Matanza Cine

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.

A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.

Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.

Tonelec, a young descendant of Tobas, is knowledgeable about his traditions, his history, his legacy and his language, but acts as a member of a Ranquel community, in a film set in 1810 that celebrates the Bicentennial. He, the other actors and the technicians working on the set try to overcome so much confusion.

Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.

A world-renowned but reclusive novelist, believing he is about to die, summons his estranged sons to his home. But instead of seeking forgiveness for their shattered family, he tells them a wild and unbelievable secret that could rewrite their past.

Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with Julia and her son, Tomas, born inside an Argentinean prison.

A married woman with a mute daughter has a forbidden relationship with the single father of a teenage boy.

Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and sends him to Buenos Aires city so he can become an aspiring police officer. Soon he will get involved in a new type of corruption.

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

In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.

Laura is pregnant, but she doesn't want to have that child. Juan, her veterinarian husband, on the other hand, does. Laura seems obsessed with the piano lessons she gives to Sol, a young student in whom she has vague hopes: perhaps to see her pursue a career she'd given up on, or even the chance to escape from a town that's suffocating her.

A surgeon from Buenos Aires, wearied by personal problems and the endless cycle of work, leaves for a week's skiing vacation in the south. Instead, on impulse, he follows a young hitchhiker to a small fishing village, Devil's Point, in the north, on the coast of Uruguay. He makes fleeting acquaintance with some of the villagers, and learns that "the only thing to do in winter is to wait for summer".

Starting in La Higuera in 1967, where Ernesto Che Guevara's body is secretly buried, *Say Good Morning to Dad* revisits this place every ten years, focusing on the impact of the event on three generations of women.

As laid-off factory worker Marcos pins his hopes for a new life on completing his long-unfinished one-man play, he contacts his estranged friend Martín, now a television writer, for help. But can their collaboration transcend an uneasy past? As the men come together in the creative process, they're offered a chance to rebuild their abandoned friendship.

While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.

Caíto is approaching 30 years old and his friends grow and assemble projects he also wants for his life then becomes obsessed with the idea of being a father and from this need, begins a relationship with "Suzuki", the girl "easy" of the people, and with "Anita", a girl living in a violent home that requires a hard life. The improvised trio embarks on an adventure in which the desire to form a family seems to be close but in what appears to be the final stretch of history, Guillermo Pfening interrupted fiction as director but also as a brother offering to Caíto the possibility to decide how you want to end his life film portrays.