Roberto Porta

At his grandmother's request, Santiago goes to the cinema in search of the man from whom he inherited his name, a Brazilian actor who passed away in the 1950s but who, on this night, will be brought back to life on the movie screen.

Inscrutable and solitary, in the absence of interaction with other people, a man develops a particular relationship with his washing machine, deciphering words among the repetitive sounds it emits as it runs, as if it were trying to tell him something.

An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.

A young woman participates as a volunteer in a research on the perception of reality. As she goes through the final stages of the experiment with a peculiar companion, her fascination increases with each step, feeding her intrigue about the final outcome.

A trivial story about two people who meet at a party and spend the night together, told in the most pretentious, most poetic and, above all, most solemn of ways.

After a hopeless session in the boxing ring, lusterless Hochman joins an impromptu date with a young woman, with whom he has far more in common than he at first realizes.

Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unexpected reaction—but then he meets someone else.

Through his eyes and through her ears, we join a blind girl and a deaf mute boy on a night in which they will try to stop being invisible to other people.

Dance becomes a vehicle to show love's different phases. Amor y Asfixia consists of three scenes that seek to dismantle certain social stereotypes linked to the women's body and its role in dance. It's a short film that experiments with the human body to initiate a bigger discussion.