Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A tragic revenge tale in which sons and daughters pay for their parent’s mistakes

A vagabond saves the child of a rich family. They adopt him and try to impose to him their values and protocols.

The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts. There will be born a strong, passionate and necessarily brief relationship during which each of them will peek into the world of the other, until then unknown, unable to overcome the hostility of the same. Luis is unwilling or unable to leave his bourgeois stability and "La Tigra" is unable to leave an environment in which the malevo Olivera is the dominant figure.

A ship supposedly loaded with toys from the East, sails to the south coast of Argentina while hiding, inside its false bottom, a deathly load of radioactive residue

Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)

A dark shadow hangs over the role of defense lawyers whose arguments are aimed at freeing criminals. But Alfredo is not a blood-sucking vulture: he has values that sustain his work, a cause.

Alberto, an employee of a car dealership, is commissioned by his boss to deliver a car that has been sold to a customer. Being a luxury car, he has no better idea than to invent an excuse to the new owner of the vehicle, delay delivery for the next day and use it to go out to have fun at night with his faithful friend Jorge. They both go to a revue theatre and, while witnessing the performance, the first vedette (Corina) faints. Then Alberto and Jorge pose as doctors, in order to meet Corina. As is to be expected, both decide to continue the deception with the passing of the days, causing the confusion to become bigger and bigger and harder to keep secret.

The story of an Argentine family entangled in a web of lies, all of which relate to the fabricated adventures of a lost son who sends gifts from foreign lands. What begins as a liberating game becomes a trap from which none in the family can escape.

Three episodes about a jewel thief of elegant ladies who forgives the pretty ladies, a man to whom they sell a tram and the revenge of a farmer deceived and abandoned by his wife.

A born soccer player leaves his town and his family to become a professional footballer. He has stardom, money, and a beautiful model, but realizes he left behind the important values that helped him achieve his success.

A dumb representative of a famous actor gets involved with a group of gangsters.

A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago.

An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures.

Fran is a passionate kid that loves skateboarding, but seems to have a small concern about reaching a certain age: 'For me, thirteen is when the difficult age begins. It happened to my cousin and my brother. You start to become kind of weird.' Through his passion for skateboarding and his activities, Fran fully experiences a part of life that seems to slip away quickly.

In 1830, a young orphan lady poses as a man in order to meet the expectations of her uncle.

A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.

A group of artists adopt a girl and take her to their shows.

Isidro (55), a lonely and isolated man, spends his time chasing a human trafficking network that hides beneath a popular urban legend.

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.

By trying to maintain her millionaire appearance, a young woman goes through a series of entanglements and finds a love that is also millionaire.

A lonely woman marries a man without getting to know him.

Margarita, a French courtesan, experiences genuine love for first time in the arms of much-younger Armand.

A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.

Córdoba, Argentina, 1976. It was an August night when soldiers dressed as civilians broke into Pablo and Vera's house. They must do everything possible to save themselves and protect their little daughter.

In some vacant area in the Buenos Aires province, Diego is taking part in a radio contest that consists of answering a series of questions about his beloved team Racing Club. Meanwhile, in the blink of an eye, a man falls from the sky on the hood of his car, another man ends up gagged in the trunk, a secret agent shows up weapon in hand and a plane crashes just meters away.

A man who meets with his lover in a hostel is caught in the act by his mother-in-law, who alerts his wife and lawyer.

Hebe, in her journey from childhood to adulthood, finds herself compelled to explore the boundaries of the real and the illusory through her extrasensory perceptions. Endowed with a singular gift: glimpsing the past and future as an eternal present, Hebe defies temporal convention, questioning whether her premonitions are pre-written destinies or mere whispers of chance. Inspired by true events, Hebe invites us into the fabric of time to discover whether her gift can and should be controlled or whether she should surrender and succumb to it.

A young man in love with his best friend gouges out his own eyes as an extreme gift, unleashing a terrifying reality about his own perception of the world.

A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.

A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.

Lava (2019), the animated film Ayar Blasco presented at the 34th edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival, left many subplots unresolved in a sci-fi narrative in which an alien civilization dominated the planet through technological devices. This incompleteness, which could then be attributed to the director’s aesthetics, always free and prone to absurdity, was actually a pause that now, four years later, is resumed. The protagonist continues to be Débora, a somewhat insecure tattoo artist who ends up involved in the resistance when a new batch of invaders threatens to wipe out every single record of the human race. With the childlike strokes and the uncontrollably innocent humor characteristic of him, Blasco continues to shape his own epic, a hallucinated version of El Eternauta, with click beetles and all.

A man and his daughter, tired of fights and routines, miss school and work the same day.

Explores the quest for understanding of a young dancer in a world that seems to ignore her.

At the exit of a bowling alley, two young friends have to face a series of conflictive situations...

The director of a tango set is in love with the singer but she marries another man who eventually abandons her. In their old age, their children will fulfill their dreams.

A hungry pidgeon finds a box of popcorn, down on a bench, and tries to reach it. The only thing it stops him to get it it's the rain.

An actress and her director are filming a movie. Through various texts ranging from monologues by Brecht and Joyce to tango songs by Libertad Lamarque, the film reflects on actors and acting in cinema.

An armed young woman and a poet with a strange physical condition live in a house disconnected from the outside world. One day, a knife sharpener rings the doorbell and falls in love with the girl at first sight. The poet believes that it is death coming for him. When she becomes pregnant and her son is born, the young woman returns to her mother's house, a lady with serious mental problems.

The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.

A Buenos Aires man, who believes he has been cursed as a vampire, dreams of a lost love who can release him. Meanwhile, a corrupt police detective is assigned to find a vampire-like killer operating in the city.

The Colonel of the Extermineitors has discovered that McClain (McClain Randolph), old enemy of the organization, crime has left to live quietly in Iguazu Falls and wants working for him. That's how you develop a plan for Guillermo (Francella) perform McClain recruiting mission. The Colonel knows that William has a twin brother who never met and convinces him that the former offender is his lost brother ... Installed in Niagara, evading the thief who wants to kill Nico, an orphan who is in charge of William, MacClain convince that he is his twin brother, getting together to Buenos Aires to join the group of the Extermineitors.

An unscrupulous doctor carries out all kinds of deceptions to profit from his clinic at the expense of his patients and his exploited employees.

Mirta is a university student in Buenos Aires, in the politicized Argentina of 1974. After the 1976 coup d'état, she and her boyfriend are forced into exile in Stockholm. The exile will contribute to the destruction of the couple, and Mirta must then find her own path.

It narrates the misfortunes that a man who has worked in the field all his life goes through.

A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect.

A Blank is a first-person documentary about the relationship between the protagonist-director Ramiro and his mother, Elsa, and how his upbringing in the countryside and the dramatic separation of his parents shaped his life today.

BAR SCORPIOS is the second album by BLAIR. The album follows "Teresa" an aspiring nun, who after discovering the dark side of the church and religion has a night of chaos, darkness and mystery. Work dedicated to the artist David Lynch.

Two teenage boys are in a country house and are taking care of one's little sister. The parents are absent. The young people hide their love relationship from the girl and meet furtively in a small abandoned part of the garden. The girl never enters that room because a fearsome hidden dragon lives there.

The story deals with the right to happiness and to be part of the community, for those who have chosen a different form of morally accepted by society, and allows us to review the issue of discrimination, intolerance, marginalization and social exclusion but also that of the infinite capacity to love that human beings have.

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

Lola tries not to drop her talent, threatened by the passage of time and the irreversible events that devastated her happiness. Ana, will try to survive a violent relationship with Victor that will bring her closer to the world of prostitution. Lucio hand in hand with cocaine addiction, will destroy its precarious humanity.

Pablo and Florencia work on Florida Street, the economic and tourist epicentre of Buenos Aires. Economic difficulties affect their life together. Pablo, in order to survive, begins to clandestinely smuggle dollars in the street. Taking advantage of the imminence of a currency crisis they will try to strike the blow that will take them out from the street once and for all.

Iris' quiet and peaceful life begins to change dramatically when she hosts Maia, her friend's daughter. When Iris realizes that Maia is in love with an older woman, she begins to wonder if she herself might be that woman.

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.