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Browse 57 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
An Argentine director travels to the Falkland Islands to explore the traces of the 1982 war.
Apr 2026
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.
Nov 2025
A history book, a film saved from the dictatorship, an exiled film director, and a collection of pirated films. The filmmaker traces the images of the women who led to the triumph of the longest strike in Argentine history.
Oct 2021
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.
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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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.
'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
Hidden today behind the parking lot of a famous hypermarket, and attached to a regiment that served as a clandestine detention center during the last military dictatorship, the Centennial Pavilion is a silent witness to the darkness of Argentine history over the past 110 years.
Aug 2021
Through observational and interview recording, it seeks to describe the relationships between a Catholic parish, an evangelical church, and the shrine of "Gauchito" Antonio Gil, located in a neighborhood in the Buenos Aires suburbs called Villa Rosa.
Two men playing their destiny in a game of chess.
Jan 1999