Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Mora volunteers to be a surrogate so that Fran and Andy can become parents, but after conception, she changes her mind and unsuccessfully tries to have an abortion. That is how, unexpectedly, the three of them begin to live together, which alters everything.

A love between an admirer of Rodrigo and a young man who is shocked by his fanaticism with real images of recitals of Rodrigo

A man tries to cheat on his wife, but even though he stops earlier, everyone believes that he was unfaithful.

To hide his escapades, a justice of the peace with a dissipated life pretends to have a son out of wedlock, but when the young man appears in his town he complicates things.

Pehuén Pedre is a young man with a disability. On a theatre stage, he is leading a workshop to train two actors to pass an examination which will allow them to obtain a certificate attesting to their disability. Federico Luis offers a playful and incisive reflection which subverts the norms, highlighting the space of our shared imperfections.

A woman robs the authoritarian boss of a criminal gang and then falls in love with a buddy.

Miranda is a 48-year-old teacher who changes her perspective on life when she hears reports of harassment and abuse from the students at the school where she teaches. Over the weekend she will decide that it's time to hear her voice and make it heard along with many others.

How to Be Happy, the new documentary-style essay by Ofelia Fernández. A journey that blends humor with heartbreak, exploring digital life, anxiety, and the search for connection in an age of hyper-connected loneliness.

Nino, a young man with a speech impediment who is seemingly obsessed with his small pocket watch, lives with his sister Felicitas and her boyfriend, Nahuel. His presence is causing a crisis in their relationship due to the responsibility of caring for him. To try and resolve the situation, they are attending couples therapy sessions, but these are very expensive and they can no longer afford them. So, they go to one more session to cancel their appointments with their sinister therapist, who doesn't take it very well. But will it really be the last session?

Paladium. One of the busiest and most fashionable nightclubs in Buenos Aires, where artists, LGBT activists, traditional tangueros, and the newest generation of Argentine rock musicians would all cohabit with freedom and morality. And now?

In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances.

The Legend Arrives to Argentina to Tango!

Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives an unexpected visit from her elder daughter, Tamara, after a long time without seeing her. Her stay at a spiritual community has distanced and completely changed her. While Tamara takes refuge in her mother's home, an investigation is opened into the disappearance of Tamara's newborn son in strange circumstances within the sect to which she belongs. Both the law and Ximena will try to find out what has happened to the missing baby.

It is an approach to the figure of Fernando Martín Peña, but it is also a film about cinema, about a transcendental movement in its history, its spaces and rituals.

A love story between two women who, in the early ‘90s, connect both their lives with a thread that soon turns into a feat of experimentation, joy and bonds of one of the most ferocious generations of Argentine female filmmakers.

A doctor moves to the Argentine mountains to start a new life. Living like a hermit, he will become a gold seeker until he falls in love, for the misfortune of him, with the wife of another miner.

Abel Pintos explores the legacy and great influence of Mercedes Sosa, the woman who revolutionized Argentine folklore. Thus, through interviews with musicians and intellectuals who supported her at the beginning of her career, with her grandchildren who knew her most intimate side, and with artists such as Fito Páez and Charly García, Abel reconstructs and honors the Mercedes figure.

The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.

High school students find their way in life at Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. This striking coming-of-age film takes place against an inviting backdrop of fields of crops, greenhouses full of tomato plants, and the somewhat dilapidated school buildings, where dogs and chickens roam.

Jealousy and rivalries in a newly married artist couple.

Four friends, who are volunteer firefighters, get into a series of problems when they discover a fraud.

A young doctor tries to cope with his intimate dramas and, at the same time, fulfill the duties of his profession.

Set amidst a backdrop of political unrest and oppression in Argentina following the coup of the late 1980s, this impressive drama dwells upon a May-December love affair between a boy and a woman suspected of political subversion. When seventeen-year-old Pedro defiantly befriends political fugitive Sofia and provides her shelter, he creates a deep rift between himself, his family and his friends. Sofia is hunted because she was at one time in love with a Communist sympathizer. At first the relationship is purely platonic as Pedro helps her recover from a 23-day long flight that has left Sofia weak and starving for sleep. But as time passes, Pedro becomes increasingly involved with her and his schoolwork begins to suffer. Gradually he falls in love with her and she with him. But as the political situation grows more oppressive and the government steps up its search for subversives, the two begin making desperate plans to flee the country.

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.

Sangrita drives home at night after being told there are two naked girls awaiting him in his bed. Someone has arranged for the girls to be sexually aroused artificially by anesthetics, and filmed by an old man who'll stop at nothing to record the encounter on video. The two men and two girls wait inside a luxury mansion waiting for Sangrita, who's taking longer than expected to arrive.

Vera is a young woman trying to cope with her life, plagued by a violent relationship, when she suddenly receives terrible news: her best friend has been murdered.

A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communication and the government now has other commitments.

The problems of a young man, his pregnant girlfriend and his lover.

This film explores the perception of Lisandro, a 16-year-old boy who is on the autistic spectrum. His mother, Valentina, an actress, has raised him between backstages and dressing rooms. Is there any difference for him between reality and fiction?

The accidental finding of a journal from 1956 led to the search for its owner, Susanne Luzian. After her tragic death at twenty-five, somebody logged it in her journal to bring closure to her writings. Through a portrait of the city of Chascomús and interviews with her relatives, "Sanne" explores the importance of personal writing and leaving our mark on the world.

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.

Patito Feo (or Patty's World), the television hit came to the theater to become a success. You will be able to see the rivalries between Las Divinas and Las Populares in the competition to define which of the groups represents the prestigious Pretty Land School of Arts for the intercollegiate musical comedy. The evils of Antonella and Las Divinas, the tenderness of Patito and his love for Matías, the trio of bad guys led by Blanca who will try everything to get between Leandro and Carmen. The most beautiful story in the theater is a show full of magic, color and joy.

A music teacher and a police officer look after a children's club.

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

Governor's elections are coming in Cordoba province. A big electoral fraud is being orchestrated. This trap will break Hipolito´s illusions, a boy who dreams to find his father. Only the naive ideals of a young lawyer, Marcelo, will rescue this kid from hell.

The preparations of a sound installation by artist Ernesto Romeo is suspended when his mother falls ill. This interruption motivates the director to embark on a series of projects that share a mysterious connection to each other.

After his father's death, Marcos begins to lose control of his life. An inherited prosthetic arm, unsafe to be cremated, starts to absorbs all of his attention and isolates him from his girlfriend, forcing him to make a decision.

A young woman interrupts her honeymoon with a pharmacist to search for the mysterious donor of a valuable ring.

The first part of the Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the shortened version, prepared by Cord Garben.

Iván Haidar is a performance artist who investigates his own daily behaviors and brings them to the stage. His desire for experimentation is contagious to the crew, which seeks to portray the artist in the virtuality imposed by the pandemic.

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 young man will try to escape at any cost from the humble conditions in which he lives in his neighborhood.

After a long working day, Dolores and Amadeo decide to play a round of billiards. The atmosphere turns pleasant and emotions from the past resurface. At this point Amadeo tries to make a move but is rejected by Dolores, who sees him off and goes to sleep. Little does she know that she is about to go through a decisive night during which her life will be at stake.

1 History of entanglements in the Bar Almendra in La Plata. 2 A family drama that takes place in a country house. 3 A love story on the outskirts of La Plata 4 Marginality. 5 With love...María José.

Eloísa is an employee at a sweater store, but her passion is visiting the stable run by her friend Julio. Her life is transformed after the departure of her sister, who leaves her daughter Mora in her care. This way, Eloísa will enter her niece’s unknown children’s world.

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is unforgiving.

Some spaces draw attention, as if they evoke something that’s about to happen. These are the places where we escape when we dream or die. The only thing that exists is time; we wait for the moment to arrive.

Three stories inspired by stories by Juan José Saer. A police officer returns to his hometown to investigate a murder; a teacher complains about a horse that has been abandoned. One day, a man is found dead, and there is no trace of the horse, which is the only witness to the murder.

On July 1, 1970, through Operation Pindapoy, the armed organization Montoneros carried out the assassination of Lieutenant General Aramburu, who in 1955 had led the coup against General Perón. Constructed as a police drama, the documentary recreates the scenes leading up to the execution and examines Argentine leftist guerrilla groups 40 years after their emergence.

The film follows different stages in the life of Sofía, a young girl born in Argentina of Chinese descent. From her childhood to her adulthood, she's conflicted by the clash and fusion of both her cultures, all while facing a strenuous relationship with her mother Jia, who places concerns and demands on her.

Salaryman leads a double life, staying out all night singing tangos in a pool room.

An ordinary working mother faces a desperate struggle to find her daughter, who has been kidnapped by a human trafficking network. Graciela will battle corruption, bureaucracy, and organized crime, hoping to one day find her daughter.

A journalist investigates several crimes, one of which involves the well-known riddle of the "closed room".