On the Know

A woman who will die soon tells her three children that she wants to do so with as little intervention as possible. They don't know how much of that desire they will be able to fulfill. Accompanying her in her decision makes them confront the way in which our civilization conceives death. Taking charge of preparing this farewell while their mother is still alive will be a mysterious and revealing way to be together.

Some men are real dogs. And Juan finds one in the wild while on vacation. He takes it in, bathes it, feeds it, and shows it the affection it so desperately needs. However, his girlfriend warns him not to get too attached...

Santiago and Amelia Luisa share life in their marriage and also the responsibility of running a nail salon. The daily life of the salon (and of the couple) will be strangely shaken when a new client asks for manicure services.

Forty-seven years after they met while serving in the military during the coup, a group of friends continue to celebrate an uninterrupted friendship that reflects the ups and downs of a confused society in which yesterday’s experiences are mixed with political convictions.

Fernando is on vacation with his friends at a country house in Ezeiza. They relax by the pool, drink, smoke, and reveal their deepest secrets while displaying a playful freedom, as if they were children at summer camp.

“Willy” Villalobos was a Montonero militant (left-wing guerrilla) who, after being imprisoned in 1975, went into exile in Europe in 1979. Upon his return to a democratic Argentina, he experienced a loss that left him directionless and forced him to move to a town in northern Uruguay. It will become a dreamlike space where ghosts reveal themselves among the dunes that devour the houses beneath the lighthouse at night.

Francisco and Sol were raised outside the system, in a religious community called La Familia Internacional. In an attempt to free their voice and reconfigure the puzzle of subjectivity, the recovery of the past through memories allows to bring up events that had been previously denied.

On the verge of achieving his dream career, Tomás allows his older brother Martin Farina an inside look at his life as a professional football player. Martin, never able to fulfill his own dream of playing football, steps into the world of Tomás and his teammates through the lens of his camera.

The carnival is coming soon. We witness the ritual of “cleaning the meat” performed by the “gauchos” who unfold their knives. The bucolic landscape mixes with the city streets. Slowly, everything fills with colour, feathers and semi-naked men. Face masks begin to cover the faces and alcohol disinhibit the bodies.

Berger approaches Carnival with painterly precision and vitality, yet the focus is not on the parade itself but on the preparations - the anticipation, the hours leading up to the event where bodies let loose and transform. The film turns the eve into a source of mystery and visual delight.

Esther Diaz discovers her own self & transgenerational sex attraction late in life. While « exploring » and after she decides to study again and gets a PhD with distinction. She acts and narrates her own true story and experience with a touch of subjective fiction.

Francisco Cruzans is a young man from Buenos Aires suburbs, who was filmed from his first days of life and for more than 25 years, until today. From there, an archive that links him to his maternal family, stands out for the frustrations and longings of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents to carry out the original desire to form a family.

Raúl Perrone does not usually allow people to register his work. It represents an act of intimacy. However, Martín earns his trust and is allowed to take part in the shooting. Perrone's process of filmmaking becomes a testimony of both his role as a film director and a human being with his lights and shadows.

Ezequiel, a 40-year-old film director, has had a career marked by successes and failures.

Julián films his relatives on his mother’s side, film and television actors in the 1990s, while trying to understand what happened to his mother, who’s been institutionalized in different psychiatric facilities for more than 25 years.