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Synopsis: Lyne's passionate but uncertain analysis of the 'teen' genre has the air of a nature documentary. (...) His passion for the genre is evident, and his theories are presented with a rigor that shows the respect that he feels the films deserve. Director: Charlie Lyne Country: Argentina Year: 2014 Genre: Documentary film Duration: 89 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: André es un chico que vive en un barrio industrial en Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil; cerca de una antigua fábrica de aluminio. Luego del accidente de uno de los trabajadores de la fábrica, Cristiano –un obrero extranjero con un pasado turbulento en el barrio-, André descubre por casualidad un misterioso cuaderno que contiene notas de Cristiano para el grupo teatral de la fábrica y anécdotas de vida de los demás trabajadores. La película se sumerge en la vida de Cristiano. Y lo que vemos y escuchamos a partir de ese momento es una historia épica. ARABIA refleja la historia de un trabajador cuya felicidad y sufrimientos revelan desde otro punto de vista la trama social de Brasil y que tiene que ver con el desarrollo económico en los últimos diez años de ese país. Director: Anahí Berneri Country: Brasil Year: 2017 Genre: Drama Duration: 97 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Belmonte, interested in portraying the human being, has a painting exhibition at the Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo but he is busier thinking about the changes that his family is experiencing: his ex-wife is pregnant as a result of her relationship with another man. He also perceives that his daughter, Celeste, will spend less time with him when her brother is born. Belmonte needs to organize to spend time with his daughter: prepare her lunch, accompany her to school and, above all, begin to share his inner world with her without hiding his worries, even if they are typical for an adult. Director: Federico Veiroj Country: Uruguay Year: 2018 Genre: Drama Duration: 75 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Alanis is a prostitute and an exploited young woman. She is also the mother of a small son who lives in an apartment with her friend Gisela. One day, unknown men come to the apartment with false identities and pose as clients to interrogate Alanis and Gisela with the motives of closing the rent of the apartment. From there, Alanis must fight to survive in a society that dehumanizes her. Despite various difficulties, she refuses to give up and must face the harshness of her situation. Director: Anahí Berneri Country: Argentina Year: 2017 Genre: Drama Duration: 82 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Perrone's devotion to Pasolini has always been explicit. But the deliberate tributes in P3nd3jo5 and Ragazzi were insufficient to such an extent that a simile of the Italian director now reincarnates in Ituizangó. First in a casting where the candidates recite Dylan Thomas and then in walks through the center of the city of the director in the middle the seduction of youngsters, sometimes accompanied by a Verlaine poem as a sound background. Director: Raúl Perrone Country: Argentina Year: 2018 Género: Drama Duration: 67 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Miguel, a petty thief, regrets having seriously injured a woman when snatching her wallet. He tries to redeem the damage he did but his past haunts him preventing him from starting a new life. El Motoarrebatador is a social X-ray of Tucumán but it is also a funny and ambiguous film about the fate of two characters who are struggling with their own secrets and contradictions. Director: Agustín Toscano Country: Argentina Year: 2018 Genre: Drama Duration: 94 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Early nineties in Buenos Aires. Amanda is 10 years old and has two younger siblings and separated parents with whom the children live alternately. When they are with their father, Amanda is forced to take the place of an adult and take care of everyone, as she can, since Gustavo is a rather particular guy who loves his children just a little more than himself. But one day, her mother proposes an alternative outside the country, away from her father's messy life, and that proposal puts Amanda in check. Director: Ana Garcia Blaya Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Drama/ Comedy Duration: 85 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Martín and Laura are just over thirty-five years old. When they were teenagers they had a son, Pablo, who is now eighteen. Coincidentally, Laura, Pablo and Martín meet at Villa Gesell -in the same building- to spend a few days of vacation by the sea at the beginning of the summer. This trip will be the opportunity for Martín and Laura not only to fall in love again but also to recognize each other as Pablo's parents. Las Vegas is a comedy about the passage of time and memories of the past, but also about the idea of growth and recognition of adulthood. It is a reflection of what it means to be a parent and what it is to be a child, it is a look at the future as a territory of infinite possibilities. Director: Juan Villegas Country: Argentina Year: 2018 Genre: Comedy Duration: 75 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Lucas (17) and Gilda (20) travel to a small coastal town to try to fulfill the last wish of their recently deceased mother: to deposit her remains in the sea. Unfortunately, the only "remainder" they have is her prosthetic hand, although as Gilda says "it doesn't matter, as long as we get rid of it." Ready to go home, a national transport strike leaves them stranded in town. Lucas, obsessed with bodybuilding and contact fights, finds fertile land on the coast to explore his sexuality and the limits of his body. Gilda, still affected by her recent stay in a rehabilitation center and obsessed with her "bad energy "She tests countless therapies and divination methods to try to find some meaning in the world around her. Trapped in limbo, they must confront the empty space left by their mother's suicide, at the same time that they say goodbye to their adolescence and They face the ambiguity of life, death and fitness. Director: Mateo Bendesky Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Drama/ Comedia Duration: 82 minutos Cast: -
Synopsis: In Latin America, 300 million pregnant people do not have the right to interrupt their pregnancy, they must do so clandestinely and in this attempt at least one woman dies every day. "Let it be law" tells of the fight for legal abortion in Argentina, where a thousand women abort a day. During 2018, when the Bill for the Campaign to have Legal, Safe and Free Abortion was presented for the seventh time, an unprecedented debate was generated that divided and crossed the entire society without distinguishing social classes or party affiliations. The film begins with the half-sanction of the Chamber of Deputies; continues through the story of the protagonists on a journey of 4000 kilometers by car, looking for hundreds of testimonies and voices of women who have this fight in common, and ends with the rejection of the Senate, although instead of an end it is a new beginning. Those who call themselves "pro-life" have won a battle, but Argentine women will not give up. Their unwavering determination and their struggle, full of life, show us that rights are won on the street. Director: Juan Solanas Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Documentary film Duration: 85 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: An Argentine family travels to Brazil. Inside the car, Lucrecia and Pedro (psychologists) and their two teenage children. Lucrecia and Pedro have been, for a few months, "technically separated" (that's how they define their status) after decades of marriage. Pedro and Lucrecia feel the need to vacation together. Marco, the Brazilian who rents his summer house to the family, Larissa, his ex-girlfriend, and César - Marco's son - become friends with the Argentine family. Marco promotes enjoyment of the present and short-life awareness. Attracted by Marco, Lucrecia lives a sexual adventure with him. Pedro, dazed, discovers Larissa's charms and spends time with her. He wants to take advantage of his days with the Brazilian, before she travels to São Paulo and the summer is over. On the beaches, between waves, cantobar and water rides, cross romances are born and an attraction that also splashes on the children of both. The children take the opportunity to live their experiences, and everything becomes a little more tangled. Director: Ana Katz Country: Argentina Year: 2018 Genre: Comedy/ Drama Duration: 106 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Cecilia is a sociology teacher who lives alone with her young son. One rainy night, Kevin, her housekeeper's teenage son, knocks insistently on the door. She is too scared to let Kevin in and the next day the boy's body is found in a river. The neighborhood accuses the police of having murdered the teenager, and social unrest shakes the poorest part of the city. Cecilia, tormented by her guilty conscience, begins to be haunted by the young man's ghost. Director: Francisco Márquez Country: Argentina Year: 2020 Genre: Thriller Duration: 96 minutos Cast: -
Synopsis: Juan meets Luciana at the worst moment of his life. They build their relationship in an atypical way: they spend the summer at Badur Hogar elaborating a series of lies that, unexpectedly, will lead them to face their truths. Director: Rodrigo Moscoso Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Dramatic comedy Duration: 101 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Juan and Ana are two teenage brothers who work as sporadic workers in different fields. During a harvest they will meet Edgardo, the owner of the ranch, with whom they will establish a relationship that will lead them to a social advancement but also to make a decision about their own destinies. Director: Mariano Mouriño Country: Argentina Year: 2020 Genre: Drama Duration: 65 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Brisa stars in a movie while taking care of her son who is addicted to drugs. The camera continues its process. The clash between cinema and the street, love and fear, work and recognition.They are all translated into an unclassifiable experience. Director: Inés de Oliveira Cézar Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Drama Duration: 78 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Rafael Márquez is training as a military doctor in a mountain regiment. He bears the disgrace of having a father who deserted the army, but manages to endure his career with dignity. The arrival at the regiment of the legendary Colonel Santos, a friend of his father, and the appearance of a mysterious backpack, enliven his ghosts, and move him on an adventure in search of answers. Director: Pablo Brusa Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Drama Duration: 88 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Emilia is invited to return to her hometown in Patagonia to spread the ashes of Andrea, her best friend. Emilia puts her entire life on hold and travels for the ceremony. The snow and the south wind are the scene for a trip to the past in which she reconnects with all the possibilities of her past that are now gone. Director: Fernando Salem Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Drama Duration: 81 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: The dancer María Estela Martínez, better known as Isabel Perón, achieved what Evita could not do at the time: become the first president of America. However, the passage of time was blurring her image to transform it into a ghostly figure in Argentine history. Director: Julián Troksberg Country: Argentina Year: 2020 Genre: Documentary film Duration: 92 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Using fragments from the television programs '60 Minutes 'and '24 Hours for Malvinas', among other original materials, '1982' summarizes the media campaign promoted by the Argentine Military during the 74 days of the War of the Falklands. Director: Lucas Gallo Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Documentary film Duration: 90 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Lila and Marcela have always worked as cleaning personnel in a state agency. They know how it works like no one else and have invented a form of subsistence - and a dream - managing an absolutely irregular dining room in an abandoned corner of the building. Director: Ezequiel Radusky Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Drama/ Comedy Duration: 78 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Marcos is a recognized nurse from a medical clinic. He is diligent and professional, but he has a secret that can put his entire career on the line. Gabriel, a new nurse, deciphers Marcos's secret to progressively take control of his life. Director: Martín Kraut Country: Argentina Year: 2020 Genre: Drama Duration: 93 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: South America, 1919. The Guarani died, deserted, or were reduced to servitude. Julia, the wife of a landowner, gives birth to a third dead child. Desperate, she begs Kerana, her Guarani servant, to bring him back to life. The creature returns. But he does not come back alone. Director: Laura Casabé Country: Argentina Year: 2019 Genre: Terror/ Thriller Duration: 93 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: After winning the 1983 elections, ending seven years of dictatorship; in Easter 1987 the government of Raúl Alfonsín was reeling from a military uprising. For 4 days, a huge popular mobilization supports Alfonsín, who offers himself as a negotiator to the rebel military. The growing tension is resolved on Easter Sunday in a meeting that the President holds behind closed doors with the military that culminates with the iconic phrase "The house is in order." Director: Sergio Wolf Country: Argentina Year: 2018 Genre: Documentary film Duration: 120 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Rodrigo and his mother travel to the town where his older brother has just died. In that calm place, they will go through the first stages of grief. Rodrigo will know the pain of adults and imperceptibly will leave his childhood. His mother will try to reveal the mysteries of that death. Director: Eduardo Crespo Country: Argentina Year: 2021 Genre: Drama Duration: 82 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Maró is the chef of a typical food restaurant in an Armenian club. She has a strong character and never cries. One day Rita, her kitchen assistant, tells her that the Armenian Embassy offers a promotion to travel to Armenia. Maró asks about his younger sister, and they inform him that he still lives in Armenia. Maró decides to travel. Director: Alejandro Magnone Country: Argentina Year: 2021 Genre: Drama Duration: 85 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Three vampires, Nandor, Colin Robinson and Nadja, struggle to keep up with the duties and responsibilities of everyday life as they reside in an apartment in New York. Director: Taika Waititi/ Jemaine Clement Country: New Zealand Year: 2014 Genre: Comedy/ Terror Duration: 86 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a sex worker and her best friend set out to find him and teach him, and his new lover, a lesson. Director: Sean Baker Country: USA Year: 2015 Genre: Comedia dramática Duration: 88 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Oliver (Craig Roberts) is a Welsh teen who has some things on his mind. First is losing his virginity before his 16th birthday. He sets out to woo his feisty classmate Jordana (Yasmin Paige). Then Oliver focuses on holding his family together. His father (Noah Taylor), a depressed marine biologist, seems unequal to the task of preventing Oliver's mother (Sally Hawkins) from succumbing to the dubious charms of a spiritual guru (Paddy Considine) from down the road. Director: Richard Ayoade Country: Great Britain Year: 2010 Genre: Comedy/ Romance/ Drama Duration: 97 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: A young woman (Dree Hemingway) finds a fortune stashed in a yard-sale thermos and befriends the crotchety oldster (Besedka Johnson) from whom she bought it. Director: Sean Baker Country: USA Year: 2012 Genre: Dramatic comedy Duration: 103 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Three teenagers spend the summer in a cottage in Ontario and cope with boredom by embarking on reckless adventures. Their friendship is tried when all of them are interested in the same girl. Director: Andrew Cividino Country: Canadá Year: 2015 Genre: Drama/ Adventure Duration: 89 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Vito, Luis and Francesco are three Spanish friends around thirty who travel by van to Paris for no apparent reason, just looking for a reunion with their respective ancient, idyllic and yet ephemeral love affairs, perhaps with the only mission of surprising themselves and continue to still feel alive. Director: Jonás Trueba Country: Spain Year: 2015 Genre: Drama Duration: 70 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Francis (Xavier Dolan) is a young gay man, Marie (Monia Chokri) is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas (Niels Schneider) walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues. Director: Xavier Dolan Country: Canada Year: 2010 Genre: Drama Duration: 95 minutes -
Synopsis: Eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of events due to the malevolent influence of a passing comet. Director: James Ward Byrkit Country: USA Year: 2013 Genre: Thriller Duration: 89 minutes Cast: -
Synopsis: Cabra is a rebellious teenager who lives with his mother in northern Argentina, near the Bolivian border. He dreams of becoming a professional Malambo dancer; the folk dance of the gauchos. As he prepares for the most important dance competition of his life, Cabra receives an unexpected visit from his father, El Corto, an asphalt pirate who is allowed out of jail for a few days. El Corto takes Cabra and his mother on a mysterious journey through the highways of northern Argentina, where father and son reconnect. As they try to find out why El Corto is taking them on this journey, Cabra and her mother are suddenly embroiled in a violent robbery. Simultaneously on the run and lost in the middle of the desert, Cabra struggles to make it back in time for his dance contest. Will it arrive on time? And will he have to abandon his father to follow his dreams? Director: Juan Pablo Félix Country: Argentina Year: 2020 Genre: Drama Duration: 97 minutos Cast: -
Sinopsis: A man in his thirties works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse. Director: Ana Katz Country: Argentina Year: 2021 Genre: Drama Duration: 73 min -
Sinopsis: Laura was 7 years old when her parents' political sympathies began to draw the attention of the dictator's regime. Before long, her father was imprisoned and Laura and her mother were forced to leave their apartment in the capital of Buenos Aires to go into hiding in a small, run-down house on the outskirts Direction: Valeria Selinger Country: Argentina Genre: Drama Duration: 94 min Year: 2021 Cast: Darío Grandinetti, Miguel Ángel Solá, Silvina Bosco, Patricio Aramburu, Paula Brasca, Federico Liss, Nahuel Viale, Guadalupe Docampo, Verónica Schneck, Mora Iramain Garcia
