Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Love confusion between a girl and her benefactors.

In a hospital a woman debates between the love of two men.

A teacher encounters the suspicion of her students when she takes charge of an elementary school. At the same time that he tries to conquer them, he begins a romance with a professor who was a former student.

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.

'Mastropiero que nunca' was a theatrical humour/music show by Les Luthiers, first performed on Friday 9 September 1977 and last done on Sunday 27 February 1983 (although it was headlining only during 1977 and 1978). It consisted of nine new (never performed previously) live numbers, which ranged from a madrigal to a salsa skit. PROGRAM: 1. Jingle Bass-Pipe (Obertura); 2. La Bella y Graciosa Moza Marchose a Lavar la Ropa; 3. El Asesino Misterioso; 4. Visita a la Universidad de Wildstone; 5. Kathy, la Rrina del Saloon; 6. El Beso de Ariadna; 7. Lazy Daisy; 8. Sonatas para Latín y Piano; 9. Payada de la vaca; 10. Cantata del Adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, de sus Hazañas en Tierras de Indias, de los Singulares Acontecimientos en que se vió Envuelto, y de cómo se Desenvolvió; 11. El explicado. Two new instruments were introduced during this show: the 'Calephone da Casa' and the 'Shoephone'.

Kaia and Camelia believe that rest is a waste of time. Noticing that growing up means sleeping more and more, they wonder: what if they never slept again? To find out, they embark on a sleepless night, defying fatigue as they wait for the sun to rise.

A remote village 100 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires. Stephen, Matías, Alejo, Damián and Guido were born 13 years ago in this small town. They have always been friends and together they share the monotonous summer afternoons sitting on the stoop of a women's hairdresser. Anxious, restless, impatient for a change, they go through the most confusing period of experiment -- the transition from childhood to adolescence.

La Salamanca is the meeting place, revelry, feast of Supay and its followers. What happens when a mere mortal wants to enter? What or who must he face to get to drink from the cup of Supay? La Salamanca is an immersive journey through dance, music and fire. Come and see.

Minguito meets a boy, and he takes him to live with him.

A man is falsely accused and executed. He is brought back from the dead but suffers terrible burns on his face. He uses multiple different masks to get revenge on the people who wronged him.

Upon learning that he has two months to live, a man distributes his fortune among his pensioners, over time he is still alive and has been left without a penny.

A series of crazy sequences take place at a late-night drive-in movie theater.

A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally.

During the colonial period, a man buys a small piece of land in Mendoza and marries a slave woman. The dry and arid climate harms the yield of the land from it. In need of money to buy the freedom of his spouse, he decides to undertake the task of building with his own hands a kilometric ditch that carries water from the river to his fields.

An educational project that supports a Mapuche community on their annual journey in search of pastures for their goats and sheep. A school that becomes a meeting point for diverse worldviews and invites us to consider education in these times.

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.

Tristán is navigating his teenage years in an exceptional way: navigating his gender transition alongside his mum Virginia, his friends, his school and the Argentine State, whilst discovering his passion for drawing. But when the pressures of adulthood begin to mount and a shift in the political landscape threatens his rights, he is faced with a question: is it possible to be trans without suffering so much?

Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca

Decades after the murder of a woman at the hands of the "violinist decapitator", a young couple arrives at a house where they soon become aware of strange events.

A young couple, eight months pregnant, impulsively return from their family vacation. Halfway there, their car breaks down, and they are stranded in the mountains. In the midst of searching for shelter, they arrive at an abandoned roadside shelter. The pressure of the baby's imminent arrival and the difficulty in finding help awaken an inner labyrinth of anxiety within the young couple.

An adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.

A 43-year-old teacher and his 14-year-old student embark on a forbidden trip.

The daughter of the owner of La Plata’s traditional coffee shop “Confitería Ritz” -who worked at Ojeda, Sarti and Santa Lucía pharmacies and now works at Santa Rosa pharmacy- hates living with other people at her home.

A rural woman triumphs in Buenos Aires with the help of a lawer she loves.

Set during the centenary celebrations, it narrates the frustrated loves between a man from high society and a woman with a hectic romantic life.

A saxophonist plays at a train station.

A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.

A serious radio commentator becomes a vedette in the magazine theater.

Set in Santa Victoria, Argentina, this 2SLGBTQ+ supernatural docu-drama tells the story of a Wichí community facing displacement, along with their efforts of retaliation, at the hands of a negligent government’s plan for urbanization.

Nito is an artist who, through painting, finds a way to represent the life and nature of the Santa Fe coast.

Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.

The shoot of an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic set in contemporary Mar del Plata.

The making of a video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Korean community in Argentina takes actor Chang Sung Kim back to his native land. But soon the trip becomes an unexpected and transforming reunion with his family and the culture that, 48 years ago, he decided to leave behind.

Persephone is released from prison after three years. Returning to the neighborhood will present him with a new hell. Without a job, she gets the help of Juana who shelters her in her house and with whom she looks for some changa to survive.

Ludmila Vieytes is in a cockfight in Cuba. With her baby in her arms and in a wheelchair, she comes to a passive acceptance of the torture, of the human and divine violence that shapes her beliefs.

A strange creature, which can only live inside a human body, escapes from a group of military men who want to hunt it in a decaying futuristic world. On the verge of being caught, his last escape is to possess the body of a man.

In 1981, the de facto government financed a Victor Melman / Champagne Oyarbide film, to reach a new audience and give a message in favor of the imminent takeover of the Malvinas. When the military saw the finished film the filmmakers had to go into exile in Guatemala and the film was banned. Wes Craven plagiarized it after seeing it in a Guatemalan screening.

A common man that is tired of being treated as stupid, and starts treating other people the same way, acting as a Brazilian "Manosanta" (folk healer that cures people illnesses).

As if it were a continuation of the last 15 minutes of AB, Fund and Loza, now accompanied by Moriconi, radicalize the aesthetic procedure of the previous film made together: on the one hand, there is a free text, between poetic and philosophical, pronounced voiced by two men and a woman; on the other, a set of plans of different ecosystems, live and stuffed animals, clouds, waterfalls and lava, organized by a kind of poetic logic, makes up the visual material. The disjunction between text and image is programmatic, and in parallel they constitute a form of free poetic expression. The precariousness of existence is evidence, and the very composition of the images is in line with this empirical confirmation. The general discourse oscillates between a heterodox Franciscan Christianity and a sensitive Darwinism, and in the same way a kind of awareness of terror and amazement towards the universe is combined.

A bachelor, sheltered by a wealthy aunt, sees the ghost of his girlfriend appear every night. But she isn't dead, and they end up getting married.

A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.

Two siblings from a humble neighbourhood, a taxi driver and a lingerie store employee, dream of becoming a tango singer and a famous model respectively.

Facing an imminent attack from Mars, planet Earth sends Dibu to Mars as a peace ambassador -- the only hope for averting the attack. Amazingly, he finds a friendly population, whose only issue is that they are fed up of their planet being used as a nuclear dump site. Besides averting the Martian attack, Dibu also inadvertently manages the save hit planet from the diabolical designs of an ambitious general

Director Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist’s voice, the feel tells of the director’s vast life experience in an in-depth study where the biographical outline is offered as a footnote to recent Argentine history.

Documentary about the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It is divided into ten episodes, each one with a central theme, in which young writers discuss various fragments from interviews, conferences, symposiums, and lectures by Borges. Pedro Mairal, Mauro Libertella, Romina Paula, Tálata Rodriguez, Juan Martin Sklar, Wison, among others, comment on topics related to Borges such as writing, the library, Buenos Aires, the world, the Nobel Prize, and blindness. It won the Premio Fund TV de Oro.

In a family of short lineage, they are forbidden to fall in love with tall girls.

Two women from the same family, one from 1830 and the other from 1930, the first subject to the rigor of the customs of her time and the other in an atmosphere of independence and freedom.

An actor returns to Moisés Ville, the first Jewish colony installed in Argentina

The vicissitudes of the members of a Buenos Aires family facing their economic bankruptcy and the attitude of each one of them in the emergency.

A young woman returns from boarding school and will repeat in a certain way her mother's secret story, but she will be happy.

Carolina lives trapped in a suffocating routine, inside a huge house full of empty rooms and doors that never open. One day, she finds a woman dressed in red inside the house, who comes to bring her a mysterious box as a gift.

Short film about the strike of the stonebreakers in Tandil, early 20th century.

Documentary about Héctor Germán Oesterheld, his experience as a comic book writer, and his political activism. Colleagues and comic book experts analyze his narrative style and the impact his joining the Montoneros had on his writing. Elsa Oesterheld, his wife, recounts the final years of his life, when he and his four daughters were victims of state terrorism.

As the gaze sinks into the landscape, a relationship disintegrates, leaving love as a fleeting memory between archives and dreams. The writing of the days is imprinted on traces that repeat themselves in a constant déjà vu. Pain becomes noise and dissolves like particles in the air, in an attempt to reconstruct the inevitable. A leap into the void between the desire to remain and the impulse to erase a wound.

In the midst of an inclement summer, Tavo works as a pool in a country town in the Buenos Aires suburbs, forming a silent part of a landscape and a community that keeps him at bay for class reasons.

Edgardo faces everyday life. His children, his wife, his entire family seem strange and distant. His thoughts are subjugated by images of the Falklands: the combat, the fear, the death. Traumatic memories that absorb his attention until he becomes a stranger to his loved ones. One day like any other, while walking the children to school, he must finally face his inner ghosts.