Martín Mainoli

El récord

Vicente has a hobby of breaking Guinness records. Years after making a record-length pancho, he organized an art and gastronomy residency to seek his second challenge: The largest empanada in the world.

Leo 16

Four days in the life of 16-year-old Leo: basketball, friendships, rivalries, and the desire to get the attention of the girl he likes, at a time when everything seems to be played out with intensity.

Cuchi

After crossing a road in Salta, a pig dies after being run over by a bus transporting the bullies of a football club.

Beauty

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.

La Ciénaga

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

Everything Together

Federico León crosses the path of the cinema to tell in Everything together the endless, torn struggles of a couple that never stops separating.

Sachasandia

A young Wichi woman gets carried away by the creoles and her best friend’s discomfort. She rejects the ancient knowledge about the cooking of the sachasandia, a wild fruit that can be both food and a fatal poison.

The Local Situation

Luna is a taxi driver, likes cars, and has no intention of riding shotgun. When Armando, who is restoring a Chevrolet 400, invites her for a ride in his car, she accepts on one condition: that she gets to drive.

The Headless Woman

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

Historias breves 7

The seventh issue of the almanac of short stories. The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Competition and Filmmakers Support Program.

Arete Guasu

In the Guaraní community of Yacuy, the arete-guasu brings together harvest, gratitude, and collective memory. Through music, dance, and shared rituals, the celebration renews the bond with the land, the river, and the ancestors.

El hombre rebelde

Rebellion is foreign to the man of science, he is willing to dilute himself in his objectivity, he is not called to live the dissonance between man and his form. The artist, on the other hand, wants to be himself, and even if a force crushes him, he will continue to suffer and fight against it.

Liverpool

A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.

A Mysterious World

Boris is stunned when his girlfriend Ana asks for some time apart. He doesn't know why and she can't explain it. Some time can mean so many things. How much time apart? A week, a month, years? During this imprecise period of uncertainty, Boris is left at the mercy of chance. His life transforms into an erratic urban journey: moving into a transient hotel, buying a temperamental communist-era car, meeting up with a long-lost classmate, random encounters with other women and repeatedly trying to get back together with Ana.

Silvia Prieto

After her 27th birthday, Silvia Prieto decides to take charge of her life and make some changes. At the same time, she suddenly finds herself intertwined in the life of another woman who is also named Silvia Prieto.

Two Shots Fired

Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a woman to join his medieval wind ensemble.

La libertad

A man chops down trees, organizes the trunks, cleans them, stops to defecate, has lunch, takes a nap and continues to sell his timber.

Ships and Cathedrals

Perhaps what has already been lived is more important than what’s yet to be lived, Antonio thinks as he burns his father's belongings. Ships and Cathedrals tells of his encounter with Emilia and how he manages to break out of the inertia of his life.

Ana and the Others

Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.

The Teacher

Natalio is a passionate teacher. When Juani, a friend, comes to live in town, the inhabitants confirm rumors about Natalio's homosexuality. The parents of his students do not approve the teacher's behavior with another man and harass the principal so that Natalio does not continue to lead the classroom.