Marito is a somewhat immature thirty-something who still lives with his parents. With no job or stable partner, he dedicates all his time to his failed attempts to develop an intelligent drone "that helps improve the quality of life on the planet". His mother wins a trip in a contest and convinces his father to take a few days off and thus make a long-overdue honeymoon. Filled with recommendations, they leave Marito in charge of the family's home and appliance repair shop, which is quite an institution in the neighborhood. By accident, Marito loses the family savings and, together with his best friend Peter, they do everything possible to recover them, while continuing with their original plan to take advantage of the absence of Marito's parents to organize a party with lots of alcohol, no control and "Some girl named Kimberley"
Correa is a retired boxer who spent much of his life running "errands" for Bernal, a violent mobster, who was also his former manager. A mistaken murder and his loyalty led to a few years in prison. Upon leaving him, he decides to turn his life upside down with Rosa, a prostitute who is the victim of a trafficking network commanded by Bernal and the police.
Atilio begins a new life when his daughter moves him to a nursing home, where he meets Beto, a clever and resourceful man. Together, they sneak out to visit Atilio’s late wife’s grave and accidentally witness a money laundering operation in the cemetery, involving hidden cash in a coffin. Inspired by the chance to change their lives, Atilio, Beto, and Doña Rosa—a sharp woman from the home—team up to investigate the scheme, hoping to seize the opportunity and find new purpose.
Soon to turn 40, Carlos is a humble bank clerk who feels that his life is a monotonous waste of time. When Carlos begins to feel condemned forever to a life of quiet despair, he is presented with an opportunity to rip off a bank.
A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communication and the government now has other commitments.
Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.
A young man is witness of a murder committed by his father
Revenge. Juan and Vicente are brothers, but they are separated by a deep hatred that will drive Juan to return to life to take from his brother the only thing that matters to him: his power. A story of love, disappointment, and excess.
Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, the two men must flee. It is not long before the police are surrounding the building they are in and they must confront their demons to survive.
The Argentine dictatorship kidnapped people who where thought to be part of communist guerrillas. This one in particular is the story of Telmo, a homosexual tailor living in a small town with his mother, whose house is suddenly invaded by one of these supposed guerrilla fighters, which he names Olaf to disguise his real identity. Turns out Telmo helps this guy hide from the military but it all gets complicated because he's currently working on the wedding dress of the daughter of the general who is chasing Olaf.
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the 'Vecinos de Pompeya', a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight, the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio's last possession of value before stealing his heart.
Aballay was a bad tempered gaucho. After killing a man, the terrified look of the victim's son raised his consciousness about his savagery. Years go by, that kid's look doesn't leave him. Aballay knows that the kid will look for him.
Forty-nine days after George’s death his wife, Alicia, calls friends who wanted to read over the letter that he left before he died. It is a very affectionate and moving letter, which addresses each of those present, knowing that his death is near. Little do they know that they are part of a ritual prepared by Alicia, with the connivance of Santiago, the closest friend of George, to bring him back to life – and that ritual, full of ghostly apparitions, traumatic and terrifying, will be gaining further life from each of the guests. The surprising twists in the plot will lead up to the most unexpected of endings.
The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a decadent comedian; Beto, the son, a taxi driver; and Martita, the daughter, a divorced and unemployed hairdresser. All live in 'harmony' in a 40 square-meter apartment. One day Leopoldo takes it upon himself to donate blood. The next day, he is summoned once more to the hospital. His life is about to change, and radically so.
Three astronauts are sent on a mission to destroy the moon.
After working eight years as a chef, Ramon (Luis Ziembrowski) is fired from the restaurant. To survive, Lili (Paula Ituriza) leaves the countryside with her family, and Ramon gets a job as a maid, pretending to be a woman.
Baraja feels like a useless and tired survivor. Political and social disappointment, long reclusive hours and dejection bring an omnipresent violence in a man that doesn't believe in anything or anyone anymore and fights as much against everybody as he does against himself.
Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.
Martín goes jogging, but an unknown woman trips him up. The unknown woman’s husband doesn’t understand his wife’s behavior. Marín has a date but gets hurt. The woman who tripped him has a dream in which her poodle is butchered. No one understands what goes on in the mind of the other.
A summer vacation in the 70s. Lalo and Bruno are teenagers doing nothing on days full of nothing. But on a hot and humid afternoon, and without asking for permission, Lisa arrives smashing more than the letargy of the town. Thirty years later Lisa comes again to interfere in the lives of these two adults.
A depressed former boxing champion gets involved in a big problem with his cousin the same day that he was about to make up with his ex-girlfriend.
Charly was abandoned right after birth in a convent. He is not aware of who the couple who are about to arrive and dine at the inn, actually are. Karla is about to show up with a dead man and one hundred dollars in the trunk of her car.
Helena and Ernesto's marriage is in problems when Helena's cousin arrives to complete his rehab at his isolated mountain home. His arrival releases repressed emotions and desires and puts them in contact with each other.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastián, a successful lawyer, leaves his ex-wife's condo, located on the seventh floor of an apartment building, to take his two children to school. While they run down the stairs, he uses the elevator. Once on the ground floor, Sebastián awaits the arrival of the children.
When Marcelo Pena finally is about to be appointed Head of the Philosophy Department, the famous and seductive Professor Sujarchuk returns from Europe to claim the kingdom for himself.
Movie adaptation of Leonardo Oyola's novel, which tells the story of the legendary DC comics superhero, Superman, if he, instead of falling in Smallville from Krypton, would have landed in the heart of Isidro Casanova, in La Matanza, deep in the west side of Buenos Aires.
"Lunatics" narrates the experiences of different characters who live in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montevideo. Their stories intersect. The madness of the globalized world and the local reality, of each one of them, is affected just at the moment in which the North American president begins to send posts on social networks, eliminating all trade with China.
An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life
Two guys as different as a watchmaker and a television editor have to free Carlos Gardel's soul from a strange pact with the devil, who has it trapped. To break the spell, these fans of El Morocho del Abasto, and improvised exorcists, need to find a mythical figure of such popular force as Gardel: the great Diego Maradona.
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.
Un Buda follows two brothers orphaned as children when their parents were taken by the military during the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s in Argentina. Tomas is now a drifting and withdrawn young man who experiments with ascetic practices and has an instinctive compassion for others. His older brother Rafael is a university philosophy professor, detached and alone. Their struggles with each other and the world around them in Buenos Aires take a dramatic turn when they find themselves at a rural Zen center.
It tells the story of a people who stood on the side of the freedom, civilization and progress, but also some who are on the side of unbridled capitalism and race. However, they is still a possibilities of utopia and solidarity.
Diego is a young man who lives precariously in Mar del Plata. Convinced that he no longer has a future in his country, he tries to obtain the birth certificate of his Catalan grandfather, which will allow him to obtain a European passport. Finally he manages to travel, although without having his papers in order. With his visa expired and without having obtained the game, he discovers that not everything is as he had dreamed.
This is the story of Javier, a 15 year old Argentinean who left for Mexico carrying the drama of his missing brother, prematurely deprived of his parents, and bearing the weight of collective blame.
A patient expresses himself using the lyrics and titles of tango songs as a result of a post traumatic stress disorder discovered by a psychiatrist.
In an inhospitable rural area in North-East Argentina, machismo, destitution and the repression meted out under the military dictatorship sees the birth of the latest daughter born to Antonio, alcoholic woodcutter who anxiously wanted his first son. After the three daughters are farmed out to families in better financial position, he christens the latest one with the name of José, nicknamed Bumbún, and forces her to take on the identity of a boy. Mercedes, hurt by having lost her other daughters, protects the girl and keeps up the lie, constantly threatened by Antonio. Having been forced to act as a boy since childbirth, Bumbún will struggle between whether to accept her fate or to fight to change it.
Argentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and offers to provide shelter in her house until the child is born. Their disturbed personalities will become intertwined in a strange and dangerous relationship.
In a world on the brink of collapse, Chockler receives the mysterious Lucrecia's mission to find a man named Victor, dead or alive. Little by little, he discovers a network of implications between the horse races, genetic experiments, and a series of strange and superhuman nature facts, in the deep night of the city.
Prostitute Roberta lives with her brother and demented mother in an Argentinian rural village. Mother warns Roberta that she can have sex with almost any man in the village, except one – because then she would be killed. However, this last candidate, Sicilio, has put his sights on her.
Two award-winning advertising creatives throw a party at their mansion and are surprised by a lumpen and his son who try to rob them to pay off their debts with a threatening moneylender
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.
Follow Luis & Anita in this Argentinian indie charmer about young love. After a chance meeting the teenage couple's relationship blossoms into intimacy. However, an unexpected pregnancy throws their school life into fits.
Emma (16) and her father (48) live in a small house at the river on Delta del Tigre, Buenos Aires. Emma is rehearsing a Shakespeare play at school and she dreams to visit London. One day the unexpected happen, her teacher gets an exchange scholarship for her to travel to England. The idea of being apart destroy Marcos and Emma who will have to understand another possible way of loving.
Clara faces a horrifying past when she returns to the town where she grew up while experiencing a marriage crisis. Only a police officer could help her solve what is happening to her grandparents and the rest of the people from the place.
In a turmoil-torn Argentina, in the summer of 1978, Edgar Tulio Valenzuela (Tucho) and Raquel Negro (María), heavily pregnant with a young son, are kidnapped by the Armed Forces and taken to the outskirts of Rosario. A high-ranking Argentine Army officer makes Tucho a proposal that, if he follows it, will betray the ideals to which he dedicated his life. If he rejects it, he will lose his wife, his son, and the children his future holds. They love each other beyond all reason and circumstance. María and Tucho make a pact... and amidst betrayal and horror, a love story that will last forever is born.
Sebastián is a locksmith who begins to have revelatory visions about his clients every time he touches their locks. This power complicates his life.
This is a film about the life of a family of marginal thiefs, and how destiny punishes each and every one of its members. A constant contrast between a violent and a domestic world, in which violence, humor and irony, give a new layer to the social and moral conflicts of the characters. A lost house in a forest, an underground bar, a prison, a bus, fields and highways, are the spaces on which thieves, truckers, cooks and hookers collide.
After their humble dwelling is destroyed by a fire, a marginalized family occupies an abandoned house. From there, they dig a hole to the vault of a neighboring bank.
After the death of his wife and his young daughter in a traffic accident for which he was responsible, Luna falls into a large pit of depression. Neither medication nor religion help him to keep going. Until one day, Luna has a dream that he receives as a revelation. In that dream, he sees himself driving a car and carrying a woman, Selva along with his son Beni. Luna takes it as a challenge and attempts to carry out his mission: to save the woman and the child from the dream.
Lara, a lesbian soap opera actress moves into an apartment. Hector is her neighbor. A dark and withdrawn character that records each of her movements through hidden cameras. His obsession grows.
Juan, a thirteen year old boy, and Marco, his blind father due to the Falklands/Malvinas War, travel to his chilhood town in the north of Argentina. There he will discover an unknown side of the father and will take its own path to adulthood.
Documentary about the prehistory of the paramilitary organization Triple A, which operated in Argentina during the 1970s. The film becomes a dirty, violent, and over-the-top crime thriller that delves into the organization's formation and reflects on how Argentines tell their own stories.
A woman and her 14-year-old daughter, who is a sleepwalker, in the midst of awakening. A marriage on the edges of a silenced crisis. A ritualistic, matriarchal, and endogamous family. Grandmother, siblings, cousins. A new summer, sweat, alcohol, traditions. Naked bodies, changing bodies, and the gazes upon those emerging bodies. A new New Year's celebration in the old historic family mansion is the trap for the sleepwalkers to finally awaken.
Three young woman leave a party and decide to spend a few days in a country house away from the urbanization in the middle of the Argentine pampas. Upon arrival they are invited to a party called by the pawns and locals.
Valdivia is a notorious drunk in a Patagonian dead-end town. His current job is to deliver a golden sheep for the mysterios Sr. Ramenfort.
Paco knows that his mother died of a terminal illness when he was barely two years old, that his father, Alvaro, has remarried after a long period of mourning, and that his newborn sister will be with him for life. He has a strange tattoo on his forearm, and he knows it was his mother's last message before she left for the first time, because now he knows that death was a step after abandonment.
Violeta asks Mono for "a little time" to decide what to do with her partner. Eva arrives in the city ready to do anything to change her life. Meanwhile is the story of "a time," of that time that passes while several stories intertwine in a dizzying puzzle that never quite fits together. A moving description of stories that are woven together by chance, an ensemble account of the uncertainty, despair, boredom, love, and heartbreak that weave urban relationships, a dramatic comedy about the bonds that make up life in the city.
Marie is a Toronto police officer. One evening, her husband Joshua and their son Nicky are brutally murdered in their car. Marie quickly links Pablo Molina, an Argentinian drug trafficker who she'd arrested a few months earlier, with the crime. In despair, Marie heads to Argentina on the tracks of the killer. A journey of revenge and a journey to come to terms with her loss.
Delirious black comedy about a leftist group that tries to kidnap General Peron's corpse the day of his death.
Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.
A noir vision of a paranoid and dangerous Buenos Aires where a group of diverse Porteños are fatefully linked by a brutal killing.
The stories of four solitary characters form a single plot in which the rules of the game are determined by chance. Everyone is finishing something; everyone, unknowingly, is about to start over.
A girl, whose father is incarcerated as a political prisoner, is not allowed to draw pictures of birds or anything related to freedom. She will find a way to deliver her message of hope to her father in a very unusual way. Based on a story by Eduardo Galeano.
Bernardo is fifty years old and feels overwhelmed, confused, almost devastated; surrounded by the violence typical of a society that is slowly collapsing. With relationship problems, difficulties in conceiving a child and a woman who cannot - and does not care - dive into his deepest conflicts. Bernardo finds no rest anywhere. His head is about to explode when he decides to take a little vacation with Diana at their house in Tigre. They will not go alone: Nancy, an islander and house cleaner, will be part of a key night for Bernardo.
Remo Venica and Irmina Kleiner, Agrarian League activists in northern Argentina in the 1970s, were forced into exile in the mountains for four years. They gave birth to their first daughter and learned to live off what the mountains had to offer. Today, having survived military persecution, they have a sustainable biodynamic farm and are committed to repopulating the countryside. Their struggle continues.
General San Martin has stopped in the Cordillera and the crossing of the Andes does not advance. Rivadavia is that triune. A simple chasqui (courier), advised by an aboriginal witch, will try to solve the situation.
During Christmas dinner, an Argentinian family finds out that their millionaire uncle has died. His relatives speculate about his generous inheritance, but everything changes when a woman arrives at twelve and introduces herself as the deceased's wife. The head of the family, desperate about the possibility of losing everything, hides the body and forces the others to simulate a kidnapping. The plan is that, this way, the inheritance would be returned in the form of ransom payment. A bag of money appears and the plan seems infallible, but it falls into crisis when everyone wants to take their part.
Alejo has decided to leave his previous life behind. He gets a job as a window cleaner in an important building in downtown Buenos Aires. He prefers to go through the most complicated moment of his life in the city heights, immersed in an alien world that forces him to go through unexpected experiences. Vertigo, loneliness, workplace harassment, helplessness and abandonment will turn him into a lonely and paranoid man hanging by a thread that is too fragile.
After receiving a significant settlement following a workplace accident, Pablo decides to invest all the money he had promised to use for building a new life with his girlfriend, Victoria, into a business he knows little about. Together, they must deal with the consequences of this impulsive decision.
Mónica organizes a birthday dinner for Martín. In a world where everyone lies, the only truth lies in thoughts. An acid comedy that reveals what we never say.
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.
A group of actors and the director of the play set out through the streets of Buenos Aires in search of people who have never been to the theater. This is an open-ended work in terms of time, blending formats that range from stage performance to audiovisual media, with new episodes added each year. The characters, situations, and settings will be created based on the stories collected from the audience. At the same time, the relationships between the characters and the storyline will evolve over time, intertwining aspects of the real lives of the actors with the impact generated by their efforts to connect with the audience.