Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

In view of his mother's death, a dancer quits the show he was presenting and loses everything gambling.

Devised as a critique of Argentina's national crisis in 2002. A young cyclist is run over and badly injured by a couple of gangsters. Neither the private nor the state-run emergency services manage to save her.

The misuse of an innocent toy will trigger a family tragedy surrounded by death and despair. Carlos will try to save his girlfriend's family from a spiral of tragedy and death before it is too late.

Three rooms, three different moments of a relationship.

The story of some neighborhood boys, narrated with an undoubted Borgian spirit. (ucine.edu.ar)

A fugitive, a fetishist and a detective walk through a mansion built in the 19th century on the banks of the River Plate. Within its walls, there are resonances, portraits of illustrious or unknown people, books, souvenirs, furniture from different periods and styles. At the heart of this secret order is a woman who has been portrayed throughout her life by painters of the Belle Epoque, by neoclassical sculptors, by avant-garde photographers. To reconstruct the history of these women, each of the visitors will create a fable, in which the essential names of the 20th-century culture are intertwined. Among the visitor to Victoria Ocampo's mansion we can mention the architect Le Corbusier, the composer Igor Stravinsky, the writers Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Waldo Frank, Albert Camus... You will also hear the whisper of two young writers cementing what will be a bond that will last for decades: Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges...

A memorable event: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim in a piano duo in Buenos Aires! Together, the two friends had already performed almost everywhere in the world, except in their hometown. This first concert at the Teatro Colón was a great musical moment and, in a way, also a popular celebration.

An autofiction about Tencha de Sagastizabal: psychoanalyst, estate of Carmelo Arden Quin, actress, and fat woman. A queer fairy tale that is linked in the documentary. What happens when hegemony does not reign on the screen? Tencha Reina canonizes other ways of seeing the world and questions the supremacy of subtlety.

On January 25, 2020, the aerosolar sculpture Aerocene Pacha flew with a message written with the communities of Salinas Grandes in Jujuy, Argentina, written on its surface: “Water and Life are Worth More than Lithium.” This achievement marks the most sustainable flight in human history and one of the most important experiments in the history of aviation. Completed in solidarity with the 33 Indigenous communities in the Salinas Grandes region, the flight amplified their voices in unison against harmful lithium mining practices in northern Argentina.

Ricardo Güiraldes narrates the origin of the ideas that gave rise to Don Segundo Sombra, within the framework of the film adaptation made by Manuel Antín.

Sometimes, Ily is a short film about love and heartbreak. About the intensity of falling in love and the collapse of a couple, and above all, about the inevitable anguish of seeing your closest person become a complete stranger.

A young couple. A luxurious hotel room. A wedding party.

A teacher tries to save a school in danger of demolition.

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

A woman's work ambition causes marital problems.

In a small rural town where gossip and faith intertwine, Marianela tries to raise her children amid unspoken rules and lingering silences. While her daughter Dolores falls in love with an impossible figure and her son Isidro begins to attend church on his own, suspicions, rumors, and ecclesiastical secrets begin to leak through the cracks of the neighborhood. Menos averigua Dios is a dark comedy about double standards, informal power structures, and the small acts of resistance that shape everyday life in tight-knit communities.

Those who were closest to him give us a different Rodolfo Walsh: brave, womanizer, talented, whiskey-loving, obsessive, militant, full of doubts... but fundamentally human.

A wayward female singer and a vet hate each other but end up falling in love.

A young bohemian who dreams of succeeding as a painter will eventually succeed as a singer.

An office worker must replace a twin brother who is a boxer.

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

A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.

The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.

Raymundo Gleyzer's documentary on o community of Pottery Makers in the west of Cordoba province in Argentina who create pieces to sell to the tourists.

A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.

An Argentinian medical student, finding himself drawn to the countryside, houses with a Scottish/Native family where he reads the illiterate family the Gospel of Mark to then be found in a debacle of religious proportions (as he was not a pious man himself, but becomes more of a religious figure in their eyes).

Rene and Renate meet in a bar. They talk about the past, being young, and their mother.

A taxidermist living with his wife and son who suffers from a virus which is mutating himself into another being, then he meets a woman who will tragically change his life

In a popular auction that matches the sinister and colorful of a circus of phenomena, a couple adopts children in exchange for their belongings. The children there acquired, usually mutilated, are in their new home in order to prepare for access to the Peronist education program taught in only 10 state institutes.

The most famous show divas in the most daring movie.

Ezequiel, a 40-year-old film director, has had a career marked by successes and failures.

Work done for AGMER together with the writer Lucia Pabón Morales.

Diego, a struggling actor in NYC, follows some advice and travels back to Buenos Aires, his former home, expecting to find better acting opportunities than the ones in New York.

About Christmas, or about the construction of fiction, about the protagonists of the farce, about the exploited by the system, about the mercenaries of the performance; a film about angelic beings.

Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.

Muriel is an elderly woman who lives in the solitude of her apartment. She spends most of her time focused on a crack that comes off her wall. One day, she receives a call from a former classmate, Nuria, who invites her to an "ashes ceremony", an unusual funeral. Until that moment of her life, Muriel has remained in a state of emotional anesthesia. But the image of the ashes floating in the air causes an internal tremor in her. Muriel decides to dig deeper, and agrees meeting with Nuria.

A young violinist is giving a concert in front of an empty hall. As she leaves, she is surprised by her brother who has just been released from prison, who forces her to listen to his waltz one last time.

A showcase of the efforts towards the inclusion of cis people in alternate reality. (A parody made by trans people.)

The granddaughter of the watchman of a theater that is going to be demolished has the dream of being a successful female singer like her mother and the son of the theater owner makes it possible.

In the violent Buenos Aires suburbs: Two opposing police officers, an ex-convict, and a suicide at a collision point will cross paths, falling into a spiral of violence and twists and turns, crossing that thin line that puts everything at risk and in danger—that thin line that separates life from death.

A documentary following a YouTuber/director, four Quidditch players and a Tarantino-themed band, trying to change the meaning of what being a nerd is.

Deportivo Canchilegua plays the final of the Regional Soccer Championship. Until now it was unbeatable, but Lila, the team's little cabal dog, doesn't arrive. Will the rest of the cabals used work? Will Lila arrive before the end of the game?

Isabel can’t seem to inhabit her reality. One day like so many others, she receives the visit of Ana, a friend who will help her fulfill her desire.

Valeria is a scientist who is striving to prove the existence of a type of energy unique to living beings.

Documentary that revolves around the figure of Mario Arnedo Gallo, renowned folklore musician and composer –father of Diego Arnedo, bassist for Sumo y Divididos- born in Santiago del Estero in 1915, where he lived until moving to Hurlingham in 1947.

A fifty-year-old teacher suffers from an inferiority complex, lives dominated by his mother and does not dare to propose to the woman he loves. One night he gets drunk and that will change his life.

This documentary follows a group of film students into a pursuit/quest/search as uncertain as it is essential: to discover what kind of films are worth making today. They dig into lost metaphors that seem to have been missing and explore the ways of storytelling in the face of the current climate. Rather than seeking definitive answers, they encounter a collective process towards an open dialogue, and a vital force: enthusiasm. It is that moving force that remains portrayed as an attempt of passing it on to those who need a reminder of why, making films is still worth it.

Tino is going on his first date with Lola. His friends, doubting his chances, devise a plan to ensure the outing's success.

Camila and Julia play hide and seek in a house where there is an evil presence.

Cerebro holds Corazón prisoner, who forces him to give up curved lines to feed his fetish for straight and repetitive lines. Corazon will try to use them in her favor to get rid of him.