Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

The son of a noble but poor farmer falls in love with the daughter of an evil but rich landowner.

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

Six strangers meet to participate in a theater class for beginners, but the peculiar behavior of one of them soon transforms the experience into an emotional journey.

In South America, Artemio, a young knife sharpener, joins a revolutionary movement whose members include Bragueton, an unemployed soldier; Domingo Acevedo, a compulsive gambler; Don Bachetta, a retired anarchist; and Eva, a young French woman with whom Artemio falls madly in love. This small group secretly plans to launch a terrorist attack. Love and friendship sustain the illusion, but passions soon run high in the closed environment of their cohabitation, giving way to the worst of human baseness and proving the ineffectiveness of collective action.

A prisoner tries to escape from his cell, but the guard won't make it easy for him, leading him to new techniques to escape.

A documentary that explores the uniqueness of its characters, Chinese migrants from several generations living in Argentina. Stories such as that of Gustavo Ng, a journalist active in the bilateral political conversation, or Federico Chang, who is training to become a professional soccer player.

The life of a successful television man led by Particio Podestá is cut short when, leaving a highway at a wrong turn, he is assaulted by a hooded man who, upon recognizing him, instead of robbing him, mercilessly vexes him. Since then, that sinisterly smiling mask has not let him live in peace and a television gossip driver who rummages in the folds of his life and seems to discover his secret obsesses him.

In a violent city, one man will fight for what he believes. His nickname is the Merchi and he enters the dark world of moneylenders and debt collectors to earn quick money to try and save his ailing father. His work as a collector requires him to press the debtors hard, but the Merchi is incapable of hurting people, which causes no end of problems with Alonso, his violent and sadistic partner.

A rich, bored man who hosts a TV channel keeps looking for more extreme content to host on his channel, devouring extreme gore movies, real-life gore, and tobacco movies, until one video devours him.

A pair of ex-lovers argues in bed about their past relationship. They reminisce as each image from their memory comes alive as if it was happening right there. A conversation, banal in its nature, with hints of a video-essay and meta-cinema, ends up exploring the different ways in which we can recall love.

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

Virginia and Ana are married, and together with Gonzalo, their son, they live a quiet life in a coastal city. Martín, Ana's brother, visits the family for a while. Suddenly, a loss will shake the tranquility of everyday life, and a dispute that goes beyond family ties will begin, thus demonstrating personal needs: how to cover an absence.

A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.

Sabrina spends most of her time working on catering jobs to support herself. The sudden appearance of some old postcards from the beginning of the century allow her to consider the possibility of committing to her real passion: reflexology.

In the middle of a desolate countryside, the father of a family must figure out how to keep his home warm.

A docu-fiction that interweaves a historical review of 19th and 20th-century Argentina, through the tension between economic autonomy and surrender to foreign interests, and the daily life of a worker and his family in the late 1980s.

Overview of the operation of the Children's City of the Eva Perón Foundation.

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.

This shortfilm is about two friends who decide to play some board games, later that day we discover that they have been playing and getting draw every single time, in every single different game. Finally, they choose a final game to end all ties.

The love of a mother for her two children.

An authoritarian tutor changes his behavior thanks to a young orphan with whom he ends up falling in love.

The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias that adorn front gardens. We hear some girls playing in the car, pointing out araucarias on the road. How did these plants become a petty-bourgeois fashion in northern Europe? I confront these archives with contemporary technoscientific images, used by a lab to explore plant modifications. What can these modes of representation tell us about our time?

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.

Malena and Patricia live in a fragile state of balance. The daughter cares for her schizophrenic mother while trying to move on with her life, but Luis's return seems to drive her deeper into madness, despite Malena's desperate efforts to save her.

Situation 1: Mondongo, a duo of Argentinian artists, create a work inspired by The Art of colors, a treatise by Johannes Itten. Situation 2: A filmmaker begins a portrait of them.

After skipping a school class, Guido returns home and faces his mother.

José Celestino Campusano continues his task of exploring territories that haven’t yet been covered much by Argentine cinema, but with which, film after film, he managed to configure his own universe. This time, the prolific filmmaker traveled to the locality of Gálvez, in the province of Santa Fe, in order to collect town life experiences and, with them, shape his new feature. The Naked Queen is the result of this journey.

A retired army captain runs a farm using military methods.

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

Fabian puts together shows at a party room, one of them is a Serrat tribute act. Fabian is frustrated because the belly dancer is the clients’ number one choice. This time, he’ll do whatever it takes to be picked out, even if he has to play dirty against his colleague and test his moral limits.

Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic play about nuns finding an abandoned baby girl, in a version directed by the author.

Oscar Ismael Poltronieri is an ordinary man. He cannot read or write. He has no money. He does not even have a house. Nevertheless, he is a hero. During the war he was the most heroic soldier. He saved his mates' lives and fought alone against an entire British platoon. In his own country he did not receive the welcome he expected. Politicians as well as society turned their backs on him, as they did with all the veterans. Now, he is returning to the islands for the first time since the war. He needs to visit his fallen mates and close a circle in his life.

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it looks as though they are floating without moving. Silence overruns the scene; she stops and walks away. La Noche Bengalí is a documentary made as part of the seminar that Wernes Nekes held in Buenos Aires in 1980, sponsored by the Goethe Institute.

Mía, a recently heartbroken film student, falls in love with her new classmate, Mateo. As the bond becomes obsessive, her stability crumbles and the boundaries between reality and fiction begin to blur.

Parallel Lines is a conceptual work composed and directed by Charly García, based on discovering what are formed when the two paralell lines come together.

Mariano Llinás makes, at the request of the Viejo Hotel Ostende, a portrait of the Hotel's future over its 110 years of history

As it tends to happen in almost every field in Argentina, the official film history is still far from having a federal representation. Its heroes are either from Buenos Aires or have developed their career there, and until recently, no one asked themselves what happened beyond it. This documentary brings back one of those ignored fragments through the figure of Carlos Procopiuk, a man who inhabited, like nobody else, the ethics and aesthetics of a cinema made in a rabidly independent way. An all-terrain character who acted, wrote, produced, edited, directed and taught his community, in Neuquén between the 1950s and the 1990s, how to make films. With the memory still fresh and the eloquent images from his works, the documentary by Diego Lumerman settles a small part of that inestimable debt that Argentine film has with its history.

After learning that his widowed father will remarry, a boy escapes home.

In the 19th century, a little-known event occurred, given its importance: the largest war in South America, in which four countries were involved. Was it a war between countries? Did Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay join forces against Paraguay? Why is it called by so many different names?

The arrival of new members to the workplace of a blind man who leads a group of food tasters poses an unprecedented challenge. Being blind had not been a limitation until now.

How is silence built in a body? This documentary short film navigates through archives, reflections and questions about a father's pain and its story.

Thomas, a salesman, is transported to the land of the dead to meet his wife one last time.

Mar Bel, a 55-year-old transgender woman, is a sensitive artist, singer and actress who found in creativity her resistance and in music her refuge. Beginning her transition into adulthood, on her birthday she decided to be reborn at the same time of her birth. Her story is a journey of transformation where change becomes a fundamental pillar of her existence, even in the face of death.

A brokenhearted young man has a strange encounter with a beautiful girl as their cars are parked in front of each other. The awkward situation soon turns into a tender moment, under the streetlights and a summer starry night.

A poor young woman falls in love with a perfume businessman of whom she is a secretary.

Black humor film that tells the story of Enrique, a retired, outdated and unemployed film director, who decides to commit suicide with the help of his grandson.

A little circus pawn and his trainer are sent to an unknown planet where, protected with his powerful shield, he fights robots.

Two unfaithful husbands have to win their wives back while they take their revenge on them by going out with other people.

It investigates the life and work of the plastic artist Marta Minujin, icon of Argentine art. Through his exhibitions in New York, Calí and Paris, and his own testimony, and that of colleagues and family, the documentary highlights his unclassifiable universe and reveals unknown details of his history. Marta is not just her performances, paintings and sculptures. Marta has created a world where she is her own work.

A mockumentary about Doctor Kurz, the inventor of the BioK-2: a rejuvenating drug extracted from ñandús (rheas).