Marcelo Céspedes
Directing
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The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
Embrace of the Serpent

A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?
Night Watch

An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.
The Passion of Michelangelo

Musical documentary about the love story between tango lyricist José María Contursi and a village girl named Gricel. After a passionate and forbidden romance, Contursi and Gricel separate and propose to forget each other, but they discover that forgetting is impossible.
Gricel. Un amor en tiempo de tango

Documentary based on the forced expulsion of more than 250,000 slum dwellers from the Federal Capital during the last military dictatorship. A sympathetic and compassionate look at the suffering of marginalized individuals.
Buenos Aires, crónicas villeras

Federico León crosses the path of the cinema to tell in Everything together the endless, torn struggles of a couple that never stops separating.
Everything Together

In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing together her memories and fantasies in a quest to understand her parents' untimely fate.
The Blonds
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Win 392

The parallel accounts of the story of the Virgin of Luján in the seventeenth century and of a blind violinist who regains her vision during the Pope's visit to Argentina in 1982
La virgen gaucha

Documentary film about the life of Neuquén bishop Jaime de Nevares.
Jaime de Nevares: Último viaje

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Hospital Borda: un llamado a la razón

Documentary about another documentary by its director Patricio Coll and Jorge Goldenberg, "Hachero nomás".
Regreso a Fortín Olmos

Documentary about the group H.I.J.O.S. (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Oblivion and Silence).
H.I.J.O.S.: El alma en dos

Produced in almost marginal conditions, Los Totos is a portrait of life in impoverished neighbourhoods
Los totos
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Historias de amores semanales

Argentinean singer and tango legend Ada Falcón disappeared without a trace in 1942 at the height of her career. This is the story of how she was located sixty years later, living in an unexpected way, in an unexpected place.
I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me

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La Ballena Va Llena

The way a group of police journalists track and obtain information for their work.
Tinta roja

It recounts the prison experiences of political prisoners during the last Argentine dictatorship and questions the laws of due obedience and the final point.
A los compañeros, la libertad

Director Andrés Di Tella travels for the first time to India in search of his Indian mother's past only to find unexpected facts.