Iván Fund

Greta and Bruno, her husband, struggle with grief after the disappearance of their son. Their friend Sina travels to the coast to help them sell their summer house.

High school students find their way in life at Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. This striking coming-of-age film takes place against an inviting backdrop of fields of crops, greenhouses full of tomato plants, and the somewhat dilapidated school buildings, where dogs and chickens roam.

Dignified, strong and formidable, and oozing erotic attraction: young malambo dancer Gaspar is at one with his passion for dance that he has made his profession.

In a working-class neighborhood, in the outskirts of a small town, a group of children is faced with a strange and terrifying incident, which will soon develop into a true epidemic: all adults have turned into “sleepy beings”. The children, petrified yet determined, try hard to keep their spirits high and not give up hope that somehow, someday, their parents will “wake up”.

After numerous rejections, Ema's parents finally find a safe place for their daughter who has been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. In the loving community of the new primary school in the small town on the river, Ema can silently observe and explore the world at her own pace. The film gently follows Ema's small steps that evolve into magical moments.

In the Argentinian countryside, a child's special gift gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with her as an animal medium in order to earn a living.

Three stories inspired by stories by Juan José Saer. A police officer returns to his hometown to investigate a murder; a teacher complains about a horse that has been abandoned. One day, a man is found dead, and there is no trace of the horse, which is the only witness to the murder.

Downtrodden after some missteps in life, Daniel returns home. Work is non-existent, his ex-wife expects financial help he can't give her, and things are looking bleak. Yet as he prepares to become Godfather to his sister's son, who's soon to be baptised, he rediscovers a purpose - for a few days, at least.

"I was not afraid today" are two films at the same time. The first one portrays two sisters in their daily lives and the second one gets rid of the linear narration in search of a free manipulation of the visual and sound texture.

The preparations of a sound installation by artist Ernesto Romeo is suspended when his mother falls ill. This interruption motivates the director to embark on a series of projects that share a mysterious connection to each other.

COMPANIONS deals with the love between people and dogs. It’s made up of scenes of intimacy—caresses, habits, games, cares, stories of coming and loss, of protection, and uprooting. The stories intertwine and make up a map of love and its enigmas.

As if it were a continuation of the last 15 minutes of AB, Fund and Loza, now accompanied by Moriconi, radicalize the aesthetic procedure of the previous film made together: on the one hand, there is a free text, between poetic and philosophical, pronounced voiced by two men and a woman; on the other, a set of plans of different ecosystems, live and stuffed animals, clouds, waterfalls and lava, organized by a kind of poetic logic, makes up the visual material. The disjunction between text and image is programmatic, and in parallel they constitute a form of free poetic expression. The precariousness of existence is evidence, and the very composition of the images is in line with this empirical confirmation. The general discourse oscillates between a heterodox Franciscan Christianity and a sensitive Darwinism, and in the same way a kind of awareness of terror and amazement towards the universe is combined.

La Paz is the story of Liso, a young man who emerges from a psychiatric institution and tries to re-adapt to daily life in the universe of his middle class family and neighborhood. Though everything seems difficult, under the surface and very subtly things start to change for him.

Five challenging young men gather in a closed courtyard. The chords of a rock band emerge from the silence that the siesta emanates. Immutable, they play as time unfolds and loses the stability of the present.

Organism is, among other things, the story of a young woman and her pet, a small dog named Italia. It's also a new piece added to the extended work of Iván Fund, where the documentary record blurs with fiction in order to create (or describe) small intimate universes where the director's relationship with his characters result in an area where emotions and sensibility rule using small everyday events that push the story forward.

Two brothers await with their dying mother the precise moment that the rain gives them a break. The harvest has had its time to ripen and has begun to weaken. They would make a decision: stay there to take care of her or go out to do the job before the water destroys the crop.

Mariana, 15, escapes the violence of her home in Santa Fe. She embarks on a search for her biological father and takes refuge in an orphanage where she finds affection from a distant relative. On his journey through the interior of the province, he discovers its inner strength.

Through different situations, the narration is introduced into the life of old García (a lonely and enigmatic man who lives and works in an astronomical observation center that has been operating since the sixties in the city of Santa Fe), of Marcelo ( a young man passionate about the unfathomable mysteries of the cosmos) and Noelia (a student who will start working as Garcia's assistant).

Santa Fe - notes, 2017 - 2019 is a story made up of fragments of landscapes, buildings, voices and objects. It is a film built on the relationship between art and the colony, memory and threat, native peoples and silence.

Arita and Balencha, two young girls and close friends are like sisters to each other. Most of their friends have moved to Buenos Aires, but even if your boyfriend is trying to tug you along, it takes courage (and money in your pocket) to say farewell to each other and the place you have grown up in. But time passes and change happens, no matter if you want it or not - and maybe even Arita and Belencha will one day grow apart. But until then their days are spent talking, dreaming and finding a new home for a cardboard box full of puppies among friends and neighbours.