Juan Martín Hsu

Inspired by true events, this is a nocturnal thriller that follows the 2015 kidnapping of Chichita—mother of writer Hernán Casciari—by Daniel Olesnik. Olesnik seeks to settle a blood debt: to avenge a prank played by Hernán and his friend Chiri back in 1987, which drove his own mother to suicide. It is an inescapable, suffocating, and deadly spiral of vengeance that unfolds over the course of a single night.

After spending five years in prison, rapper Matías Escobar moves to the calm of a beach resort during the off-season. The sea, old friends, melancholy, and loneliness plunge him into an introspective limbo where writing and songwriting flow.

Nico is a 10-year-old boy who is reeling from his parents' separation. Without warning, he sets out to find his dog Frida, who has run away. Thus begins a journey through his neighborhood, unaware of the dangers he will face.

Romina has been working as a promoter for more than 20 years and, about to turn 40, faces few and poorly paid job offers. Her last days at work take her to bars and events. He decides to leave it, but in a Buenos Aires with crisis and unemployment, he cannot re-enter the labor market.

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.

Three intertwining stories that take place in La Salada — the largest unregulated market in Buenos Aires: a Korean father prepares his daughter for an arranged marriage, a young Bolivian man searches for work, and a Taiwanese DVD seller tries to woo a young woman to be his girlfriend.

Buenos Aires 2001. In a supermarket in the suburbs a chinese family decides to close the market for the fear of the looting being committed throughout the city. The days pass by and the family tries to keep their normal lives but the fear of outside lurking breaks in their family life, over and over.

A few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.

A corpse appears in the underground tunnels of a house, or perhaps they're the dark corridors of the subway. The dead man doesn't speak, yet stories are woven around him. Just like in a novel, the characters create their own fiction, a story to tell to children, to society, or a way to imagine the missing passages of recent Argentine history. Félix the pool attendant and Kike the subway employee, both writers, take us, not without humor, to a narrative beyond the daily life: What remains to be resolved? How do you clean a pool full of frogs? Who is the dead man in the trunk? Is he one of the many people who disappeared during the dictatorship?

In 2010, two rival Chinese mafia groups wage a hidden war within a silent, fearful immigrant community. As merchants are extorted and women are trafficked, a small family restaurant becomes the unlikely epicentre of the conflict. With the help of Officer Li and wiretaps in Cantonese, prosecutor Diana Belenguer launches a groundbreaking investigation. But when Xu, a mafia soldier, defies his clan to save a young victim, he becomes a target – hunted by his own brother. What begins as a wiretap case spirals into a high-stakes chase through Argentina’s criminal underworld.

A young actress directs a casting for a film about the flood in Santa Fe. Between the voices of people, current, past, and her own experience of the landscape, questions begin to arise.

Néstor Varzé is a karate master from the outskirts of Buenos Aires who’s obsessed with samurai history and culture. And although as luck would have it he lives in another time and far away from Japan, he considers himself an heir to those ancient warriors.

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.

To migrate in order to return to the origin. The film journeys, like a travel companion, through the desire of a Peruvian trans sex worker to transcend her current life situation through art. Following the personal story of Kiara Rodríguez, the protagonist, we come to know the strengths and vulnerabilities involved in a constant search: to become an actress, a dancer, and to have her own show—passing through shifting emotions, landscapes, friendships, fantasies, and brutal realities.

The annual short film competition for directors organized and produced by INCAA presents seven new works.

What will the world look like after the last tree has vanished? How will we remember leaves and thorns, the shade above our heads, the shape of forests, and the lives that once dwelled within them? And in that future—will the air still be breathable? In 2063, with all forests gone and atmospheric oxygen nearly depleted, humanity stands on the brink of abandoning Earth. Seventy-five-year-old biologist Diana mentally returns to the year 2022, recalling Miguel, the last guardian of the Pampas forests.

The documentary follows a group of former sulfur workers from the town of Mina La Casualidad, in Salta, who were fired 40 years ago by the military dictatorship and who return to the place every year on the day of the Virgin.

High-altitude anthropologist and Head of the Qhapaq Ñan Program, Christian Vitry was part of the expedition which pulled out the Children of the Llullaillaco from within the volcano in 1999. This documentary closely frames Vitry's preparation process, among informative and human talks with the Koya community -who must give him permission to start climbing in the area-, and peronal stories that turn this story into a real travelogue.

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.

Haunted by the tragic death of his father, Juan Martín Hsu, a young Argentinian filmmaker of Taiwanese origin, returns to Taipei to film the reunion with his mother. Reality and fiction blend in a moving personal quest in which an incredible portrait of a Mother Courage stands out from the picture of a family saga marked by uprooting.