The conflict of a good man fighting between two loves: the violent love for a fascinating woman and the tender love for the little son, orphaned of a mother.Read More »
Argentina
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Armando Bo – El último amor en Tierra del Fuego AKA Last Love in Tierra del Fuego (1979)
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Gerardo Vallejo – El camino hacia la muerte del Viejo Reales (1971)
1971-1980ArgentinaDocumentaryGerardo VallejoQuote:
La vida en los ingenios tucumanos a través del relato de un campesino tucumano y sus tres hijos.Quote:
Aparecen en el filme Gerardo Ramón Reales y sus hijos Ángel, Mariano y Pibe, así como sus familias y amigos y vecinos de las localidades de Acheral, Santa Lucía, Caspichango y Famaillá.El filme está acompañado por dos anexos, uno con datos e imágenes de la provincia de Tucumán y otro con una crónica de la lucha de los campesinos del lugar.Read More »
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Manuel García Ferré – Anteojito y Antifaz en ‘Mil intentos y un invento’ aka Anteojito and Antifaz: A Thousand Attempts and One Invention (1972)
1971-1980AnimationArgentinaManuel García FerréPlot
Anteojito is a poor orphan 10-years-old boy who lives with his Uncle Antifaz in an apartment house in a city named Villa Trompeta. Uncle Antifaz tries to invent an invisibility formula with Anteojito’s help, and Cachavacha, a witch and Uncle Antifaz’s neighbor who lives in the apartment right under his, tries to steal it as revenge for to his explosions destroying her apartment. Anteojito sells some balloons and meets his friend Buzoncito, a little red mailbox. The balloons he was selling escape when he argues with a group of brats who mocked him. The circus comes to town and he helps out a friendly clown and his sick daughter by posing as a second, singing, clown. Read More » -
María Alvarez – Las cinéphilas (2017)
2011-2020ArgentinaDocumentaryMaría AlvarezQuote:
Representing the passing of time has always been – and continues to be – a major concern for many artists. Argentinian filmmaker María Alvarez makes her contribution by exploring this theme through the lens of cinematic arts. Armed with her camera, she recorded the daily lives of film-lovers in three countries: Argentina, Uruguay and Spain. The outcome, Las Cinéphilas, is a documentary anthology that draws up a portrait of women who do not know each other but share a common passion.Read More » -
Clarisa Navas – Las Mil y Una AKA The Thousand and One (2020)
2011-2020ArgentinaClarisa NavasDramaIris, 17, has been expelled from school and spends the warm days and nights with her two best friends, her cousins, in cramped rooms, playing with her mobile phone or in the empty streets of the city. When Renata, cold and self-confident, enters the picture, Iris is fascinated, and it is not long before they start flirting. But in the area, rumours about Renata’s past are getting stronger.(FILMAFFINITY)Read More »
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Papu Curotto – Esteros (2016)
2011-2020ArgentinaDramaPapu CurottoQueer Cinema(s)It tells the incipient and latent love of Matías and Jerónimo in a small Argentine population, in the late nineties. That pre-adolescent sexuality is truncated by the familiar prejudices and the idiosyncrasy of a small town. Years later they are reunited, being already young adults, and Matías faces his feelings denied so much time.Read More »
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Edgardo Castro – Las ranas AKA The frogs (2020)
2011-2020ArgentinaDocumentaryDramaEdgardo CastroLas ranas (2020) A woman visits her boyfriend, locked up in a prison a few hours’ drive away from Buenos Aires. Each week, she manages as best as she can to accomplish her mission: provide her boyfriend food, drugs and love. In an exercise of visceral realism, Edgardo Castro constructs a harrowing love story with Las Ranas.Read More »
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Claudio Caldini – Heliografía (remix) (2021)
2021-2030ArgentinaClaudio CaldiniExperimentalShort FilmSynopsis
Digital edition of the original 1993 video-tape. Dedicated to Dr. Albert Hofmann and his famous bicycle trip.
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Francisco Márquez – Un crimen común (2020)
2011-2020ArgentinaDramaFrancisco MárquezThriller

Cecilia is an academic teacher who lives alone with her son Juan, somewhere in Buenos Aires. One stormy night she wakes up scared by the knocks she hears at the door. She sees that it is Kevin, son of Nebe, the woman who helps her around the house. Cecilia, terrified, does not open, and hides in the dark, while she listens outside to the sirens of patrol vehicles. The next day, she learns from the news that the neighborhood where Nebe and Kevin live has mobilized to search for the young man. Neighbors accuse the Gendarmerie of being responsible for his disappearance, until he finally appears drowned in a river. The guilt that Cecilia feels and her inability to confess that the young man was knocking on the door of her house that night becomes too much for her. Kevin’s “ghost” starts haunting her and following her all around.Read More »







