Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A man loves a woman of strong character but she abandons her

Key testimonies from firefighters about the death flights, a dictatorship mechanism to murder disappeared civilians. This documentary was instrumental to the fight for justice that owes answers to this day.

A samurai travels through to the future to kill a New York cop.

Between October and December of 2011, while Charly Garcia was celebrating his birthday 60, he performed three concerts; The Vanguard is thus (La Vanguardia es así), Behind walls (Detrás de las Paredes), and El Vigia ange (El Angel Vigia) . The three concert were performed at Gran Rex Theater Behind walls DVD was released in Octuober 29 of 2011, and it contains 20 songs sung by Charly and his crew: Instituciones / Pasajera en trance / Rezo por Vos - Yendo de la cama al living / Necesito tu amor - Hablando a tu corazón / Influencia / 20 trajes de lágrimas / Fantasy / Canción de Alicia en el país / No soy un extraño / No me dejan salir / Cuchillos / Inconsciente colectivo / La sal no sala / Promesas sobre el bidet / Perro andaluz / No llores por mí, Argentina / Rasguña las piedras / Fanky

A documentary reading and oral reconstruction, based on interviews and archival material, of the collaboration between Héctor Olivera and Roger Corman in the 1980s, which led to the production of ten films in Argentina. This is a virtually unknown period in the history of Argentine cinema. Currently a WIP movie.

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.

Natalio Ledesma is no longer what he was. Nor is his "Egg Emporium." His thousands of chickens mysteriously disappeared one night several summers ago. All except one, Pechuga. It's your only reason to live. It is his last long-term project.

A man sentenced to life imprisonment who escaped from prison, commits suicide so as not to be an obstacle for his wife and daughter, who had built a new life.

Espionage, intrigue, and passion surround the revolutionary invention of a secret weapon. A film that echoes with the world war, by German exiled filmmaker James Bauer.

Dramatizations of four cases "drawn from Buenos Aires police files".

Multiple couples are demonstrating their love in their cars within a discreet zone when a fire erupts.

It tells the story of Tomás, a young man who one night begins to follow Alicia, the girl who works in front of his store. When he discovers that she is in a relationship with his boss, he returns home. On the way back he runs into her again. He follows her, but this other Alice turns out to be a ghost.

An Italian businessman confronts the suitors of his 4 daughters but, one day, a count appears.

A single man must pretend to be the father of a teenage girl and will end up marrying her mother.

Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.

Delia Giovanola, one of the founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, recounts the initial search for kidnapped grandchildren during Argentina's last military dictatorship. After decades of searching, she shares new strategies to restitute the identities of those missing children, which are now adults.

A gothic Cthulhu girl walks bored through a winter landscape.

Lila, Ámbar, Marcela and Lisete, sex workers, have formed a family in a shared apartment. But Lisete's tragic death and Marcela's departure leave Lila and Ámbar facing an uncertain future. In their search for a new direction, Miriam appears, and she will change their lives in an unexpected way.

To prevent her lover from marrying another woman out of interest, a young woman will pretend to be a man.

Responsible and composed doctor goes on a spree with a friend with two beautiful women, and his wife finds out.

A widowed mother cannot prevent her child from dying from an overdose.

Catrasca is a photojournalist with a fondness for women of all kinds.

The hands of Narcisa Hirsch, a nonagenarian, open another Super 8 film cartridge to load a camera. In what seems like a ritual of passing on a legacy, the grandmother and her grandson, Tomás Rautenstrauch, watch a film of a meadow that gradually fills the frame.

Bruno dreams of reuniting with Alma, or with what’s left of her.

Jorge works all day as a gasman. That exhausting routine gives him a heart attack. Interned, he meets a nurse and considers a new way of life that will radically change his habits.

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.

One day before getting married, Ulysses meets Penelope again, the great love of his adolescence, discovering that she is now a nun in the monastery where the wedding will be made official. Seeing each other again confuses both of them, discovering that they had not overcome their relationship, to the point of rethinking their most important decisions.

A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.

Family-owned ski resort is failing, and they've pinned all their hopes on seeing the property purchased by the Gonzalez Brothers.

After another loss, a veteran boxer faces the harsh truth his trainer reveals in the locker room: not all fights are won in the ring.

Bauti loves playing with Sofi, his eldest sister, more than anything in the world! But everything changes when he gets some news from her.

Documentary short about the moment of creation and birth of the characters of the book "Sobre Héroes y Tumbas" by Ernesto Sabato.

Baraja feels like a useless and tired survivor. Political and social disappointment, long reclusive hours and dejection bring an omnipresent violence in a man that doesn't believe in anything or anyone anymore and fights as much against everybody as he does against himself.

A young man is witness of a murder committed by his father

Julia has just lost her life partner, Barby. Torn between her grief and a world that is crumbling without her, she strives to preserve the restaurant they built together and her bond with their son León. A relationship now threatened by a wilful grandmother and the return of an absent father.

Inspired video clip "Hielo locura", poem by Mariano Blatt.

An orphan, adopted by an authoritarian landowner, falls in love with his daughter on a farm in the mountains.

The story of a man who is mistaken for the winner of the Christmas lottery prize and starts handing out borrowed money.

Mars is invaded by humans.

Richard, a homosexual man, decides to adopt a child named Juan. As the child becomes accustomed to his new home, he continues to suffer from the fears of his past. Ricardo feels that his son should know his roots and begins the quest to discover Juan’s true identity. This search unravels Juan’s real story; a story very different than what was presented before. Slowly, Juan’s life begins to appear, much like the tip of the iceberg submersed within the immense ocean.

The 1975 Metropolitan Championship was, for River, more than the conquest of a title; it marked the end of an agony that required the efforts of historical figures of the club. In the midst of a political and economic crisis, the film documents the tensions and challenges that had to be overcome in order to achieve the yearned-for lap of honor.

It's 1982, and Argentina and Great Britain are at war over a tiny patch of land known as the Falkland Islands. Told from the rarely explored Argentinean viewpoint, this is the story of the Falklands War through the eyes of eight former soldiers and sailors who fought to defend their country's claim to the inhospitable islands, facing off against a massive British force sent to retake them.

As a result of a domestic accident, my grandmother started being monitored at home. Day and night cameras record her movements, interfering with her privacy. After some time observing, I began to notice something different with her.

In an era marked by the reign of fluid relationships, through apps and blind dates, Alejo seeks to fill his sentimental void by constantly changing sex partners.

How crime is manifested in Buenos Aires city.

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.

Posthumous film by Jorge Acha, whose narrative axis focuses on the journey undertaken by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimée Bonpland along with three indigenous people in the Orinoco basin and which will be told in the book by the German botanist entitled Viaje a los equinocciales del Ecuador. The male body is seen as a locus onto which social aggression is reflected and accumulated.Bodies that are virile and youthful yet tragically powerless.

An agoraphobic musician, locked up in his home, begins to live with a shadow cast on his wall; a shadow that has a life of its own. Meanwhile, between jobs, music, scripts, gymnasts and volleyball matches, the musician’s friends go on with their lives during the beginning of autumn in Buenos Aires.

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.

A young couple achieve their dream of settling in Rio Negro's Alto Valle. They will start a plantation and fight against the harshness of the weather and the land.

Mystery surrounding the sale of a house... What surprise can the buyer get? What is the history of the family that lived there for years? Is it all a product of the imagination or will there be a "gift" left in the home?

The failure of a marriage and its consequences in the family.

Luis Cardei is, was and will be the last "torcán" of the hundred Buenos Aires neighborhoods. Supported by the love of his family, he manages to overcome hemophilia and fulfill his dream: to be a recognized "torcán" of Buenos Aires.

An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.