Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Juana is 17 years old and wants to experience her “first time”. And her wheelchair certainly isn’t going to stop her. She’s just started at a new high school in Argentina and is a teenager like any other, except for the fact that she observes the world from a height of 4 feet (one metre twenty). She soon joins the fight for sex education and becomes a spokesperson for the movement. Inspired by the experience of co-author and co-director Rosario Perazolo Masjoan, the series explores body diversity, consensual sexuality and the pride that comes with finding one’s place in the world.

A group of robbers rob a photo novel publishing house and take refuge in a seaside town. It was never released commercially, only exhibited on television.

The confrontation of civic sophistication with uncontaminated humble rural life.

On November 22, 2015, a second round of the presidential elections was held in Argentina. Society was deeply polarized, and the candidate chosen as Cristina Kirchner's successor was not anyone's favorite, but the right-wing candidate, Mauricio Macri, was only three points behind. The ruling party seemed defeated, and in response to this urgency, a spontaneous civic campaign was organized in the streets, a last-ditch effort to prevent neoliberal policies from taking hold in the country. This is a record of what happened that day in the streets of Buenos Aires.

A boy spends the day wanting to smoke

Five employees submerged in the basement of a large store in Mar del Plata are grotesquely linked to each other, each trying to feel better than the other thanks to miserable advantages.

Jorge and Alberto are unemployed so they decide to try their luck as employees of a gallery soon to be inaugurated.

Carlos Gardel performing Rosas de Otoño, vals composed by Guillermo Barbieri and written by José Rial.

A documentary that links the stories of three women from the football’s world in Argentina, connected with the feminist movement. Juliana, a feminist football coach from "La Nuestra" the oldest low-income community in the city of Buenos Aires; Luciana, a teenage player of Villa 31; and Lorena, a player of the National football Team, cross their paths pursuing a common goal: no more generations of women without a field to play in.

A teenager frustrated with his relationships finds different love letters written by his neighbours. When reading them, three different stories of love disagreement will unfold: An alcoholic woman and a man who crossed paths, a catholic woman and a priest, and Santo himself with his platonic love.

In home-movies shot in the ‘90s by her father, the filmmaker discovers in these inherited images powerful fictions of the Argentinian middle class and the country’s recent history.

Despite his deformed body, a small, immobile man is the best Belgian Malinois trainer in the country. He lives with his nurse and his twenty dogs trained to kill. The arrival of a young soldier, sent by the National Army, destabilizes the delicate balance of power that kept the house standing.

Edgardo Marranti paints guided by beings from other dimensions. When he started, his family and friends thought he was crazy, and so did he. In search of answers, he embarked on a path of self-knowledge that confirmed his experiences. Today his mission is clear: to paint.

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

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.

Lila is a young filmmaker struggling to write her next project. She spends all day in the house and excels at procrastination. One day her boyfriend returns with a new bicycle lock, a gift from another woman, and this triggers a reaction from Lila. A humorous take on creativity and obsession.

Short film by Juan Fernando Oliva that was censored after its production and its exhibition was prohibited by presidential decree in Argentina. The film addresses the problem of housing based on a documentary record of the lives of the tenement's inhabitants. It is the story of a young couple looking for a home to face the present and build their future.

With no memory, a young man wakes up beaten and in a mysterious place, only gradually coming to remember that he was involved in a horrific accident.

Alfonso is exhausted after working and goes to the beach. He goes into the water and starts this fantastic journey through his different vacations in life, meeting old girlfriends, childhood friends, his daughter and his loneliness.

While their parents and relatives make preparations for a funeral, a brother and sister spends this time with a neighborhood friend and his sick mother.

A love story escaping neoliberal times.

Ludovico faces the void left by the death of his father and the depression it generates in his mother. "Principe" deals with the father's omnipresence in the objects and spaces he left behind, and the transformation of a relationship in order to overcome the imbalance caused by the loss.

A mockumentary about a real flood. An old hermit. A princess. And two boys in love.

The Gauchos del Mar brothers explore the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), aiming to unite and construct bridges through surfing and the ocean.

After being abandoned by his wife, an emotionally detached pianist sees his life crumble when a rare degenerative disease begins to take away all his senses and perceptions.

In a society where people are addicted to their cell phones, a man runs out of battery.

A young woman falls in love with a singer and when he disappears, a lookalike replaces him.

In an inland village, on a rainy night, the wake of a woman whose name is unknown takes place. There is only one mourner and two more men, attracted by destiny. During the night, like a game of cards, the identity of this woman who, according to them, once belonged to them and never saw again will be revealed.

Short film that reenacts a letter from artist Fernando Fader.

After three years behind bars, Búfalo has decided to change his life: resume his relationship with his son, get organized, get a normal job, not make any more mistakes. His past, however, does not intend to let him go and convinces him to take one last hit, but things go very wrong and the debt is now not with society, but with Tano, a complicated guy that he does not plan to wait for.

Ana loses her mother after a sudden heart attack. He tries to avoid his feelings by feigning indifference. He doesn't stop doing anything he always did, until a message, left by his mother in a radio message box before she died, is accidentally deleted. Ana is forced to face reality.

The dwarfs of the Carnaval Catamarqueño party (La Chaya) and their actions over the muleteers.

Portrait of the persecution of various intellectuals in the period from the overthrow of María Estela Martínez de Perón to the Falklands War.

Mora and Roberta, a lesbian couple, want a child. But who will be the donor? The two decide that Mora's brother Felipe, Argentina's top turkey-inseminator, should be the lucky provider. Poor Felipe gets more than he bargained for when he flies in from the country. He wants to visit his girlfriend, to visit his sister, and to meet with a business partner. The ladies have another plan, a plan to extract their desire. Their hope is that Roberta will easily seduce Felipe after he consumes the buffet of oysters, Viagra, and other assorted snake-oil aphrodisiacs. Poor Felipe has a lot to digest in his one night in the city. He finds out that Faustina, his devoutly Catholic fiance, is pregnant. He learns that his sister is gay (and that she wants more from him than a visit). On top of all of this, his (hopeful) future business partner is poisoned. Nothing goes as planned during Felipe's hilarious night in town.

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.

A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.

A short dance film based on Roland Barthes' text. Victoria goes through the emotional’s up and downs of uncertainty, disappointment and illusion. Caught by these feelings, the living room of her house becomes the stage for a coreography inspired by her inescapable identity: she is the one in love... she is the one who waits.

Throughout the month of May I decided to film at least one video (exercise) daily

Elisa, a girl murdered in the Quirós baths, has pending issues on the earthly plane. Now, he roams the limbo of his deathbed, seeking revenge on those who have heard his last breath and scaring away prying eyes who want to prove that his existence is true.

In 1969, excited by the arrival of man on the Moon, a group of boys devised a rocket.

A Paraguayan peasant woman who arouses passions in men falls in love with a criminal, consequently she has to face various situations to cope with the relationship.

This film unfolds several stories from the lives and perceptions of three families of those who disappeared during the last military dictatorship, reflecting the unique interweaving of these relatives' personal relationships, as a reflection of the social complexities established by the process of state terrorism that occurred from 1976 to the present.

Ivonne faces a move that could change everything. An unexpected discovery plunges her into a whirlwind of memories and emotions, where the surreal and the magical universe of tango intertwine to make her reflect on the future of her home.

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

Claudio Beinase is from another dimension. He can sense the feelings of five other people, and somehow he knows that if he meets them all, he could open the door to a new dimension. Along the way, he will fall into a downward spiral of obsession, religious fanaticism, sex, kidnapping, and murder... His path to redemption could lead straight to Hell.

A married woman tries to start a new life but discovers that desire can be a dangerous path with no return. (Inspired by the legend of "El bolsadito" from San José del Rincón; Santa Fe, Argentina).

Brother and sisters face the recent decease of their mother while handle the moving of their childhood's house.

Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.

Following the disappearance of Tomás, a 12-year-old boy traveling to school by bus, the city of Santa Fe connects via radio and begins a search.

A boy doesn't remember if he left the car open with his friends' things inside.

After arriving home, a masked stranger starts to bother this young man. But soon, things will become darker...

Between songs and games of military acrobatics, four boys who do military service establish relationships with as many young women.