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Browse 64 movies from Mecenazgo Cultural
A woman finds new meaning in her life after her housekeeper quits her job.
Oct 2023
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.
Sep 2024
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
Oct 2018
A documentary about the fans of "Waiting for the Carriage", the Argentine film classic directed by Alejandro Doria, and which investigates the obvious and hidden reasons for this phenomenon.
Feb 2021
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
A successful transgender actress and her lawyer husband decide to adopt a child, defying the conservative community in Argentina. But their attempt for a domestic happiness is thwarted when they visit the actress's hometown.
Oct 2025
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.
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
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
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
Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who jobs as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum and falls in love with a currency exchange house employee.
Greta and Bruno, her husband, struggle with grief after the disappearance of their son. Their friend Sina travels to the coast to help them sell their summer house.
Jun 2022
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.
Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. Step by step, they find their way back to the practice.
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
In the mid-1950s, Sara Facio burst into the world of photography. A tireless precursor, a photographer with a unique gaze, an audacious photojournalist, with the camera on her back, “was there” whenever she wanted.
Is this film about Clorindo Testa or not? Is it about the life of the director, about the life of his father, about the life of his country, or is it just one of those biographical films that proliferate at film festivals in which the narrator spends his time recounting family anecdotes and pulling old photos out of a box? This small, microscopic adventure, whose subtitle, stolen from the Savoyard Xavier de Maistre, could well be Voyage autour de mon père, navigates between these threats and others even worse.
Nov 2022
Mariano and Juan have been dating for several years; they have a dog and a quiet life. Mariano always wanted to have a small plant nursery away from the city and now that Juan’s work as a writer is more established due to the success of his latest novel, they decide to make that change. While they adjust to their new space and their new routines, they receive a visit from Juan's best friend, who has news to tell them.
Mar 2025
Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seemed unsuccessful and pointless.
Jan 2018
Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
Aug 2021