Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

For some people, a new year means new beginnings, but for others it could mean the end of everything...

Ariel, a transmedia screenwriter, returns from Spain to Rosario, his hometown, to investigate the strange case of dog suicides in a park by the river. Upon his return, he reconnects with his past, where he encounters, among others, Laura, the woman he loved, and José María, his best friend and Laura's husband. These will be intense days, filled with contradictions, misunderstandings, and tensions that will push everyone to the brink of irrationality.

Two homeless children collect cardboard to survive. Despite the tenderness that sustains them, the cold nights weigh heavily upon them.

When Malhar, an auto driver, accidentally discovers Argentine Tango, he finds himself torn between his conservative roots and an elite dance community. Along the way he uncovers connection, awakening something beyond his mundane existence

When a woman decides to divorce her husband suspiciously changes his attitude from one day to the next.

A six-time widowed man lives with his six mothers-in-law and is looking for a new wife.

In order to get rid of his exgirlfriend, a rich boy marries a manicurist, agreeing to divorce months later. The deal is carried out, but the young man sincerely falls in love with her and desperately seeks her out to remarry.

Who said that being an actor is easy? Not being able to cry, accepting any role, not being valued, being poor, being famous, acting badly, acting too well, not sleeping, not eating... but, above all, not being able to stop doing it!

The struggle to succeed and a love story of some Argentines who live in the Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris.

In the heart of downtown Buenos Aires, Celia —a young prostitute— learns the know-how from the experienced Betty.

Federico and his brother Simon live their teenage years to the fullest, until the day Simon dies by falling from a balcony at a party. While his family falls to pieces before his eyes, Federico tries to live a normal life during his final weeks of school. Unable to mourn, he starts to grow closer to Laura, his dead brother’s girlfriend and seems to find comfort in her.

The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

After watching his favorite TV program, Medical Emergency, Alberto (8) asks he father, Félix (50) to play with him. Alberto, trying to ask and bug his father to play with him, provokes his drunk and nearly unconcious father to try to hit him. However, when Félix gets up, he falls under his own weight and hits his head. Alberto attempts to save his dad by following the step by step directions of the medical TV show.

A millionaire businessman must deal simultaneously with the kidnap of his wife and his worker's strike.

A young man has to fight over his girlfriend with a newly arrived competitor, an older man who arrived from America.

The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.

Through previously unseen documentary material, testimonies from survivors and reflections from specialists, this documentary deals with the brutal attack perpetrated on October 7, 2023 by the terrorist group Hamas in the south of Israel.

Three stories about vampires intertwined during a night in the city of Buenos Aires.

On his deathbed, Valdemar agrees to undergo a daring experiment by a hypnotist: to halt the very moment of his death through trance. What seemed like a scientific breakthrough soon turns into a nightmare, as his voice—trapped between life and death—reveals an unimaginable horror.

A woman and her daughter try to escape from an evil being that threatens not only their bodies but also their souls.

A girl arrives in Buenos Aires to move alone for the first time.

Committed to unearthing her ancestors' silenced history, Margarita embarks on a profound journey, guided by the diary of Katrulaf, an indigenous Mapuche prisoner of war. She retraces the Mapuches’ deportation route, and in unearthing these pasts, gives voice to a displaced people and the genocide inflicted upon them during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.

A boy raised in the mountains films his home surroundings. He shows his sister, his father, their house with a treehouse in the garden, and the family’s old dog. He runs and cycles while holding the camera, creating choppy, chaotic images that match the energetic life of a child.

Video art piece that through irony and sarcasm shows the steps for making video art, as if it were a simple recipe, and making fun of the genre's cliches: poetry scrolls, filming TVs, voices in French, video mashups, reverse audio, the out of focus image, the marginalized on screen, references to the classics, video loops.

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.

November 28th, 2000. Boca Juniors plays its most important match in history against Real Madrid for the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo, Japan. Told by its witnesses, fans, media and players that were there.

A group of youngsters, encouraged by their teacher, starts with guerrilla actions.

Damián Canduci's performance and Juan Carlos Gené's narration revive this moment in Argentine history, when the Horse Grenadier Regiment begins its performance in the fight for independence. A special dedicated to the first combat fought by San Martín in American territory, the one that inaugurated him as a patriot leader.

Paula (Soledad Alloni) has a normal life. Everything begins to change when she meets a man who connects with her in a very special way. Eroticism, romanticism and love triangles will be present in their lives. The contact of their bodies will make Paula feel for the first time that she is truly communicating with someone.

A portrait of the life of the celebrated Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, whose final years were spent in Alta Gracia (Córdoba, Argentina). Mónica Galán plays a researcher whose thesis focuses on the musician's involvement in the conflict between Republicans and Francoists. Luis Luque portrays Ulises, a journalist who helps reconstruct Manuel de Falla's story.

Joaquín has just turned 40, he has a ringing in his ears and he knows little about himself. His emotional and work life have no direction. His girlfriend is 20 years younger. When he meets Maria again, he falls in love. The idea of leaving his girlfriend, his job, and recovering his apartment is the beginning of a new life... But order always must become from the inside.

In this modern retelling of the Faust legend, a freelance photographer meets the enigmatic Mefi, who leads him, through a hole in the wall, to a room where a disembodied voice predicts stock prices.

With no memory, a young man wakes up beaten and in a mysterious place, only gradually coming to remember that he was involved in a horrific accident.

Fantasies, those states of mind that can be fleeting or eternal, are the central theme of the film. A man in his fifties, remarried to a younger and very beautiful woman, imagines for a long moment—the length of the film—a relationship between his wife and his 20-year-old son. Within the story—and the fantasy—there is a complex network of time periods that makes it impossible to separate reality from imagination.

The maximum nonsense of life plays with the feelings of the owner and the employees of a tennis complex.

Two unfaithful husbands have to win their wives back while they take their revenge on them by going out with other people.

Leo and Ana were a very happy couple until she decides to travel to Spain to try her luck as a chef and Leo prefers to stay in Buenos Aires. They separate, but four years later, they meet again.

After some problems with his colleagues due to a mental condition, Christian is summoned by his boss for a discussion, where he suffers different hallucinations.

Scroll is a dramatic short film about a young woman trapped in the endless scrolling of her cell phone, mindlessly consuming content as time and real life slip away.

Eva, the eldest of three siblings, lives in Villa 21-24 in Barracas. She dropped out of school and goes out to collect cardboard with her father, Ramón. While caring for her siblings as if she were their mother, she undergoes a change that transforms her life.

Two figures —an angel bathed in light and a widow veiled in mourning— mirror each other’s gestures. Through the interplay of costume, color, and hand-drawn intervention, Emerge & Fade explores how innocence and disillusion coexist and transform one another.

In the hours leading up to the National Chamamé Festival, the Federal campsite and dance hall are invaded by devotees and those curious about this music, which is more than just a musical genre. It's an excuse to come together, an identity, a way of life. These gatherings, the zapadas, the free dancing, the lulling sound of the accordion, and the rebellious cry of the sapucay transform this place into something like an Eden on earth, a paradise, Chamamé Paradise...

After a series of apparitions and miracles, the locals attributed Lazarito miraculous status to him, built a shrine at the site of his tragic death, and held an annual celebration, organizing a gathering of thousands of believers in the powers and favors of the popular saint from the region and neighboring provinces.

Short Film ENERC

A girl makes a stop to take pictures of the street, leaving her backpack on the ground. When she turns around, her backpack has been stolen.

During the 90s, Daniel Brusca was a successful businessman. As the owner of a taxi company, he was surrounded by the world of Argentine show business and politics, and he emerged victorious in trotting races. 30 years later, he still pursues glory while constantly remembering, in every space and object, what he used to be.

"In 1976, the military dictatorship was established in Argentina, and with it, state terrorism. I was five years old. I'm trying to painstakingly piece together some of the pieces of the past." (Gabriela Golder)

Two former high school classmates return from a night of heavy partying. The closeness of their friendship long ago quickly metamorphoses into a present day battle between tenderness and desire. As the pair open their minds to each other, dawn sheds light on their anxieties, which soon evaporate under the sun's rays.

After finishing building his Chapel, Lorenzo suffers a depression and is locked in it for three years. When he opens the doors he calls his children to show what he did: good and evil.

After her mother’s death, Magali returns to her native town in the argentine north. The threatening presence of a puma that eats animals and appears in dreams unsettles the town. Magali’s approaches her son, together they will fulfill the family duty on which depends their own prosperity

Costilla leads a solitary life: he works in a workshop, isolated from others, and in the afternoons he takes care of his deceased parents’ house. The arrival of Flecha, his new partner, opens the door to an unexpected connection.

The biographical evolution of Antonio Francisco Manuele, a brilliant pianist who lives in the city of Paraná isolated in a strange universe where memories are confused with reality. The days pass gray and silent. Anguish increases as doubt and ghosts invade the artist's mind. An introspective film that invites reflection.

No Me Ama (She Doesn’t Love Me) is about a couple traveling through Uruguay. Besides a beautiful backdrop of scenery, this film features an interesting monologue about a guy and his feelings for the girl he is backpacking with. He longs to hear words she hasn’t told him, but is it about the words left unsaid, or the expression of love through little gestures?

An actor's journey playing an assassin on the set of a film that takes place in a Buenos Aires' butcher shop. Short novella from the anthology "Historias breves 7". The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Competition and Filmmakers Support Program. This novella was shown as part of an almanac and had separate festival distribution and screenings.

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

Ana and Álvaro have been trying to become parents for years and that circumstance has broken the relationship and worn down the bond. Ana then begins to travel on the edge of anguish and Álvaro decides to use a resource that he had not imagined before: traveling to the North of Argentina and adopting a child, beyond the law.