.

Mercedes and Victoria Carreras, mother and daughter actresses, reveal their intimate life and secrets of the trade while filming the documentary. Victoria discovers her lineage of Spanish actresses, which began three centuries ago. She embarks on an ancestral journey.

A tango singer travels to Paris seeking success.

In a rural setting, the chronicle of a woman with too many love demands.

Recital and documentary filmed at the Single Stadium of the City of La Plata in December 2008 in front of more than 90,000 spectators with 12 cameras, a condor-cam and helicopter for aerial shots.

A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.

A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.

Maximiliano is a psychiatrist who suffers from strange visions of his past. He grew up in an orphanage and then left for the big city. When his adoptive father dies, he goes back to his hometown where he will be reunited with his brothers and discover a dark family secret.

Federico and his brother Simon live their teenage years to the fullest, until the day Simon dies by falling from a balcony at a party. While his family falls to pieces before his eyes, Federico tries to live a normal life during his final weeks of school. Unable to mourn, he starts to grow closer to Laura, his dead brother’s girlfriend and seems to find comfort in her.

Remo Venica and Irmina Kleiner, Agrarian League activists in northern Argentina in the 1970s, were forced into exile in the mountains for four years. They gave birth to their first daughter and learned to live off what the mountains had to offer. Today, having survived military persecution, they have a sustainable biodynamic farm and are committed to repopulating the countryside. Their struggle continues.

Ramiro meets Damián again after years without seeing each other. Damián always has some shady business going on. This time he wants to go in a search of a certain treasure hidden in an abandoned convent. Lara, Ramiro's girlfriend, doesn't trust Damián and decides to accompany them. What they don't know is that taking that thing from there could unleash a curse that will haunt them forever, unless they return it just as they found it.

Laura, a young nurse from a rural town, is hired to care for Amalia, an elderly woman who suffers from memory loss. One day, Laura makes a mistake with the medication and Amalia begins to remember things. Laura suspects the amnesia might not be a result of age. As she investigates, she starts to experience frightening events she cannot explain.

A long-distance bus is assaulted, and in the tragic event the wife and son of a well-known lawyer die. After three months of rest, he leaves the hospital, with only one thing in mind: to avenge the death of his loved ones.

A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.

Almost all the employees of a spicy sauce factory are slaughtered. Responsible for this drama: hitman Victor Patibulo, notorious for sucking on a pacifier ever since his favorite poodle got killed. One body is absent among the dead: big boss Heraclito, who had just created a revolutionary new sauce. Is there a connection? There’s only one man who’ll be able to find out: the handsome, strong and clever Marcello Risk, star of the anti-terrorism unit K.K.D.B.B. Together with his sidekick, Guadalajara Man, big fan of martial arts and bananas, he’ll try to solve the mystery. But there are many weird and wonderful enemies on their path, their boss is mind-bogglingly dumb and their residential science genius hasn’t eaten in weeks. Cutbacks, you know!

The residents gather in the Bernabé bowling alley, a newcomer, the profuse drizzle and a coat belonging to a deceased will be the condiments of a mysterious and picturesque story.

After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.

In a world on the brink of collapse, Chockler receives the mysterious Lucrecia's mission to find a man named Victor, dead or alive. Little by little, he discovers a network of implications between the horse races, genetic experiments, and a series of strange and superhuman nature facts, in the deep night of the city.

Lucas and a group of friends decide to make a Sci-Fi movie without knowing that they live in a world where that is forbidden. They become the only hope of rebellion, the only hope to bring down a decaying empire and generate a new revolution that awakens the sleeping people.

Pin de Fartie unfolds as a playful spin on theatrical adaptation and an experiment in character dynamics. The film charts three relationships defined by Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Fin de Partie (Endgame): one between a blind man and his daughter; another concerning two actors rehearsing that same text; the third following a man who reads his blind mother Beckett’s play and discovers that it reflects their lives.

In 1969, the Epstein brothers founded a music house in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires. There they offered the best imported records and it soon became a sanctuary. Musicians like Claudio Gabis, Nito Mestre, Charly García, Andrés Calamaro, agree that it was the place of freedom and inspiration that they so needed. It was the time when the avant-garde of the Di Tella Institute was nourished by the incipient rock and art, causing an explosion in the middle of a society isolated and lethargic by the repressive state apparatus. El Agujerito tells the story of this iconic record store through archival material and testimonies.

Two reporters from rival newspapers compete to win over women and investigate a gang of criminals.

It describes the dilemma of a director in front of his characters and the search for a fetish actor who ends up being his great love. As if it were a documentary, the director remembers moments of his life and fragments of the filming of his film. That film tells the story of a poet who comes from the 19th century and contemplates the pain of the 20th century. There are tributes to her ancestors, especially her Piedmontese grandmother and her contemporary idols: actress Bárbara Mugica and Luchino Visconti.

A couple of art representatives, harassed by their debts with a mafia organization, invent an "uncle's story" to defraud a group of alleged heirs, posing as the testator's lawyers.

Going against his family's will, a lawyer becomes a tango singer.

An undefined sound permeates the city of Athens: constant sirens that no one mentions but everyone seems to accept. Amidst moonlit streets and rooftops, the film follows fragments of lives, from students discussing the university blockade to those searching for a missing friend. The vibration continues in Bangkok, where we meet Mok and Arm with their friends, caught between cosmic dreams and everyday absurdities, while the film accumulates presences, frequencies, and questions until reaching a perceptual threshold where the world seems to oscillate between transformation and collapse.

A humble housewife becomes an assassin for money, gaining self-confidence and rebuilding her life.

A boy comes from inside the country to succeed as a pianist, protected by a lady of high society. The woman, somewhat older than him, young man falls in love madly in unrequited love.

A group of friends enters an abandoned house, not knowing what will happen when they find an altar.

A medical student helps an amnesic patient to remember his life but they end up falling in love, and she'll must sacrifice her love.

The conflict of a good man fighting between two loves: the violent love for a fascinating woman and the tender love for the little son, orphaned of a mother.

On a quiet afternoon, four desperate youths invade the house of a lonely old woman in search of money and food. But their improvised theft quickly spirals into something far more sinister: a silent human hunt.

Two working-class young men dream of making it big with their cuarteto band. One night they get caught up in a crime they didn't commit. Knowing that their origin condemns them in advance, they flee with no other option.

Ode to Marilyn Monroe, by Nerina de Leon Tonno crossed by Pier Paolo.

A group of peasants recovers a piece of land on which a curse rested.

They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.

A mysterious killer leaves a black octopus behind after each murder.

At the beginning of summer, an aspiring artist isolates himself to finish a painting, but his addictions to pornography and social media gradually distort his sense of time until a confrontation with his own reflection reveals a consciousness shaped by everything he has been avoiding.

Pablo wants to go to Brazil to see his father. His mother repeatedly promises that they will go soon, but she never keeps her promise. Pablo, tired of so many lies, sneaks into the car of Ringo, a new storytelling friend, and they go on a trip.

This is the story of an optimistic and amnesiac people who, at the slightest glimmer of light, are prone to forget the pain caused by repeating their mistakes at the polls or by knocking on the doors of the barracks, and rush into hopeful celebration: a dubious World Cup, a war with England, the coming of democracy, etc. And so, between pain and celebration, they await that promised future of abundance.

Néstor Varzé is a karate master from the outskirts of Buenos Aires who’s obsessed with samurai history and culture. And although as luck would have it he lives in another time and far away from Japan, he considers himself an heir to those ancient warriors.

By mistake, three friends are chased across the country by a gang of criminals.

Leonardo is a singer with huge success in Argentina and abroad. He is happy, but his tranquility is not enough as he can't find love and is possessed by sadness.

A portrait of the life of Tita Merello, famous Argentinian singer and actress.