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18-year-old Nacho shows up at the cow-breeding ranch of his father, Marcos, whom he barely knows. His father is worried because, as the ranch’s yearly auction is approaching, several cows are dying without explanation. When Nacho finds out who is killing the cows and why, he understands the magnitude of the problem. Cornered by distress and confusion, he’ll have to choose: being a boss or not being a boss. Perpetuating the system, the insult, the abuse, or refusing to take part in it.
Life and work of the controversial Argentine film director Jorge Polaco who questioned all moral institutions, exposing himself to the most scandalous media ridicule and risking his vulnerability. Is it possible to evade legitimation? Does the era of the algorithm allow that gap through which these singularities were previously filtered?
An atmospheric chronicle of the 2001 crisis in Argentina, a political, economic, and social uprising fueled by the "Let them all go!" revolt. The film reconstructs this moment using restored archival footage, capturing the spontaneity of the protests and the political instability that led to the resignation of five presidents. Through television footage, it immerses the viewer in a real-time experience of this crucial period in Argentine history.
Sebastian Muro, the director of this film, starts shooting his father, Rafa, an extroverted businessman, for a film school exercise. Hypnotized by the easiness and indifference his father has with the camera, Sebastian continues shooting him without much purpose until, without him noticing, he starts telling his own family story and stumbles upon an unsettled matter: the absence of his father during nearly a decade when Sebastian was a boy.
Fidel asks for a loan and buys ecstasy with his friend Camilo. The dealer details the procedure. They will only sell on Saturday in a nightclub. They pay cash and leave. Uneasy, Fidel invites Sole home. He boasts about the pills and shows her the stash. They take one each, they dance, and go into the bedroom. With Fidel naked in the bed, Sole walks out of the bedroom, grabs the bag of pills and hides it in her purse. She returns to the bedroom with a condom. Fidel wakes up next morning all alone.
A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies. In an attempt to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture, Mateo walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region, and registers on cassettes the experiences of other Ayoreo who, like him, were born in the vast forest, free and nomadic, without any contact with white civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs and their home.
Is it that serious to have only one lemon in the fridge? Is it an unimportant coincidence or is it a sign of something else? Lisa asks herself what she did wrong with Juan, who got upset the night he went to her place and there was nothing to eat.
After a party, dazed by music and substances, he and she take refuge in a bathroom. They share a common desire: not to sleep again.
A cat wandering among the pastures, the sparks that emerge among the red embers of a fire, a man walking under the shadow of high trees in the middle of a forest, a distant fire, the ghostly figure of firemen at night: these are some of the minimal postcards that make up the enormous beauty of the Manantiales mountains, in the outskirts of Córdoba, Argentina.
