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To the Silence is the story of a farewell, an elegy, a man’s journey to the heart of the mountain. He travels carrying on his back all the weight of his story; like a cross, a big bag that accompanies him on his walk.
Al Silencio es la historia de una despedida, una elegía, el viaje de un hombre al corazón de la montaña, lo hace llevando en su espalda todo el peso de su historia; como una cruz, un gran bolso lo acompaña en su andar.
Mr. Pix thinks he makes objects move by itself. Every day he repeats a strict routine, until he realizes that he has lived an illusion and which objects move on their own. So Mr. Pix will try to unravel the object´s mystery while also escape from them, since they pursue him to return to his old routine. Mr. Pix is a character, but he doesn´t know.
Sr. Pix cree que mueve los objetos con sólo desearlo. Todo los días, el Sr. Pix repite una estricta rutina hasta que se da cuenta que vive en una ilusión y que los objetos se mueven solos sin seguir sus órdenes. El Sr. Pix intentará descubrir el misterio mientras intentará escapar de los objetos ya que intentan devolverlo a su estricta rutina.
CENTAUR is a Greek-Creole western that is set amongst the palm trees and TV aerials of the soy producing Pampas. When the bad gaucho invokes the spirit of his dead brother, the drama of representation is unleashed. Violence –always instrumental– emerges in the form of a whip-knife carried by the horse-man. In short, the centaur, just like the gaucho, is a myth, but an interrupted myth that was lost far away and long ago. Only that this story occurs nearby and in more recent times.
On the assembly line red cans go by. The worker repeats the same sequence of movements. One day, he takes a can from the line and reads the instructions for use. Acting and working are industrial exercises. Everything that needs to be said, is said in the locker room.
Maldonado lives in a farm at an island in the Parana River. He lived there his whole life, like his father and grandfather. One morning, after long years, his wife Celia and his daughter Victoria leave him. Maldonado comes back to the farm after spending the morning fishing and they are no longer there. Suddenly he finds himself all alone and not knowing what to do. Life in the island does not give you a break: you have to fish, light the fire, take care of the animals; the island demands. Maldonado doesn’t abandon his tasks, but a new frailty appears in his life.
Cristian is a young actor who has trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. While he waits for his girlfriend in a bar, his mind delves in the memories of their relationship and the mysterious figure of Rubén Alvarán, a man born in Paraguay in the early years of the 20th century.
ABUBAKAR is 46 years old and participates in the Zikr, ritual dances performed by Chechen Sufi Muslims. At each Zikr he reaches a state of ecstasy and for ABUBAKAR it’s an exorcism, a form of liberation from everything that his people have suffered over so many years of occupation.
The presence of his mother, his wife and his nine children make ghosts from the past and present reappear: stories of the 1948 deportation, his daughters under threat from kidnappings, the city of Grozny in the present day, lights, sounds, landscapes, dark faces behind dilapidated walls. All of this brings memory to life mixing it with reality.
It is the everyday reunion that a Chechen makes with two pillars of his society, faith and culture, embodied in the Zikr where the sacred merges with the profane.
ABUBAKAR defines it as an act of resistance where they reunite with their dead and their pain through dance, music and prayer.
A very old Chimai, spiritual healer, faces a demon with the power of her drum.
Itaeté and Ulises, a Guraní old man and a guaraní young teenager, are immersed into the jungle, building a canoe. Itaeté is trying instilling a traditional legacy in the boy, but Ulises isn’t very interested. His true calling is music. He’s a rapper.
A documentary portrait of the film distributor Pascual Condito and the world of Argentine cinema. Tired of the difficult moment he is going through with his distribution company, is thinking over a crucial decision that will allow him to continue safely in the world of film until the end of his days.
Sofia is sixteen, she likes to talk over the phone with her older sister who lives in the city and smoking secretly. Maria Lujan, her best friend, likes black coffee and butter cookies; she has a girlfriend and never hesitates when doing what she feels. But one night Lujan has its first fear: Sofia kisses a girl. Lujan is filled with love but also with the certainty that falling in love is not an option.
María Victoria, a film director, decides to give up her career because of the uncountable difficulties that her job entails. Convinced by her friend Franca, she starts to film fun and emotional scenes of her daily life, that slowly and almost unintentionally lead her to reconnect with herself and with her true love for the cinema.
Apparently, according to some verses of The Internationale, the socialism would be something like a paradise full of brothers and sisters.
Indira finds out that her 16 years old daughter is in love with another girl. She enters in a crisis due the fact she can’t face this new side of her. And so it begins, a new sentimental space between her and her daughter.
A synchronized swimming team welcomes to the new member.
After a party, Agos and Ren leap trough time into a strange dimension in wich they remember to have been before.
Marta lives in complete isolation, Maya settles nearby. Once the boundaries between them are dissolved, an unexpected ritual will transform both.
Patagonia. A small valley in the Andes Mountains. Four women alone. Four unique ways to live their spirituality.
Around the fire, six figures are found. One of them starts a journey.
Buenos Aires 2001. In a supermarket in the suburbs a chinese family decides to close the market for the fear of the looting being committed throughout the city. The days pass by and the family tries to keep their normal lives but the fear of outside lurking breaks in their family life, over and over.
After the mysterious disappearance of his aunt, Mateo begins to remember his childhood at her land in the wild. Between a series of telephone conversations, pierced with the images of two families in the same house, we enter a timeless journey bounded by three stories where the visible occupants get mixed up with the invisible ones.
For an entire year, a small town up northeast Argentina undertakes the construction of a hotel. Young Isabel goes through the first-hand experience of a clash of cultures.
During the Nazi occupation, a man visits the French town of Salers, where a crazy woman follows him. Many years later, he returns to the same city.
. “La vida de alguien” parece preguntarse por el camino del héroe en la sociedad contemporánea. ¿Dónde puede constituirse lo heroico en la ciudad posmoderna? ¿Qué importancia tienen hoy los principios? ¿Cómo pensar la amistad ante una ausencia física? ¿Es posible el duelo sin regodearse en la melancolía?
The story takes place in a parallel world during a tour of the musician Daniel Melingo in Europe. What looks like real not always is. With elements of surrealism, the 1930s and the 21st century, the plot accompanies him always focused on the intermediate times, when he downs the stage, away from the show.
Mauro walks through the city buying stuff. Anything, it doesn’t matter what. Because Mauro is a passador, as in the streets they call a man who trade fake bills.
Un encuentro por azar. Sin quererlo y sin planearlo, un día entero juntos. Quererse o creer que se quiere. Repetir la misma acción hasta el cansancio. Quererse, o querer creerlo. Ahora, simular estar contentos y jugar a evadirse cuantas veces sea necesario. El deber de separarse, saberlo, no querer, pero tener que hacerlo.
Rocío and Melina, two pre-adolescent girls, experience the end of their childhood and of the strong friendship that bounds them together.
Un joven boxeador deambula entre el gimnasio y su casa. Su padre entregado a la bebida y a las carreras de caballo, proyecta en él la esperanza de salida de su angustiosa rutina.
Un documental sobre la supuesta cura nazi de la homosexualidad llevada a cabo por un médico danés que experimentó con jóvenes homosexuales en un Campo de Concentración. Finalizada la guerra, se refugió en la Argentina hasta su muerte en 1965.
MARIA Y EL ARAÑA es la historia de María, una chica de trece años que vive en una villa de emergencia de Buenos Aires junto a su abuela y el oscuro compañero de esta. Candidata a recibir una beca para continuar su escolaridad, María está terminando la primaria y trabaja al mismo tiempo en el subte. Allí va a conocer a un chico de 17 años que se gana la vida haciendo malabares disfrazado de Hombre Araña. A medida que el amor crece entre ambos, se irá descubriendo dentro de la casa de María, el entretejido de un lazo siniestro que la mantiene sometida.
In his usual way back from school Juancito, a solitary country boy from Patagonia, meets a little horse which seems to be abandoned. The joy of having a new and wonderful friend to play with makes the boy think he can keep it. He cannot realize that the horse is actually waiting for the return of his real owner.
Una mañana, un recorrido solitario, un desayuno para dos y algunos proyectos inconclusos.
“La donna” presenta una situación donde el juego aparece como escenario para mezclar elementos clásicos del cine, la comedia musical, el pasado de los personajes y la seducción. Los protagonistas son tres, el lugar se puede interpretar como un hotel. La noche une a los personajes y la seducción inocente cobra protagonismo en medio de un juego que consiste en adivinar personajes históricos. El adentramiento en la historia permite ver como cada vez más los personajes se van soltando, en parte gracias a las copas de más y como la seducción deja de ser inocente. En el corto tiempo se exploran temas tan diversos como las diferencias y similitudes culturales entre dos países, concretamente Argentina e Italia y las disfuncionalidades de un matrimonio.
En Tokio una de las ciudades con más altos índices de suicidios y donde la gente no se mira a los ojos, una mirada entre dos extraños quizás cambie la dirección del día por completo.
Un joven recibe un video en donde aparece junto a su ex pareja, y duda sobre los pasos a seguir.
El documental es un homenaje y redescubrimiento de Ramón Ayala, uno de los grandes poetas y compositores del Alto Paraná, de la selva guaraní. La particular visión de la cultura popular latinoamericana de Marcos López, artista plástico y fotógrafo, está presente en un diálogo permanente con la obra de Ramón Ayala, redefiniendo una reflexión estética sobre la identidad cultural argentina.
Es la historia de aventuras y amor del pequeño ratón EDAM, torpe aprendiz de mago y de la bella y segura ratoncita BRIE, quienes deberán enfrentar los más variados peligros para obtener el poder que otorga el diente de una princesa humana y así derrotar al ejército de feroces ratas comandado por el malvado ROTEX quien invade RODENCIA, el pacífico reino de los ratones, para dominarlo y quedarse con su tesoro. En el medio del bosque, la magia de la luz y la de la oscuridad, el amor y el rencor, se enfrentarán. EDAM y ROTEX lucharán sin tregua, en un duelo donde solo uno saldrá victorioso.
El 24 de Marzo de 1976 comienza en Argentina un proceso dictatorial. Durante 7 años el gobierno militar mata a 30.000 personas e instala un sistema perverso de injusticias sociales y económicas. Coincidentemente en ese mismo día Buenos Aires es invadida por un grupo de Zombis. La plaga va creciendo, tiñendo a la ciudad de terror y desolación, encontrando su punto culmine en los años ´90.
Inundado por la energía depresiva de su madre, el ambiente en el hogar de las hermanitas Anna y Mora se respira muerto. La pequeña Mora encontrará una forma de reconectarse con la vida un tanto inusual… o quizás amoral.
A diverse cast of characters get involved through a fainting swimming pool, which water gets worse and worse. One death by poisoning will decide the boy to try and recover the swimming pool, in spite of the waves of new visitors.
La vida de varios personajes confluye en la misma pileta remota, que cada vez tiene menos y peor agua. Una muerte por intoxicación hará tomar conciencia a un niño, que tratará de recuperar la pileta a pesar de la continua llegada de nuevos visitantes.
It’s summer. Noelia lives in a big city that seems to be standing. She is alone, and she has spare time. She goes through the city with her little camera trying to infiltrate in different places and pretend to have family ties with several women.
Es verano en la ciudad. Noelia es adolescente y tiene mucho tiempo libre. Está ávida, sedienta por conocer, explorar. Va hacia todos lados con su cámara, eufórica por nuevos lugares a descubrir y personas a las que increpa con preguntas.
Las increíbles habilidades de un hombre de campo. / The incredible skills of a country-side man.
Erre y Anna viven en edificios, como islas, aislados entre si por agua y se comunican a través de sus ventanas. Un día, Erre es acusado por la Oficina de Administración, de deber el alquiler y como castigo le bloquean la ventana apartándolo de Anna. Ellos intentarán cambiar el lugar donde viven para poder volver a estar juntos como nunca antes imaginaron. / Erre and Anna live in different buildings isolated by water. They only see each other trough a window. One day, he gets punished by being set apart of Anna. This will encouraged them to change the place where they live in order to be together as they´ve never tought before.
