Fondo Nacional de las Artes

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.

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.

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

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.

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.

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.

Documentary short about the moment of creation and birth of the characters of the book "Sobre Héroes y Tumbas" by Ernesto Sabato.

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict.

A sunny morning in Buenos Aires. All seems quiet, but then an odd race begins: a variety of people are after a backpack. A little army of seekers surprises us at every corner. Suddenly, a lonely bureaucrat (Mapache) is involved in this adventure, and new, mysterious and unknown people start to populate his life, all running around the popular Argentinian city to obtain the backpack which seems to be crucial to his own fate, according to the words of his new accomplice, magician and tarot reader Luminitsia.

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”.

An Argentine director travels to Malvinas to explore the traces of the 1982 war. What begins as a portrait of the conflict turns into an unexpected story of friendship with the enemy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

María Estela Martínez, better known as Isabel Perón, achieved what Evita Perón never could: From an unknown cabaret dancer she became the first female president of the Americas. But after surviving prison and exile under South America’s most brutal military dictatorship, Isabel was forgotten in popular memory. “Una casa sin cortinas” (A House Without Curtains) uncovers why Isabel still haunts Argentina today.

Lost in a world of grown-ups, young Memi is torn between the glamour of the carnival pageant and the social pressure to become a winner.

In 1997, in a small town in Buenos Aires, Emilio´s 16 years old lifeless body, was found next to the train tracks with severe blows, cuts and signs of asphyxiation. The judiciary, politicians and the police try to close the case, but social pressure persists.

Voices and images of games that were played in the past and return to the present, like traces of an intangible cultural heritage that identifies us.

'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.