Osvaldo Bayer

Throughout his 87 years, the anarchist historian, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer was one of the greatest exponents of a sustained commitment to his liberation struggles, illuminating the past so that the present and future are increasingly emancipatory. But, as this documentary by Gustavo Gzain demonstrates, using the past tense is difficult to describe the peaceful battles of Bayer, who is still an active defender of human rights.

Documentary that tells the life, death and desecration of the mortal remains of three great chiefs of the pampas and Patagonia: Mariano Rosas, Cipriano Catriel and Juan Calfucurá, who after the bloody Desert Campaign, were desecrated in the name of science (whose skulls ended up swelling the collections of Argentine anthropological museums) and a fourth lonko or cacique, the irreducible Vicente Pincén, who once stopped by Colonel Villegas, could only be captured on four famous photographic plates.

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.

Documentary about Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti (1929-1964), founder of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, and commander of Che Guevara's vanguard in Argentina.

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.

A history of Argentine football, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the victory of the Argentine national team in the 1986 World Cup. The film uses valuable archival footage.

The life and mystery of the disappearance of the most famous rural bandit in Argentina between 1930 and 1940, Segundo David Peralta, alias Mate Cosido, is the object of the investigation that has been carried out for three years.

What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define their concept of utopia?

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.

Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a workshop with young film students, Schroeter contrasts the official statements of the regime with the testimony of victims, dissidents and relatives of the disappeared. And trust that their faces and words will resonate much more than a mere representation of violence.

Five Argentinian women, with missing relatives from the military dictatorship that ruled the country, explain their emotions and feelings about all that happened.

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

Documentary about the detention-disappearance of Juan Marcos Herman in the city of Bariloche during the dictatorship in Argentina.

The story of the mythical anarchist begins to weave on May 1, 1909, when the police repress a massive anarchist march in Buenos Aires, leaving dead and wounded. A few months later, the carriage of Ramón Falcón, the police chief who commanded the repression, explodes and flies through the air. For the attack, a young Ukrainian is arrested: Simón Radowitzky.

The natural sciences museum of La Plata, Argentina, had indigenous people held captive as study objects in the past, and their skeletons were on exhibit for many decades. The story of Krygi, served as a trigger to look back at the ideologies that defined us as individuals and as a people.

Between 2012 and 2014, Osvaldo Bayer toured presenting the theatrical works Tugurio and Exilio, and the backstage moments were recorded on a handycam. Juan Pablo Gutiérrez edits the material, capturing Osvaldo’s profound humanity through a singular and deeply poetic approach.

Documentary film about the "zanja de Alsina", a long trench dug in the Argentinian Pampa in 1876 as way to separate the "civilized" from the "barbarians" during the massacre of indigenous peoples known as "campaña del desierto".

Those who were closest to him give us a different Rodolfo Walsh: brave, womanizer, talented, whiskey-loving, obsessive, militant, full of doubts... but fundamentally human.

This documentary exposes the untold story about the killing of native Southamerican people in Argentina in the late XIX century, with the aim of taking their lands for economical and political purposes.

The influence of Prussian militarism on the Argentine Army, from the visit of Marshal von der Goltz to the present day. The French and American instructors at the War College. Jorge Videla's portrait now presides over the Military College, and cadets express their admiration for him and Hitler's marshals. The eye of German television penetrates our reality, the relentless "crusade against subversion," and the international arms business.

The documentary rescues in its essence the experience of the first Clandestine Center in all of Latin America converted into a Museum ("Espacio Mansión Seré", inaugurated in March 2013) and manages to make visible a place where, years ago, death and horror ravaged, where today life, art and activism can flourish to continue building a country that explores its past, understands its present and looks with hope to the future.