Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Reality and dreams merge when a young woman seeks to understand why she is meeting the man from her recurring nightmares.

Nancy works cleaning houses in a small coastal town, marked by its beauty and the transformation it undergoes at the end of the summer. Juan, whom she meets at work, will soon jeopardize her fragile emotional state and even her own job, leading her to do the unthinkable.

Early 1900’s. In a rural provincial town, a well-to-do and religious family falls apart revealing hidden tensions between brother and sister.

Noemí lives in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. She wanders the streets and draws in her notebook as he waits for a message from his boyfriend that doesn’t arrive. Noemí gets more and more desperate each day until her rage pushes her to the limit and she ends up acknowledging her strength.

Adriana is a young trans woman, hired by Denise as a domestic worker. Although she isn't fulfilled by the job, it's within the few opportunities society offers for her. Today is the day in which both of their lives fall apart and together they start something new.

A journey into memories we didn't experience. An abstract documentary about memories that still remain within us, fragmented and sometimes expressed in colors, sounds, and sensations.

A man who works in the park (disguised as the pink panther), sees and wants to approach a woman who casually walks through the same park, taking care of a child.

Laura reunites with Santiago, a former boyfriend from her youth. Together, they will recall the days when they were college students and what their lives became since then. Laura will have to choose between rediscovering an old love and reaffirming her present.

The words of the Río Turbio miners and their wives. A testimony to human dignity, shaped by a past of sacrifice and an uncertain future.

Jo finds himself trapped in a corridor where his only exit is a door he seems never to reach.

Estanislao works in a theatre bar at the center of La Plata city. His days revolve around the tasks he does for the different events that take place in the theatre bar, from cutting tickets to even painting murals meant for publicity. On the sidelines of the reduced world he managed to build there is Juana, who seems to be the only person with the potential to break through and change things.

With never-before-seen images and interviews, this documentary explores the life of Quino, one of Argentina's most important humorists.

Two brothers take care of themselves because their father abandoned them. Julián as a rebel, Marco trying to keep things in order and Ernesto wanting to get his children back; all three will make decisions that don't always turn out well.

Story of friendship between Maria and Brian that lasts over time, despite the distance, and their socioeconomic differences.

Recounts the incidents that occurred in La Plata on February 20, 1996, when hundreds of students, social and worker organizations demonstrated against the modification of the university statutes required by the new Higher Education Law, fearing a gradual privatization of university education with the consequent destruction of one of the main cultural bastions of the country.

This is the story of a passionate man connected with the electronic life and whose language was misunderstood into the real world. Upon the game with the remote control of the TV, a screen travel emerges into his mind. He visualizes the transformation of his body into light and energy and his own mind out of him... Inside a world unknown to him, our protagonist immerses into a magnified space of visual sensations, colors and forms. A rhythmic and temporal cadence transport him elsewhere amplifying his own conscience and tearing down prejudices. A widespread field of sounds shows his own memories in the form of sounds and confronts him with an imaginary territory that constructs and deconstructs part of the notion of the world. showing stimuli (even closing his eyes) that increases your organic palpitations, making your adrenaline flowing and accelerated with greater intensity.

After the sudden death of El Gato, his body must be carried in the rain to the cemetery.

A Super 8 film found in the street and labeled, “Journey to Port Stanley, 1981”; through cuts, Baca divides the Malvinas landscape more and more, until making the different achieve the category of thing.

In Exomologesis, the filmmaker and poet César González set out to show the consequences of a society governed by obedience and the consequences of this in times of neoliberalism. Unlike his previous films, in color and with many scenes shot outdoors, this is a black and white film that takes place in a two-room apartment, which allows us to see that an office can also be a closed institution.

This documentary tells the tale of Buenos Aires lesbians, focusing on three personal stories. A former militant woman who now devotes her time to feminine soccer; a young woman who is active so no girl has to go through what she went through and a lesbian mother who recounts how hostile the laws are regarding the rights of lesbian women. In spite of the difficulties their characters go through, the stories have a lot of humour, some soccer and a tour of the city.

Three women travel to a distant place to do welfare work. They assist, listen, stay with the unprotected. An old hospital in ruins accommodates them. The imposed group life gets more complex as they start to know each other. The relationship with the others, the community, is also difficult. But, as days go by, they will start to melt into that human landscape surrounding them. To be part of the mystery of otherness.

A young doctor tries to cope with his intimate dramas and, at the same time, fulfill the duties of his profession.

A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.

Who are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo? What is the story of these women who knew how to turn pain into struggle? What is their struggle? How did they become a global symbol of the fight for human rights, freedom, and socialism?

Nicolás is locked in the room of a Buenos Aires boarding house, far from the stars of his hometown, where memory seems to amalgamate with reality. A violent argument with Mario, the owner of the boarding house, is what will prompt him to reconstruct and rearrange the tragic memory of Miguel, his younger brother, in order to understand the reason for his disappointments.

Leonardo undergoes an unconventional treatment to stop being submissive.

Nestor Kirchner was – along with Cristina Fernandez – the central figure of Argentine politics in the first years of the 21st century in Argentina. His Government and his political leadership starred in the brightest moment since the return of democracy in 1983, both in terms of memory, truth and justice, as well as breaking the infernal circle of debt and subjection to external powers, energetically reactivating the economy and employment, promoting science and technology and the expansion of rights. We will make this cinematographic narrative hand in hand and with the voices of the men and women who were affected by these policies, and whose lives changed thanks to them.

Maxi isn't just a gloomy, medicated employee of a company's technical department, depressed by the end of a relationship he can't get over. He's also a fervent follower of the most extreme conspiracy theories. In his broadcasts, he tries, with little success, to warn the public about the advance of the reptilians in the circles of power and entertainment. What will happen if his worst nightmares come true and he has to face the reptilian enemy face to face?

Sol is a young woman from a family in the Buenos Aires suburbs who decides to get back together with her first boyfriend. Without quite knowing why, they try together to recover the relationship that made them fly away. Even though nothing is what it once was, they both persist, sort through the rubble, let themselves be carried away by the comfortable inertia of their youth, seek new emotions, and are seduced into pushing the limits... But time has passed and continues to pass. Life doesn't wait for them. They have to grow up, and that hurts.

Danila, a real estate agent, meets Luis, a possible buyer for an old apartment downtown. The eerie atmosphere makes her edgy, and her job turns into a possible trap.

Ramiro is a bar cook. Hernán is an unemployed technician. Nora is a nurse in a public hospital. Lucia sells books in a bookstore. Four stories and a black and white city with persistent rain. None of them know each other, they are only inhabitants of the same city.

Alberto, Jorge, Ricardo and Tristan are employees of a shoe store, all are married and share the friendship also between their wives. The 4 friends, faithful to the rogue style of Buenos Aires, go out of their way to have love affairs with the beautiful customers of the shoe store, and for that purpose one day they decide to rent, secretly, an apartment to use as a "bulín". The problems begin from then on, as everyone wants to be the first to release it and then, successively, take turns for their adventures. As is to be expected, it does not take long for the first entanglements to appear, while their wives seem to begin to suspect the adventures of these four typical Buenos Aires chantas.

A little girl's paternal grandparents want to take her away from her maternal grandfather, a kind puppeteer she adores.

A group of zombie film buffs return from the dead to confront their old friends, the ushers, over the 3D re-release of a film. The battle will be to the death and only one race will emerge victorious.

The four children of a married couple hatch a plan to prevent their father from leaving with another woman

The life of conscripts who live in a barracks.

Osvaldo, a football player on the rise, begins to be targeted by private interests who want to elevate him to the status of a sports star.

A mature couple happily receives the news of pregnancy while a young couple has the disappointment of a frustrated attempt.

A security guard experiences some weird events while watching a boxing fight on his night shift.

At the Borda psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, two patients find a breather in art from their monotonous daily life. Documentary that goes through the contradictions between the field of dreams of the interns and the harsh reality of the hospital.

For the first time in front of a camera Ayunanda Fahaki introduce his whole body in a blender and ensures due out alive after turning it on.

In a struggle against the impossible — the current, the whole world, and every imaginable circumstance — he will do everything to regain the love he lost that day.

As López Claro creates his mural depicting the history of America, the most important periods of his vast body of work are shown.

The sea, a woman and a story that speaks of another. Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and one afternoon on the coast left a series of questions for one person and an (almost) unlimited database. What is love? From this unknown, both the AI ​​and an ordinary person will discuss how far the other's feelings can go.

Aimé sees her reflection in the mirror and does not recognize herself. After several days of moving, she allows herself to look at herself. Objects such as a camera, a mirror and a window will push her to go through a rediscovery of pleasure and the transformation of her body. Themes that have always been recurrent in her head and that she decides to show through an audiovisual journey that she will undertake.

Two homeless young people live their love on the streets, do temporary jobs or just scavenge for their comforts or food. She and he leave love messages in different parts of the city. In turn, many other couples, with different profiles, and in more critical situations, seek their daily subsistence in pursuit of a better tomorrow.