Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home.

French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…

A minor distraction by a public official results in the death penalty for someone convicted of a minor crime.

Four friends, one of whom dies, and another, who discovers that he was killed, gets involved in a crime network.

A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an agency. There she discovers a new world when she mixes with the rich and finds love among them.

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

A middle-aged man, recently separated, wants to dedicate himself to writing, but it results in occasional jobs and nights out that always take longer than desired and not with the best consequences. Nihilism floods him as he tries to get romantically involved with a woman with whom he has always been in love. When she invites him to take a trip to a neighboring country, a new horizon will open up in front of him.

Antonia and Felipe are breaking up on the night of the red eclipse. Later, Antonia will look for answers in the occult, contacting demons. Is what comes next actually happening or is it a product of her imagination?

Lila, a dedicated cleaning staff employee, runs an unofficial cafeteria with her friend Marcela. When she is officially promoted to direct it, tensions arise with Marcela that upset the delicate balance of the office after 30 years of camaraderie.

Two gangs of drug traffickers try to control the monopoly of drugs in the city, while the police commissioner tries to kill them with the help of a snitch, "the puppet".

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

A woman seduces a young man so her homosexual husband can satisfy his desires.

A man notices something strange at night.

Francisco Santos embarks on a journey of remembrance through the figures of his four grandparents. In an archaeological quest through objects and voices that hold the traces of another time, Francisco grapples with the grief of his paternal grandparents' deaths and transforms his relationship with his maternal grandparents, who are still alive. His personal process leads him to question the role of images in the construction of memory, which ultimately leads him to the very heart of his passion for filmmaking.

High school students, very different from each other, must solve a creative task together. Will they succeed?

Throughout the month of May I decided to film at least one video (exercise) daily

A worker who use her body to climb positions becomes entangled with the underworld.

A worker who use her body to climb positions becomes entangled with the underworld.

The story of a man who is mistaken for the winner of the Christmas lottery prize and starts handing out borrowed money.

Documentary on the formation of Triple A and the kidnapping and murder in December 1974 of Jorge Fischer and Miguel Ángel Bufano, militants of Política Obrera.

Maia, Yenifer and Luciana begin working as caregivers for the elderly. The routine at the nursing home, very different from what they were used to, becomes challenging. But as their bond with the residents strengthens, they discover as trans women that they have much more in common with older people than they thought.

A story of adventures, solidarity and love for nature for the whole family, with beautiful landscapes of Patagonia Argentina that will lead Carlos and Cristina to find their destiny from an event that will change their lives.

The film tells the story of a long-divorced couple who have watched their now-adolescent son grow up separately. This brings a sense of remorse that affects the parents, who decide to reunite to offer their son a way out of the hopelessness he finds himself in.

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El pan y la sal (The Bread and the Salt), a 2015 verbatim theatre piece compiled from the testimonies provided during the 2012 trial of Judge Baltasar Garzon, for investigating the forced disappearances of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. Juxtaposing the testimonies of the relatives of those who lost loved ones with references to Argentina’s and Chile’s recent dictatorships, this film explores issues around international law and forced disappearance - tracing a line between Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and Jorge Videla’s Military Junta: Garzón has investigated Argentine torturers and criminal perpetrators and had Pinochet arrested in London in 1998 for crimes against humanity.

The romance between a young aristocratic woman and an unlucky painter that takes place in the lakes of Bariloche.

The film's theme is the attitude of adults towards the adoption of minors.

A man lives his life as if it were a commercial.

An agoraphobic musician, locked up in his home, begins to live with a shadow cast on his wall; a shadow that has a life of its own. Meanwhile, between jobs, music, scripts, gymnasts and volleyball matches, the musician’s friends go on with their lives during the beginning of autumn in Buenos Aires.

The final match of the "tennis trilogy" sharpens the humor to the maximum and unleashes all the dramas -some of them, even beaten to death- between the owner and the employees of the complex, with strange melancholic notes and new characters that join the ordeal in its last station.

THE CRY OF THE SUQUÍA RIVER is a documentary that runs through the Suquía River, a river that is part of the identity of the city of córdoba, in argentina. We decided to embark on a boat trip crossing a 32 km path that allows us at each stop, to connect with life experiences on various socio-environmental realities.

Amorous misadventures of a warehouse clerk rejected for his condition.

A spy adventure intertwined with the famous magic lamp from the story of One Thousand and One Nights.

This masterpiece focuses on the importance of the train in Argentine life and was filmed at the Santa Fe train terminal.

Lautaro (11 years old) and José (6) learned to find, in what others throw away, the daily sustenance their family needs. Lautaro protects his little brother from a situation that is suspected to be violent between his parents. The next day, José discovers a message in his World Cup figurine album. Messi's, his favorite, no longer looks like before. Neither did his family.

Celina can't stand the city anymore. She was born in a rural town and traveled to the great metropolis in search of fortune. Now she returns home after many years. Mauricio Matzkin is a humble businessman who cares for his mother. Hugo, Celina's brother, lives in the suburbs with his father and his ailing mother, now with Celina again. Hugo owes Matzkin money, and Mauricio tries to recover it. And so a story begins.

Daniel works at an insurance company in the city center. He spends much of his time staring out a large window behind his desk. One more boring morning, he sees a beautiful woman pass by his window, the sweet Carola, and he falls madly in love with her. Love at first sight. From then on, Daniel will try to win her over again, but the inability to express what he feels will jeopardize his goal, although perhaps fate will give him the chance, once and for all, to take control of his future.

Juan, a young rural bandit, is in a relationship with a lady who is wanted by the aggressive town commissioner. He must solve his problems with the law, even if it costs him to lose love. Based on the story of Juan Bautista Vairoletto, 'The Argentinian Robin Hood'.

The super agents in this mission must act in the middle of the fight of two enemy gangs to capture a scientist and produce changes in the weather.

Vast, wild, yet extremely fragile. The coldest place on our planet is also one of the most affected by global warming and needs to be protected. The expedition focuses on exploring, documenting, and surfing in the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, in the area known as Domain 1, which is being pushed for Marine Protected Area (MPA) status. Protected areas are very important for mitigating climate change and, in this case, also for regulating human activities such as concentrated fishing. This film helps us understand the importance of this area and the threats affecting it.

Puerto Madryn, famous for the whales that come to its shores, making it a focus of international ecotourism, is also home to one of the largest aluminum factories in Latin America—and the only one in Argentina. What is the daily life of a town grateful for the "progress" that came with aluminum, yet at the same time, it knows it is inexorably poisoned by the air it breathes?

A man has just lost his memory and apparently he can only be helped by a childhood friend. The man begins to remember some moments in his life, in which this supposed friend is actually his girlfriend.

Two friends are looking to earn easy money by gathering people to help them deposit a large sum of money in a fixed term of seven days, to live on the interests, which are higher the greater the amount deposited. This has immediate consequences on the lifestyle of the characters, who are increasingly ambitious. Portrait of the Argentine middle class in full hyperinflation, when financial speculation was the order of the day by the man in the street.

A man and a woman find themselves trapped inside what appears to be a dream that takes place in the labyrinthine corridors and mysterious rooms of a large hotel located by the sea.

A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.

Four desperate men decide to rob a provincial bank. The plan is carried out, but something goes wrong and they must flee. Little by little, the victims become victimizers as they pursue the gang.

The Campanelli family messes up in Mar del Plata.

Hosted by Chilean singer Javiera Mena, the episode reviews the career of the former Soda Stereo frontman.

Alma is a woman in her thirties who is not yet certain that she has experienced an orgasm. After escaping violence and various frustrations, she decides to ignore social and family expectations to explore her desires.

An old hermit lives isolated in a large house. That morning, he decides to take a walk. Far from his hermetic labyrinth, walking on the beach seems like a good plan for the day. However, the outside will reveal something sinister about him.

Pedro, a Falklands veteran, cannot forget the days when he was in the trenches, nor can he forget Raúl, his best friend, who stayed forever in that desolate place of nightmares.

A Latin American horror anthology where filmmakers from conjure shadows rooted in their land, their ghosts, and their history.

Estanislao works in a theatre bar at the center of La Plata city. His days revolve around the tasks he does for the different events that take place in the theatre bar, from cutting tickets to even painting murals meant for publicity. On the sidelines of the reduced world he managed to build there is Juana, who seems to be the only person with the potential to break through and change things.

A serial killer of prostitutes is threatening the authorities. Sara steps in, unemployed and without a place to live, staying for a while with her friend Pata. Sara gets a job in a courthouse particularly concerned about the killer. When Pata's client reads Sara's fortune, fate has a crucial confrontation with the law in store for her.

In an inhospitable rural area in North-East Argentina, machismo, destitution and the repression meted out under the military dictatorship sees the birth of the latest daughter born to Antonio, alcoholic woodcutter who anxiously wanted his first son. After the three daughters are farmed out to families in better financial position, he christens the latest one with the name of José, nicknamed Bumbún, and forces her to take on the identity of a boy. Mercedes, hurt by having lost her other daughters, protects the girl and keeps up the lie, constantly threatened by Antonio. Having been forced to act as a boy since childbirth, Bumbún will struggle between whether to accept her fate or to fight to change it.