Luciano Giardino

Every year, for one week, more than 150 trombonists come from different countries to meet in Santa Fe, a small city on the banks of the Paraná River, where they participate in collective courses and individual classes, and perform and listen to music.

Tomás is a teenager whose life, as always happens, changed from one moment to the next. But that present awakens a latent past that must be resolved in order to face the uncertain future.

Mercado portrays the daily routine of the workers at the Santa Fe Fruit and Vegetable Market, a twenty-two thousand square meter property with great employment impact in the area. A visual journey from hard work in the field to sale in the market.

Carmen, a young dancer, is unable to complete her choreography because she feels trapped by unknown hands.

Proyecto Jazz is a musical documentary that deals with jazz in Santa Fe based on an assignment given to the musician Pedro Casís, to compile material of the band from the last 30 years of jazz in the capital city for the shooting of a film. To do so, Pedro enlists the help of old colleagues from the Santa Fe Jazz Ensamble, a big band founded in the early 80s. Along the way, he interacts with friends, students and alumni, trying to assemble the different generations as important pieces of the film project. Life stories, memories, performances, anecdotes, clinics and of course the music, are addressed in the documentary around the making of the film.

A few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.

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.

After the recent death of his father, Daniel and his son, Homer visits Alicia, his mother. The reunion with the places of his childhood leads Daniel to rethink his relationship with his son and with himself.

Clara arrives for a visit to the family home. When she goes out into the yard, she discovers that her father has cut down the lemon tree. After talking with her mother, she understands that behind this act lies her father's vision of life, death, and love.

"Palabras degolladas. Alfonsina Storni en Coronda" is a documentary unit that tells the story of poet Alfonsina Storni's brief stay in the city of Coronda, Santa Fe, where she studied and earned her teaching degree. The film uses this event as an excuse to recount a before and after: what Alfonsina Storni meant as a woman in the society of the time she lived in Coronda, before establishing herself as a renowned poet, and what happened after her departure. Her figure as a woman and artist. What she represents both for the people of Coronda and for Argentine society in general. It brings into play the legacy of her work, her thinking, her status as a woman, and the fact that she has influenced the inhabitants of this city to this day. It features testimonies from different perspectives: historians, intellectuals, as well as citizens of Coronda.

Facundo witnesses a terrible scene of violence from his father towards his mother. The next day, she disappears. Facundo must be working all morning with his father in the field, knowing that he is to blame for his mother's disappearance.

Agustín is all alone in his house during a storm. When he goes out to the backyard, something attacks him.

Bruno is a young magician. He travels without warning to visit his sister Delfina, who, along with her partner Leonardo, is renovating an old hotel to get it up and running. The place is in chaos due to the terrible flood that affected the entire city. Living in the hotel are Rita, the former owner of the business; Quique, his brother; Catalina, their niece; and Pablo, the maintenance manager. Bruno's plans are subject to possible changes when he meets Lorena, Leonardo's sister.

Joaquín is a young man with down syndrome. Through the family bond that unites him with his cousin, we observe his daily life outside the family and institutional spheres, watching him grow from the age of 11 to 13, with his emotional and physical changes. It is an affective and intimate look at a character, who experiences the least expected situations.

Agustina vacations with her parents in the family farm. That weekend his uncles are visiting with his cousin Franco. Adults seem to be in a world totally apart, where everything seems superficial. Not so the two cousins, their affinity grows throughout the day.

Lucas, an eight-year-old boy, tries to communicate with his parents without them fully listening and has to deal with his emotions using the most precious things of childhood.

On January 10, 1973, the most intense tornado in South American history struck the city of San Justo. While residents were taking a siesta in the intense heat, an F5 tornado on the Fujita scale devastated the town's main avenue. Forty-six years later, four women who witnessed it share their stories: Miryam lost her mother-in-law, Liliana was trapped by debris, her sister Marta was trapped by a wardrobe, both lost their parents and were orphaned, and the Chazarreta family lost a 3-year-old daughter. The result: 50 dead and more than 500 injured. However, the worst came later: dark remnants of the tornado that make them fear any storm that may unleash in San Justo, a city that lost so much and is still trying to recover. For many, the tornado never left San Justo.

So-and-so, a bartender used to being a secondary character, will use the powers of the script to become a superhero and the protagonist of the story.

Marcos is bankrupt, his gambling addiction has left him with a huge debt to pay. Mysteriously, he finds a place that claims to trade life time for cash. Marcos does not doubt it for a moment and begins to feed his vice with what seems to be an inexhaustible source of money, but the mere appearance of the place deceives him, prisoner of a new vice.

Rodrigo and his mother travel to the town where his older brother just died. In this calm place they will go through the first stages of their mourning. Rodrigo will start to peer on grown-ups grief and, imperceptibly, will begin to leave childhood behind. His mother will try to uncover the mysteries surrounding that death. A story suspended in time, floating between the countryside lost places.