Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

Film from Andrés Andreani

Escape from Patagonia is a gaucho-western film set in the tumultuous Patagonia of late nineteenth century. It's a story of survival, based on real facts from the personal diary of the Argentinian pioneer Francisco P. Moreno.

Carlos "El Negro" Moreno is a documentary film that chronicles the life of the labor lawyer from Olavarría who was kidnapped and murdered in Tandil by the last military dictatorship. After 35 years of darkness, justice has been served in the city of Tandil. This is the first case from the dictatorship brought to trial in Tandil, for which three military personnel and two civilians were convicted.

Documentary feature film based on the events that took place in the trial of the Argentine military juntas, which carried out the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.

A space vampire stalks ardent young people who visit the city cemetery.

A stewardess tries to convince her father to return to Europe with her and the foreman of the ranch try to prevent him.

An investigation about a transmission parallel to that of man’s arrival to the Moon, captured by a radio ham from Avellaneda, confronts the director of Channel 54 with a series of conspiracy theories and mysterious figures. Doing so also means questioning the nature of the images.

A story of a long distance relationship between two young gay men that takes a twisted turn.

Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by way of 60s consumerism, pop art, linguistics, DIY ethos, and disturbing childhood imagery.

Documentary about the War of the Triple Alliance based on the paintings by Cándido López.

During Argentina's military dictatorship, a blind man desperately tries to reconnect with his teenage son, a disturbing young man who channels his inner torment through rats.

The grandson of sculptor Jorge Michel reconstructs the life and legacy of the grandfather he never met. He visits warehouses and collections on his trail. While he looks for the misplaced work, he assembles his own identity.

The tale of a family during the 20 th century, built from archive footage. Through an imaginary dialogue between two characters a plot begins to weave that finally reveals who they are—a father and a daughter, and the peculiar history that binds them.

Film about the film in the film, independent in economy and in form.

A female singer who killed her husband in Cuba, takes refuge in Argentina and is chased by a policeman.

Crossing an old bridge in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, the filmmakers come face to face. They walk towards each other, crossing paths until all that remains is the metal structure of the bridge.

tells the experience of a group of medical students who travel to the north of Argentina to assist different indigenous communities that suffer the dispossession of their lands and structural poverty.

A portrait of a couple, living in poverty and prostitution. Couple is joined by a second woman, and problems escalates.

Five young bohemians try to adapt to a life in the city that does not convince them when they start living in an old house surrounded by nature.

Two altar boys that live in a small church in the middle of the jungle. They grew under the tutelage of Father Roberto, an elderly priest who was their mentor. Now, at the end of his life, they must protect and take care of him. Eustaquio pretends to be in command of the church and Heriberto only thinks about Maria, a beautiful young woman that barely pays attention to him. These young men face their frst existential crisis that leads them to launch a risky plan, a heavenly plan

Isma, a young trans woman, confronts her family when she finds out that she is pregnant. Alone and depressed, he resists medical violence by escaping reality. Exiled from the house where he grew up, Isma spends the night with a trans woman in whom he finds another form of community.

Signs from another planet arrive on Earth, exactly at Villa 21 de Barracas (Buenos Aires). With scrap, garbage and cardboard, a group of the humble neighborhood manufactures weapons and a spaceship to destroy the aliens. The final battle approaches. Will the villa be ready?

A group of youngsters, encouraged by their teacher, starts with guerrilla actions.

Memory is a vast house, with many rooms that jealously guard what we loved and lost. It can also be a trap that is very difficult to escape.

Golondrina, a countryman with very well-established values ​​who is said to have inspired the zamba "Mi luna cautiva" (My Captive Moon), returns to the village at an advanced age. He is going to confront an old rival for the love of a woman who no longer exists, but whom they both find in the spitting image of her daughter.

Lucas creates his alterego "Michael Cementerio", a character that allows him to leave his structured religious family to spend the nights of San Juan playing Punk and Heavy Metal.

The film delves into the interior of the human body through various animation techniques. Computerized images of the body repeat and disintegrate at the mercy of Artificial Intelligence under a motto: being deliberately unreal is a sign of honesty.

By a quiet gas station in rural Buenos Aires, a young kid, Ernesto, confesses to his friend that he wants to be a dancer when he grows up. But in the patriarchal flatlands of Argentina, dancing isn't really an option. After being harassed by drivers by, Ernesto hides in the bathroom where he magically runs into a broken-hearted drag queen, Ruby. Charmingly mischievous, Ruby challenges him to a fateful dance off; one that will ultimately and forever encourage him to follow his dancing dreams.

Centered on a trade fair of products for women, the work's sarcastic and biting perspective falls on both the men who build that "world" (workers and businessmen) and the women who support them. Through techniques of distancing, mostly of image from sound, the artist developed a poignant reflection on the social debasement of and discrimination against women carried out by products that supposedly exalt and distinguish them.

Friends conduct a seance to summon a demon.

Four short native stories reflect, with the rich colors and textures of stop-motion, the deep ancestral wisdom contained in simple moments of everyday life.

Vera travels with her mother and sister to see an eclipse in the forest, but a strange presence will make fear overpower her. The girl is seduced by nature and gets lost in its immensity.

A shepherd leads its sheeps to the top of the mountain in search of a special moment.

Guillermina can't stop reading a book, the problem is that she's not ready to finish it.

An abnormal world seen through the eyes of a psychotic. All on video.

The third part of the Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the shortened version, prepared by Cord Garben. Staged at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, 2012

Celeste and Adela, driven by an urban legend, will enter a library in the middle of the night to read a sinister book that belonged to a maniacal killer. But what the girls don't expect is that the maniac's ghost will appear to tell them and make them experience the tales hidden in his book.

In a world where reality seems distorted, Agustin awakens with no memory of his past. Trapped in a labyrinth of unknowns, he embarks on a desperate quest to reclaim his identity.

Nelson, a teenager who drops out of school to smuggle mobile phones on the border between Argentina and Brazil, is caught by the police and forced to work as an informant. As part of his mission he will have to move to a neighboring city, attend a new school and get close to the daughters of Jara, an alleged drug trafficking boss. During the operation, he will have to live with a conflictive gendarme and learn to resolve his differences in a world of lies, love and betrayal.

Malena, a young woman, receives an invitation to the birthday party of her former client, Sr. Risitas, a once-famous TV clown. At arriving, she soon realizes that the atmosphere is unsettling. Sr. Risitas starts behaving erratically, and Malena finds herself unable to leave the house.

Adaptation of "Idyll" (1884), a short story by Guy de Maupassant

What do a young man in love in the mountains and a caged thrush have in common? A couple of men on a farm looking for a child and a dog obsessed with burrows? A man looking for a friend with whom to share the town's popular festivals and a gang of bikers who don't want to return home? A bath in the north that reflects all the stars at night and a father who remembers the Balkan war? A fox and a desert in Catamarca and the exploitation of lands in Patagonia? The Mapuche resistance, the lost languages ​​and the fishing boats of the Argentine sea? Frankenstein.

A family tells what they had to do to get to the fifth floor of their home

A stone falls from the sky in a mountain village. Two friends set out to find it in the countryside. On the way they talk, remember a deceased friend, laugh, discuss, meet other seekers. On the way, poetry is read, poetry is heard, poetry is felt in the wind. From the beginning of the day until the light goes out. One or more goodbyes, but also encounters and promises. A film about friendships, winter landscapes and something as useless and necessary as poetry.

A group of friends, the windows of buildings at night, Chacarita's cemetery, a road trip and tree tops are mixed together with sleepless city lights.

Environmental groups oppose the urbanization of the Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve, and one of the company's executives falls in love with a conservationist photographer.

A José Burone Bruché's animation short film from the 40's.

A boy who is doing compulsory military service in the navy has a confrontation with a superior over the love of a woman.

Experimental tour through the gardens of friends and acquaintances together with voice-over poems. Recorded in different formats overexposed during the live projection.

Vera is a young woman trying to cope with her life, plagued by a violent relationship, when she suddenly receives terrible news: her best friend has been murdered.

Fed up with his economic situation and declining health, a small-time boxing agent ventures into an ambitious plan: to convince his Cuban girlfriend to leave the island and accompany him to live in Paraguay, where he plans to set up his boxing show.

In 1939, Joel and Jana escape from their village because of the arrival of the Nazis. That decision would make them the only ones in their family to survive the Holocaust. 80 years later, Juliet, their granddaughter, decides to retrace their steps to understand what lies behind her father's silence. Then, she begins to suspect that there is a part of her own history that was omitted.

An enthusiast pioneer founds a city full of alchemical symbolism. A gentleman is named Grand Master of the Lodge of the Eastern Knights. A writer publishes the frst utopian novel of Uruguay. An entrepreneur builds castles, churches, hotels and palaces that will have different destinies. The pioneer, the Knight, the writer and the businessman are the same man: Francisco Piria.