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Browse 56 movies from Fondo Nacional de las Artes
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
In the 90s, members of the Wichí community of Gral. Mosconi, northeast of the province of Salta, searched for evidence and prepared the necessary arguments to face a judicial dispute that required them to demonstrate with evidence the possession and ownership of their property. territory. Indian Path is built from filming and testimonies generated at that time by the community itself, which introduce us to that complex process where, beyond the legal, the Wichí of Misión Tolaba put into play the ancestral notions of belonging to nature that give life and sustenance to mountain civilizations.
Nov 2024
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
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
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
How does a man, raised between Islam and Marxism, survive exile while a revolution led by women unfolds in his land?
Oct 2022
In the future, the planet is devastated by pollution. Five-year-old Anahí accompanies her mother to exchange scrap metal for some drinking water. On the way home, an evil figure takes possession of the precious liquid, triggering a tragic end for this mother and daughter.
Jun 2020
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
Two men playing their destiny in a game of chess.
Jan 1999
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
Emi lives with his adoptive parents in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. He is trying to find a job to cover his expenses and, at the same time, beginning a search for his biological parents. Over time, he will find work at a repair shop and start associating with both his employer and his family. However, this is no coincidence.
An Argentine director travels to the Falkland Islands to explore the traces of the 1982 war.
Apr 2026
A suffocating summer afternoon. 11-year-old Iñaki lies down between the half-naked bodies of his brothers and his father. The guilt of exploring his sexuality confronts him with his worst fears and he resorts to his imagination to get through the situation.
Jun 2021
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
Jul 2010
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
A portrait of the bond between a filmmaker great-granddaughter and her great-grandmother, photographer Annemarie Heinrich. Through this relationship, Mariana explores a shared obsession: what it means to portray and reveal someone.
Two women set the body and a mourning process in motion. They gather to remember and dance the teachings of Verónica. Going out dancing is a decision and learning. Also a great possibility of transmuting pain into beauty and a commitment to life.
Sep 2023
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
Paladium. One of the busiest and most fashionable nightclubs in Buenos Aires, where artists, LGBT activists, traditional tangueros, and the newest generation of Argentine rock musicians would all cohabit with freedom and morality. And now?
Apr 2025