Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A young man tries to follow a path different from that of his retired public employee father and associates with a friend to make bags.

Documentary ENERC 2018

Marcelo wants to see her daughter to celebrate her birthday. The only problem is that he has a restraining order.

Lorena and her friend Agustina go together to the wake of an old acquaintance.

Two ferrets stop at a garbage dump in search of resources to survive.

Summer storm over San Luis.

Isma, a young trans woman, confronts her family when she finds out that she is pregnant. Alone and depressed, he resists medical violence by escaping reality. Exiled from the house where he grew up, Isma spends the night with a trans woman in whom he finds another form of community.

A poetic representation based on the personal interpretation of mental imbalance.

It narrates the last days of the life of a man who lives alone in a house totally deteriorated by the passage of time and neglect. The man changes his attitude in the face of death, which affects the tense relationship he maintains with his son.

The wrong address on an ad asking for a typist will make a cartoonist's life miserable.

A young Argentinian woman who works as a museum guide uses her passion - reading - as a means of expression to channel the emotional and working lives of those around her.

Behind a castle supposedly inhabited by ghosts hides a secret laboratory.

A young woman returns from boarding school and will repeat in a certain way her mother's secret story, but she will be happy.

As he reflects on routine and the frenetic pace of modern life, Laureano recalls a cartoon character from the 1990s: the Pigeon Man, a solitary, sensitive figure who lived apart from the world, caring for pigeons on a rooftop. That memory becomes the starting point for this documentary, which slowly turns into a journey of self-discovery.

Returning to his homeland after years of absence, a man tries to reconcile with his sister and settle an outstanding debt, while dealing with a tormenting past that refuses to go away.

Juan has a normal life: a good job, he is married, he is expecting his first child and he wants to move to a bigger house. One day he discovers, by chance, that his identity is not what he thought.

Episodic feature film of five parts that have in common the city of Santa Fe and a terrible hot day with power outages and a varied sample of life in a small city, but rich in comedic drama and suspense.

It’s Christmas. After 12 o’clock, everyone waits for Santa Claus to arrive, but this time everything is different.

A person's life is at stake when he is surprised by an unexpected guest.

While his daughter Olivia plays alone, Garrik wonders about the existence of imaginary friends. A vague memory will initiate the search for Myu, his own invisible friend, for his forgotten childhood and for the clues to unveil the enigma of imagination, that mysterious ally of childhood.

The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based on the novel by José Mármol.

Three brothers, hunters, and heavy metal fans struggle with their issues in the dense Argentinian Patagonia. Meanwhile, the neighboring river threatens their farm with a flooding that can ruin their harvest.

A documentary biography that brings to life the story of the Argentine gray horse "Zorro." From his first rides to his farewell in Bragado with Rufino Montiel, it includes the testimonies of more than 15 interviewees, including his owner, Omar Passarotti, and the invaluable presence of historic jockeys such as Ismael Santamaría, Jorge Aristegui (10-time champion of Jesús María), Claudio Nielsen, José Prátula, and Luis Dell' Arciprete.

Film based on the sonnet by the same name, written by Evaristo Carriego.

A student leaves medicine to pursue singing and his girlfriend falls in love with his brother.

Oscar, before embarking on a trip to visit a client in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires, performs a routine check-up at the office of a doctor friend, who finds him to be in very good health. The journey that begins is the trigger for another, more personal and profound journey, towards his own life.

An ancient Mexican singer and a student of musical anthropology have an affair in a story linked to the search for a valuable precious stone

A film adaptation of the TV series "Los siete locos y los lanzallamas" by Roberto Arlt.

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.

Official music video for "Mr. Fear" by SIAMÉS.

A beautiful woman, who lives alone and who was partially paralyzed in an accident, publishes an ad asking for a visit from an “entertainer” whose murder she plans. A young, handsome man of great virility attends and an unexpected turn occurs.

In a not-too-distant future, where everything has completely unraveled into chaos, the Ministry of Intergalactic Crises urges citizens to abandon Earth before the inevitable unfolds, offering interplanetary flights to the J-18 orbital settlements. Meanwhile, in a desolate bar, perhaps the last bar standing, 23 minutes before the final flights depart, a couple wrestles with a decision: is it time to end their tumultuous relationship once and for all?

The determination of a rural doctor to discover the virus that carries the stubble disease.

The story of a woman, her lovers, the man who raped her, and the son that came out from that rape.

Snatches of conversation, movements in coastal areas, videos circulating on the Internet warning of a conspiracy. From the Bermejo river basin there are people who sail in camalotes to the islands that are emerging in the Delta. Maybe it’s an invasion, perhaps an attempt at re-foundation.

Juana is 17 years old and wants to experience her “first time”. And her wheelchair certainly isn’t going to stop her. She’s just started at a new high school in Argentina and is a teenager like any other, except for the fact that she observes the world from a height of 4 feet (one metre twenty). She soon joins the fight for sex education and becomes a spokesperson for the movement. Inspired by the experience of co-author and co-director Rosario Perazolo Masjoan, the series explores body diversity, consensual sexuality and the pride that comes with finding one’s place in the world.

In a new experiment, a group of people are tested on whether they would break their cell phone.

Inspired by true events. Buenos Aires, 1979. Bill Evans, the great jazz pianist, arrives in Argentina for a series of concerts. One of them is in San Nicolás, a town in the province of Buenos Aires. Evans (a heroin addict for twenty years), along with his two musicians and his manager, get into the Argentine businessman's car. On the day of the concert, they learn they will be playing during the "Miss Winter 1979" pageant. Out-of-tune piano, boxing, drugs, death, memories, whiskey, and empanadas. In a town similar to his childhood, the impossible and the true collide for Evans.

Upon returning from a tour, the famous dancer Joaquín Pérez Fernández tells his life to his wife.

An ex-crack who lives off the memory of a goal that he scored against the Uruguayans lives in Montevideo an adventure with a young millionaire.

Argentine DJ Hernán Cattáneo, known for his house music innovations, invites a symphonic orchestra for a four-night run at Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón.

The son of a politician who tries to follow the same path as his father, gives up when he discovers his fraudulent dealings.

The principal at a local high school has developed a reputation among the students and teachers for his unorthodox methods. When he comes down hard on the rebellious Cata for suspected drug use, he discovers there is more to her story. He sets out to help her, a decision with precipitous consequences.

The host of a folk music radio program risks his life by reporting on clashes between police and guerrillas.

Shembo is a biblical demon that has been tormenting various Latin American countries, from the north of the continent to Argentina. This evil spirit is responsible for providing pure souls to his leader, Satan. With an unexpected and terrifying ending.

In Boulogne, Buenos Aires, a 200-plus-year-old Japanese Minka (民家; literally translated as “house of the people”) stands as the oldest dwelling in Argentina. La Casa de Japón, a residence which also functions as a museum, contains one of the largest historical Japanese craft collections outside Japan. The Minka itself was dismantled and transported 20,000 km from the mountains of Fukui in Japan, via Nagoya, to Buenos Aires in the 1980s. More than two decades later, after years of careful planning, research and restoration, the museum opened its doors to the public in 2006.

An experiment, a filmed diary, a photo album, a self-portrait with the tribe. What does an actor do when he has no work? He invents fictions as an act of survival, here I am! I film myself, I film them, my sacred children, so that there is a record, a we were here too.

An accident brings Ana back to Buenos Aires, to the turbulent reunion with her past and the delayed mourning of her first love.

A documentary on the day to day work of a fabric shop located in Once, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, that caters to future brides, godmothers and quinceañeras. The shop is owned by the directors' father.

After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.