Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

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

After receiving a tempting offer from his boss, Francisco must decide between saving his career or maintaining his integrity.

A warehouse employee travels to Buenos Aires with the purpose of rescuing the young woman he is in love with from a gang of criminals.

A masked killer prowls the beaches of Argentina, injecting beautiful girls with heroin, and then using weird organ music to make them his zombie slaves.

A man lives his life as if it were a commercial.

Short film belonging to the collective feature film "Archivos Intervenidos: Cine Escuela," produced by the Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum, where images of Bariloche landscapes from 1941 are intertwined in relation to a fragment of the novel "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier, on which Alfred Hitchcock's film is based.

Formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very intense Choral Music activity in Argentina's state universities, Les Luthiers premiered this show on Friday, May 13, 2011 at the Astengo Theater, Rosario, Argentina. PROGRAM: 1- Manuel Darío; 2- La Comisión; 3- La Bella y Graciosa Moza Marchose a Lavar la Ropa; 4- Solo Necesitamos; 5- La Hija de Escipión; 6- Bolero de los Celos; 7- Educación Sexual Moderna; 8- La Redención del Vampiro; 9- Encuentro en el Restaurante; 10- Los Jóvenes de Hoy en Día; 11- Rhapsody in Balls. The 'Campanófono autoflajelador' instrument made its first appearance during this show. Recorded live between June the 15th and the 16th, 2013 at the Gran Rex Theater, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A woman receives a telephone call from a hysterical woman, which she later finds out is herself.

A mix of fiction and documentary, "Evita Capitana" takes place in the final of the 1951 Argentina's soccer championship, where Banfield faced the then imposing Racing Club. An important political figure sides with Banfield, representing the humble and needed, but power thinks otherwise.

Fausto finds himself, as he does every day, at his routine office job. This normalcy is interrupted when he receives a call from the Devil, which Fausto dismisses as a prank. After hanging up, his glass of water explodes, and his boss, Carolina, approaches him. Fausto is shocked to hear the same voice from the phone coming out of his boss's mouth—the Devil's voice reminding him that this is his eternal punishment. Fausto knows what he must do; he takes an axe and kills Carolina. Then everything resets—the phone rings again, and Fausto is doomed to repeat the moment that earned him his place in hell, destined to relive it for all eternity.

A young officer manages to infiltrate a gang of kidnappers and while waiting for the strike force to go into action, she is forced to intervene. Alone and without support, she must decide if, in order to save one life, she must first end many. A strong woman in a violent world, police forces and defend the good at any cost. When the Law has a lethal side... is it Law?

A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.

Gastón (Carlos Echeverría) arrives in Necochea. There he meets Julia (Leticia Bredice), a young veterinarian who, after discovering that the foot-and-mouth disease vaccines are adulterated, is found hanged in a shed. He will be blamed for the crime and will try to understand what happened, while avoiding being lynched.

It tells the story of Adelina, who, faced with an economic difficulty, decides to look for a solution in the jungle that surrounds her and to which she is closely linked.

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.

In the delta islands of the Paraná, a woman is the object of desire of the village's men.

Enrique is 37 years old, 12 years of living with his wife and two children. Sick with jealousy, he has just separated from his wife once more. Luis, 40 years old, has just finished a passionate relationship with a very hysterical TV journalist that he was madly in love with, and left him for another. One comes from the horror of jealousy and weariness, and the other from a passion that swept him away, and finally left him alone. As Enrique has nowhere to go, Luis invites him to live in his house, temporarily ...

The film narrates the struggles of the Argentine working class from the beginning of the 20th century until October 17, 1945, in the perspective of the meat workers of Berisso, leading protagonists of that day.

Elena and Ariel are fifty years old and have just separated after almost three years of dating, leaving the renovation of their shared home, "El Recreo," unfinished. An unfortunate accident will give Elena and Ariel the chance to revisit their questions together and inspire a new perspective on their personal worlds, on each other, and ultimately, on their futures.

A businessman allegedly dead in an accident does not deny the news and assumes a new personality.

A married man is attracted to a teenage niece who, due to family problems, spends some time at his house. Everything takes place in a mean village life, where a sad, small world is discovered, made of gossip and understandings. This film had difficulties being released at the time of its production due to censorship reasons.

The film's theme is the attitude of adults towards the adoption of minors.

As if it were a continuation of the last 15 minutes of AB, Fund and Loza, now accompanied by Moriconi, radicalize the aesthetic procedure of the previous film made together: on the one hand, there is a free text, between poetic and philosophical, pronounced voiced by two men and a woman; on the other, a set of plans of different ecosystems, live and stuffed animals, clouds, waterfalls and lava, organized by a kind of poetic logic, makes up the visual material. The disjunction between text and image is programmatic, and in parallel they constitute a form of free poetic expression. The precariousness of existence is evidence, and the very composition of the images is in line with this empirical confirmation. The general discourse oscillates between a heterodox Franciscan Christianity and a sensitive Darwinism, and in the same way a kind of awareness of terror and amazement towards the universe is combined.

Santiago and Amelia Luisa share life in their marriage and also the responsibility of running a nail salon. The daily life of the salon (and of the couple) will be strangely shaken when a new client asks for manicure services.

Lenny Goldman is an awkward and lonely college student who gets carried away by the inertia of his surroundings. The idle time of summer threatens to exacerbate his vocational crisis.

Die tote Stadt tells the story of Paul, a young man torn between fidelity to the memory of his deceased wife and a growing attraction to her living look-alike. Paul enters a series of increasingly disturbing and violent visions, and the plot takes on the subtleties of a psychological thriller.

An art dramatic teacher, with melancholic eyes and some sort of charge over his shoulders, manages El Sotano Club by the nights, a comedy pub and gives comedy classes to other adult people by the day. All his life changes when he meets a very special student that breaks with all his schemas. Love, that strange thing.

Political short film made during Ongania's dictatorship.

On the eve of their separation, Juana and Gabriel attend an exclusive restaurant. Gabriel's concern about an event from the past triggers a morbid game between them that escalates to involving the chef who serves them.

Patria I is a medium-length film by Juan Ibarlucía and Magela Crosignani that reimagines the form of the Baroque oratorio within the post-industrial landscape of Argentina in 2026. Drawing on a south american reinterpretation of the myth of Cain, and employing music, poetry, performance, and installation art, the work takes the audience on a powerful sonic and emotional journey that spans an extraordinary range of human experience—from extreme violence to compassion and tenderness.

Patricio Bisso was an Argentine multidisciplinary artist who rose to stardom in Brazilian theatre and television, where he developed a meteoric career marked by his irreverent and highly individualistic personality.

A taxi driver offers a deal to an indebted gambler that could change both of their fates.

Zulma is a teenager growing in a rural town and assuming the mandates her family and religious community impose on her, until something happens that prompts her to take the reigns of her own destiny.

Solange and Martín are left alone at home before an emergency exit from their mother. Their beloved grandmother visits them unexpectedly and the three of them will spend an unforgettable night. The next day their mother brings them news.

La Renga live at Huracán stadium in 2001.

The story of "Vikingo", a rude motorcyclist whose rigid principles are honor and respect.

Institutional documentary short film made in 1953 by the Pan-American Newscast of the Argentina Sono Film company, under the direction of Carlos Borcosque for the Eva Perón Foundation on the 5th anniversary of its creation.

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.

The children of a divorced marriage hatch a plan to get them back together, upon discovering that their father has a girlfriend.

Fernando suspects his wife is cheating on him with his best friend. He decides to execute a plan with fatal consequences.

Her father drew and painted. He also created murals and recorded family life with a home camera. He was interested in the intersection of justice and beauty, in everything that enchants the passing of the day and in every event that politically shapes an era. He painted horror, mercy, and imagination; he drew diverse human figures with his brush, sometimes associating them with situations that provoke indignation at a world order that favors the few. This is how Melina Terribili portrays her father, Carlos Terribili, a prominent Buenos Aires artist whose murals, such as "The Grey Angel," epitomize his technique and ideology. Terribili uses diverse materials: those she filmed recently in excellent resolution and in the 1990s on video with lower resolution, as well as fragments filmed on Super-8 and video by her parents.

Seeking to avoid the terrible economic crisis of 2001, a young man travels to 1990 to stop the Minister of Economy. But he will have to deal with his bodyguard, who will have to choose between his own interests and the fate of the entire country.

Malvinas ex-combatants talk about their daily lives on the islands. Feelings, emotions, sadness and courage are mixed in these stories of the protagonists of the war.

Felipe is a teenager from La Paloma who attends an acting workshop behind the back of his mother, who opposes him becoming an actor. When the opportunity arises to attend a casting in Montevideo, Felipe escapes by bus for the day, but when he succeeds and finds it necessary to extend his stay, his lie gets out of hand.

A document of the director's journey through her father's archive. He was an amateur skydiver.

In Camouflage, writer Félix Bruzzone embodies a runner who has an obsession with Campo de Mayo, the biggest military unit in Argentina. It is also the place where his mother disappeared in 1976 and the main clandestine center of detention, torture and extermination during the last dictatorship. The film will follow Félix as he finds characters that allow him to enter and explore this place so loaded with history.

In a society divided by the rise of a movement that declares itself against the digital age, a young man has to decide between betraying his beliefs or forever losing Flor, his one true love

Documentary that tells how Father Mugica left his aristocratic origins to approach the most vulnerable people and stand out as a founding member of the Priests for the Third World group. He founded the Cristo Obrero chapel in the Retiro slum, now Barrio Mugica, where he developed his pastoral work.

Can a robot feel useless when it realizes it can't perform the tasks it was designed to do?

After the death of her grandfather, Antonio Bonino, Toia found six negatives proving that he was a member of the Fascist Party and an aide to Benito Mussolini. Influenced by this discovery, the director sets out to trace her male family lineage, whom the end of World War II brought to Argentina. Instead of a clarification, however, the past crumbles and disintegrates into a mosaic of archival material, family films, excerpts from personal diaries and fragments of the works of Roberto Rossellini or Luchino Visconti. But it is the meanings that emerge from the combination of disparate images that offer answers and fill the information vacuum that has shaped generations of the family. The dynamics of the Bonino family's male-female relationships have a much darker basis than the social context of the time. In the story of grandfather, father, cousins and sons, Toia also finds a story of identity and of the role of wives, mothers, grandmothers and daughters in a history shaped by men.

A journalist investigates the life and work of a cult writer. Little is known about her life: she published a novel, which was a small success, and then disappeared. While trying to decipher her ghostly figure, she uncovers a web of plots that involve her.

A movie about something that only could happen at night in Buenos Aires