Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A documentary portrait of Carlos Maslatón, focusing on the development of his public image and the beginning of the vertiginous process of globalization.

Pablo, a renowned writer, womanizer and in his forties meets Paula, a young and beautiful admirer of his work. He falls in love with her and proposes her marriage.

Three brothers and their seven children, dive into a land unknown for them. Only able to find interesting and not so interesting landscapes, the Velis family creates a fictional character, Mariano, dedicated to document their improvised situations in order to have a good time.

In the revolted 70's in Argentina, teenage Graciela is an artist and a poet. She and Julio, a charismatic student leader, are brought together by their ideals for social justice. Her poems reach young musician Flecha, who dreams of singing them for a roaring crowd. As the times grow harder and more dangerous, friends are persecuted, Graciela and Julio protect each other, but the dictatorship kidnaps them. Graciela's mother desperate search for her daughter brings her together with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who's relentless clamor for their missing children is only met with more terror and death from the bloody dictatorship. 35 years later, that mother publishes a book of Graciela's poems, and brings it to Flecha, now an accomplished musician. He turns them into songs that let her words live and fly.

An Argentinian medical student, finding himself drawn to the countryside, houses with a Scottish/Native family where he reads the illiterate family the Gospel of Mark to then be found in a debacle of religious proportions (as he was not a pious man himself, but becomes more of a religious figure in their eyes).

Lorenzo is a seemingly ordinary man who records everything with his camera. His recordings show his life and his addiction to the most horrendous violence. Is Lorenzo just a man? A monster? Both? This film is an analysis of human evil through the eyes of a monstrous being.

An argentinian couple in a party at the countryside find that their friends are being killed. However, it's hard to find the killer, because they are completely stoned and don't know what is real or not.

An avant-garde theater troupe works through a series of unrelated episodes on en empty sound stage.

Blood is a family portrait. A mother, her two children and the shadow of her husband who died 25 years ago under strange circumstances.

Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named Doc, who suggests she contact an old Indian sorcerer.

A wife tries to win back her husband's interest, as their marriage is seriously threatened by the arrival of her best friend and schoolmate in Venezuela.

A forgotten movie star learns that the director who made her fa-mous will be filming his last film in Paraguay so she sets out on an unusual journey in search of something more than just getting the leading role that she feels belongs to her.

Juan and Ismael are great friends, they work in a corralón in Moreno. Riding the truck they go through the winter and live with the harshness of work, they do it with humor, sometimes helped by alcohol. Friendship is a difficult wall to break between them. Juan, drives the truck and lives surrounded by dogs, Ismael, loads the truck and dreams of having money.

Punk musician Carlos decides to set out to find out about his family history when his adoptive father Genaro dies. He leaves Buenos Aires with the bandoneon of Genaro as his only company and sets out for Los Angeles, a wind-shaken village in the middle of nowhere of the Argentinian pampa. After some troublesome quest, he finds there not only the secret of his origin, but also the love of this life and his own tune, which combines his past as punk drummer with the traditional elements borrowed from cumbias, chamamés, and criollo valses.

A major employer coming into the country to produce a film with the famous Titans fighters "Catch". The bold super agents "Mojarrita" and "Dolphin" custody van to the airport, and is made ​​available to him, announcing the hiring of the Mummy for his film. But a strange rival businessman named "The Mask" gives the order to kidnap the Mummy. The Super Agents and Troup Titans started the persecution and dangerous actions to try to stop the criminals. rituals.

A man must take a bag to the Puna without knowing its contents. It is a time of military dictatorship, and he is forced to take alternative paths to mislead his pursuers. Along the way, he must overcome death and the adversity of nature to carry out his mandate.

Buenos Aires is hit by a epidemic that turns people into drones. Elena, a young woman unhappy with her life, struggles to hide the fact that she's sick from those close to her: Tomás, her boyfriend, and Simón, a friend of his with whom she's having an affair.

Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the 'Vecinos de Pompeya', a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight, the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio's last possession of value before stealing his heart.

Stimulated by the studies of a French ethnologist, his Argentine colleague, Hermes, travels through his country, Angola and Ethiopia to determine with the help of the young Angolan Oko, Ayelen and the Egyptologist Esteban if humanity is the creation of extraterrestrial amphibian beings.

Movie divided in three episodes: a methodic man believes he's near his death and starts spending other people's money; to cure his husband's gambling addiction a woman becomes a horse races expert; a dancer and a soprano bother each other until they fall in love.

Documentary that revolves around the figure of Mario Arnedo Gallo, renowned folklore musician and composer –father of Diego Arnedo, bassist for Sumo y Divididos- born in Santiago del Estero in 1915, where he lived until moving to Hurlingham in 1947.

Leandro is a troubled and withdrawn teenager. The breakdown of his family structure forces him to find solace in the streets. He slowly begins to descend into delinquency and crime. His relationship with Chachota, his closest accomplice, has deteriorated, and Leandro is certain that Chachota betrayed him to the police. He also implicates him in a series of robberies, which link him to "Gordo" Ovalle, a shadowy criminal whom the police have long targeted.

A warehouse employee travels to Buenos Aires with the purpose of rescuing the young woman he is in love with from a gang of criminals.

Migue, the oldest member of the band Los Chicos, is kidnapped prior to a show. After the concert, the band receives a call telling them the location where they can rescue Migue. They decide to escape police protection and make their way to the port in hopes of finding him.

Pilo is a 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother in a small house on an asteroid near a giant blue planet. Every night Pilo stares at the stars from his balcony. According to his grandfather, there is a machine that generates stars every night, and if one day it goes off and the stars go blue, a member of his family will be the one to repair the machine. Pilo daydreams about the legend and looks forward to the day he can join his grandpa in repairing the machine. He doesn't suspect that when it happens, he will be on his own. Pilo will experience a great adventure on his way to repairing the machine, so that the stars can go back to the ad infinitum. This trip will change him completely and for good, confronting the family destiny, becoming man and hero. An unusual blend of 3D animation and sci-fi film for the whole family.

The arrival of a package to the newsroom of a run-down sports magazine triggers an investigation that would indicate that the first World Cup was played in 1926, won by Argentina and for some reason was erased from official history.

In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.

Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.

Roberto Muniz, nicknamed "Mahmoud the Argentinian," was a revolutionary fighter who joined the National Liberation Army in 1959 to support the Algerian cause in the war of independence against France. He joined a clandestine group that manufactured weapons and ammunition to be transported to Algeria to support the revolution that began in 1954. After the war, the Algerian government invited the mujahid to stay, an offer he accepted to begin a new life as an employee of Sonnelgaz and a member of the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), accompanied by his wife Alfonsa, a textile union activist who came from Argentina to join this North African adventure.

A serial killer with a taste for the theatrical is killing powerful judges and leaving their bodies surrounded with dead pigeons. Félix, a detective haunted by his past, is the only one who is able to solve this enigmatic case.

Javier, a 19-year-old young man drafted into the war, goes to his ex-girlfriend's house seeking forgiveness before he leaves. At the same time, Javier's mother, Alicia, visits an old friend who is now a colonel to ask her to spare him.

We follow a housewife who prepares the ideal breakfast for her husband and son, as dictated by a cassette tape. While she cooks, her husband and son enjoy their free time.

10-year-old Santiago's parents, who is hardly at home, use their conflict to reproach each other for desertions and failures, transforming the solution to their son's problem into a simple fight of power between them.

Las Indomables await with anxiety the start of a neighborhood women's soccer tournament. During the wait all kinds of events happen, love, conflicts, politics and even a rain, stalk the passion for which they are there: Play football at all costs

The journey of a seashell, from being a hermit crab’s refuge on the beach to gathering dust on a shelf as a grandmother’s nostalgic souvenir.

After a 14 years old girl runs away from home, her family believes she's been kidnapped and a young man with good intentions is accused.

Ernesto, an ordinary man who, after making a deal with a strange character, has the chance to return to the past and live his youth again, tries to recover lost opportunities and avoid certain behaviors to change his gray and insipid present.

In Mar Chiquita, Julia goes through a crisis with her boyfriend during their first vacation together. Sergio, the hotel owner and a bohemian ex-boxer, accompanies her in her grief through physical training.

Javier, a plastic artist whose life goes by uneventfully, undertakes a strange project: to film his mother, an enigmatic and distant woman. He is not a filmmaker and improvises this task, which will bring an unexpected connection between the two.

Javier, a plastic artist whose life goes by uneventfully, undertakes a strange project: to film his mother, an enigmatic and distant woman. He is not a filmmaker and improvises this task, which will bring an unexpected connection between the two.

An Italian descendent inherited 5000 hectares of virgin forest in Chaco Paraguaio. He tries to stop deforestation to intensive farming and livestock, while advocating for native Guaraní Nandevas.

After losing everything in the 9/11 attacks, an ordinary man will face his destiny by defying the unknown, in a sacred search for a 'Holy City', hidden somewhere in the lands of fire.

A young couple romantically contemplate the sunrise on the Buenos Aires waterfront. The talk becomes a discussion. The discussion in fight. And some fights can be irreconcilable. Each of them will go through the city separately, meeting with friends, family and even strangers, generating situations that will lead them to question how and why they got where they are. An external and internal journey, with learnings and reflections about love, the couple and life.

Recounts the incidents that occurred in La Plata on February 20, 1996, when hundreds of students, social and worker organizations demonstrated against the modification of the university statutes required by the new Higher Education Law, fearing a gradual privatization of university education with the consequent destruction of one of the main cultural bastions of the country.

Filmed before his feature-length Arrebato, Zulueta’s Frank Stein is a personal reading of horror cult classic Frankenstein (1931), filmed directly from its television broadcast and reducing Whale’s original to only three packed and dizzying minutes, during which the film's sensitive monster evolves at an unusual rate.

Plunged into a crisis on his wedding day, Leonardo Pantonne turns to his brother Javier for support and takes refuge in his home. In the midst of the chaos, they try to contain the overflowing scenario, but it will be the young children who will prove to be the only ones capable of solving such a situation.

Damián, an 11-year-old boy who is separated from his violent family, is taken to live in a children's home by state intervention. Accompanied by Leandro, a social worker with a personal story similar to his, Damián will have to accept that his previous life is behind him and will not return, but it is still possible to build a new beginning where there is room to not feel so alone.

The foreman of a ranch, secretly in love with the owner, tries to protect her from the gold diggers.

In view of the arrival of his strict uncle, Alberto asks his secretary and his girlfriend to participate in a deception and reverse roles. But the entanglements follow one after another and the young man ends up falling in love with his secretary.

Two girls fall in love with their new Biology teacher. As their obsession grows to insane levels, the young man shows interest in a female colleague, so the girls plot to separate the couple.

After being diagnosed with pelvic contracture, Maga begins treatment with a physical therapist who is secretly an apprentice dominatrix. The encounter leads to a night where roles are blurred and both transform their relationship and those around them.

In a remote town, a strange death hides a secret.

After Isabel's death, Nicolás, her son, returns to the house where his mother lived the last years of her life accompanied by Clara. Together they remember Isabel through their vinyl collection and Nicolás discovers the truth of the bond between the two women.

Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.

A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the mental hospital, the three students will forge a very special relationship with the self-styled former film director as they follow different clues and strategies to discover his 'true' identity.

A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.

It tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disappeared in 1976 by Argentine dictatorship.