Directory of World Cinema: Argentina
Vol 23
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- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsCarlos RofféSergio Poves CamposLorenzo QuinterosMiguel has the habit of stealing a used book every day. On one occasion he learns from them a magic trick with which he makes objects and people disappear. Thus he gets a trip to Europe, where the trick is very successful.
- DirectorEsteban SapirStarsAlejandro UrdapilletaValeria BertuccelliJulieta CardinaliThis near-silent black and white film from Argentina tells the story of a city that has lost its voice, stolen by Mr. TV, and the attempts of a small family to win the voice back. Similar in design to early German expressionist films.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsOlga ZubarryGuillermo BattagliaCarlos CoresBankrupt due to gambling debts, a man sends his beautiful adolescent daughter to ask a sculptor for money. The artist accepts to lend the money - but in exchange for seeing the girl nude.
- DirectorHoracio Coppola
- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínManuel RodalDolores FonziA deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.
- DirectorDaniel BurakStarsJuan Pablo BallinouNuria BurakRoberto BuzzoneMartina is a young editor that works for a television network. She is decided to make a documentary on the legendery Bar El Chino, a place where tango, friendship and love are highly valued. Her first night at Bar El Chino, she meets Jorge, a single father who was making a documentary about Bar El Chino also, but who had to leave it unfinished because of the economic depression. With the aid of Jorge, she will discover this wonderful place, get the documentary in progress, learn to love, and know what migration is like... from first-hand experience.
- DirectorTristán BauerStarsGastón PaulsPablo RibbaCésar AlbarracínThe suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.
- DirectorAlbertina CarriStarsAnalía CouceyroAlbertina CarriSantiago GiraltLos rubios focuses on the directors search for her dissappeared parents. Is it possible to get to the truth or they are only fictions, imaginary characters from everyone who rememebers them?
- DirectorPablo FendrikStarsArturo GoetzNahuel Pérez BiscayartGuillermo ArengoCab driver Arturo has to find $2000 within 24 hours; his older son, Ramiro, who left home four years ago, has just phoned from Houston asking for urgent help.
- DirectorRodrigo MorenoStarsJulio ChávezOsmar NúñezMarcelo D'AndreaA bodyguard of a top politician is so dedicated that he's in danger of losing his own identity.
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoStarsFreddy FloresRosa SánchezOscar BerteaA Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsVera FogwillNicolás PaulsFernán MirásThis is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past. This is a story of contrasts, offered by a despair choir of characters: the old couple who hire a young woman to record city's present images, because they "don't get out much now", the boy who finds out the real story about his parents out of a coincidence... this and the others are all illustrations of actual Buenos Aires.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsEduardo NoriegaLeonardo SbaragliaPablo EcharriNene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsSusú PecoraroImanol AriasHéctor AlterioIn 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.
- DirectorArmando BoStarsIsabel SarliVictor BoRomualdo QuirogaA worker in a meat-packing factory becomes the girl of strangers. After she makes love to her boyfriend, she is raped by a fellow worker.
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoStarsRodrigo de la SernaPablo EcharriNazareno CaseroThe goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
- DirectorDaniel TinayreStarsFanny NavarroMecha OrtizTita MerelloA nurse is framed for murder by negligence. She goes to prison pregnant by her rich boss.
- DirectorMariano LlinásStarsMariano LlinásWalter JakobAgustín MendilaharzuIn this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsMisael SaavedraHumberto EstradaRafael EstradaA man chop down trees, organizes the trunks, clean them, stops to defecate, lunch, nap and continues to sell its timber.
- DirectorLuis SaslavskyStarsSantiago ArrietaTita MerelloFrancisco PetroneDaniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide himself, he pretends to be a teacher in a small town in Entre Ríos, and by the time he discovers it, the police have already faced a new life.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsFederico LuppiVíctor LaplaceHéctor BidondeA small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsAntonella CostaCarlos EchevarríaEnrique PiñeyroIn the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One of the tenants, Felix, has a non-corresponded crush on Maria. When the teenager is abducted in her house by the Argentinean army accused of subversion, her mother seeks her out in the 23rd Precinct where one of the military without uniform tells her that they are heading with Maria. While Diane desperately tries to find information about her daughter, Maria is submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo.
- DirectorHumberto CairoErnesto GuncheEduardo Martinez de la PeraStarsArturo MarioMaría PadínCelestino PetrayA licentious patron takes a beautiful stand to his palace in Buenos Aires, after abducting her. When the gaucho who wants to go to rescue her, the field owner uses a corrupt commissary to falsely accuse him of a thief.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsEnrique MuiñoFrancisco PetroneÁngel MagañaThe story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
- DirectorAlbertina CarriStarsCristina BanegasDaniel FanegoLucas EscarizA domineering mother with a seemingly perfect family in Argentina, is unaware of a taboo relationship happening between her youngest twin children.
- DirectorAlexis Dos SantosStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartNahuel VialeInés EfronAimless and uncertain, a group of teenagers go through an intense coming-of-age experience in their small desert town.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielFrancisco RabalLeonardo FavioA woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMaría OnettoClaudia CanteroCésar BordónAfter hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
- DirectorDavid José KohonStarsAlfredo AlcónMaría NoelMario AlarcónIn this modern retelling of the Faust legend, a freelance photographer meets the enigmatic Mefi, who leads him, through a hole in the wall, to a room where a disembodied voice predicts stock prices.
- DirectorOctavio GetinoFernando E. SolanasStarsMaría de la PazFernando E. SolanasEdgardo SuárezDivided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution and the revolution of the third world such as the revolt of the students in the United States and Western Europe, Czech citizens protest against the Soviet Union's State bureaucracy and also the revolution that (probably) is unprecedented in Argentina.
- DirectorLorena MuñozSergio WolfStarsAda FalconMiguel CiacciAníbal FordDocumentary on the life of Ada Falcón, one of the great legends of Argentine tango history. After seventy years of silence she finally tells her story.
- DirectorJorge PreloranStarsJorge Preloran
- DirectorRicardo AlventosaStarsJuan VerdaguerNathán PinzónErnesto BiancoWhen a relative leaves a large sum of money to a couple under the condition that they have a child, they become desperate to conceive.
- DirectorHugo SantiagoStarsOlga ZubarryLautaro MurúaJuan Carlos PazA group of men led by an old man trying to stop an invasion of the city of Aquileia. The invaders are introducing a machinery for a mass invasion, but the invasion is absolute and impossible to define.
- DirectorCarlos EcheverríaStarsEsteban BuchMiguel Angel D'AgostinoDébora HermanInquires about the disappearance of the student Juan Herman in the city of Bariloche, Argentina during the last military dictatorship.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsRicardo DarínCecilia RothHéctor AlterioThe film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "disappearance" of dissident friends, a human rights lawyer (Ricardo Darín) and his research scientist wife (Cecilia Roth) flee the city and hide from the military police in a vacant summer house. With them are their two kids: Harry, who is fascinated with the escape artistry of Harry Houdini, and El Enano, his little brother. (Translated as "Little Guy" in the English subtitles, played by Milton de la Canal. The actual translation is "dwarf".) The family adopts new identities and attempts to lead a normal life. Later, they are joined by a student who is using the alias Lucas (Tomás Fonzi). Their new life is difficult, but a visit with their estranged grandparents (Fernanda Mistral and Héctor Alterio) reveals that they are still a close-knit family. Subtly hinted, however, and used as a metaphor, is the mother's constant smoking and El Enano's renewed bed-wetting. Both serve to show how stressful and precarious their situation is.
- DirectorMartín De SalvoVera FogwillStarsVera FogwillLucía SniegMirta BusnelliAn exploration into mother-daughter relationships and the struggles of a precocious 10-year-old child to raise her cocaine-addicted mother who gets unexpectedly pregnant with her second child.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsLorenzo QuinterosNoemí FrenkelHugo SotoRoberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela, a young woman about to commit suicide, it serves him as material to make this work.
- DirectorAlcides GrecaStarsMariano LópezSalvador LópezRosa VolpeReconstruction of the last Indian rebellion of Mocovíes in San Javier, north of the province of Santa Fe, in 1904. Silent Movie.
- DirectorJorge GaggeroStarsNorma AleandroNorma ArgentinaMarcos MundstockA wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routine and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into economic crisis.,
- DirectorDaniel BurmanStarsDaniel HendlerAdriana AizembergJorge D'ElíaIn Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business, trying to get his Polish passport and move to Europe. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby to fight in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. When his father returns to Buenos Aires, Ariel discovers the reason why his father left his family.
- DirectorNicolás PrivideraStarsGuido PrivideraNicolás PrivideraM is a gripping family portrait, a poignant tribute to Nicolas Prividera's mother and a thoroughly absorbing historical document that questions the feasibility of arriving at an absolute truth and the validity of any one version of history.
- DirectorMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsTeófilo MendozaRafael SpregelburdEugenia AlonsoA small incident over two neighbors common wall sparks a conflict which affects the intimacy of the view over the chimney; the protagonist sparks a conflict and with paranoiac obsession destroys everyday life.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsFederico LuppiJuan Diego BottoEusebio Poncela19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend Dante.
- DirectorJavier van de CouterStarsMartina KnopoffCamila Sosa VilladaMaite LanataAle is a transvestite that collects cardboard. One day she finds Mia's diary, a woman who died and left her husband and daughter Julia. A movie about discrimination and intolerance.
- DirectorAna KatzStarsRaquel BankMaruja BustamanteZulma BuyuttiA woman eagerly awaits her son's homecoming and arranges a reunion with his very dysfunctional family.
- DirectorEdgardo CozarinskyStarsGonzalo HerediaMariana AnghileriRafael FerroA 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?
- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínGastón PaulsGraciela TenenbaumTwo con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
- DirectorEdmund ValladaresStarsLautaro MurúaLuis Medina Castro
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
- DirectorJorge CedronStarsMarta AlbaneseNorma AleandroEnrique AlonsoIn 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
- DirectorGustavo FontánThe movie is a documentary about the argetine poet Juan Laurentino Ortiz, known as "Juan L" or "Juanele". It's a story about a travel trought the Paraná river (Entre Ríos, Argentina), where the nature acting (water, birds, air, rain, trees, sun, etc). The film have parts of documentary about Juan L. Ortiz, and can hear his voice talking a reciting a poem. La orilla que se abisma is poetry made image.
- DirectorAndrés Di TellaStarsAndrés Di TellaDirector Andrés Di Tella travels for the first time to India in search of his Indian mother's past only to find unexpected facts.
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoBruno StagnaroStarsHéctor AngladaJorge SesánPamela JordánA couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they are being ripped off.
- DirectorMarco BergerStarsManuel VignauLucas FerraroMercedes QuinterosAfter girlfriend Laura dumps him for another man, Bruno plots to come between the new lovers. But his plan takes an unexpected turn, causing Bruno to question his own sexuality.
- DirectorMario GalloStarsEliseo GutiérrezThe film refers to the historical events happened in Buenos Aires in May1810 known as the May Revolution, in order to be independent of the Spaniards.
- DirectorLeandro IpiñaStarsRodrigo de la SernaAlireza Abbas BeygiVíctor Hugo CarrizoThe story follows a 15-year-old Manuel Corvalán, who decides to leave his upper-class family and be disinherited by his father to join the newly formed Army of the Andes, commanded by the General José de San Martín.
- DirectorHugo del CarrilStarsHugo del CarrilAdriana BenettiRaúl del ValleThe Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Parana. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínSoledad VillamilPablo RagoA retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
- DirectorHugo del CarrilStarsVirginia LagoEmilio AlfaroEnzo Viena
- DirectorGustavo TarettoStarsJavier DrolasMiguel DedovichPilar López de AyalaMartín and Mariana are slightly damaged people who live in buildings just opposite one another. While they often don't notice each other, separation might be the very thing that brings them together.
- DirectorMartín RejtmanStarsEzequiel CaviaDamián DreizikMirta BusnelliAfter his bike and money gets stolen from him, Lucio struggles to find his place in the surrounding reality of Argentina in the 1990s.
- DirectorEzio MassaStarsJulio ZarzaFernando RoaJohnathan RodríguezDuring the 2002 FIFA World Cup, three poor boys from Buenos Aires will put their lives on the line just to watch one of the national team's matches.
- DirectorVerónica ChenStarsCecilia BengoleaLeonardo BrzezickiAdrián FondariA suicidal woman and a male prostitute connect in an ATM station and begin a tenuous affair.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínHéctor AlterioNorma AleandroA dissatisfied 40-year-old, separated and without time for his own daughter and girlfriend must rethink his life when his father decides to marry his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, by church.
- DirectorFederico LeónMarcos MartínezStarsEsther ArrietaJulio ArrietaA group of inhabitants of the Villa 21, in Buenos Aires, discovers that it can make of itself and use their houses as decorated to find an artistic and labor exit that transforms the marginalized space into a great film set.
- DirectorSantiago MitreStarsEsteban LamotheRomina PaulaRicardo FelixRoque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ideals than by a wish to get close to Paula, an attractive young teacher heavily involved in internal university politics.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsEnrique MuiñoÁngel MagañaOrestes CavigliaThe film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
- DirectorFrancisco MúgicaStarsEnrique MuiñoElías AlippiEnrique SerranoAbout the paternalistic computer sense that the family unit had at that time.
- DirectorDiego LermanStarsTatiana SaphirCarla CrespoVerónica HassanYoung naive girl Marcia learns about her sexuality. Marcia is kidnapped by two punk women, Mao and Veronica Hassan. They take her to a coast which Marcia had never seen before. Eventually three women get familiar to each other and end up at Lenin's Grandma's friend, Aunt Blanca's house as paying guest. There everybody discovers and rediscovers the relationships and affect each other.
- DirectorGabriela DavidStarsDiego PerettiMiguel GuerberofJosefina VitónA man steals a taxi and begins to work as a taxi driver from time to time. However, everything changes when a woman with a gun wound enters his cab. Love will find its way into their hearts.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsFederico LuppiHaydée PadillaJulio De GraziaTwo coworkers fake an accident to blackmail the company they work for for a sum of money. However, the plan goes awry and one of them dies. The surviving employee demands a compensation, but the company refuses to pay him.
- DirectorFernando BirriStarsGuillermo Cervantes LuroMaría Rosa GalloFrancisco PetroneEveryday the children of the neighborhood known as "Tire Dié", in the city of Santa Fe, wait for the train to ask for money, shouting "Tire dié!" (toss me a dime!) to the passengers. Considered the first survey-on-film in Latin America.
- DirectorHugo SantiagoStarsRodolfo MederosBérangère BonvoisinEdgardo LusiHugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after the bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.
- DirectorMiguel PereiraStarsLeopoldo AbanJuan José CameroGuillermo DelgadoA rural teacher in Jujuy, establishes a friendly relationship with the inhabitants of Chorcán, a small Andean village. Circumstances in EEE Outbreak of War of the Malvinas and one of his students, Verónico Cruz, is called for a Fight, running a Join the crew of the ARA General Belgrano, sunk on May 2, 1982.
- DirectorLita StanticStarsVanessa RedgraveOfelia MedinaLautaro MurúaA film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. But will making a movie about it force Silvia to remember her traumatic past?
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsRicardo DarínJérémie RenierMartina GusmánWhile working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aires shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.
- DirectorLucía PuenzoStarsRicardo DarínValeria BertuccelliGermán PalaciosThe story of an intersex fifteen-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.
- DirectorAnahí BerneriStarsJuan MinujínMimí ArdúCarlos EchevarríaA writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.