El Desencanto

After his father's death, Mario finds some letters written in Yiddish. They are letters his father received from relatives in Warsaw. Mario decides to search for these people his father never mentioned.

Winter 2007. Two artists from Argentina receive a grant to develop their work in Montreal (Canada). The only catch? They have to share an apartment. In this way filmmaker Franca González and cartoonist Ricardo Siri Liniers come to know each other. From the moment González becomes the roommate of Liniers, a friendship emerges between them and she makes him the proposal of doing a documentary about him. The film starts with an argument to get Liniers permission to chase him with videocameras and ends up becoming one of the most tender portraits ever done of the artist, reflecting the transcendence that ensues from the simple line of his drawings.

“The grid of squares works like memory. We have clear memories, fuzzy memories, and some non-memories.” With this simple statement, the plastic artist Jorge González Perrin tirelessly begins to explain to anyone who wants to listen, the technique he developed together with the Arte Memoria collective.

A group of international students is holding a short film workshop in Buenos Aires. The director invites them to work on the theme of Memory and one of its recently recognized expressions in our country: paving stones on the city's sidewalks, placed to commemorate those disappeared by State Terrorism.

In 1985, Víctor Hugo Saldaño left his native Córdoba for the United States, chasing his own dream, only to enter an endless criminal and prison nightmare. A decade later, he committed a crime and was sentenced to death twice in a biased judicial process tainted by discrimination, which keeps him on death row in a Texas prison to this day.