Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A young woman wants to dedicate herself to Spanish music and her father opposes it, but she continues with her project.

Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.

With all set to move to Barcelona and find her boyfriend, Mercedes gets to know Ariel, who turns to be a very pleasant company. At the same time, Juan arrives at Argentina, after many years, and searches for his fiancée, but ends up meeting Micaela.

The year is 1882, in the heart of the Humid Pampas. Javier Mendizábal, landowner and justice of the peace of a future colony, is cursed for murdering his Aboriginal brother to hide his maternal kinship. Denying his true past will be his worst nightmare.

A mockumentary-style dramedy that chronicles the chaotic and absurd lives of night shift employees at a burger company, all under the unpredictable leadership of their charming yet unorthodox manager, Santino.

A documentary about the Costanera Sur (south boardwalk) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including Super 8 filmmakers, conspiracies, choripanes and myths.

A young woman follows a boy walking ahead of her. Little by little, the distance closes. She speaks to him, but he doesn't listen. She hurries and takes his arm, knowing that after saying so many words that meant nothing, there's only one left that explains everything, and she must say it. She says it. But to get to this point, Alena had to walk alone much longer than those few meters that led her to reunite with him and herself.

Alejandro, a space enthusiast, creates small scale planets by hand. One day he receives some unexpected mail: the European Space Agency orders him 227 miniature moons as souvenirs of a mission to Jupiter that is about to be launched. Infinity, in the palm of a hand.

A small mountain village sees its traditional way of life threatened. It's difficult to live off the land, and there's also a lack of water. A tourism project and the promises of politicians in the midst of their campaign are forcing them to question where to go next.

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s.

Romantic comedy about going back to high school.

Luciano and Pedro meet each other again after many years apart, due to a message that, at first, looked like an invitation, but then reveals itself as a door that will lead the night into a point of no return.

A few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.

Manuela, a Latin American immigrant, walks through the empty streets of Los Angeles, scouring the area for work. Manuela arrives at a job interview at a large house in an affluent neighborhood. She’s greeted by a cold businesswoman looking for a nanny for her daughter, Alma. After getting the job, Manuela meets Alma, who is initially resistant to her. Alma’s mother, Ellen, is never around. She occasionally talks to them through the security camera. While Ellen is gone on a business trip, Manuela and Alma swim in the pool, clean the house, and form a maternal bond.The days go by, and they still haven’t heard from Ellen. Manuela takes on more and more of a motherly role, even wearing Ellen's clothes. One day, she learns that her entire world as she knows it has just changed and she must make a huge decision.

A man stays working late alone in his office, when some messages start coming from an unknown sender, which feeds into his paranoia.

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.

Short film that shows daisies throughout the day with music as an accompaniment.

From early struggles to his climb up the Himalayas, Jean Maggi gets profiled in this documentary that highlights his advancement of adaptive sports.

The life story of an artist. The fantasy of a poetic burial accompanied by friends of cinema.

Antelo searches for something without knowing what. He tries among the mannequins in his closed shop, in toy stores, hospitals, parties, motorcycles, and plastic pianos. Everything he looks at seems empty. So he decides to cover his eyes.

On the last night of their holidays, a group of high school graduates decides to make a campfire by the beach. An accident turns a dull night into one where each member throws one of his precious belongings into the fire. Blas must decide what he is willing to sacrifice to fit in with his group

Hugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969).

Proyecto Jazz is a musical documentary that deals with jazz in Santa Fe based on an assignment given to the musician Pedro Casís, to compile material of the band from the last 30 years of jazz in the capital city for the shooting of a film. To do so, Pedro enlists the help of old colleagues from the Santa Fe Jazz Ensamble, a big band founded in the early 80s. Along the way, he interacts with friends, students and alumni, trying to assemble the different generations as important pieces of the film project. Life stories, memories, performances, anecdotes, clinics and of course the music, are addressed in the documentary around the making of the film.

A young woman introduces her boyfriend to her extravagant group of friends who she asks to keep up appearances. They decide to subject the young man to an uncomfortable game, which leads to an argument between our protagonists and the owner of the house.

A man speculates about the disappearance of his father, a decorated spy from the 90s. Gathering relics from their past together, including cherished family photos and encrypted messages hidden in the electronic devices in his surroundings, he will find a way to be reunited with him.

Lorena, Federico and Sergio are siblings who perform a play in which they evoke their dead father's printing workshop, a place to which they cannot return. With the arrival of the pandemic, they can no longer perform either, and have to invent another way to continue telling their family story.

As Marie sits in the bathroom waiting for the results of her pregnancy test, she recalls her last few hours in Argentina. Memories of her flight from violence are intermingled with those of her first few hours in the unfamiliar country of her exile, together with a sense of hope in the new life that may be growing inside her.

On the verge of dying, wounded in the Malvinas, Martín hears his own voice coming from the future to rescue him. Thirty years later, Martín reunites with his girlfriend when he had to leave to fight in the Malvinas Islands. He wants to forget; and she needs to remember. Time is not linear, decisions from the past inevitably impact the future.

In the last decade, Argentina has become a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking. There are the pimps and corrupt state officials who make human trafficking a great business. On the other side, there are the victims. But going through all this framework are the clients, always safe from any condemnation. The gaze of Whole Woman rests on them, the men.

In the 21st century, man arrives on Mars, where he discovers that there was life. Later, through a television program, details of the Red Planet are discovered, after being invaded by humans.

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

In a couple who travel to Córdoba for their honeymoon, the folklore enchants her and bores him.

Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity.

A political thriller about child trafficking. Danger arises in Abril’s life (Diana Lamas), an apathetic and absent-minded accountant, after her cherished uncle Ángel (Mario Pasik) and her best friend from adolescence Guille (Carlos Portaluppi) turn up on New Year’s Eve. Both these presences turn out to be closely related to a judicial investigation into the dark secrets of Abril’s family, leading her up to the realization that her personal experience is deeply intertwined with politics. The struggle between justice and power will show that child trafficking is an omnipotent international business packed with accomplices.

Two elderly people live in a large house, following a dull and predictable routine. They are stalked by another elderly man—tall, dressed in a black coat, and with a ghostly presence—who eventually takes up residence in one of the rooms of the house. Based on Julio Cortázar’s short story of the same name, *Casa tomada* was one of the most important short films produced within the film department of the National University of La Plata between the 1960s and the early 1970s.

Lucy is a woman of shady past who convinces Argüello and Carlos to install an illegal gambling hall on a cabaret that worked legally. When Argüello is interested romantically in her, it rejects it because it is attracted by Carlos, a womanizer singer. The obsession for her leads Argüello to cheat in the game that he holds with Carlos and manages to ruin him, but finally both fight and Argüello dies stabbed but without denouncing his aggressor to recover his self-esteem as a professional player.

Michi, a village tarot reader, has lost his dog Ernesto, between kennels and drunkenness, Michi's wandering daily search to reunite with his pet intersects and confuses the relationship he has with Pepo and Yasu, a young couple, and with Eva, a policewoman who patrols the dirt streets that are the horizon of vernacular geography.

Shows four days in the life of a man clandestinely kept in captivity. The images of his naked body alternate with those of a happy moment on a beach and with those of his captor, who spends his time looking at bodybuilding magazines.

Two women, granddaughter and grandmother, discuss the stories and contradictions of our gender and class, while sewing. Outside, a new generation of feminists takes the streets.

A film about the past. And about family. The past of a certain family.

While the Bolivian flag is raised by military hands on a pontoon of the Bolivian Naval Force, a civilian swimmer is ritually prepared to enter the waters of Lake Titicaca naked to cross them towards the Island of the Sun. This short film is the record of a poetic act that connects a deep wound Bolivia faces due to its denial of access to the sea with a war conflict still vivid in the memories of Argentines.

Joan, a young man who feels frustrated and disillusioned with what his life is like, goes for a walk by the waterfront. What he doesn’t expect is the fantastical adventure that awaits.

The failure of a marriage and its consequences in the family.

A young girl visits the Planetarium with her father and discovers that, in millions of years, the sun could absorb the Earth and extinguish everything. Since then, she develops an obsession with this omnipresent star, which reminds her every day that everything has an end.

Coco's Moon is a feature-length fiction film that tells the story of a man who falls in love with the Moon. What hidden desires manifest in a being who seeks love in the cosmos? A dramatic comedy that flirts with magical realism and absurdity, typical of the Selenophilic relationship of Coco -our protagonist- and the chaos in the family and social world.

Tells the story of a poor family, inhabitants of the southern province of Santa Fe, who is forced to move into an abandoned railroad until waters recede Salado river wagon.

"Unearths, the books we do not inherit" delves into the family memory of Maria Julia Blanco, its director. The unearthing of his father's student library - recovered in 2018 - is the starting point. Julia guides us through the province of Santa Fe following her family's story. Historian and bibliophile by choice, Julia takes books, which do not know what has happened on the surface, as a starting point to excavate family memory. Little by little it becomes evident that, in the remains of the books, both family history and Argentine history can be reread.

Jorge Giannoni isn't a hero; he's a witness to the darkest part of the history of independent cinema in our country, and of an entire generation; a story that saw him present alongside Raymundo Gleyzer and Glauber Rocha in the turbulent Brazil of the 1960s, during the French May as a producer for RAI, in his work as a face-hunter for Fellini, and in film production from Cuba, making documentaries critical of the Trial; a history riddled with encounters, disagreements, exiles, frustrations, burned negatives, and a few triumphs.

Claudio inherits a bar from a gay uncle who died, whose family had alienated him. Claudio begins to work on it and meets Horacio, a young poet who falls in love with him. They set up a cultural center in the bar, until one night in the crisis of the 90's some criminals rob them and kill Horacio. Not having a bond justified by law, Claudio cannot save Horacio. Years later Claudio hires Adrián as a waiter at the bar. And a new love story begins again in times of the same-sex marriage law.

A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.