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.
A Californian backpacker travels to Buenos Aires to pay homage to the Argentine pirate who conquered his hometown of Monterey in 1818. Along the way, he becomes entangled in a polyamorous relationship with a gang of young actors who plot to kidnap the U.S. Ambassador.
Alina is a movie sound engineer. One day she receives an offer to do the direct sound for an erotic film featuring Maria Black, a famous star of the genre who had already retired. When Maria has a heart attack and dies in the middle of the shoot, and the producers decide not to call the police, a series of sinister and unexpected events are unleashed that will endanger everyone's lives.
During the pandemic, Reina sells meat stolen by her cousin from door to door. Until one night, in a desolated street, she is mugged by robbers on motorbikes. Lim and Clara help her and they become friends—this way, a plot full of suspicion begins.
Pedro, a humble beekeeper who lives in the mysterious Argentinian region of the Delta del Tigre, travels to Buenos Aires to visit his twin brother Agustín, a successful but troubled pediatrician with marital issues, to give him bad news and ask him for a favor hard to fulfill, a unexpected arrival which will change Agustín's life forever.
In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer haunted by their family’s past. As Bennie uncovers Tetro’s hidden manuscript, old secrets and rivalries resurface, forcing both men to confront the truth about their father and the tangled legacy that tore their family apart.
Lava (2019), the animated film Ayar Blasco presented at the 34th edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival, left many subplots unresolved in a sci-fi narrative in which an alien civilization dominated the planet through technological devices. This incompleteness, which could then be attributed to the director’s aesthetics, always free and prone to absurdity, was actually a pause that now, four years later, is resumed. The protagonist continues to be Débora, a somewhat insecure tattoo artist who ends up involved in the resistance when a new batch of invaders threatens to wipe out every single record of the human race. With the childlike strokes and the uncontrollably innocent humor characteristic of him, Blasco continues to shape his own epic, a hallucinated version of El Eternauta, with click beetles and all.
Checo and Once are two difficult teenagers who live and survive in Buenos Aires after a nuclear explosion with which the film begins. It turns the world to ashes, bringing incomprehensible social changes. But for Checo and Once, who are used to an uncertain existence, not much changes in this post-apocalyptic world.
Mabel lives on a slum. Does work as a clown at children's parties and as a prostitute. At 20 crosses paths with Martin, a lawyer just shy of 40. He has divorced his wife and left the law firm he was working on. Buys a trailer and goes to live in it. Advertising for a car wash dressed as a bird he meets Mabel and they fell in love. Later she finds out she's living with HIV. From that moment on, Martin's love will help Mabel fight her battles with death.
Paula & Azul. A funeral, a family secret and a road trip that will change their lives forever.
His mother has left and Gonzalo doesn't know why. How he is taking care of his little infant sister all alone, though he himself is barely ten years old. Neighbours help and try to figure out what should be done with the two children. Like old Felipe with his pub, the veterinarian Julio and his wife, or kind Lorena, who's stranded in the town. And gradually Gonzalo finds out what is really going on.
A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.
A humble housewife becomes an assassin for money, gaining self-confidence and rebuilding her life.
A young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.
Three women meet by chance at the end of the world, in Argentinian Patagonia, and set out on a polyamorous journey, caught up in the search for new kinds of relationships, far from possession and pain. They become the Daughters of Fire, a band dedicated to helping those women who look for their own path to erotica.
Camilo is a 10-year-old boy who has a conscience that is too awake, serene and transcendent for his age. He lives in the midst of amusing and dangerous chaos, of a family of characters deeply affected by the tremendous impossibility of developing normally in the world, in our current society. Through their eyes we will see how each one, consciously or unconsciously, inevitably constructing their own destiny.
Unable to land a job as an airline pilot, Leonardo takes a job as a fumigator pilot at a farm in the countryside. On his very first night, he discovers the town harbors a deadly secret that will put everyone in danger.
When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.
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.
Luisa works temporarily babysitting children in a factory. For an inopportune occasion, they are left with their boyfriend in charge of a boy who accidentally suffers from drug poisoning. Luisa and her boyfriend will be involved.
Deborah makes a living by drawing the skin of her clients. One night, her housemate invites her boyfriend and friend to their house. Sitting in the armchair, they consume the series of the moment, Gain of Clones, until, suddenly, the signal is cut off and the screen is dyed red while subliminal images float. No one remembers what happened the last two minutes. The answer will be in the enigmatic presence of giant cats that will later invade the city.
María Fernanda and Roberto have a tortuous relationship: they spend most of their day fighting. Problem is, their fights irradiate a laziness wave that overcomes little by little all of humanity. Both of them will have no other choice but to work out their problematic relationship, before the Laziness Wave destroys the world.
Two friends driven by a perverse hacker are guided in the search of a missing friend from a few years ago.
The story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs, his mother, a well known congresswoman and Nina, the woman who will try to save him from a horrible future.
In Exomologesis, the filmmaker and poet César González set out to show the consequences of a society governed by obedience and the consequences of this in times of neoliberalism. Unlike his previous films, in color and with many scenes shot outdoors, this is a black and white film that takes place in a two-room apartment, which allows us to see that an office can also be a closed institution.
Following the death of a musician under suspicious circumstances, a researcher and a music fan examine why rock stars often die at 27.
And what if I rejoice in my sadness? I confirm that this darkness is my true light. They don't let me take care of my loneliness. I got used to not having shade.
With her girlfriend lying comatose in the hospital, after having found her lifeless body in the bathtub, Clara starts the path of physical and psychological transformation with the goal of possessing her girlfriend again in some way.
Clever, curious and young, lucky Elisa has been selected for work placement in the North. While everything she’s heard about the North seems idyllic, the trouble is that the few people who do go there don’t ever come back.
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.
Fourteen-year-old Antonio was living with his father when suddenly one day his father didn't come home and didn't respond to his messages or phone calls. Antonio learns from a neighbor that his father has been hospitalized due to a motorcycle accident, and since then he has had to cope with life on his own; in addition to studying for schoolwork and feeding himself, he also has to spend money on fixing his car....... It is not easy to get through to the day when his father is released from the hospital, and Antonio discovers that his father has gone to the police station, and it turns out that the car accident has another hidden agenda...
After an accident and a major transformation, an adult film star seeks revenge for all the abuse she suffered.