Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A tragic revenge tale in which sons and daughters pay for their parent’s mistakes

A passionate young man can't forget the love of her life, who is about to get married. Passion will find its way but with fatal consequences.

While on tour through Latin America, los Grandes del Buen Humor are confused with volunteers for a space travel and get tangled with spies.

A record of the fight for legal abortion based on the Brazilian, Argentine and Colombian experiences.

Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them that they did not feel before. Maybe it will be the last summer of their childhood, maybe it will be the last summer of the three of them together.

A mature woman and a younger man are romantically related.

Two police officers approach a rabbi suspected of having marijuana, check him and when they are about to discover it suddenly the three of them move to another dimension. This crazy and musical comedy shows the journey of these men through an unknown parallel world.

The story of Maxi Herneston, whose life is far from perfect: he works as an employee in a local video store; he has an older brother who tortures him day and night and a mother obsessed with sex. But these circumstances become minor details when he accidentally ingests a virus from outer space that will make him feel incredibly sick and, in the final instance, will force him to defecate five aliens who at first seem friendly but who later turn out to have their own plans regarding the boy and the future of the earth.

An adult man brings down two poor but completely different young people in his social experiment. Their values ​​will determine whether or not they pass the test.

Alicia takes care of her quite elderly mother. A party is the opportunity for the ideal meeting that she wants.

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

The film deals with the conflict between a father, master of a cattle ranch, and his son, who has returned after study.

Rodrigo, an introverted and obsessive writer, takes refuge in his imaginary world and in “brown noise,” a concentration technique that isolates him from reality. His relationship with Abril, an empathetic nurse, deteriorates as his obsession grows, leading him to falsely accuse her and, ultimately, to lose her. Although he finds the inspiration he had been searching for, he realizes that his selfishness has cost him the love of his life.

In 1910, a young laundress leaves her rural home, fleeing from her father's violence. With her, her two sisters and their baby brother. Along the way they try to break free from the past and rediscover a future.

The differences of origin and poetics between José Martínez Suárez and Manuel Antin, representatives of the cinema of the ‘60s’ Generation, are proof of the heterogeneity of the period and, at the same time, share the creation of a renovating and personal aesthetic that observes reality with a critical eye.

Bruno is 33 years old, he is unemployed by choice and has entered a kind of paralysis that blocks everything: lost and with no certain destination, he wanders immersed in an indefinite void, a situation in which his enthusiasm for things has also fallen. and the people. Isabel's ghostly appearances in his life mark the three unique nights in which the film takes place.

Omar “El Halcón” Bustos is a veteran boxer days away from a decisive fight that faces him with a dilemma: take care of himself and betray his style, or fight the way he wants at the risk of getting injured and forcing his permanent retirement.

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

one-minute video made by students of the UNA Artes Audiovisuales

In this dark and futuristic story set in the Buenos Aires of 2068, a motorcycle courier is sent on a routine delivery to the Grupo Crinal television group, where he unknowingly stumbles upon a truth that will change his life forever. He discovers a labyrinthine world where nothing is what it seems, and a truth that he must accept to reclaim both his identity and that of Buenos Aires.

Alba is away on a trip while, in her hometown, a friend of hers dies. Her travel companions cannot seem to grasp what happened and, without being able to go back home, Alba is forced to go through mourning alone, even though she’s surrounded by people.

This documentary deconstructs the life of my father, Carlos Ragone, based on his work as a photographer and photojournalist: father and daughter, photographs and audiovisuals, memory and imagination intertwine.

Analía Kalinec wakes up every day knowing that her father is responsible for the death and disappearance of thousands of people. This is the story of a father-daughter relationship destroyed by the cruelest acts that human beings can perform.

Rocío reminisces about her relationship with Daniela as they both face a new beginning on her last day of moving out.

Two twins fall in love with the same man and he thinks he only loves one woman.

Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.

Here Les Luthiers is a recital of the Argentine group of informal musical instruments Les Luthiers, made especially for the 45th edition of the Cosquín Folk Festival. It was presented for the only time on January 28, 2005, at the Plaza Prosper Molina in the city of Cosquín, Córdoba, Argentina, traditional venue of the festival.1

A group of teenagers spend their time challenging authority and spreading disorder at a private school. Damián feels pressure to participate in the cruel games proposed by Gerónimo and supported by the group: making Enzo's life impossible.

After a chance meeting, two former lovers look back on their relationship.

EHHHH! is a Super 8 film edited in-camera and projected with a tape delay from two projectors onto a screen, which travels through the parking signs of Buenos Aires, where the letter E dialogues with a sound composition / phonetic poetry of voices saying "eh", a typical Argentine filler word

"Sister death" explores the tension between the ritual and the everyday through the figure of Ariel, a priest who performs funeral responses in a cemetery of Buenos Aires

A Soviet Union astronaut dog explores space and misses home, not expecting what the void has in store for him.

Documentary about the life and work of Julio Cortázar from his own memories and reflections.

A woman becomes delusional and fails to recognize her husband. She will fall in love with the doctor who is supposed to cure her, believing he is her real husband.

A grocer gets rich speculating on the shortages generated by World War II until he suffers the consequences firsthand.

In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.

Marcia is young woman who leads a gray and unremarkable life in the city of Buenos Aires. Mao and Lenin are a couple of punk girls who stumble upon Marcia and for some unexplicable reason they want to show her love.

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

A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago.

In 1977, during the last military dictatorship, the de facto government of Mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore proposed an ambitious Urban Highway Plan for the city of Buenos Aires. Of the eight planned highways, only two were ever built; a third, the AU3 or Central Highway, left numerous expropriations along its route and a handful of demolitions in different neighborhoods of the city.

Some youngsters from the city, visiting the countryside, have fun tricking naive local boys.

A woman and his lover spend a season at the mountains, in order to recover from the excesses of life in the city. But peace doesn’t last long: he tries to seduce a country-woman and she invites a mongrel over to her bedroom. The film is, in essence, a melodrama filled with jealousy and betrayal, but it also showcases some original elements that no other cinematography would have dared to suggest in 1929, like the possibility of a romance between an Indian and a white woman (with her taking the first step).

It Can Be Funny brings together the most representative comedians of the Buenos Aires scene to talk about comedy, from the creation of a joke, the search for one's own voice, the staging and the meeting with the audience.

Paula has never met her mother, her father is already old, and that meeting is urgent for her. Along the way, she picks up clues that bring her closer and take her farther away from her goal, in a physical journey through Buenos Aires’ geography.

The adventures of two flight attendants when they meet a secret agent from Buenos Aires.

Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.

A strange creature, which can only live inside a human body, escapes from a group of military men who want to hunt it in a decaying futuristic world. On the verge of being caught, his last escape is to possess the body of a man.

Three rooms, three different moments of a relationship.

Manuel travels to the small fishing village where his recently deceased wife, Paula, spent her childhood. There he meets Rosa, the owner of a restaurant; Héctor, whom he entrusts with rebuilding his wife's dilapidated family home; Toto, a colorful and helpful fisherman who was Paula's schoolmate; and Julia, a young architect who lost her daughter shortly after birth, and with her all hope of happiness.

A married couple rents a room in their house to a newly married couple with sexual problems.

Set in Santa Victoria, Argentina, this 2SLGBTQ+ supernatural docu-drama tells the story of a Wichí community facing displacement, along with their efforts of retaliation, at the hands of a negligent government’s plan for urbanization.

A young detective solves the theft of some plans from an arms factory.

A man helps three boys and three girls who want to triumph in the world of television.

A shy person is confused with a man that saved a woman from drowning, and he is seen as a hero.

Three criminals escape prison and find themselves at the swampland home of a strange old man and his sexy blonde daughter. This black-and-white Argentine crime film was dubbed into English and spiced up with over 10 minutes of color nudie insert shots.

A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.

Short film made by Walmo.

An elderly woman and man, who in their youth lived an intense love story, meet again by chance after fifty years. The passage of time has not erased the conflicts of the past, but passion will flourish again.