Javier Favot

Alma

Alma is deaf-mute from birth. Together with her sister and her friends, she runs her family business, a hostel in Argentine Patagonia where one of her main attractions is taking tourists diving in the submerged forest. Diving is her greatest passion and the depths of the lake her world. The possibility of having a cochlear implant puts her in the dilemma of choosing between listening for the first time in her life or diving again in the depth of the lake.

Delicia

The Klezmer Project

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.

Sentadas en el umbral

Teresa and Valeria, two lawyers who successfully solve a case, discover that they were actually used and in an unexpected action decide to take revenge.

Atando cabos

Patricia's life falls apart when she loses her job and faces a family demand. After suffering an accident that leaves her in a wheelchair, her physical therapist suggests she publish her story in a video, a move that will unleash serious consequences.

Familia para armar

Familia para armar tells the story of the emotive encounter between a father and his teenage daughter after a long and traumatic separation. Ernesto is an obfuscated and distant father and Julia a hardheaded daughter wanting to be loved and to rebuild the relationship with her father.

El infinito sin estrellas

It tells of the troubled and difficult relationship between Beatriz, a single mother, and her 11-year-old son Mario. The action takes place in a post-industrial neighborhood of San Martín, where Beatriz tries to earn a living as an embroiderer. When he brings shrouds to his house to embroider, the story gains tension and suspense since, according to Mario, the house is full of the dead.

Lejos de casa

Florencia was raised with an absent mother and a father who rebuilt his life. Endure that reality with drugs and alcohol. Faced with her extreme behavior, her father sends her to her mother's house, where he will jeopardize his bond with her, but she will also meet Sebastián.

Mare

A drunk man confronts another after a betrayal and ends up collapsed. Meanwhile, his mare breaks loose, crosses the village, and climbs the mountain. Amid fences and other horses, something seems to open up the possibility of changing history.

Ruletista

Two dancers move through an empty apartment and stretch out in the available space. From the window, you can see they are in Vienna’s Alterlaa housing project, a satellite city. Life feels opaque next to the strange beauty of the concrete walls and the green terraces; it is sufocating to live in pre-designed happiness. An elderly woman drags herself through the complex, trying to leave her life behind. In a place that houses 9000 people, you can find absolutely everything. That’s the fun of it but also the misery.

Lucia's secret

Lucia is a flamenco singer and dancer. At 14, her mother died, leaving her completely alone and without support. Dance and singing became her means of survival.

About 12

Twelve year old Juana goes to a British school in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where she fails both socially and academically. A week away from the exams that will determine her future in the institution, she is surrounded by the same routine; going to class and trying to pull her social life back together, with useless attempts in between. Juana goes through these strange days apparently feeling indifferent towards the situation.

Los guardianes del ángel

The story takes us on a journey of tributes to the greatest bandoneon player of Buenos Aires, Aníbal Troilo, through interviews, musical sequences, dance and the powerful presence of football. The film intertwines fiction and testimonies to reveal to us a brilliant musician.

El hombre que corría tras el viento

Daniel works at an insurance company in the city center. He spends much of his time staring out a large window behind his desk. One more boring morning, he sees a beautiful woman pass by his window, the sweet Carola, and he falls madly in love with her. Love at first sight. From then on, Daniel will try to win her over again, but the inability to express what he feels will jeopardize his goal, although perhaps fate will give him the chance, once and for all, to take control of his future.

Shalom Taiwan

The financial problems of a Jewish community are a nightmare for their leader, Rabbi Aaron. Cornered and overwhelmed, Aaron tries a last resort: embark on a trip to the Far East to get donations.

Let the Lights Move Away

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.