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When 17-year-old Axel finds out his girlfriend is pregnant, he tries to build a better future for them by accepting a dangerous «job» to make some extra money.
Al enterarse que su novia está embarazada y en busca de un mejor futuro, Axel, un joven de 17 años es asignado un «trabajo» para hacer dinero extra.
A middle-age woman will try to become a mother without her husband’s support.
Una mujer de mediana edad buscará convertirse en madre aunque no cuente con el apoyo de su esposo.
He encounters the lost memories of a trip. The struggle with his emotions mixes with the memories of her.
Él se encuentra con los recuerdos perdidos de un viaje. La lucha con sus emociones se mezcla con los recuerdos de ella.
Their worlds are separated, but they find a way to unite.
Sus mundos están separados, pero encuentran la forma de unirse.
Lila is a young film director who is struggling to overcome the stupor of a blank sheet. One day, her boyfriend Candi comes with a new bicycle lock, a gift from a beautiful girl. This will force her to go outside searching for something new.
Lila es una joven directora que está luchando para vencer el sopor de una hoja en blanco. Candi, su novio, llega un día con un candado de bicicleta nuevo, regalo de una chica linda. Esto será un detonante para Lila para salir de la casa hacia algo nuevo.
Engulfed in her home, a woman makes plans to not leave the house.
Una mujer inventa planes para no salir de su casa.
They and me. Me and them. And him?
Ellas y yo. Yo y ellas. ¿Y él?
Lautaro (11 years old) and José (6 years old) learned to find, in others that they throw away, the daily sustenance that their family needs. Lautaro protects a little brother from a situation that occurs violently between his parents. The next day, José discovers a message on his album of world figures. Messi’s, his favorite, is no longer the same as before. Your family either.
Lautaro y José aprendieron a encontrar en lo que otros desechan el sustento diario que su familia necesita. Lautaro protege a su hermanito de una situación que se intuye violenta entre sus padres. Al día siguiente, José descubre un mensaje en su álbum de figuritas del Mundial. La de Messi, su favorita, ya no luce como antes. Su familia tampoco.
An ostrich, an owl, the flamingo, a parrot, the hummingbird and an eagle, all of them dance, run and fly by the Argentinian electro-folk of Barda & Sidirum´s amazing music. Colors and shapes dance and unite by a unique psychedelic endless rhythm. Handcrafted paper and love.
Un avestruz, un búho, el flamenco, un loro, el colibrí y un águila, todos bailan, corren y vuelan al ritmo del electro-folk argentino interpretado por Barda & Sidirum. Colores y formas danzan y se unen un ritmo psicodélico sinfín. Papel y amor, hechos a mano.
On the commemoration of the military dictatorship that kidnapped and killed his grandparents, Vicente, a 15-year-old boy, joins his father in a massive demonstration in Buenos Aires. For the first time, Vicente will embrace a central role at the forefront of the march. A story about commitment transcending generations, told from the heart of a collective cause.
Vicente, un joven de 15 años, acompaña a su padre a una multitudinaria marcha en Buenos Aires, en la conmemoración de la dictadura militar que secuestró y asesinó a sus abuelos. Este año, Vicente asumirá por primera vez un rol central en la primera línea de la marcha. Un relato sobre el compromiso de las nuevas generaciones en la lucha por la memoria, narrada desde las entrañas de una manifestación popular.
A broken family, the bible and a night that will mark them forever.
Una familia quebrada, la biblia y una noche que los marcará para siempre.
A group of women lives on an island subdued by black hands of stones. To free themselves they must break the heavy rocks that they carry on their backs and reveal themselves against the established regime.
Un grupo de mujeres viven en una isla sometidas por unas manos negras de piedras. Para liberarse ellas deben romper las pesadas rocas que llevan sobre sus espaldas y revelarse contra el régimen establecido.
A mysterious snowfall, a city visited by Death. Desperation looms over the city as an excruciating situation gives birth to madness.
Una nevada misteriosa, una ciudad visitada por la Muerte. La locura y los límites de lo soportable traen sus consecuencias de la mano de la desesperación.
“Supervielle” is an abstract short film exploration done with paper shapes, a balance between positive and negative spaces. Is an homage to a great musician, Luciano Supervielle, and his song “Otro dia en Uruguay” (another day in Uruguay).
“Supervielle” es una exploración abstracta hecha con formas de papel, un balance entre espacios positivos y negativos. Es un homenaje a un gran músico, Luciano Supervielle y a su canción “Otro día en Uruguay”.
A young woman has to make a decision about her unwanted pregnancy while resolving a mystery.
Una chica tiene que tomar una decisión sobre su embarazo mientras resuelve un misterio.
1997, Christmas eve. Camila (11) steals a shirt from her brother, rides a bike and gets distracted by a guy who buys fireworks. She gets into the water, plays with her cousins and wears a dress for the dinner. After observing her family through a vhs camera, Camila begins to register herself.
1997, Nochebuena. Camila (11) le roba una camisa a su hermano, monta una bicicleta y se distrae con un tipo que compra fuegos artificiales. Ella se mete en la piscina, juega con sus primos y usa un vestido para la cena. Después de observar a su familia a través de una cámara de vhs, Camila comienza a registrarse a sí misma.
New Year’s Eve is here. The city is in a trance-like state. Among blackouts, fireworks, and cheap cider, a girl lets herself flow with people she doesn’t know, hoping to feel something different.
Llega noche de fin de año. La ciudad está como en trance. Entre cortes de luz, sidra barata y fuegos artificiales, una chica se dejará fluir entre gente que no conoce, buscando sentir algo diferente.
Public toilets. Men. Sex. Alejandro Modarelli and Pablo Castro Videla share their stories about the meaning of the «Teteras» (tea rooms or cottages) during Argentina’s military dictatorship.
Baños públicos, hombres, sexo. Alejandro Modarelli y Pablo Castro Videla comparten sus testimonios sobre lo que significaron las teteras durante la dictadura militar en Argentina.
A cell phone rings late at night. Ana answers the phone, stunned. With some resentment, she gets out of bed to get into a taxi that will take her to the last stretch of a relationship.
Un celular suena en la madrugada. Ana atiende, aturdida. Con cierto resquemor, se levanta de la cama para subirse a un taxi que la conducirá hacia el último tramo de una relación difícil.
The land expels and the ocean drowns, departures repeat themselves in every generation. Selva dances within voices and memories, in a game that prepares her for the inevitable separation.
La tierra expulsa y el mar ahogan, la partida se repite en cada generación. Selva baila entre voces y recuerdos, un juego que la prepara para la inevitable separación.
A teenager girl wants to save a horse that’s about to die in the slaughterhouse, and she’s willing to do anything to save it.
Una adolescente roba un caballo que está a punto de morir en un frigorífico y va a hacer lo necesario para intentar salvarlo.
A father and his son are preparing to travel in search of a better life; but what seems like a simple decision will be transformed into an odyssey full of pitfalls, before which they must make sacrifices.
Un padre y su hijo se disponen a viajar en busca de una mejor vida; pero lo que parece una sencilla decisión se transformará en una odisea plagada de escollos, ante los cuales no habrá más remedio que hacer algunos sacrificios…
The game of the airplane that makes a Grandmother to her grandson has serious consequences when he imagines much more than expected.
El juego del avioncito que le hace una Abuelita a su nieto bebé tiene consecuencias graves cuando este imagina mucho más de lo esperado.
Ela lives in Colonia Delicia, Misiones and travels through the sexual awakening. Her father rejects her concerns out of fear. The appearance of Ivan, a photographer, awakens in Ela the illusion of satiating her desires, but vanishes when she reveals that Ivan’s sexual intentions are different to hers.
Ela vive en Colonia Delicia, Misiones y transita por el despertar sexual. Su padre rechaza sus inquietudes por temor. La aparición de Iván, un fotógrafo, despierta en Ela la ilusión de saciar sus deseos, pero se desvanece cuando revela que las intenciones de Iván son diferentes ante su sexualidad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
