Cinemilagroso

Fernando is on holiday with his closest male friends in a beautiful country house in a suburb of Buenos Aires. On their own without their girlfriends in a “men only” environment, the hunky young studs bask in the hot sun, play in the pool, smoke pot, and drink, most often semi-clad or naked. In this freewheeling and testosterone-infused environment, they talk of their desires and strengthen their individual bonds.

The carnival is coming soon. We witness the ritual of “cleaning the meat” performed by the “gauchos” who unfold their knives. The bucolic landscape mixes with the city streets. Slowly, everything fills with colour, feathers and semi-naked men. Face masks begin to cover the faces and alcohol disinhibit the bodies.

Francisco Cruzans is a young man from Buenos Aires suburbs, who was filmed from his first days of life and for more than 25 years, until today. From there, an archive that links him to his maternal family, stands out for the frustrations and longings of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents to carry out the original desire to form a family.

Since they were children, every summer they used to participate together in the traditional carnivals of their hometown. This magical celebration, transform men of the community into dionysiac figures with makeup, coloured costumes, glitter and feathers. Alcohol, friendship and parties out of control become the limelight. Boundaries get blurred with the heat of the sun at the edge of the imposing Paraná River.

Nicolás Barsoff, a young Argentine actor of Austrian and Russian descent, rescues a box of film reels just as his father was about to throw it away. He hopes the box will be the key to unlocking a tendency toward darkness that haunts him as part of an inevitable inheritance he tries to combat with natural medicines. Through the archive, we delve into the story of a family torn apart by World Wars I and II, immigration to Argentina, and the military dictatorship of 1976. His two grandparents are presented as antagonistic characters in the context of the disappearance: two ghostly figures in a genealogy that Nicolás will try to reconstruct.

Francisco and Sol were raised outside the system, in a religious community called La Familia Internacional. In an attempt to free their voice and reconfigure the puzzle of subjectivity, the recovery of the past through memories allows to bring up events that had been previously denied.

On the verge of achieving his dream career, Tomás allows his older brother Martin Farina an inside look at his life as a professional football player. Martin, never able to fulfill his own dream of playing football, steps into the world of Tomás and his teammates through the lens of his camera.

Raúl Perrone does not usually allow people to register his work. It represents an act of intimacy. However, Martín earns his trust and is allowed to take part in the shooting. Perrone's process of filmmaking becomes a testimony of both his role as a film director and a human being with his lights and shadows.

Esther Diaz discovers her own self & transgenerational sex attraction late in life. While « exploring » and after she decides to study again and gets a PhD with distinction. She acts and narrates her own true story and experience with a touch of subjective fiction.

Forty-seven years after they met while serving in the military during the coup, a group of friends continue to celebrate an uninterrupted friendship that reflects the ups and downs of a confused society in which yesterday’s experiences are mixed with political convictions.

“Willy” Villalobos was a Montonero militant (left-wing guerrilla) who, after being imprisoned in 1975, went into exile in Europe in 1979. Upon his return to a democratic Argentina, he experienced a loss that left him directionless and forced him to move to a town in northern Uruguay. It will become a dreamlike space where ghosts reveal themselves among the dunes that devour the houses beneath the lighthouse at night.

Tonight is the monthly meeting of the 75s graduates class. The conversation flows until it suddenly acquires an aggressive tone when they discuss the continuity of some members of the Whatsapp group who don't participate much.

The relationship between Martín, the filmmaker, and Mariano, a country man from the south of Argentina.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon of an August Friday in the province of Corrientes. A few weeks before embarking on their graduation trip, a group of students in the last year of high school meets after school to decide who will receive the free trip to go to Bariloche.

Old friends, family, reunions, business, scams, films... These characters carry out the art of arguing with the unobjectionable feeling of being right. 60 minutes and 5 chapters in which the protagonists give their all in order to win their small epic battles.