César Albarracín

Blessed by Fire

Argentine film about the experiences of conscripts in the Malvinas Islands War.

Mis días con Gloria

A hitman working for Lieutenant Crinal, a corrupt local police officer. The lives of these two characters become complicated when a famous '60s diva returns to the quiet town and mistakes Roberto for a chauffeur. Their lives become inexorably intertwined in a journey against time and death.

Los del suelo

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.

Chronicle of an Escape

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

San Martin. El Combate de San Lorenzo

Damián Canduci's performance and Juan Carlos Gené's narration revive this moment in Argentine history, when the Horse Grenadier Regiment begins its performance in the fight for independence. A special dedicated to the first combat fought by San Martín in American territory, the one that inaugurated him as a patriot leader.