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Browse 49 movies from Fondo Nacional de las Artes
A young artist must move with his mother to an island, where there are only one hundred inhabitants. Your imagination, harmony with nature and love will be the keys to finding your identity on this path to adulthood that you have to go through.
Sep 2024
Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.
Feb 2020
The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
Jun 1999
Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unexpected reaction—but then he meets someone else.
Feb 2019
In 1936, in Cayastá, Aparicio Garay, a strange inhabitant of the islands, brutally murders an 11-year-old boy, and commits an act of cannibalism following the orders of his God, “El Hora”.
Aug 2020
Jimena travels to Río Grande, on the island of Tierra del Fuego in southernmost Argentina, to join her half-brother Mariano. She has almost no money to travel but manages to arrive there hoping to have a better life in that manufacturing region. The wind, the cold and the complex economic crisis form the background against in which Jimena will develop empathy for the people around her and a feeling of belonging there, but also a place where she will learn to know herself better.
Mar 2021
In the mid-1950s, Sara Facio burst into the world of photography. A tireless precursor, a photographer with a unique gaze, an audacious photojournalist, with the camera on her back, “was there” whenever she wanted.
Oct 2024
Early 2000s. The economy at crisis, the final years of TV's reign, the public was still gullible. A presenter and a cameraman travel to the mountains to film a documentary piece, convinced that fiction is the best way to get in contact with the world.
Oct 2022
Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos was an artist responsible for the creation of a work that it was as ephemeral as it is eternal. He was born in a traditional family, but some years later the curiosity for the art scene, night life and avant-garde development pushed him to live within the iconoclastic and unbiased young 60's crowd.
Nov 2022
Mariano and Juan have been dating for several years; they have a dog and a quiet life. Mariano always wanted to have a small plant nursery away from the city and now that Juan’s work as a writer is more established due to the success of his latest novel, they decide to make that change. While they adjust to their new space and their new routines, they receive a visit from Juan's best friend, who has news to tell them.
Mar 2025
A journey through the conflicting relationship between a man, his social environment and codes.
Jun 2022
Sixty years after the creation of the Cinematography Institute of the National University of the Litoral, in the midst of the Fusiladora Revolution, former teachers and graduates bring to the present the conflicts generated by their audiovisuals critical of capitalism. Despite the definitive closure in 1975, for these former teachers and graduates, the fight continues from the new film schools that opened in Argentina and Latin America.
Jan 2019
Luciano lives with his mother and younger sister in a low-income neighborhood in the Argentine city of Rosario. He studies and helps with the housework. Since money is always short, he takes any temporary work he can get to support his family, while he looks for a steady job. After years of spending long hours at the gym, he has managed to see himself in the body he longed for. Life, however, imposes new challenges on him in his relentless journey to pursue his identity.
Nov 2025
In a world where technological progress is conceived as an arrow pointing forward, why do some people insist on continuing to work with equipment others refer to as obsolete? Analog Thinking answers that question by documenting the meticulous work of those who choose that path. The screen becomes filled with wonderful objects—optical toys, cameras, projectors, film stock cans, moviolas… And the testimonies from those creators invite us to discover a universe that has a lot to do with both craftsmanship and the collective experience—an instance of thinking with your hands that is only possible with curiosity and patience. And among the words, practices and artifacts, Analog Thinking also saves a place for the images that are born from all of that. And it reminds us that, even in this digital age, they still have a lot to teach us about waiting and making mistakes, surprise and beauty.
Nov 2023
On 3 November 1995, the Rio Tercero Military Factory exploded in Cordoba, prompting thousands of projectiles to fire and spread in the surrounding villages, in a tragedy that would leave seven dead and hundreds injured and affected. At the time, Natalia Garayalde was a twelve-year-old girl who lived with her family near the place, and he was still playing filming with the video camera her father had bought, when she recorded the immediate moments of the burst, while her family escaped the explosions, as well as the daily activities of the village in the days and weeks that follow. Twenty-five years later, that material captured from a girl's candid and surprised gaze it becomes a thoughtful and painful testimony about the family, the destruction of a city, the traces of horror, the sinister truth about the case.
Nov 2020
In a remote valley in northern Argentina, the local herb of love, Muña Muña, is in bloom. Olga, a 60-year-old nurse, is preparing to say goodbye to her only son, who is about to leave the country, when she meets Stefano, a young French tourist. Their unexpected connection stirs a desire she thought was long lost.
Las Indomables await with anxiety the start of a neighborhood women's soccer tournament. During the wait all kinds of events happen, love, conflicts, politics and even a rain, stalk the passion for which they are there: Play football at all costs
Apr 2017
'Guacho' narrates a summer day in the life of two teenage friends, Maikol and Darío, who want to escape their everyday crushing reality, at least for a day. They spend up to the last penny to get to the mountains where, taking refuge in tranquility and mutual love, they manage to get a grasp of happiness. But freedom does not seem to be so available to them.
Nov 2018
A veteran boxer loses his hearing after an arranged fight. The desperate effort to continue training, the loneliness and the silence drags him to a constant fight outside the ring.
Apr 2019
The Leguizamon family works every day on the edge of Route 9 selling turtles and cactuses in order to survive in the mount of Santiago del Estero.
Sep 2020