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Browse 28 movies from Cine Ojo
The way a group of police journalists track and obtain information for their work.
Mar 1998
A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?
May 2005
The story of how a Uruguayan political prisoner, Jorge Tiscornia, from 1972 on, secretly kept a meticulous and personal record of his living conditions during the 4646 days (More than twelve years) that he was in prison in Penal de Libertad: the largest political prison in the 1970s' Latin America.
Apr 2012
A personal film, an intimate journey into an unknown fiction: that of Leopoldo Federico, his music, and his bandoneon. The journey is none other than the one Pauls takes internally, delving into his hidden memories and experiences, searching in the traces of an infinite music for the figure and art of Federico, along with his way of understanding tango.
Jun 2003
An archeological search of Club Atlético, one of the over 800 clandestine centers that existed during Argentina's last civic and military dictatorship.
Mar 2003
Documentary about another documentary by its director Patricio Coll and Jorge Goldenberg, "Hachero nomás".
Mar 2008
A report written in 1904 by Juan Bialet Massé (a Spanish doctor, lawyer, agricultural engineer, businessman, researcher, and adventurer) reveals the abuse and injustice suffered by workers and natives of Argentina, a South American country, at that time. One hundred years later, and guided by Bialet's voice, the filmmaker sets out to explore that same country, experiencing the past and present of an immensely wealthy and dominated people.
Jun 2006
Documentary based on the forced expulsion of more than 250,000 slum dwellers from the Federal Capital during the last military dictatorship. A sympathetic and compassionate look at the suffering of marginalized individuals.
Jan 1986
Las Palmas is a town that had promising beginnings due to the installation on the site of the Las Palmas sugar mill of the Hardy brothers. Thanks to this establishment, at the end of the 19th century the town became the first town to have an electrical power network in Argentina. The mill's bankruptcy process - which began in 1971 and ended with the auction of the properties in 1993 - meant the elimination of the main source of work in the town.
Oct 2002
The Pulqui jet was also designed and built in Argentina by 1947. It was the first aircraft of this type to be manufactured in Latin America. The project is the initiative of Juan Domingo Peron, who also wanted an aircraft capable of competing with the Soviets and the Americans. It is thus that the Pulqui has its baptism recognized flight before the MIG -15 and F -86 Sabre, suspiciously similar design to Pulqui. The project was cut short Pulqui the 1955 coup. But in the documentary, the plane Peronist have a second chance from the hand of the artist Daniel Santoro and Michael Biancusso engineer and metallurgist, who reconstructed thus scale to relive an epic Peronist.
Jul 2007
Documentary that narrates an investigation into the history of a forgotten character in the Argentine Jewish community: Malka, a young woman who was brought from Europe at the beginning of the 20th century through deception to one of the largest and most unique prostitution networks in our country: the Zwi Migdal organization.
May 2014
After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.
Apr 2009
Documentary about Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti (1929-1964), founder of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, and commander of Che Guevara's vanguard in Argentina.
May 2011
Monica contracted polio at age seven, during one of the national epidemics in 1957. Although the disease confined her to a wheelchair, with great difficulty moving her four limbs, Monica has worked as a private English teacher and, more importantly, has been the mother of a daughter who is now 15. After the birth of her daughter, Monica felt the need and the impulse to make a documentary about her "colleagues," mothers in similar situations, a task she undertook with the help of her documentary filmmaker husband.
Apr 2007
The story of this film begins at the moment when the artist and his work become independent forever. Gorriarena dies and his work begins an existence where the author is not there to explain it, replace it or modify it. The mounting of an exhibition is the excuse to explore both material and ideological decisions that coexist in the work of an artist. The film explores some of these decisions and their results, trying to show which gestures of love, trust, order, admiration or greed it arouses, and in the process tries to find the painter's way and perhaps, only perhaps, to get closer to his truth. A truth that is expressed through colour, critical and biting realism, ironic denunciation and energetic resistance to being "accused" of being a political and social painter.
Apr 2010
The words of the Río Turbio miners and their wives. A testimony to human dignity, shaped by a past of sacrifice and an uncertain future.
May 1991
Winter 2007. Two artists from Argentina receive a grant to develop their work in Montreal (Canada). The only catch? They have to share an apartment. In this way filmmaker Franca González and cartoonist Ricardo Siri Liniers come to know each other. From the moment González becomes the roommate of Liniers, a friendship emerges between them and she makes him the proposal of doing a documentary about him. The film starts with an argument to get Liniers permission to chase him with videocameras and ends up becoming one of the most tender portraits ever done of the artist, reflecting the transcendence that ensues from the simple line of his drawings.
Jun 2010
Argentinean singer and tango legend Ada Falcón disappeared without a trace in 1942 at the height of her career. This is the story of how she was located sixty years later, living in an unexpected way, in an unexpected place.
Dec 2003
“The grid of squares works like memory. We have clear memories, fuzzy memories, and some non-memories.” With this simple statement, the plastic artist Jorge González Perrin tirelessly begins to explain to anyone who wants to listen, the technique he developed together with the Arte Memoria collective.
Nov 2015
Sonia is a former militant of the Montoneros. In the 1970s she was a militant in the JP in the western suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires. She begins her journey to the West, to the past, searching and wondering what remains of that revolutionary practice in the very territory where it was tried and failed. But his initial intention fails and he finds, instead, other things: an unexpected balance and demand from the children of that unbeatable generation; the discovery that in the West there were almost no survivors left, due to a particular form of repression; and the most important thing: he discovers his profound need for reflection in order to bring to an end the most intense and tragic stage of his life.
Apr 2004