Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

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

A man in a small boat reaches an island on the Paraná River. He heads towards a site where there used to be a house or small village. Now there is nothing. Slight signs of something old and lost: the place where he was born. His presence allows the things in the abandoned spot to materialize: huts and tables, animals and canoes. Soon others arrive on the island: his wife, father, friends, and children. This is a meeting of the Man and his loved ones. With the dead, the birds, the river's music and his pain.

From her encounter with Eva Perón to the death of the icon, from her fascination with the Peronist cause to the persecution she will suffer after the Liberating Revolution, film star Fanny Navarro remembers her life walking today in the streets of Buenos Aires.

About Christmas, or about the construction of fiction, about the protagonists of the farce, about the exploited by the system, about the mercenaries of the performance; a film about angelic beings.

Short film by Juan Fernando Oliva that was censored after its production and its exhibition was prohibited by presidential decree in Argentina. The film addresses the problem of housing based on a documentary record of the lives of the tenement's inhabitants. It is the story of a young couple looking for a home to face the present and build their future.

Documentary | History

The Cabrera family reunites to celebrate Christmas, this time inviting their neighbor, Pedro Osuna. What seemed like a party turns into a nightmare when a cyborg starts killing them. Only Cholo Cabrera and, especially, Pedro Osuna can save Christmas.

Juana is 17 years old and wants to experience her “first time”. And her wheelchair certainly isn’t going to stop her. She’s just started at a new high school in Argentina and is a teenager like any other, except for the fact that she observes the world from a height of 4 feet (one metre twenty). She soon joins the fight for sex education and becomes a spokesperson for the movement. Inspired by the experience of co-author and co-director Rosario Perazolo Masjoan, the series explores body diversity, consensual sexuality and the pride that comes with finding one’s place in the world.

Ivana a women of about 25, lives with her boyfriend Gregorio,a temperamental only son who loves his mother. Ivana is obligated by Gregorio on a strict diet because he see her prone to gaining weight. However, a sharo turn in her life will have to face his worst enemy: herself.

A broken family, a mother and her two preteen children, escape the heat and violence to spend an unplanned weekend in the sierras of Córdoba, Argentina. But between storm clouds, a stalking cell phone and migraines, rest and peace do not seem to be part of the landscape.

Documentary based on the document "Subversion in the Educational Sphere (Let's Get to Know Our Enemy)" which was signed on October 27, 1977 by the then Minister of Culture and Education of the dictatorship Juan José Catalán and distributed in all educational establishments in the country to teachers and school authorities, with the purpose of searching for "subversives" at the initial, primary, secondary and higher levels.

Paula travels to a mountain town looking to overcome something that has happened to her and thus carry out a job that has been assigned to her. Upon arriving at the house, immersed in the vegetation, he finds the mysterious presence of a child. Both, solitary beings, share the passing of the days until he notices some strange behavior in him.

We all like to go for a walk and so do our souls.

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.

A drama that revolves around the speculations made by a widow woman taking advantage of the sympathies aroused by one of her three unmarried daughters.

Explore the relationship between vocation and uprooting through the stories of Rubén and Mirta, two members of the Diaguita Calchaquí community of Amaicha del Valle, Tucumán, Argentina.

A group of friends suffers bullying, thinking of taking revenge, they discover that recent history teaches them that they should act differently.

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 married woman tries to start a new life but discovers that desire can be a dangerous path with no return. (Inspired by the legend of "El bolsadito" from San José del Rincón; Santa Fe, Argentina).

In Camouflage, writer Félix Bruzzone embodies a runner who has an obsession with Campo de Mayo, the biggest military unit in Argentina. It is also the place where his mother disappeared in 1976 and the main clandestine center of detention, torture and extermination during the last dictatorship. The film will follow Félix as he finds characters that allow him to enter and explore this place so loaded with history.

Following in the footsteps of a woman, a young farmer travels to the city and there he ends up triumphing as a singer on a radio.

Every day, Rosa opens her store. Today, something will be different.

As if possessed by the music, two young loners dance separately at a club. Unaware of those around them, they meet and connect soon after. However, the same party that brought them together quickly moves them apart. Will they meet again?

The teacher of a school, on the occasion of the festivities for the bicentennial of Argentina, assigns her fifth grade students the task of representing different historical events.

Movie A mash-up about contemporary oral poetry, that shows and dismantle the machine that builds the current Buenos Aires underground. A fundamental journey to understand the Argentine afterpop culture. the constitution of Buenos Aires under oral poetry.

Three boys, sons of the suburb, the street and the economic depression, stroll for a microworld where the crime, the incomprehension and the solitude are their permanent companies.

A visual essay in expanded cinema constructed from found footage: fragments of home movies from trips to Mar del Plata, found on the street and in flea markets, alongside a kind of remake filmed three or four decades later in the same locations. The piece reflects on the use of the format, the perspective of the first amateur cameramen who went on vacation with their cameras, and the beginnings of home video recording.

Documentary about Mirio Carlos Visentín, a senior Olympic swimmer who, at 93, still practices swimming.

The introduction to a feature film in progress called Punas (continuation of Puna, from 2006, a work made in Jujuy by the same filmmaker). Sunblasting explores the Andean world in connection with the historical and geographical. A framework in which beliefs, rituals and contemporaneity are superimposed.

A short film directed by the Argentine filmmaker Ernesto Baca

During a chess game, you will experience a rather peculiar and tense situation due to a bet.

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 reflection on the passage of time and the use of an emblematic space of Buenos Aires as the Abasto. In more than 100 years, many stories have gone through the central construction of this traditional neighborhood, which functioned as a fruit and vegetable supplier market to later become Abasto Shopping, a daily and constant movement shopping center, which has been consolidated as one of the most successful in the Argentine capital.

In a violent city, one man will fight for what he believes. His nickname is the Merchi and he enters the dark world of moneylenders and debt collectors to earn quick money to try and save his ailing father. His work as a collector requires him to press the debtors hard, but the Merchi is incapable of hurting people, which causes no end of problems with Alonso, his violent and sadistic partner.

Putta (Whore) follows the story of three prostitutes living in the town of Foz do Iguaçu, on the triple border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The film traverses the complexities of each of the three prostitutes personal lives’–from transexuality to family and motherhood–in the context of the brothels and streets in which they work.

Isabel is rejected by the forest brigade to which she belongs for attacking a real estate development responsible for forest fires. When she decides to continue on her own, she faces loneliness and frustration, in an encounter that will question the meaning of her struggle.

A tango academy has different characters and each one has its story.

Kajianteya is an authority of an aboriginal community of the Wichi ethnic group. Through her words we discover the tension between two realities. On the one hand, a world of discrimination, dispossession and exclusion of indigenous peoples. And on the other hand, the daily fight for a dignified life that contemplates the ancestral mandate of the conservation of their culture, the recovery of territorial rights and the care of nature.

La Plata, 1975. Cristina goes in search of Gladys and Chiche so that they can settle in her house in City Bell with Néstor, her husband. Her compañeros are in danger, Triple A is out of control and having played in Montoneros is a very big burden to carry.

Carlos Gardel performing Rosas de Otoño, vals composed by Guillermo Barbieri and written by José Rial.

In this documentary about art psychotherapy, children express themselves and their conflicts through drawing.

The US recently launched another billion dollar aid package to intensify its "War On Drugs." But some Washington analysts claim this war will become another Vietnam. Filmed over a year in four countries, this documentary brings us coca-growing peasants, anti-narcotic patrols, US law-makers and gains unique access to the Columbian rebels who stand accused of protecting the drug trade.

One city, four stories. A writer slowly travels through it, reflecting on it and his own circumstances. A foreigner remains hidden, waiting to be able to return to his place of origin. In the meantime, several episodes will cause him to become obsessed to the point of confusing reality with fantasy. A woman is left alone after the death of her husband and daughter. When her young nephew visits her, he is confronted by a disturbing phenomenon. His investigation culminates in a surprising result. A veteran taxi driver, traveling through the deserted city at night, finds his routine disrupted by the appearance of a beautiful woman surrounded by an elusive aura of mystery.

Plastic artist Leo invites young Dante to his art studio and proposes a peculiar game to leave all tension behind.

Jorge “Gigante” González was the tallest Argentine basketball player in history and the first to reach the NBA. A traveler discovered it by chance in his town. He was 56 and measured 2.31 meters. The Atlanta Hawks signed him in 1988, although overweight problems did not allow him to debut. His formidable appearance opened other doors for him: he stood out as a WWE wrestler in the United States, he acted in Baywatch with Pamela Anderson, he was an idol, he earned a lot of money and toured the world; But his health and excesses worked against him: he suffered diabetes and acromegaly, he spent his last days bedridden and died at only 44 years old. His story is that of an extraordinary life, that of the man who was born poor, had everything and lost it.

In 1996, two young guys with brand new cell phones are possessed by the spirit of neoliberalism. In 2022, two young couples are going to spend their holidays where the terrible events occurred.