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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.
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter to his care, not knowing that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
Mater is a film about the struggle between love and law; about social differences and distances that these generate. And about love, that crosses all, allows all: both good and evil.
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.
Two teenage outcasts, who resent their schoolmates and teachers, resolve to spread panic in school through a series of anonymous vandalism acts. Little by little, the game loses its innocent approach and the boys find themselves absorbed in a dangerous spiral of violence that seems to have no limits.
Pablo and Victoria, an Argentine couple who have been married for eight years, decide to go to Colonia, Uruguay, to celebrate Victoria's birthday and to try and improve their relationship.
Near Luján, the Rerum Novarum music band, composer of former workers of the Flandria cotton plant, continues playing nowadays, in spite of the shutdown of the factory. The old musicians struggle with passion in the need to maintain an identity, in a present where the social values seem to have to disappear. The old workers-musicians, receive "Our Lady of Luján" playing "Oh, María", remembering the early days of the town, of the factory, and of their own lives. They recall an idealistic past, where a Flandria worker used to receive a salary equal to that of a bank manager. They visit the closed factory -once source for employment for thousands of workers- with the knowledge that the country that they helped to build no longer exists. The old musicians gather to enjoy their friendship in the celebration of the 63rd anniversary of the band, while they fight against the ghosts of the economical crisis and social disintegration.
A family man is visited by an old friend who brings with him a strange amulet that has the power to grant three wishes to only three men. The mysterious friend leaves the family in charge of the amulet, warning them of the dangers of using it, but when the father decides to make his first wish, tragedy strikes.
Víctor Maytland is approaching the end of his career. After years of work, his producer decides to stop financing his pornographic films, overflowing with narrative ideas and social content. His curious craft seems to be dying. In the shadows of his studio, during nights of desperation and obsessive writing, surrounded by papers and clouds of tobacco, he begins to shape a new project, the most absurd and crazy of his life. And so, with the meager resources he manages to gather, he sets out to undertake one last challenge: to make one last film, this time based on his memories as a young Peronist activist.
Panceta works in a pipe factory and lives in a poor neighborhood with his mother, selling makeshift guns to local goons. He meets Clara at a party and they decide to elope together, but the local mob boss goes after them.
In the bohemian 1980s, a group of friends based in Paris decide to open a tango club, unknowing that from that little place tango would re-emerge around the world. The film recreates the mythical Trottoirs de Buenos Aires, where famous singers performed, such as Polaco Goyeneche, Rubén Juárez and Susana Rinaldi, under the tutelage of Julio Cortázar.
Two soldiers manage to escape from their own front in the Malvinas Islands. Gurí carries a wounded Caíto and they break into a country house where a woman and child live. For a single day, all four characters fall victim to the same horror.
Argentine history during the 20th century discovered by two teenagers, who investigate the lives of members of four different generations of the Lugones family.
Out of work, Diego has only one goal: to return to live in the Capital no matter the cost. After leaving his family in Delta del Tigre, he becomes an obsessive salesman inside a building's showroom: a perfect model that will lead him to experience absurd situations on the verge of madness.
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.
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.
Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.
Argentine audiovisual documentary based on a musical tour carried out between 2007 and 2008 by León Gieco along with a group of young artists with disabilities from different provinces of Argentina. The film combines music, singing, dance, and painting, along with the life stories of the protagonists.
Germán Abdala es un luchador y a través de su incansable pelea contra el cáncer y lo peor de la política, se narran los últimos quince años de la República Argentina. Germán Abdala is a fighter and through his tireless fight against cancer and the worst of politics, the last fifteen years of the Argentine Republic are narrated.
A journey through the hottest conflicts of the last Cuban decade. The fall of the USSR, the special period, the blockade, the visit of the Pope, prostitution, racism, the rafters, are just some of the themes that the most important plastic artists of the island address in a crude, direct and profound way. through his paintings.
