Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

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.

A widow who lives with her two daughters, takes care of an officer who hates women. They will change him.

In the 1990s, in the city of Mar del Plata, about thirty women disappeared and were murdered, most of them sex workers. A serial killer that was given the name of “El Loco de la Ruta” was blamed for these crimes. Every investigation that had to do with these crimes was half-hearted and defective; the stigmatization of the victims was much more intense than any aim at justice. In a decade pierced by impunity and social discontent, the women, most of them still unorganized, were the only ones to raise their voices and take the cold city streets reclaiming justice.

A captivating story that takes you inside the heart of the Argentina national team camp of "La Albiceleste". Witness the incredible moments since they added a third star to their iconic jersey. Listen to their unique perspectives as they reflect on an unforgettable tournament, sharing the deep sense of connection that winning has forged between them and a nation behind them. A story about passion, dedication, and unity that make Argentina's victory truly memorable.

Bruno, a Peruvian priest, comes to Buenos Aires after his church is set on fire. He meets up with Juan, an old friend he met in jail many years ago. Bruno is hoping to work in a Peruvian restaurant in order to send money back home, but his friend has other plans for him.

In 1930s Buenos Aires, exiled writer Michael attempts to continue his work, though the overwhelming city make his hands tremble. Decades later, he reenters the life of Argentine artist Mari through a book. She engages with his fantasies and begins to follow him, until one day he hears her whistling.

A group of friends order a pizza and have a philosophical talk about not paying for it.

The year is 1882, in the heart of the Humid Pampas. Javier Mendizábal, landowner and justice of the peace of a future colony, is cursed for murdering his Aboriginal brother to hide his maternal kinship. Denying his true past will be his worst nightmare.

A traveler from the future wanders through Argentina, while the world is on the brink of an atomic war.

At night a traveling flash runs through the streets of Buenos Aires hell, illuminating even the most remote roads. It's easy to mistake it for an angel. Its light, volatile step numbs the city and condenses the glances. It takes refuge in subways and tunnels under the ground. It comes off time. It tempts the dead to come back. It is The Light. The comfort of the homeless.

Three young aspiring artists fly to Brazil to present their film at the Shortfilm World Cup. Reality and fiction merge to the point where the viewer might wonder if anything is actually real when there's a camera recording it.

Making-off of "Zombie Plague: Mutant Zone"

Florencia “Hana” Ciliberti converses with her contemporaries at her workshops. From closeness and humor, she builds a narrative about music in visual art in Argentina, alternating testimonies, music videos, performances and archive material.

"Childhoods without Borders: Voices in Motion" is a documentary in which migrant boys and girls narrate the experiences and challenges they have faced in search of a better life.

In 1982 the Malvinas war affected combatants from Argentina and the United Kingdom. The shock wave of the crisis shook thousands of souls in many countries. This documentary tells five stories of civilians whose lives changed forever by the conflict. An inquiry about being in the right place, at the right time, or the opposite

A reconstruction of the artistic memory of the Biancos, Pelicoris, and Alonsos, a family interwoven with theater, film, and radio drama. Through the intimate puzzle piece that sisters Ingrid Pelicori and Irina Alonso piece together, the film rescues an essential legacy of Argentine cultural heritage and invites us to immerse ourselves in the golden decades of the 1940s through the 1970s.

At the last moment a few words can summarize all our lives.

A beautiful journalist falls in love with a foreign skier who comes to Bariloche to participate in a ski competition.

Ángela Ferrer lost her grandson during the Falklands War. A year has passed since the end of the war, and Ángela has not resigned herself to accepting her grandson's death, much less to not being able to visit his grave and pay him the tribute she considers more than deserved. Today, Ángela searches the cemetery for an abandoned grave that could serve as a space to visit her grandson. Finally, she decides on one that shows signs of neglect. She refurbishes it and leaves behind a small painting she made, in which we see a sailboat sailing across the sea. These visits take place weekly, while Ángela continues her daily routine, until one day they are suddenly interrupted.

At the core of this enormously bleak melodrama, there is a beautiful, passionate woman (Florence Marly, Chenal's wife) who capriciously oscillates between two men (Chiola, De Paula), even though she knows her fate is fatally linked to one of them.

Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.

Following the life of Pampas boxer Mario Paladino, who died in the ring, this documentary delves into boxing as a job opportunity for men from the interior of the country.

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.

Ruben is a bodybuilder, lives day and night dedicated to his body, which takes him all the time and does not look for work. But even the adversities of life cannot deter him from believing in himself as a superhero.

Cinematographic exercise by director Alberto Yaccelini, where through metadramatic procedures we are presented with the dilemma of the veracity of the documentary as a means of communication and reflection of reality. An apparently fragmentary, incomplete work that manages to fully reflect the complex personality of the protagonist. And, by extension, the complexity of personality.

In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel.

The days of Giulia, a young professional dancer, are disrupted when the mirrors in her house begin to reflect a distorted reality, confronting her once again with ghosts of past battles.

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

An audiovisual journey that brings together all the music videos from "No vayas a atender cuando el demonio llama", Lali's darkest, most provocative, and most personal album.

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

Ansio Bruselas must overcome the phobia that keeps him prisoner in his tidy, comfortable and safe home, because of the certain possibility that her sister will have her breasts amputated with a tool as unsubtle as a saw. The journey does not seem difficult: find a box with a mysterious content and take it to where Ana Ele, the sister , is held captive. He only has to arrive as quickly as possible to his destination, with box and its contents intact. However, Ansio's innocent curiosit , and phobia will turn his simple journey into an endless succession of strange and incoherent events. Because reality is reality until it's not anymore, you know?

A recently separated man decides to go to his best friend's apartment, where their different personalities cause crazy events, hilarious situations and, in addition, he meets a beautiful woman with whom he falls in love.

A private detective spends her days in her car following a suspect she hardly ever sees. As she tries to make progress with the case, she reviews her closest ties. The unexpected appearance of Alicia, a neighbor, disrupts the investigation and her personal life.

Pedro, a refrigerator technician, loses his job and, in a fit of rage, murders two representatives of the San Martinian Army with Stanley screwdrivers.

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.

After being abandoned by his wife, an emotionally detached pianist sees his life crumble when a rare degenerative disease begins to take away all his senses and perceptions.

Arita and Balencha, two young girls and close friends are like sisters to each other. Most of their friends have moved to Buenos Aires, but even if your boyfriend is trying to tug you along, it takes courage (and money in your pocket) to say farewell to each other and the place you have grown up in. But time passes and change happens, no matter if you want it or not - and maybe even Arita and Belencha will one day grow apart. But until then their days are spent talking, dreaming and finding a new home for a cardboard box full of puppies among friends and neighbours.

Five wanderers roam around Buenos Aires and it’s wild outskirts. God, schizophrenia and alcoholism is what gathers them in the search for salvation. A love triangle and the obsession over a little pig in the religiosity of the ghetto; a mental institution patient who finds an unstable emotional partner desperate for love; and the doctor of this story, an alcoholic, dangerous for himself and others, who heads without hesitation toward self destruction.

Coffee Masters is a documentary by Miguel Kohan, produced by Lita Stantic, Gustavo Santaolalla and Walter Salles. It tells the story of great tango of the old guard who, summoned by a rock musician, proposing a record to demonstrate its validity. This adventure, full of memories, humor and poignant moments, culminating with a presentation of the Masters at the Teatro Colon.

In a secondary school where classes have not been taught for the last five years, teachers must resume their "usual" task, given the arrival of a new director.

Unscrupulous businessman is plotting a hostile takeover, looking for ways to fix a horse-race, and scheming to force a failed businessman to marry his daughter to him to avoid financial ruin.

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.

Charly García performs old and new tracks on this MTV Special

Argentine boxer Accavallo returns from Japan after obtaining the world title. After his arrival, he finds out that his girlfriend has a serious illness.

Believing that he is about to die, a man sells his skeleton for science.

An Argentine scholar living abroad returns home to meet an old school professor, his role model in life. But the meeting will take an unexpected turn.

At a maximum security prison, a boxer searches for his freedom and receives advice from the leader of the cell block , along with a group of young men who want to be millionaires and another one who has just been imprisoned for murder. The director of the films coexists with them and obtains a portrait from the edge.

Three Argentines who live in Paris and dream of returning to Buenos Aires but lack resources for the passage, find their opportunity when a landowner, a business man and his daughter arrive in Paris. In a game of rigged poker the three anchors obtain the money for the passages from the newcomers; it happens however that the employer has made an embezzlement and will go to jail if he does not return the money. The character represented by Parravicini, who is the true father of his adopted daughter, gives him the money won to solve his problem and the three remain in Paris to see them in an end with the best poetry of Romero crossing a bridge under the mist , silent, once again anchored but with the happy sadness of recovered self-esteem.

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.

A photographer captures a possible love story between two strangers during a night in the city of Buenos Aires.

The romance between a mature doctor and a young girl, set in the mountains of Córdoba.

Oscar Ismael Poltronieri is an ordinary man. He cannot read or write. He has no money. He does not even have a house. Nevertheless, he is a hero. During the war he was the most heroic soldier. He saved his mates' lives and fought alone against an entire British platoon. In his own country he did not receive the welcome he expected. Politicians as well as society turned their backs on him, as they did with all the veterans. Now, he is returning to the islands for the first time since the war. He needs to visit his fallen mates and close a circle in his life.

The story revolves around Bebe (Santiago Bal) and Cacho (Tristan), two typical neighborhood boys who live different misfortunes in their constant search to conquer women. Bebe is half a blackmail and thinks he knows how to do them all, while Cacho is more shy and in love. Unexpectedly Bebe finds herself facing a relationship that advances faster than she thought, and that is why she decides to ask for some advice from her rogue neighbor, Don Carmelo (Darío Vittori), a veteran punguista who is in a couple with a beautiful woman much younger. Thus the plot is taking place between entanglements, alleged infidelities and an imminent marriage that no one expected.

A boy is about to move to another province with his mother. The last day of school passes amid a collage of dead leaves, recess, and singing "Aurora."

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.