Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

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It's the story of a small family who gathers to celebrate an intimate wedding in a country house. The young couple getting married are undecided, consulting their relatives about what to do, and they pitch in, trying to help them, while more relatives arrive and begin preparations for the party.

A farmer wants to register his harvest in the town's records and is imprisoned in a legal regime that encourages various excesses.

Nina is a young woman of 20 years old who lives in Asunción in 1947 in the middle of the Paraguayan Civil War. She longs to be a singer, but is forced to work as a maid in a conservative environment after her family escapes. Although, she puts herself at the service of the revolution and frees various political prisoners, including Raúl with whom she will have an affair. However, she must flee the country after becoming pregnant and her lover having abandoned her.

On July 1, 1970, through Operation Pindapoy, the armed organization Montoneros carried out the assassination of Lieutenant General Aramburu, who in 1955 had led the coup against General Perón. Constructed as a police drama, the documentary recreates the scenes leading up to the execution and examines Argentine leftist guerrilla groups 40 years after their emergence.

Matias and his friends want to have a nice weekend at his uncle's house, but they don't expect the evil that awaits in there.

A chance encounter at a party reunites two old childhood friends, forcing one of them to confront the secrets of her past and the reason why she disappeared without a trace.

BMX champion and 2018 Youth Olympic medalist Iñaki Mazza retired from his sport during a period of personal crisis. Years later, he returns to his bike, emboldened by a new quest, and reunites with his partner after their stint at a rehabilitation center in Tierra del Fuego. Mazza sets out on a 3,000-kilometer trek in a cinematic portrait that blends formats, pairing underground BMX footage with beautifully expansive vistas at the end of the world.

An actress and her director are filming a movie. Through various texts ranging from monologues by Brecht and Joyce to tango songs by Libertad Lamarque, the film reflects on actors and acting in cinema.

The Vinchuca Cartel runs the city, the police can't stop them and The Mayor was Kidnapped. Only two friends, two brothers, two men totally insane... are the only hope.

Five friends and film students live together during the second Entre Ríos International Film Festival. With the park of the city of Paraná as a stage, the group reflects on the exercise of cinema and enjoys between films, music and substances.

Faced with the discovery of video graphic archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago reprograms their childhood's mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fictions and the passing of time. In these intimate materials, they find a possibility of thinking about dissident sexualities, the relationship between technology and the human body, language and childhood. The images capture what cannot be named and prepare for the possibility of a fragmented and subjective metamorphosis. Jonathan/Yon is the body outside of social domestication. How does such a body grow in our contemporary societies?

When the bionic superagents, after five years without vacations, go to Mar del Plata, they must fight against an international gang that intends to seize a treasure.

An expert on disarming alarms leaves prison to do a job.

In the summer of 2000 in Ezeiza, in a neighborhood laundry, Azul and her grandmother Lydia washed, dried and ironed clothes. The tension between them grows around one issue: Azul doesn't know if she wants to be a washerwoman forever.

A person's life is at stake when he is surprised by an unexpected guest.

A well-intentioned novice priest tries to stay out of two older clerics' criminal scheme. Until money and a girl come into play.

In 1976, the Ford Falcon ceased to be a family car and became the preferred vehicle for kidnapping people during the civil-military dictatorship. The complicity of the iron that had the most fans during the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina.

Five men work on the fourth basement floor of a large company. They share a credo: to go unnoticed, to not stand out, to be forgotten. But one day the balance is broken, because no one can be invisible forever.

More isolated than the sea, always light and powerful: confusion, my sister, the woman with 100 heads. Loosely inspired by the collages and graphic novels of Max Ernst.

More than forty years after their first protest in front of the Government House, the last mothers of the 30,000 people disappeared by the last Argentine dictatorship offer an intimate account of the long struggle in search of their children, of their resistance to the economic model imposed after the genocide, and of their political organization as a movement of mothers and women.

Honik's first film in nearly forty years explores the myriad possibilities of digital video by creating an analogy with the four natural elements. The fifth element projects human essence as waste, with a dumping ground serving as metaphor for a medium capable of endless production of images.

Three boys from the slums become well-known football players.

Ulises is a young and innovative documentary filmmaker who films from his window. Without a script, pure chance, any corner. He seeks total objectivity and little by little a series of small everyday stories begin to take shape. He is very sure of his idea, but at the same time very close to it. Thus, without knowing it, he is putting the camera where it should not. What if someone else was waiting for those images to put together "another movie" in which Ulysses ended up being responsible for a crime? A story of dense and dreamlike air, of suspense and seduction.

Ben sets out on an adventure with his new family, experiencing life for the first time.

"99% Lucha" is a documentary that takes us into the fascinating universe of Argentine catch, a sport that goes beyond simple fighting in the ring. Through a purely visual narrative, without interviews or voice-overs, this film captures the essence of camaraderie and sacrifice that characterize the fighters of this sport. We discover that behind the action in the ring there is a community united by a shared passion, where rivalries are only part of the story. This documentary delves into everyday life. Each fighter is a protagonist, and each blow is an expression of his unwavering dedication. "99% Lucha" is a window to a world where 99% effort becomes 100% passion, showing how sacrifice and camaraderie drive your commitment to this exciting sport.

Two musician brothers buy an old house where the Rockers from Hell used to rehearse, the legendary heavy metal band of the '80s, which they say made a pact with the devil to achieve success.

Elliot is a robot who, after crossing paths with Ana, begins an internal journey in which he will discover how it feels to be human and to be in love.

A young woman who is in love with a singer chooses to run away from home so as not to marry a grocer to whom she was engaged.

William Puente, an anonymous accountant, is mistaken for Gómez, a lobbyist wanted for regulatory offenses and shadowy ties. Forced to assume the identity of the man he should fear, he discovers in power an irreversible vertigo. Between his own life and the intoxication of influence, he must decide who he is willing to become.

A seemingly perfect couple's anniversary dinner party unravels as hidden truths and past mistakes surface among guests, leading to humorous and dramatic conflicts.

This film is a third-person diary of the encounters and disagreements between two unbelievers and a prophet. But before that, it is a crazy journey, where its brave characters will be involved in a series of (extra) ordinary events with a mysterious ball, spaceships and regional products.

Around the globe, poor women of all ages turn to prostitution in order to survive. They use alternate identities, hide from the police and their families, and are denied some of the most basic human rights. In Argentina, after years of oppression, two women and a transgender person bind together to reverse the persistent discrimination against street prostitutes. Over four years and against all odds, they build a strong sense of community, discover unforeseen abilities, and opportunities for a better future. This is their story.

Laura reunites with Santiago, a former boyfriend from her youth. Together, they will recall the days when they were college students and what their lives became since then. Laura will have to choose between rediscovering an old love and reaffirming her present.

In the small towns of the Argentine pampas, the quadreras, horse races over short distances, continue to be a passion. In Saladillo, Buenos Aires province, Pablo, a photographer for the local newspaper, with a degree in personnel compression, knows that after 57 years it will not be easy to find a job. His survival and that of his family now depend on the rain not causing the cancellation of a square, since with an ingenious artisan photo-finish system, he is responsible for the final verdict of an arrival, which avoid arguments and conflicts.

Mara moved to an old building trying to escape the memory of her mother's recent suicide. While trying to adjust to the new department, begins to see strange things: a ghostly presence seems to hover over the department. After a failed launch party interrupted by cranky downstairs neighbor, Mara knows the grim charge.

Ana introduces Ezequiel, her new boyfriend, to her parents, in a cabin in the middle of the woods on Christmas Eve. Ezequiel goes into the woods to look for firewood, and when he returns, she notices a change in him that raises questions.

A depressed son sends voice mesagges to her mother.

A ghostly fog looms over the border, where a man must sell his mother’s house and let go of her. The loss of his home leads him to the margins of the sense of reality.

Jero is a sex and masturbation addict who, due to his own body being alerted to so much excess, joins a group of addicts. As the group does not help him overcome his problem, he takes refuge in religion, where he will have to face other types of demons.

Zebras follows the team representing Argentina at the 2014 Street Child World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. The film shows the training, the economic difficulties, the first trip by plane, the pressure of the competition and, above all, the struggle of the 9 boys to face their own limitations and demons and give the best of themselves.

A woman seduces a young man so her homosexual husband can satisfy his desires.

A scam disguised as friendship.

Over the course of a few summer days, Lucía is left in charge of a house in order to take care of a parrot. As she comes up with a small domestic routine, from the neighboring gardens come the sound of celebrations, a film and children pretending to be spies.

A group of musicians discovers in an old LP record a musical work from more than 40 years ago, which tells the story of a Riojan caudillo. They decide to remake this album and begin to summon musicians and interpreters to renovate the original versions.

Martin is dealing with an existential crisis and he's tired of his Venezuelan girlfriend. He goes back to his childhood home and starts falling back in love with his childhood friend, who is now a single mom.

Paris, 1980. A group of journalists and intellectuals, including Julio Cortázar and Osvaldo Soriano, who were political exiles from Argentina, set out to create a newspaper called "Uncensored" to counter the disinformation campaign of the military dictatorships that spread across Latin America in the 1970s. Through the reconstruction of this publication and the lives of those who carried it out, the documentary reflects on and delves into the role of the media and the construction of reality.

The incredible skills of a man with corn.

The Flying Squadron, a variety theater group, sets out to perform a play with an outside director, beginning with an adaptation of Ubu Roi, setting the plot in a building management office in Buenos Aires. As rehearsals progress, the memory of their previous work, The Tragedy of the Rampant Family—a show presented in eight chapters and marked by self-management and absurdity—leads the group to question its identity.

A documentary on the life and work of Swedish/Argentinean photojournalist Leonardo Henrichsen (1940-1973), a known international news cameraman whose final image shot was his own death on the hands of a soldier, while capturing images from an attempted military coup in Chile on June, 1973.

Some romances while some thugs try to dominate a town where there is an arrogant but cowardly sergeant.

In a world controlled and timed by the light, a common man has a plan that could change the destiny.

His name was Love and he walked these dark streets because Norma was waiting for him.

How to say hi to someone. The fear of embraces, distance and severing ties. Mariana does the impossible in order to avoid saying goodbye to her best friend Rocío, who will soon move abroad.

The plot is set in 1966 when an Argentine scientist carries out a space plan to compete with the United States and the Soviet Union in the arrival to the Moon.