Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

While she awaits her husband's return, Catalina receives a surprise at the door of her house

After reaching retirement age and leaving his job, a father devotes all his attention to helping his children transition smoothly into their adult lives.

A man steals his psychologist's address book and invites the other patients to a barbecue at his house.

Four friends discover software that gives them the ability to see 10 seconds into their future. Something strange forces one of them to flee, escaping their destiny, their friends, their future... Will they be able to do it?

A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of Argentine gaucho poetry, is proposed here in a faithful version and integral.

A girl and her boyfriend have a conflict when a neighbor tries to seduce him.

Federico, Mabel, and their son Lucas leave their life in Buenos Aires and move south, lured by a promising job opportunity for Federico. Once there, Lucas is awestruck by the majesty of a glacier and begins exploring the ice in search of answers to its many mysteries, sensing something beneath those enormous blocks of ice that he cannot describe. In this context, Lucas connects with an Asian girl and an anthropologist who listen to him and accompany him on his quest.

In a fishing village a young woman carries the guilt of her married sister, passing through the mother of her son.

A retired movie star decides one day, without explaining why, to reunite with his family, with whom he no longer maintains a close relationship. This experimental film was created through improvisational exercises by the actors, who followed the guidelines for their respective characters provided by the director.

Pata Marsilla was at the former nightclub when the tragedy of Cromañón (2004) happened in Argentina. Although he was only seventeen years old, he remembers every step he took that night. His words come alive through a recreation of how a concert turns into horror.

Lucio is staying at his sister's house. He has no job and spends his days reading, drawing and watching television. When his sister and her boyfriend leave for a short trip Lucio takes over the whole house but strange things begin to happen.

The artist who made a whole country laugh. A journey by his professional and personal life, a trajectory that is confused with the history of the television and the cinema in Argentina.

Sergio is returning to Buenos Aires after living in Spain for six years. Before returning, he captures various moments in the daily lives of seven Argentinians he met during his stay in Barcelona.

The story focuses on the professional stage of the driver Carlos Alberto Pairetti, during his time with the official Ford Argentina Road Tourism team. However, this story takes place in a fictitious reality in which the former champion of the category has a brother named Nicolás, with whom he forms a love triangle.

An ex-convict seeks his rehabilitation trying to insert himself into a rather strange world.

Three biologists from the Institute of Mycology and Botany of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) travel through the Yungas region of Argentina in search of fungi. How do they conduct their work? What do they hope to find? What lines of research do their findings lead to? How important is their work? These are the questions this documentary attempts to answer.

A young woman visits her grandfather's house after his death. She decides to sell the house, but after finding a cassette tape, her mind might change.

A group of misogynist friends have a melt down when one of them, tired of the party-hard life style wants to leave the group to propose marriage to an ex girlfriend. The rest of the group will do the impossible to stop him.

In his previous films, Hacerme feriante (2010) and Embodied Letters (2015), Julián D’Angiolillo managed to go deep inside two universes that, even though they take place in front of everyone, remained invisible and inscrutable, as though they were subterranean—that of La Salada fair and of the authors of political graffiti in walls. For Ongoing Cave, his third work, the director goes back underground, this time in a literal manner, in order to reveal the mysteries of speleology, the science that studies caves and caverns. Italy, Slovenia, Cuba; antiwar bunkers; an exploring, revolutionary ballerina; an electronic party in which the stalactites and stalagmites dance under the flashlights. Everything is part of the ecosystem of tunnels and people that D’Angiolillo connects on screen, through images in which what lies still comes to life.

In the 1990s, the trains stopped working, condemning many towns to isolation. The locals are going to die at the train station, as a metaphor for the death of their dreams.

Four employees assist a genocidal man who is under house arrest because he suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Motivated by boredom, apathy and job precariousness, they find amusement in harassing the oppressor.

A famous singer falls in love with the owner of a hostel where he is employed in incognito.

“Rape is a precise political program: the skeleton of capitalism, it is the crude and direct representation of the exercise of power.” Virgine Despentes

An Argentine scholar living abroad returns home to meet an old school professor, his role model in life. But the meeting will take an unexpected turn.

On a stormy night, a woman caring for a sick elderly lady in an old mansion discovers a radio program about paranormal events. She must confront her deepest fears as she descends into the darkness of a night that seems to have no end.

How to Be Happy, the new documentary-style essay by Ofelia Fernández. A journey that blends humor with heartbreak, exploring digital life, anxiety, and the search for connection in an age of hyper-connected loneliness.

Lucrecia is a young actress who is offered a last-minute substitute role in the premiere of 'Antígona'. You must quickly learn the role while going through a relationship crisis.

“The Death of God” turns on the Argentine soccer icon Diego A. Maradona through the anniversary of his death.

María M. is a prostitute from the Ciudad de Buenos Aires. She has sex and love relationships with several men, until she meets the one she thinks will be the love of her life. From that moment he decides to reform and start a new life, but fate has a bitter disappointment in store for him.

Based on the play Hip Hip Ufa by Dalmiro Sáenz, a womanizing "rich kid" falls in love with a prostitute.

Anarchist punks battle a neo-fascist Argentine government in a near-future dystopia.

As the world begins to end, two children run away from home and meet an adult who betrays them. Later, one of them remembers the future that was possible.

Pray for me: Pope Francis’ story is a documentary that follows the life journey of Pope Francis, with a particular focus on his social and humanitarian work. The film portrays a man deeply devoted to the causes of the poor, the marginalised, and the forgotten: from his early years in Argentina to his role as a spiritual leader on the global stage. Blending archival footage, personal testimonies, and a thoughtful, ethical perspective, the documentary offers an intimate and timely portrait of one of the most influential figures of our time.

1920. The music of a bandonéon reaches the ears of little Aníbal and changes his life forever.

The story of a middle-class married couple who really loves each other, but who are unable to transmit their feelings, while the routine corrodes their relationship.

The story revolves around Olympia, an 18-year-old looking to become famous by entering the world of online pornography.

A girl is having an existential crisis alone at her house while she meditates about her condition

A young man is tempted by a wealthy woman to leave his girlfriend.

In a hospital a woman debates between the love of two men.

A father urges his son not to disgrace him by failing to come first in a race.

Four brothers set their differences apart when they need to help another brother.

It's New Year's Eve, and Catalina is waiting for her girlfriend to pick her up when an unusual incident with a firework threatens to ruin their vacation.

Ana and Francisco go through the experience of their first pregnancy, when they find out that something will not be as they expected...

A vindication of what is most genuine about football in the midst of an increasingly dehumanized business.

A classic short from FARSA Producciones.

In a train repair shop, a passion involves a woman and, years later, her daughter.

During a rainy night on their apartment, two girls hear the notes of a piano vibrating on the upper floor. One of them goes upstairs to find out where the melody comes from and faces a series of paranormal events.

Young newlywed girl about to embark on her honeymoon persuades older family friend to assist her in an extensive search for her missing husband. A road-trip full of comical misadventures ensues.

Once upon a time, there was a film that played inside a museum. The museum had many paintings with people looking at them, beautiful and mysterious. There's a ghost and several suspects. This is a documentary experience about painting and human movements. A "Digital Tableau Vivant" that dismantles the solemnity of the museum and opens its interior to moving works that traverse time.

Ale is 16 years old and lives with her mother in the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina. Her only friend in town is Diana, a 40-year-old trans girl. Ale gets her hopes up by chatting on a dating app with a man who has been with her for more than 20 years. Is he her mother's friend? Growing up never ceases to be both painful and pleasurable.

It's raining. A woman waits inside a parked car. She frantically listens a song that makes her cry, while she stands guard outside the door of the man that left her.

A modest law firm receives a somewhat ambiguous assignment regarding some properties from a mysterious foreigner, apparently of American origin. One of the partners is struck by the opaque nature of the case and decides to take some time to investigate. He eventually discovers that the foreigner was English and that it is a scheme to seize a house belonging to an Argentine family.