Centro de Producción e Investigación Audiovisual (CePIA)

During the Falklands War, a young second lieutenant is forced to confront the dilemmas of obedience, honor, and endurance. Amid violence, fear, and uncertainty, the inner surge for dignity and survival prevails.

On the verge of dying, wounded in the Malvinas, Martín hears his own voice coming from the future to rescue him. Thirty years later, Martín reunites with his girlfriend when he had to leave to fight in the Malvinas Islands. He wants to forget; and she needs to remember. Time is not linear, decisions from the past inevitably impact the future.

April 1982. A young man tries to avoid an army medical checkup to avoid traveling to fight in the Falkland Islands.

A modest law firm receives a somewhat ambiguous assignment regarding some properties from a mysterious foreigner, apparently of American origin. One of the partners is struck by the opaque nature of the case and decides to take some time to investigate. He eventually discovers that the foreigner was English and that it is a scheme to seize a house belonging to an Argentine family.

Pampa in Patagonia. June 1982. A chance encounter between a mute Argentine man who isn't mute, a lying Chilean woman who tells the truth, and some terrifying but actually scared shitless English soldiers gives rise to a dramatic comedy that summarizes three opportunities—the same opportunities that Argentina, Chile, and England failed to take in June 1982.

Two Argentine soldiers, complete strangers, find themselves face-to-face in a foxhole during the Falklands War, forced into a tense and unexpected encounter at the edge of survival.

Pedro is 15 years old and lives in the Piñalito Norte neighborhood, deep in the Misiones jungle. While his rural school teacher assigns him a practical project related to the Malvinas conflict, his father and brothers involve him in a nighttime outing in the woods. They are armed with rifles and shotguns. They are searching for intruders who threaten to occupy their land and exploit it illegally.

Alex and Dani, two Kelper children living in Stanley, Falkland Islands, skip school to play in the fields, as they usually do every day. One afternoon, when they discover a black, viscous liquid they believe to be oil, their historical differences come to light.

Ángela Ferrer lost her grandson during the Falklands War. A year has passed since the end of the war, and Ángela has not resigned herself to accepting her grandson's death, much less to not being able to visit his grave and pay him the tribute she considers more than deserved. Today, Ángela searches the cemetery for an abandoned grave that could serve as a space to visit her grandson. Finally, she decides on one that shows signs of neglect. She refurbishes it and leaves behind a small painting she made, in which we see a sailboat sailing across the sea. These visits take place weekly, while Ángela continues her daily routine, until one day they are suddenly interrupted.

Javier, a 19-year-old young man drafted into the war, goes to his ex-girlfriend's house seeking forgiveness before he leaves. At the same time, Javier's mother, Alicia, visits an old friend who is now a colonel to ask her to spare him.

Matias faces a very difficult class. The topic will be about the Falklands War, a topic close to his heart. The teacher mentions the letters of Julio Cao, a young elementary school teacher who voluntarily went to the Falklands to defend his country.

A conscript spends his final Sunday with a host family in Comodoro Rivadavia before he leaves for war.

On March 24, 2004, Patricia, a teacher from Monte Grande, saw on television President Néstor Kirchner take down the portrait of Videla and other de facto presidents of the military dictatorship from the Military College. This image repeated itself in her mind, leading her to retrieve from her box of memories the letters addressed to the soldiers of the Malvinas War, which she had saved from destruction when she worked as an administrator at the Municipality of Monte Grande. She then decided to give meaning to that event by starting to deliver the letters that had never arrived.

A group of children, still in their early years, gather together to share a moment of play. They all agree that they are going to play war, more precisely, the Falklands War. They divide into two sides: Argentine and English, paint their flags, choose their weapons, and take up positions. It is only a game, but as time goes by, something of the tragic dimension of the events that marked Argentine history will take root in their consciousness.

A former soldier reunites with his comrades, who are unaware that they are dead.

In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy kidnapped a young Aboriginal man from the Yamán ethnic group. The young man was taken to England aboard the HMS Beagle and christened Jemmy Button, because a mother-of-pearl button was all he paid for him. In England, he learned English and had tea with King William IV. A year later, he returned to his native Tierra del Fuego. Some thirty years later, a reverend set out for the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego. His immediate objective was to find Jemmy Button. The reverend confidently goes to this meeting with someone he assumes is now a "civilized" Aboriginal man. But what he finds comes as a surprise.

On a hilltop in the Falkland Islands, two children, about 10 years old, are finishing their vigil and will soon be replaced by their own mothers, both members of the Falkland Islands Celebration Committee. The purpose of the vigil is to catch a glimpse of the plane that will bring Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to Falkland Islands for the first time to visit her subjects on the islands.

While the Bolivian flag is raised by military hands on a pontoon of the Bolivian Naval Force, a civilian swimmer is ritually prepared to enter the waters of Lake Titicaca naked to cross them towards the Island of the Sun. This short film is the record of a poetic act that connects a deep wound Bolivia faces due to its denial of access to the sea with a war conflict still vivid in the memories of Argentines.

Soledad is pregnant with her fourth child. She and her partner, Alberto, are awaiting the arrival of this child at home. They hope for a birth in harmony with nature. We will witness the moments leading up to the baby's arrival and the mother's labor.