Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

As an Indie Horror flick director gathers his filmmakers for the final viewing of the film they have just wrapped, gruesome deaths occur to the cast and crew as they watch the very lethal Director's Cut.

A man steals his psychologist's address book and invites the other patients to a barbecue at his house.

A documentary portrait starring Daniel, a sheriff from the province of Santa Fe who, in retirement, is now a singer. In his new life, he turns to music to balance his soul and get away from a past full of mistakes and dubious legality.

Five woman's with different life intersect with the same reality.

A parable, portrait or record around Daniel Melero’s Travesti. An entropy that’s the convergence between the secrets behind its production, the anniversary show -25 years later- and the winding career of a transverse artist.

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

A fifty-year-old teacher suffers from an inferiority complex, lives dominated by his mother and does not dare to propose to the woman he loves. One night he gets drunk and that will change his life.

The 1975 Metropolitan Championship was, for River, more than the conquest of a title; it marked the end of an agony that required the efforts of historical figures of the club. In the midst of a political and economic crisis, the film documents the tensions and challenges that had to be overcome in order to achieve the yearned-for lap of honor.

In the middle of a desolate countryside, the father of a family must figure out how to keep his home warm.

A girl and her boyfriend have a conflict when a neighbor tries to seduce him.

Documentary focusing on Fabián Polosecki, a journalist and creator of the legendary TV shows "El otro lado" and "El visiteur," who committed suicide in 1996.

A documentary record of the treasures found in the city streets. Photos, letters, objects, and ownerless mementos. Living trash.

The installation of an advanced fiber optic system in the city causes an entire town to experience brutal power outages. Amadeo, a translator who receives a project on Luddism, becomes obsessed with his ideas and, frustrated by the situation, decides to set fire to the city's power plant.

Can a robot feel useless when it realizes it can't perform the tasks it was designed to do?

After a series of apparitions and miracles, the locals attributed Lazarito miraculous status to him, built a shrine at the site of his tragic death, and held an annual celebration, organizing a gathering of thousands of believers in the powers and favors of the popular saint from the region and neighboring provinces.

Friendship through the passage of time. Football matches, anecdotes and reflections on amateurism.

After the death of her grandfather, Antonio Bonino, Toia found six negatives proving that he was a member of the Fascist Party and an aide to Benito Mussolini. Influenced by this discovery, the director sets out to trace her male family lineage, whom the end of World War II brought to Argentina. Instead of a clarification, however, the past crumbles and disintegrates into a mosaic of archival material, family films, excerpts from personal diaries and fragments of the works of Roberto Rossellini or Luchino Visconti. But it is the meanings that emerge from the combination of disparate images that offer answers and fill the information vacuum that has shaped generations of the family. The dynamics of the Bonino family's male-female relationships have a much darker basis than the social context of the time. In the story of grandfather, father, cousins and sons, Toia also finds a story of identity and of the role of wives, mothers, grandmothers and daughters in a history shaped by men.

Pedro's room

A movie about something that only could happen at night in Buenos Aires

Twenty-five years ago the sikuris band "Our Lady of Fátima" was founded, the first band in Argentina made up only of women. In the pilgrimage to the Abra of Punta Corral, a tradition formerly carried out by men, the band remembers the conquest of that space, from the bond, their fears, motivations, and the network they form through music.

Julia, a young playwright, spends the night awake trying to finish her work. Through dance, she begins a personal search, inhabiting and interpreting the characters she is writing about. In this cathartic dynamic, it is the characters themselves who challenge her to confront what prevents her from finishing her work.

Documentary about the beginning of stand up comedy in Argentina. It tells through its protagonists how it all started, and how it grew until it became part of the culture of this country.

Short Film ENERC

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

Raúl Alfonsín is a central figure to understand Argentina over the last 55 years. This series sets a journey over key elements to know the man, the militant, the president and the myth.

Enrique Neira, a man abandoned by his wife and who deals with his schizophrenia and his son's obsessive-compulsive disorder, makes a movie about him being a priest and fighting with the demons who affects his life

Santiago returns to Argentina with his wife Ana and they organize a dinner party with friends. Moments before everyone arrives, Ana confesses to Santiago that Lucía, her best friend, will be attending with her new boyfriend. Santiago is shocked to discover that it's someone with whom he shares a dark past.

Miguel, a teenager with low resources and a brilliant future in football, discovers to be entering a homophobic world full of prejudices.

Minerva and Atenas have different life stories but they are connected by their identity. Despite their differences, they both enjoy a registered job that makes them happy and proud.

The life of Ernesto Guevara retold in testimonies from those who knew him personally.

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

In September 2011, after graduating from a cinema school, Ivo Aichenbaum decides to come back to his home town of Rio Gallegos. The day before his departure, he learned that a friend of him committed suicide. The movie tells us all about this missed come back journey, as well as being a tribute to his lost friend and home town.

Four friends discover software that gives them the ability to see 10 seconds into their future. Something strange forces one of them to flee, escaping their destiny, their friends, their future... Will they be able to do it?

A cut in the life of Karen "Burbuja" Carabajal, an Argentine boxer who will fight for the world title. In the meantime, she gives her first sessions as a psychologist, lives her motherhood and faces the relationship she has with Abel.

Tells the events of the life of Claudio Gorosito in the year 2000. An Argentinean who in Spain went from prison to being a symbol of social reintegration. Receives the Penitentiary Merit Medal for having made a life-size replica of Picasso's Guernica in embroidery thread.

A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.

After the death of his father, Eduardo Crespo embarks on a journey to film a movie as they would have done together. A film about Crespo, the town where they come from, poultry farming, and the relationship the father and son used to have. Now that the main character is no longer there, the film travels around the same places. Trying to put together, through the town collective memories and a personal memory, in order to reconstruct from all these details, the figure of that father who is not there anymore.

In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959, using the original text of the German explorer Ulrich Schmidel. This film, which disappeared in the years of the dictatorship, was miraculously restored on video in 2000. The story that the documentary describes can be compared with the situation of Latin American cinema throughout all these years.

The inhabitants of a Pampas town that fell into desolation try to survive, some by working and others resorting to mischief.

After skipping a school class, Guido returns home and faces his mother.

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.

The day after she got her brother in the second worst problem of his life, Ana L. Bruselas escapes her captors without being able to bring her sawn off tits with her. They cut them off as retaliation for her not delivering a box full of "illegal" content in time. But Ana L. won't rest until she gets her beloved tits back.

A human comes into possession of a strange artifact that allows them to accelerate into an advanced stage of human evolution. Their transformation is initially terrifying, but eventually accepted. The old body dies and a new state of being emerges.

Fabian puts together shows at a party room, one of them is a Serrat tribute act. Fabian is frustrated because the belly dancer is the clients’ number one choice. This time, he’ll do whatever it takes to be picked out, even if he has to play dirty against his colleague and test his moral limits.

A commissioner from Corrientes solves cases according to his own system. Based on the novel "Los casos de don Frutos Gómez", by Velmiro Ayala Gauna.

How is silence built in a body? This documentary short film navigates through archives, reflections and questions about a father's pain and its story.

Four stories about one subject matter—international (and local) social issues.