DOCA Documentalistas argentinos

It tells the story of one of the greatest exponents of Argentine tango, who captivated audiences with his unique voice. Using previously unseen archival footage (home movies, unreleased recordings, interviews), anecdotes told by family, friends, and various figures from the artistic world, the documentary reconstructs Goyeneche's life through his own voice. An emotional and sensorial journey through the life of one of the greatest legends of Argentine popular culture.

On October 5, 2010, Alejandro Bordón was arrested by a police officer on his way to work. After a brutal beating, he was taken to Police Station No. 6 in Lanús, where he was informed that he was accused of the murder of bus driver Juan Alberto Núñez.

Nicaragua... el sueño de una generación (2012) Anonymous More than 30 years after the triumph of Sandinista Popular Revolution, Argentine 'internationalists' recall their own experience as being part of that Latin American heroic deed. For some of them, the Revolution remains as valid today as it was during those early years, some others keep only a memory of past militancy and dreams realized . All of them have their lives marked by Nicaragua.

A group of inmates decide to take on a workshop to act the life of Andrés Bazán Frías. Bazán Frías was born in poverty at the end of the XIX century and was known for stealing food to give to his neighbors. In 1923 he was murdered by the police. He became known as the "Robin Hood tucumano", and is now hold as a saint amongst the inmates.

The journalist Andrés Oviedo must write about the murder of a young political activist Mariano Ferreyra for the magazine where he works. Oviedo performs a series of interviews and dialogues with familiars and friends of Ferreyra. The search for the truth and the motifs of the crime lead him to confront his publishers, who removed him from the case. In front of the arising complications, Andrés doubts to proceed with the investigation, but the support of his daughter, of the same generation as Mariano, helps him to continue. (FILMAFFINITY)

Zew was born in a prison camp on the Island of Rhodes in 1941 during World War II. Psychoanalyst and "magician's apprentice", he looks for a way to tell his grandchildren his story, in a Buenos Aires where the lives of other immigrants converge.

During the last argentine military dictatorship, the Army developed a systematic plan for the abduction of children, with maternity wards inside the clandestine detention centers. This film proposes itself as a trip to the truth "to bring to light the places where lots of babies saw the light for the first time"; Three restored children show the part for the whole :how a genocide was orchestrated,a scheme which planned the deprivation of identity of babies born in captivity, children of illegally kidnapped and detained women.

The youngsters housed in the "Almafuerte" Maximum Security Juvenile Institute have their first approach to audiovisual recording. A film and documentary video workshop serves as an excuse for them to make a short film inside the prison. The camera is a rabid toy that generates fascination in them and rescues a sheltered, innocent smile that seemed forgotten under the shadows. While inside libertarian cries bounce against the walls, outside sounds fanfares of an iron fist.

A group of young actors attempts to recreate some of the key scenes that tell the story of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, the guerrilla group created by the Chilean Communist Party, 10 years after the start of the dictatorship of the genocidal Augusto Pinochet in December 1983.

Few people in Argentine and Latin American cinema have been as close as Fernando Birri to stand as a patriarch, pioneer, and spokesman for a committed cinema that tears itself apart in its solidarity with its own surroundings. This ode to the tireless Birri presents him to us in full: teaching, establishing standards, and creating with the tools of his time, turning culture into a form of political affirmation as he grows more and more vital and rooted.

The life of the last female singer of the golden age of tango, who died at 102 years of age. Nelly Omar stood out as one of the consecrated interpreters of tango and national folklore.

A man arrives in Necochea, an empty coastal city in the dead of winter. He searches for information about his deceased grandfather, discovers that he had to go into exile fleeing the Spanish civil war, escaping throughout Europe until he reached Argentina. But there is no one left alive who can tell him what happened.

Musical documentary based on the stories of four women who studied to become nurses in the school of the Fundación Eva Perón in 1948, which was one of the institutions that helped pave the way for change for women in Argentina. The testimonies from the protagonists are reenacted in the form of a musical, in a film that combines archival footage and choreography.

tells the experience of a group of medical students who travel to the north of Argentina to assist different indigenous communities that suffer the dispossession of their lands and structural poverty.

Faced with the death of a comrade, the workers of Line 60 look for lessons in past struggles in order to confront the boss once again. Santiago, one of them, reviews in his chronicles the pages of the last triumph in order to write his story: that of a collective of combative workers.

Documentary film on the critically acclaimed novel El traductor by Salvador Benesdra, a journalist in midst of crisis in the mid 90s. Unable to publish his work, he kills himself.

Documentary about Eduardo Longoni, the photographer who captured decisive moments in the last 40 years of Argentine history.

What happened, really, on June 26th, 2002 at the Pueyrredón Bridge cut? How do the newsrooms of the main newspapers in the country work? Why didn't the media publish the photographic sequence after the repression? How far does journalists' responsibility go? Through these questions, the film reconstructs and analyzes the events that occurred in the Avellaneda Massacre, the government's political bosses, and the documentation of the information by the mainstream media.

In Argentina, the role of the security forces is under discussion and scrutiny. However, a group of people has been fighting to initiate a debate that democracy has never allowed regarding unionization and workers' rights.

A documentary that highlights the pivotal role of women in the guerrilla struggle and the revolution’s evolution. It features heroines like Vilma Espín, Celia Sánchez, and Haydée Santamaría, alongside voices of workers, doctors, artists, and activists from various backgrounds. It explores themes like literacy, education, resistance to the blockade, solidarity, and LGBT marches for sexual diversity, offering a powerful, emotional portrayal of Cuba’s sociocultural landscape through the eyes of women.