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Browse 71 movies from Mecenazgo Cultural
There is a monster in Lake Nahuel Huapi. At twilight, it spreads across the surface of the water like a taut cowhide, grabbing its victims with sharp claws. Another monster also lurks around the lake, near Bariloche, in the Argentine Andes.
Mar 2021
Vanina is a single mother in Argentina in 2001. She lives at home with her parents, and her job is threatened by the economic crisis. A chance encounter with an old friend reconnects Vanina with the adventures and memories of her youth.
Nov 2023
After finding the soundtrack of Tararira, the only Argentine surrealist film shot in 1936, lost since then, and starring their great-grand uncles, the Aguilar brothers set out to unravel the family history at the crossroads of the great political events of the 20th century. It is also a story of El Cuarteto Aguilar, a very particular music band, which had an openly lesbian member in the first half of the last century. The discovery of the soundtrack of the lost film leads to a documentary collage that travels through Argentina, Spain and other parts of the world to ask again, one hundred years later, if perhaps the revolution is not also an aesthetic.
Sep 2024
Three brothers wander for hours in an abandoned factory devoured by nature. They try to get to Luján to ask the Virgin for the health of their sick father. The siblings haven't been together for a while. Their attempts to unite the family seem like an impossible chimera: the past emerges, again and again, like an embedded stinger.
Nov 2024
The talent scouts of the Boca Juniors athletic club travel the most remote clubs, courts and paddocks with the aim of discovering the future cracks of Argentine football. The film takes a close look at the work of evaluating more than 40,000 boys, looking to find the most talented.
Nov 2015
Santiago has been unable to control his epilepsy for 28 years, dealing with the side effects of various medications. In 2010, he was hospitalized for three days in an attempt to induce seizures—to locate the point of discharge—and try brain surgery, but he was also deemed inoperable. At this point, Santiago decided to try something no one had suggested: accepting his body as it is, with its “abnormal” moments.
Feb 2026
A young artist must move with his mother to an island, where there are only one hundred inhabitants. Your imagination, harmony with nature and love will be the keys to finding your identity on this path to adulthood that you have to go through.
In a small coastal town, a group of people isolated during the COVID quarantine seek solace and meaning in poetry in the face of death, while clinging to the fantasy of rebuilding their shattered lives. The film intertwines reality and dreams, exploring cinema as a refuge and reflecting on human nature and the power of art to transcend despair.
Dec 2025
With her girlfriend lying comatose in the hospital, after having found her lifeless body in the bathtub, Clara starts the path of physical and psychological transformation with the goal of possessing her girlfriend again in some way.
Feb 2021
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.
Nov 2025
An Argentine director travels to the Falkland Islands to explore the traces of the 1982 war.
Apr 2026
In 1982 the Malvinas war affected combatants from Argentina and the United Kingdom. The shock wave of the crisis shook thousands of souls in many countries. This documentary tells five stories of civilians whose lives changed forever by the conflict. An inquiry about being in the right place, at the right time, or the opposite
Dec 2021
An atmospheric chronicle of the 2001 crisis in Argentina, a political, economic, and social uprising fueled by the "Let them all go!" revolt. The film reconstructs this moment using restored archival footage, capturing the spontaneity of the protests and the political instability that led to the resignation of five presidents. Through television footage, it immerses the viewer in a real-time experience of this crucial period in Argentine history.
A documentary that tells the story of one of the most successful Argentine films of the ‘90s: Wild Tango. With a controversy that few people know about and several detractors, the undeniable fact is that it was the first approach to cinema and local rock for an entire generation.
May 2024
This film explores the perception of Lisandro, a 16-year-old boy who is on the autistic spectrum. His mother, Valentina, an actress, has raised him between backstages and dressing rooms. Is there any difference for him between reality and fiction?
Apr 2025
On the eve of the 2001 outbreak, Natalia falls madly in love with her lifelong friend Diego. The romance is interrupted when he meets the more experienced Silvia. With the help of her grandma Rita, Natalia decides to call on incantations and curses to jinx Diego and Silvia's blossoming relationship.
Jan 2026
A portrait of the bond between a filmmaker great-granddaughter and her great-grandmother, photographer Annemarie Heinrich. Through this relationship, Mariana explores a shared obsession: what it means to portray and reveal someone.
Pablo, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, has an affair with Luciana, one of his students. Natalia, another professor at the University of Buenos Aires starts an affair with her student Gonzalo. Two stories, as two sides of the same coin.
Gonzalo, a shy young man, goes out to recess hoping to go unnoticed but he is intimidated and cornered by bullies from the school. Gonzalo tries to escape but he is forced into an extreme situation.
Jun 2023
David, a young middle-class Jewish boy, overweight, homosexual and afraid of flying, returns to Buenos Aires from Europe when his uncle dies. During his time there, David learns that his mother has decided to disconnect his father from the ventilator.
Oct 2024