Andrés Perugini

Argentina continues Saura’s lyrical exploration of the essence, talent and patrimony of popular dance and song in both fiction and documentary

The Luján River, the Basilica and an amusement park. Fabián, set designer and creator of horror labyrinths, builds the Ciclón Fantasma. Alejandro and Rosa walk along the riverbank looking for fossils. The characters seek to make their dreams come true in a space full of myths and beliefs.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

A man leaves the hospital. He sets out on a journey, perhaps a final one. Alongside the mystical landscapes drift the verses of Hospital Británico (1986), the last book by Héctor Viel Temperley. And the words of those who have been marked by reading it over the years.

A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.

Troubled by his stutter, a young performer will do whatever it takes to deflect responsibility for his voice, even if it means renouncing his dream.

A man knocks on my door. I ask him what he needs. He doesn't answer. He looks at me for a few moments, with enormous eyes. He looks at me as one looks at an apparition. Rivers are born in that silence, in those hallucinated eyes, and they unfold a memory of water, a fragmented knowledge of tornadoes and banks, of creaking trees, of birds bathing in the rain, of men lost on some island, of drowning in the backwaters, of the splash of oars, of the shadow where the river narrows. A man knocks on my door. He says to me: You're not here, we're not here.

An old woman wears herself out with every movement, entrenched in her room. Each of the gestures of her aching body reminds her of the years of prison and torture she experienced as a political prisoner of the Uruguayan dictatorship. At the end of the 1960s, Élida Valdomir was an armed leader of the Tupac Amaru movement and never denied her commitment. In this almost closed door, yesterday's memories and today's images constantly respond to each other.

Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter to his care, not knowing that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.

Organism is, among other things, the story of a young woman and her pet, a small dog named Italia. It's also a new piece added to the extended work of Iván Fund, where the documentary record blurs with fiction in order to create (or describe) small intimate universes where the director's relationship with his characters result in an area where emotions and sensibility rule using small everyday events that push the story forward.

A first-person account of the many lives of poet and artist Fernando Noy. In his outings, he relives key episodes in Argentine culture, from hippism and the dictatorship to Pizarnik, Cemento and Batato, brought to the present by his memory.

Silvia visited Moscow in the late 1960s, during the Soviet regime's heyday. There, she saw the structuralist-designed complexes designed to house working-class families. Upon returning to Buenos Aires, she discovered that the same collectivist spirit was embedded in the buildings constructed by the El Hogar Obrero cooperative. Embracing the ideal of socialism, Silvia abandoned everything, including her husband and children, to move into one of these apartments and write a novel in which she planned to portray its more than 200 owners. Shortly after, she traveled to Italy, and her trail was lost forever. Half a century later, a niece found her manuscripts and decided to bring to life on film what had been left unfinished in literature, combining archival material with scenes of the current inhabitants.

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.

An incomplete travel (and sound) chronicle; a place occupied by maps and globes; a recollection of memories instead of the repetition of an imprecise image. In the spaces that remain between these surfaces, Recording Rituals intends to meditate on the relationship between landscape and archive in the construction of imaginary communities and material memory.

Azul is caught between childhood and adolescence. At the beginning of secondary school, she meets Nico, with whom she will share a small act of rebellion: building an escape route through the bars of the schoolyard. She observes and explores the world. Little by little she penetrates it, facing an unexpected turning point in her journey.

Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.

25 years ago a group of poets participated in a documentary about an ethylic competition around bars of Buenos Aires.

The male drummer of a rock band doesn't take part in arguments that come to the fore between his fellows, but prefers to observe everything and prepare himself for his first time as a soloist.

A strong east wind brings snow, rain and also memories of her father. Only a few objects, newspaper clippings and diary entries make him present. But Maia would like to know him better, to piece together a complete portrait from the fragments. For this reason, she leaves Argentina, the land of her home, and travels to the West Bank, where her absent parent comes from. But at first she finds only more ruins, the remains of houses destroyed by the Israeli occupiers. As slowly as the calm sea ripples, the author's pilgrimage to her roots turns into an encounter with an entire nation that has been stripped of its home. The shared experience of loss helps her to fill the empty space in her heart.

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.

"Several times a day, for many months, I went out to the terrace of my house to look at the terrace next door, which is the terrace of a nursing home. I went out as soon as I got up and before going to bed, as in a ritual. And soon, over the course of the weeks, I went out several times a day to look at that space, a window between two concrete blocks, a mysterious door, the light on the ceilings." (Gustavo Fontán)

Silvio Fabrykant is the author of many portraits of personalities from Argentine popular culture. One of his most important works was the cover of the singer Gilda's latest album, which after her tragic death, has become a sacred image for many. Tired of always being asked about the same photo, Silvio evades all responsibility, since he does not consider that a photographer is an important part of a commissioned photo. But approaching a new anniversary of Gilda's death, questions will be raised about the power of the image.

During the Argentine dictatorship of the eighties, two gravediggers are in charge of burying all the N.N. that arrive at the cemetery. One afternoon they bring the corpse of a beautiful girl whom they both fall in love with. That rainy night will be the excuse for a reflection in candle on the friendship, the old age and the bitter beauty.

A fairly realistic fiction by Martín Piroyansky about the life of Martín Piroyansky. The story revolves around an actor who loses his job due to an employment contract, which for many people is an unsolved mystery.