Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Clara is on her way out of the city on a family trip to the outskirts. She receives a message from Martina, her childhood friend, the person she'd been with the night of the tragedy at the República Cromañón club, bringing the idea of motherhood into the foreground. This shot of the present day and reality in a series of WhatsApp texts, home videos and family lunches sparks an exhaustive look back at her own adolescence and that of her friends in a city ravaged by the crisis and by a tragedy.

42-year-old photographer Jo has her first baby and celebrates the joy of motherhood with her husband and friends. But one drink awakens an old addiction and she struggles to stay in control, protect her role as a mother, and keep her life from falling apart.

In a Latin American country under a dictatorial regime, a young, idealistic priest confronts the ecclesiastical hierarchy in defense of victims of social neglect and police violence. His struggle and his ethics will find no place in a church complicit with the ruling power.

A teacher tries to save a school in danger of demolition.

Black humor film that tells the story of Enrique, a retired, outdated and unemployed film director, who decides to commit suicide with the help of his grandson.

Jobless and living with her ex-boyfriend, Catalina lives her life one step at a time.

An office worker must replace a twin brother who is a boxer.

The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.

A man traveling in his truck on a desolate road...

From the road to the river, passing by the large oil companies and their private ports, we find ourselves in the most powerful oil complex in the world. One thing is to have read about it, another is to get inside the monster. One thing is to hear the shocking export figures or the controversies over the “settlement of foreign currency”, another is to approach this circuit that unites soybean fields, mega-plants that put their tentacles in the Paraná and reach the Chicago Stock Exchange, where it ends up being decided how much it costs you to eat.

A detective must face his past to solve the crime of the present.

Breif essay about the present, cinema, Buenos Aires, and humanity..

A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to change his life. Things get complicated when he needs to return to his past life, this time to save his family from ruin.

Buenos Aires. 1950. After committing a mistake during a job, hitman ROBERTO is forced to run away from his home, being chased by the same agency that hired him. This will lead to a series of unfortunate encounters with people who will do anything to hunt him down, making him realize that a man can run, but he can’t escape his destiny.

An intimate portrait of fishing as a refuge and companion, where bonds and absences intertwine with the river. Norma Alonso reveals how, despite time, memory endures beyond the last hook.

Rosa spends her days between working at the dry cleaning shop and reminiscing about her childhood with her mother. One day, she sees on television that a woman from her neighborhood claims to have seen the Virgin Mary. From that moment, Rosa’s daily life becomes increasingly surrounded by religious symbols.

Two fans about Japan animation fight against each other to demonstrate who knows best about it.

Lengthy interviews, exclusive to this movie, with Juan Peron, describing his military career and the reforms he instituted as leader of the Argentine government.

A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.

Martina and Jorge were best friends throughout their teenage years, until the day they decided to have sex. After that, nothing was ever the same. After a decade without contact, they meet again by chance one summer night in Buenos Aires, and realize they still have the same connection they had when they were young. They must decide whether to remain just friends or something more.

The life of the writer Leopoldo Marechal through various testimonies collected at the Café Izmir, where Adán Buenosayres and his bar met, and which closed its doors a while ago in Villa Crespo, which includes the dramatization of some fragments of his works.

An orphan girl with a mother who lives in the care of her grandfather in the south of the country and the conflict caused by the arrival of her father.

For various reasons a couple cannot consummate the marriage.

In this spectacular real-life adventure, a small team of Argentinean mariners sets sail for Antarctica in a custom-built sailboat. But to get there they and their vessel will have to brave the treacherous Drake Passage, one of the most dangerous bodies of water on Earth.

A young man works as a waiter in a bar and as a server in a bakery. Women do not resist his attractiveness.

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.

Having had his fill of rejections in the acting business, Nico decides to pursue fame via another medium: social media. In a virtual world driven by influencers, likes, and celebrity obsessions, Nico stumbles into a series of hilarious and strange encounters that will test how far he’s willing to go for social media stardom.

Argentine short film · Directed by Jeremías Sosa From Juan Agustín Maza University · Running time: [4 minutes] Filmed in Mendoza, with independent university production. Starring Tomás Palomo. Pre-established script provided by the department.

A short road movie about an internal monologue. As Guacho wanders through the city, the film delves into his stream of consciousness where the young man raises existential questions about the relationship between parents and children.

Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.

María wants to move to the city, even though her mother disappeared when she attempted to do the same. Her journey takes her to the house of an enigmatic woman who keeps her as a maid.

A noir vision of a paranoid and dangerous Buenos Aires where a group of diverse Porteños are fatefully linked by a brutal killing.

Carla Ponti is a young psychologist who arrives home one night to find her dog dead and is then attacked. A police officer takes her report and dismisses it, but a murder he is assigned to investigate brings him back to the case.

Three stories based on tales of the book by Manuel Mujica Lainez, ("El hambre", "La pulsera de cascabeles" y "El salón dorado".).) On scripts for the directors themselves and the collaboration of Ernesto Schoo.

Luciano lives with his mother and younger sister in a low-income neighborhood in the Argentine city of Rosario. He studies and helps with the housework. Since money is always short, he takes any temporary work he can get to support his family, while he looks for a steady job. After years of spending long hours at the gym, he has managed to see himself in the body he longed for. Life, however, imposes new challenges on him in his relentless journey to pursue his identity.

Anthology of stories set in enclosed spaces.

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.

Shura finds out that her husband has escaped the mental institution he was in and no one knows where he is. Her days become plagued with paranoia and the presence of the man that follows her. Or is it just her imagination?

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina.

A doctor find himself in front of the corpse of a woman who was the most intense love of his life.

Julián films his relatives on his mother’s side, film and television actors in the 1990s, while trying to understand what happened to his mother, who’s been institutionalized in different psychiatric facilities for more than 25 years.

Ituzaingó's peace is shattered when a real estate agent plans to demolish the neighborhood's famous monument replicas to make way for modern towers. Faced with the threat of losing their heritage, the neighbors must unite in a daring plan to defend the identity of their streets.

In the backroom of a supermarket, Matias spends the night with his new coworkers: Lucas and Raúl, a night guard at the wholesale section. What begins as a casual hangout gradually takes a strange turn due to Raúl’s constant mood swings, making the dynamic increasingly tense and uncomfortable.

In 1969, the Epstein brothers founded a music house in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires. There they offered the best imported records and it soon became a sanctuary. Musicians like Claudio Gabis, Nito Mestre, Charly García, Andrés Calamaro, agree that it was the place of freedom and inspiration that they so needed. It was the time when the avant-garde of the Di Tella Institute was nourished by the incipient rock and art, causing an explosion in the middle of a society isolated and lethargic by the repressive state apparatus. El Agujerito tells the story of this iconic record store through archival material and testimonies.

A small town hotel and a journey through time, where visitors encounter its history through the lens of a camera.

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 couple of girls move into their grandmother's old house, but discover that they are not alone.

A new Christmas is coming for the Cabrera family, this time marked by assassinations, world-wide and a mysterious murderous orangutan.

A businessman forces a simple man to become a boxer, swimmer, and runner.

A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.

Camila has just moved and decides to resume her exercise routine. As usual, she uses an artificial intelligence app. However, what begins as a daily routine starts to feel strange. Amidst unpacked boxes and the echo of loneliness, technology opens a crack into the unknown.

The mother superior of a convent raises an abandoned girl and after twenty years the repentant biological mother returns.

A fiction based on the feelings and emotional states that a group of people experience in a small in-country town.