Ana Poliak

1 History of entanglements in the Bar Almendra in La Plata. 2 A family drama that takes place in a country house. 3 A love story on the outskirts of La Plata 4 Marginality. 5 With love...María José.

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955. For twenty-five years, he wanders with no direction other than the path of the railway tracks, joining the silent world of the "crotos"—itinerant laborers—where he meets "the Frenchman," a mentor who leaves an indelible mark on his life. Back home, his friends and a woman await him, weaving the fabric of their own lives. Sixty years later, facing the camera, he relives his romances and his worldview in a kind of collage of perspectives and dreams, centered on the fundamental question: "Is freedom possible?"

A country boy tries to find his place in Buenos Aires. He goes to live with his cousin in the outer suburbs and works as a parapalos ("pin setter") in one of the city's last hand-operated bowling alleys.

It tells the story of a people who stood on the side of the freedom, civilization and progress, but also some who are on the side of unbridled capitalism and race. However, they is still a possibilities of utopia and solidarity.

It chronicles a few hours in the life of a family living on the southern coast of Buenos Aires. After breakfast, a father (Guillermo Arengo) heads off with his son (Agustín Alcoba) to a desolate beach for the day, while his wife (Roxana Berco) visits her seriously ill mother (Susana Campos) in a remote, wooded area.

A young boy dreams and draws about an apparently fictional father figure. He materializes in real life, starring surrealist and colorful scenarios.

Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.

Two men in search of a mysterious briefcase that can drive them mad.

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.

Set in the north of Argentina. Yolanda, a young girl of Wichi origin, tells in her native language (Wichi Lhämtes), the story of how, as a family maid in a "criollo" home, she has her hair unjustly cut: this is her most particular trait, her beauty. This event jeopardizes her cultural ties with the "criollo" world and defines her destiny.

Mercedes Sosa's recital upon her return from exile, in which she was accompanied by renowned artists, and an interview with the artist in which she recounts her life story from her childhood to the years when she suffered censorship, persecution, and exile.

When the Germans invade Poland during World War II, a family of Jews seeks refuge in a well. Based on real events, the three survivors moved to Buenos Aires in 1952.

A playwright going through a period of crisis returns to his childhood home and begins to nostalgically recall the relationships that shaped his life.

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

Sailing on a Uruguayan Navy ship, a group of soldiers sees their lives consumed by risk and fatigue. Their destination is Antarctica and they will cross the stormy ocean to deliver supplies to a scientific base. Their journey, often interrupted by icebergs, is long and fraught with danger. Upon reaching their destination, the landscape becomes dominant and the men slowly disappear. There, in the midst of the storm, all traces of humanity have been erased and the world dilutes us in the waters of the thaw.

When Rey left Argentina after it fell under a military dictatorship in the late 1970s, he also left behind a very controlling and authoritarian father. Now he has returned to the country from exile for the funeral of his father. Though he left the man behind physically, their relationship still haunts him. Meanwhile, his old college pal Isabel has also returned to Argentina to help her husband and child cope with the effects of her long absence, brought about because she had a politically unsuitable lover. The two returnees are contemplating filming an autobiographical film about their experiences.

Trelles and Amílcar share a room in a boarding house, the rent of which has not been paid for a long time. Trelles is a waiter in a typical Buenos Aires bar while Amilcar is an amateur bolero singer, who divides his time between sleeping and singing for free in a cabaret.

A little girl talks with a tramp lady.

Desire, adolescence, and the first time can be as unique as it is surprising and very different.

Saturday night in the humble house of a working-class family, narrated in parallel between the mother and a night out and the son who lives among street children.

Two children, victims of a controlling and violent stepfather, organize a plan to get their mother to abandon him.

A boy climbs a wall to take a closer look at a snail that slowly moves along its edge and encounters an alien world. Among sheets and white clothes drying in the sun, there are two young girls playing with a bag that floats above them as if by magic.