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The story of an assassination attempt made to destabilize the Argentine government and prevent the 1970 presidential inauguration of Marxist Salvador Allende. Curiously, for this purpose, the Argentine military plotters decided to create an international incident rather than a domestic one. The key to their scheme was the assassination of the Chilean army commander-in-chief, General Schneider.
A documentary short on the treatment of tuberculosis patients in Santa Fe, Argentina.
Short film about a picturesque itinerant operator who took the cinema around the towns. Produced by students of the Santa Fe School.
Documentary on livestock production made for INTA (National Institute of Agricultural Technology), on the use and prevention of the silo at times of the year when livestock feed is scarce.
Short film by Juan Fernando Oliva that was censored after its production and its exhibition was prohibited by presidential decree in Argentina. The film addresses the problem of housing based on a documentary record of the lives of the tenement's inhabitants. It is the story of a young couple looking for a home to face the present and build their future.
A story inspired by real events that took place in the port of Valparaiso. Four poor children have been abandoned because their father, who is out of work, steals cattle to feed them and the police have arrested him. The story takes up the children's point of view and is structured in four episodes that describe their inevitable descent into the world of marginality and crime. Faced with life in a brutal way, from their problematic social situation, they head towards a marginality that is difficult to avoid.
A woman describes to her psychoanalyst the details of how she met her partner until the moment of their separation.
A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
A report on the life of coal miners in the Lota region, in southern Chile, it shows their work activities, their homes, and how the rest of the family picks up coal in the seashore. This documentary is part of a series José Román made with CUT (Central Workers Union), whose negatives got lost during the raids on CUT offices after the coup d’état.
To continue pretending to be a position they no longer have, a run-down upper-class family moves into the home of a wealthy aunt.
Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.
A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
Mirta is a university student in Buenos Aires, in the politicized Argentina of 1974. After the 1976 coup d'état, she and her boyfriend are forced into exile in Stockholm. The exile will contribute to the destruction of the couple, and Mirta must then find her own path.
Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.
The history of the Teatro Abierto, which was initiated on July 28, 1981 as a cultural reaction against the last Argentine civic-military dictatorship, and organized by a group of artists and workers from the theater world
