DOCA Documentalistas argentinos

In January 1972, during General Lanusse's dictatorship in Argentina, a group of revolutionary activists occupied the National Development Bank, just meters from the Government House, expropriating 450 million pesos (approximately 10 million dollars today) for their cause. This was made possible by Oscar Serrano and Ángel Abus—activists and bank employees—who spent two years preparing what would become the biggest blow to the dictatorship's finances. Forty years later, Oscar and Ángel, along with a group of actors, recreate those events that changed their lives. In this dialogue between generations, the young people transform their perspective on activism and commitment during those years. Narrated through several cinematic layers, Seré Millones (I Will Be Millions) offers an innovative story that blends humor, rigorous historical research, and the epic spirit of the era.

Through conversations with men and women practicing the Yoruba religion -better known as "Santeria" in Cuba-, the documentary narrates through a simple and direct record the phenomenon of faith and how it entered their lives.

In July 1982, a month after the capitulation of Argentine troops in the Falklands war with Great Britain, GENTE magazine published on the cover a photo of a boy who had sent a letter and a chocolate to an anonymous soldier. His letter and chocolate would never reach the recipient, the chocolate being later sold at a kiosk in the Argentinian town of Comodoro Rivadavia. 38 years later, Gustavo Vidal, the chocolate boy, embarks on a journey to reconstruct the story that moved, in its time, Argentines deceived by the press before, during and after the armed conflict with the United Kingdom.

Every day, hundreds of women give birth in hospitals and clinics. One in three babies is born by cesarean section. Vanesa, Mariana, and Nayla are pregnant. Each has a different story, but all three share the same goal: to give birth naturally and enjoy that momentous moment.

A documentary about the afro uruguayan community that lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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)

In January 1959, around 9,000 workers at the Lisandro De la Torre state-owned meatpacking plant began a strike against its privatization. While President Arturo Frondizi traveled to the United States, an unprecedented popular uprising erupted in the Mataderos neighborhood. The documentary chronicles the testimony of the protagonists of the now legendary takeover of the meatpacking plant to analyze the close ties that meat, politics, and violence have had throughout Argentine history.

TV Utopia was a television channel made by residents of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito. During almost all of the '90s, TV Utopia broadcast content generated by the residents themselves 24 hours a day from apartments, commercial premises, streets, squares or wherever possible. The director participated in that quixotic adventure - which even survived several raids - and now recovers his memory.

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.

The roadblock at the entrance to Santa Victoria Este was the beginning of a journey that accompanied the claim of the Wichi and Weenhayek communities through three countries: Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The lack of fish in the Pilcomayo River, the main axis of the protests, was the trigger for a complex political, economic and social framework, which is still awaiting answers.

A strange monument in the Pampa de Achala, Córdoba, holds a hidden meaning. Yet there are always those who are astonished and begin to ask questions. The answers ignite passions that lead us to the past and the future, and to the discovery that Argentina's aerospace history began in the breathtaking landscape of the High Peaks. A group of young people from the Traslasierra region and an experienced engineer recreate the historic feat that placed our country at the forefront of scientific development.

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.

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.

Documentary that tells four stories intertwined by the need to have a roof.

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.

This documentary film explores the life of Cuban revolutionary poet Roberto Fernández Retamar, who, from the Casa de las Américas, has served as a link between the revolution and leading contemporary writers and thinkers.

The film investigates an industry considered one of the pillars of growth during Kirchnerism in which, during these years, relations and conflicts were drawn between the manufacturers - foreign in its entirety -, the auto parts companies, the Argentine government, the Brazilian one, the union leaderships. -centrally from SMATA-, the workers and the left. The documentary delves into the interests that intersect and the confrontations that originate between the different actors in the chain, which became clear in recent times when the industry, which aspired to reach one million cars manufactured per year, began to regress. The different actors of the "Journey to the Center of Production" are intertwined in the conflict of the auto parts company Gestamp, which opened a dispute regarding who pays for the crisis in the sector and what solutions are seen in that dispute.

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.