Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Between documentary and fiction scenes, Juan Villegas inquires about Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal’s iconic novel.

A victim of sex trafficking and rape, Johana is forced to leave her family and friends behind in her native Colombia for Argentina. Alone in a strange land, she earns a living as a bicycle delivery person, barely making enough money to pay the rent and send back home. Throughout the film, as we watch her go on with her daily routine and try to find a space for herself as a Black woman in Buenos Aires, we hear her reminisce about her life back home as she shares her fears, disappointments and hopes.

Portrait of my friend Marcelo Maman in black and white. Super 8 film intervened with sodium hypochlorite.

The sufferings of a northern town in the face of an implacable drought.

Two young brothers in a farm witness how their father abuses their mother. The little ones wil design a plan to end the violence, and they will carry it out.

A middle-aged man, recently separated, wants to dedicate himself to writing, but it results in occasional jobs and nights out that always take longer than desired and not with the best consequences. Nihilism floods him as he tries to get romantically involved with a woman with whom he has always been in love. When she invites him to take a trip to a neighboring country, a new horizon will open up in front of him.

A documentary portrait that encapsulates the ten lives of Gonzalo García Pelayo, producer, film director and gaming professional, in eight dizzying minutes.

A cockroach crawls into a man's ear.

A flm that focuses on the days leading up to December 10, 2019. Filmed in those days and edited this year, 2023.

Antonio is a lonely boy who goes through his childhood with innocent and classic boy games. His neighbor feels irritated by his activities and their coexistence turns into a war on a daily basis.

The quiet walk of a family is interrupted by the presence of a latent danger. This photo documentary reconstructs the spaces of the Parque de la Memoria through its works of art, while evoking the ever-present horror of the last military dictatorship.

A boy is holding a little light bug captive that he captured in a jar, but his friend recommends that letting it go is best for both of them.

Year 2050. The new world order exiles the LGTBIXQZ community to live outside the cities. In hostile and polluted land. They are not safe. A new threat from the prevailing system brings together the oldest of families.

A bourgeois family reluctantly watches a home documentary about the horrors of the Second World War.

An employee progresses in the factory where he works by having his wife pass by an attractive Cuban singer.

A couple of choreographers tour between the frontiers of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia After 24 years sharing their professional and personal lives, the trip opens a crack in their routine and their lives begin to unravel.

Saturday night in the humble house of a working-class family, narrated in parallel between the mother and a night out and the son who lives among street children.

When the worst global financial crisis in history breaks out, a group of marginal homeless people face the dictatorship of the last society still standing. The bums want to restore the system, the one they so despise, so they can put their camp under a bridge.

A rock concert, the irruption of the police, four friends forced to flee quickly and forget their backpack there. Friendship and adolescence combined as one, the future less than a time to travel rather than a space (a city) to discover.

During the dictatorship, a middle-class couple overhears the military taking their neighbor away. They blame each other for what he told the police, but locked in their apartment, they face the weight of their silence.

A frustrated and alcoholic writer has an idea. I wake up in Buenos Aires, lost and alone. In my pocket I find a photograph of a woman. It brings me memories of her and a house. The back side of the photograph has an address. I begin to walk. I travel across the city looking for this woman. A whole day goes by. I'm tired, it's late. I get to the house. Everything starts again.

A humble theatrical prompter becomes a star of the song recreating with his voice and image the traditional iconography of the roads traveled in his longed-for land.

A young provincial and two comedians replace the main actors in the theatrical performance of The Three Musketeers.

Being Bahía´s mom uses almost all of her time and space. Having resumed an Architecture major and her own reins, sleepless, studying all day long, a desire and a deep secret merge in a decision that causes total uncertainty.

A rich and orphaned heiress tries to establish a school in the Southern Lakes, but her uncle sets many traps for her.

The wrong address on an ad asking for a typist will make a cartoonist's life miserable.

Gastón is abandoned by his girlfriend and is left alone in his apartment in Buenos Aires without knowing what to do. During the following days, the young man walks around the city confused, remembering the happy days and receiving WhatsApp audio that he listens to without being able to respond.

During the dark years of the last dictatorship in Argentina, at the end of 1979, in the city of Rosario,an experimental art group called Cucaño, made of very young adults, emerged. They felt the need to express their discontent against the dangerous and deadly environment while at the same time they were searching for their own identity in their adolescence. They created a notable collective work,fleeting but substantial, which was the most thorough response that a young person could give or give to themselves in those times of extreme repression against self expressions.

Lucila, a shulka from Tafí del Valle destined to care for her mother by ancestral mandate, considers a different life. When he finally dares to ask permission to change the destiny that was imposed on him, his mother has died.

Sam is a teenager starting high school. After conflicts with her old friends, this new stage of life frightens her and creates insecurities, which materialize through her own shadow. This makes her believe she'll never make friends again, but a note dispels all those doubts that only exist in her head, finally giving her the strength to face her fears and finally achieve a friendship like no other.

Miguel, a rookie field reporter with more nerves than experience and a strange devotion to a holy card featuring Yanina Latorre’s face, is assigned to cover the birthday celebration of Niki Takitakis live. What starts as a social event gradually spirals into chaos: the presence of a congressman accused of corruption, knives, and an angry neighbor bursting in with insults and inappropriate comments turn the coverage into an increasingly absurd spectacle.

Alejandra has committed a homicide for which she has a sentence of many years ahead of her. She is detained in the mothers’ ward of Ezeiza prison with her two-year-old daughter Aithana, who was born there. When Aithana turns four, she will be separated from her mother.

The constant death of skate culture in the city of Santa Fe is ignored and only seems to matter to those who practice it. Skaters tell us what skateboarding symbolizes for them and how the figure of the skater and BMX is seen by the common Santa Fe resident.

Three women with three different stories share the same secret. A transcendental experience that will shape their desire for adulthood.

A family man is visited by an old friend who brings with him a strange amulet that has the power to grant three wishes to only three men. The mysterious friend leaves the family in charge of the amulet, warning them of the dangers of using it, but when the father decides to make his first wish, tragedy strikes.

Representation of the theater play "La calle de los fantasmas" by Javier Villafañe.

Mariano, a young adult, moves to a building. His peculiar neighbors are welcoming at first but under that appearance they hide a mortal secret.

Two brothers reconstruct a possible family (in) memory from found photographs.

Buenos Aires is a city capable of creating a collection in the smallest way possible. A city full of objects, memories, people, moments, places, but where do all these things that surround us come from? Why is it so precious to us? Do we only value the "thing"? Or do we seek to reach something more from it? A documentary about memory.

"Alive and Kicking" is a musical comedy set in various natural settings in Buenos Aires, starring Roberto Catarineu, Andrea Tenuta, and Carlos March.

To win the prize that is offered to the one who endures three laps to a boxer, a mechanic learns to box and becomes champion; in the meantime he gets involved with a woman but eventually returns to his wife.

The aviation company for which Ricardo works gives a secretary a trip to Peru.

What happens when thoughts won't stop? Telling yourself "try not to think." The exhaustion of thinking and thinking, an attempt to recapitulate unnecessary thoughts that consume you and cloud your vision.

An older woman who is caring for her youngest daughter, with physical pain, loneliness, and the support of her hobby of painting.

A monolith is the excuse for a journey to an obsession full of charms and, like every dream, also some disappointment.

Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.

Infidelity. An accusation and a cruel doubt. A planned murder or just a figment of the imagination?

Perhaps now overshadowed by the figures of the excluded or the immigrant, workers have been portrayed in cinema mostly in the context of conflicts or as castaways of progress and globalization. But beyond these demands, who are these workers today? What has become of their lives? How have their dreams and visions been transformed?