Discoveries from Argentina World Cinema

A young woman falls in love with a singer and when he disappears, a lookalike replaces him.

An old Director tries to rearm his vocational choir to continue singing Argentine popular music, in a context where the academies promote the Europeanization of music. Meanwhile,he is looking for a disciple to whom to leave his legacy.

A girl travels through an abandoned world full of shadows and ghosts. She tries to discover the reason why her world has vanished and how this is linked to her own past.

A mockumentary about a real flood. An old hermit. A princess. And two boys in love.

A film about the past. And about family. The past of a certain family.

Romantic comedy about going back to high school.

A young couple from Rosario were watching the news on December 19, 2001, when a friend of theirs, who was on the run, suddenly visited them.

A special secret group tries to prevent an alien invasion.

Luciano and Pedro meet each other again after many years apart, due to a message that, at first, looked like an invitation, but then reveals itself as a door that will lead the night into a point of no return.

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.

A school teacher tries to support his school against unjust measures by the government and a rich woman helps him.

An obstrusive man complicates a couple's honeymoon.

The story of some neighborhood boys, narrated with an undoubted Borgian spirit. (ucine.edu.ar)

After being fired from his job, Guillermo and his wife Silvana decide to move to the countryside with their daughter Romina. Along the way, they stop at a farm where they are welcomed by Bjorn, an eccentric Swede. The host's lifestyle awakens a certain "flower power" nostalgia in the couple, evoking fond memories of their youth. What they don't know is that they are being "captured" by a cult.

A group of young people meet in a house, prior to an important electronic party, but problems between them begin to arise.

A documentary that links the stories of three women from the football’s world in Argentina, connected with the feminist movement. Juliana, a feminist football coach from "La Nuestra" the oldest low-income community in the city of Buenos Aires; Luciana, a teenage player of Villa 31; and Lorena, a player of the National football Team, cross their paths pursuing a common goal: no more generations of women without a field to play in.

American agents intent on wiping out Bolsheviks are after Roberto--an Argentine expatriate writer, inventor and Communist in Rotterdam in 1941. He runs from them with his briefcase full of his invention-- non-running silk stockings--and money he has received from the Japanese for his invention.

Without a trace portrays the life and work of filmmaker Quirino Cristiani, 1896 to 1984. An animator, cartoonist and italoargentino cartoonist, creator of the first feature animation world; The Apostle 1917.

A silent short about a home invasion.

The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a desperate attempt to understand his guilt: a tortuous guilt that provokes a deep sense of revenge. You need to find the person responsible for that crime.

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.

Keili González tells of her experiences as a transvestite/trans girl until adulthood in her hometown of Nogoyá. She is one of the fundamental referents of the organized struggle for the rights of gender-sex dissidents in Entre Ríos.

Documentary about the life and work of Julio Cortázar from his own memories and reflections.

Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years telling stories.

A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.

Can love transcend boundaries, trapping us in a seemingly inescapable cycle? The fantasy of being one with each other becomes flesh and destruction. A couple stripped of everything and everyone, fused to the point of losing their sense of self, faced with the possibility of a third party interfering, she decides to have an abortion.

Amalia arrives at Olga’s house to celebrate her birthday. At the party, they discuss taboo subjects: one’s daughter is dating a bisexual boy, while the other’s granddaughter sells erotic content online. Uncomfortable, Amalia seizes an opportunity to leave. Back home, she reveals her best kept secret.

Friends conduct a seance to summon a demon.

Two unknown characters wander through the central streets of Buenos Aires. While one abandons his past, the other reunites with his.

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 revealing documentary about the World Cup that was played in Argentina during the last military dictatorship there. With more than 30 interviews and previously unseen footage.

In an isolated neighborhood of monoblocks in the city of Santa Fe, deceit, friendship, dreams, love, disagreements, passion and death, are some of the elements that mark the fine line that exists between the real world and the one we imagine.

Alan is forced to reveal a dark secret, in order to preserve his relationship with Abril.

The escape of a taxi driver and a prostitute.

Inspired by the affair between Carlos Gardel and Ivonne Printemps, this story tells the quest of that unfinished love in today's Buenos Aires.

What motivated you to continue studying film?

The daughter of a prestigious architect ruins his plans by spilling a cup of coffee

In Spain, between 1938 and 1996, thousands of babies were stolen from their mothers at birth. Carolina Escudero, an Argentinian with a degree in journalism and a doctorate in social psychology, lives with her family in Barcelona. She has been researching the issue for several years and works with members of the group S.O.S. Stolen Babies Catalonia.

Medina is the prototype Rolo Playboy: millionaire playboy and sophisticated. However, sometimes is lonely at the top. But everything changes when he suffers a series of accidents and always be the same girl to save. The downside is that the lady in question is married, and her husband is a doctor who will devise a strange revenge against the young astray. Along the way, Rolo will discover the meaning of life and love.

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.

A young girl visits the Planetarium with her father and discovers that, in millions of years, the sun could absorb the Earth and extinguish everything. Since then, she develops an obsession with this omnipresent star, which reminds her every day that everything has an end.

Rodrigo and Valentina, in marital and financial crisis, discover that their maid owns a valuable painting by Sorolla. In their desperation, they plunge into a web of deception as they fight to recover the painting and restore their life together.

The four children of a married couple hatch a plan to prevent their father from leaving with another woman

First spoken short film of Argentine cinema.

The Root of the Olive Tree tells the story of five Palestinians living far from their homeland who recount their experiences in the face of the intensification of the genocide and the Israeli occupation that has lasted more than 76 years. From afar, Watan, Omaima, Murid, Baylasan, and Bassel share stories of struggle, loss, and hope. Through their letters, their everyday life and memories—interwoven with the pain of being far away—they express their unwavering faith in a free future for Palestine, always with the constant support of Cuba, the country that has welcomed them.

Fiora and Martina are cooking. The situation stages the real bond that exists between them. As they eat lunch, Fiora relives a story from the past. Martina wants to know more and decides to question her.

High-altitude anthropologist and Head of the Qhapaq Ñan Program, Christian Vitry was part of the expedition which pulled out the Children of the Llullaillaco from within the volcano in 1999. This documentary closely frames Vitry's preparation process, among informative and human talks with the Koya community -who must give him permission to start climbing in the area-, and peronal stories that turn this story into a real travelogue.

A woman in love with a doctor is harassed by another man and she ends up taking care of orphans.

Few people in Argentine and Latin American cinema have been as close as Fernando Birri to stand as a patriarch, pioneer, and spokesman for a committed cinema that tears itself apart in its solidarity with its own surroundings. This ode to the tireless Birri presents him to us in full: teaching, establishing standards, and creating with the tools of his time, turning culture into a form of political affirmation as he grows more and more vital and rooted.

A cheerful painter makes life impossible for a very serious girl.