Mercedes Arias

Francisco and Sol were raised outside the system, in a religious community called La Familia Internacional. In an attempt to free their voice and reconfigure the puzzle of subjectivity, the recovery of the past through memories allows to bring up events that had been previously denied.

Since they were children, every summer they used to participate together in the traditional carnivals of their hometown. This magical celebration, transform men of the community into dionysiac figures with makeup, coloured costumes, glitter and feathers. Alcohol, friendship and parties out of control become the limelight. Boundaries get blurred with the heat of the sun at the edge of the imposing Paraná River.

The carnival is coming soon. We witness the ritual of “cleaning the meat” performed by the “gauchos” who unfold their knives. The bucolic landscape mixes with the city streets. Slowly, everything fills with colour, feathers and semi-naked men. Face masks begin to cover the faces and alcohol disinhibit the bodies.

Tonight is the monthly meeting of the 75s graduates class. The conversation flows until it suddenly acquires an aggressive tone when they discuss the continuity of some members of the Whatsapp group who don't participate much.

The celebrities who visited Luisita Escarria's photo studio in Buenos Aires for decades are countless. Sol, a young photographer, discovers there more than 25,000 unpublished negatives, an archive of incalculable value that opens a window through which to look at the true artistic epicenter of Argentinean popular culture…

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Documentary about the relation between Panama and the United States, during the building of the Panama Canal.

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Old friends, family, reunions, business, scams, films... These characters carry out the art of arguing with the unobjectionable feeling of being right. 60 minutes and 5 chapters in which the protagonists give their all in order to win their small epic battles.

Ana and Francisco go through the experience of their first pregnancy, when they find out that something will not be as they expected...

A septuagenarian artist must face the passing of time in his works, his body and to confront his own fears. Naked Colossi, strong arms and big muscles struggle against oblivion. They fade into the blue and vanish like birds in the sky. A portrait of Ricardo Cinalli, shot between London and the Argentinian Pampas. An artist of the Renaissance amidst the 21st century.

In front of the waves of the Panamanian Pacific in the town of El Higo, a woman walks and tells the story lived by the Panamanian Tito Arias and Margot Fonteyn, the most acclaimed dancer in the world and incomparable ballet figure.

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Nicolás Barsoff, a young Argentine actor of Austrian and Russian descent, rescues a box of film reels just as his father was about to throw it away. He hopes the box will be the key to unlocking a tendency toward darkness that haunts him as part of an inevitable inheritance he tries to combat with natural medicines. Through the archive, we delve into the story of a family torn apart by World Wars I and II, immigration to Argentina, and the military dictatorship of 1976. His two grandparents are presented as antagonistic characters in the context of the disappearance: two ghostly figures in a genealogy that Nicolás will try to reconstruct.

Forty-seven years after they met while serving in the military during the coup, a group of friends continue to celebrate an uninterrupted friendship that reflects the ups and downs of a confused society in which yesterday’s experiences are mixed with political convictions.

“La Señal de la Libertad” narrates a little-known episode of Panamanian history in the late 1980s. It tells the story of Kurt Muse, a U.S. citizen who, along with a group of six Panamanians, formed a clandestine radio broadcasting network during Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship. Their mission was to intercept and sabotage the communications of Panama’s National Guard to spark an uprising against the regime. 35 years after these events, they decide to step out of anonymity and share their story. The documentary explores the risks and sacrifices of those involved, highlighting the fine line between heroism and danger. More than just a historical chronicle, it delves into the psychology of its protagonists, the silent decisions that shaped their destiny, and the personal and collective impact of living in the shadows.