Familia Fortone

Three minutes

"Three minutes" is a film in the fantasy genre. It is the love story between Alex, a journalist who, forced to speak very quickly in his newscast, must take this substance that accelerates his nervous system and Ana, a young piano student who in order to become a concert pianist, needs to gain speed in her piano playing. They both end up over accelerating and finding each other in a parallel world where everything around them seems to have stopped moving. In this motionless world, they will live their great romance.

Hortensia

Hortensia's father is electrocuted with the refrigerator door; she is fired from work; she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend. Desperate, follows the goals she wrote when was fourteen: "to marry a boy who is blond like my father and to design the most beautiful shoe in the world." Things will only get worse while she fails to listen to her true self.

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

El Rascacielos Latino

Built against all the aesthetic canons of its time and inaugurated in 1923, the emblematic Buenos Aires building "Palacio Barolo" was commissioned by the Italian businessman Luis Barolo to a compatriot, the architect Mario Palanti, who would later build a "twin tower" on the other side of the Plata: the Palacio Salvo in Montevideo.

De cerca nadie es normal

Thirteen friends gather to celebrate Vicky's birthday. This is the first time many of them have seen each other. Resentments, guilt, pain, and the fabrications of memory are revealed throughout the night. Shortly before blowing out the candles, we learn that Vicky's brother had died in a car accident during her birthday party... three years earlier.

La Paz in Buenos Aires

Erasmo Chambi is a Bolivian immigrant who survives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, giving wrestling shows at local clubs. In his home country, he was a legendary wrestler: there were trading cards, posters and action figures of his character, El Ciclón (The Cyclone), which today are only relics in a forgotten drawer. Nowadays he trains his son to be his successor.

The L Sisters

Two estranged sisters have to live together after many years of a bar relationship. All their past comes back to haunt them with some funny and strange circumstances.

Maytland

Víctor Maytland is approaching the end of his career. After years of work, his producer decides to stop financing his pornographic films, overflowing with narrative ideas and social content. His curious craft seems to be dying. In the shadows of his studio, during nights of desperation and obsessive writing, surrounded by papers and clouds of tobacco, he begins to shape a new project, the most absurd and crazy of his life. And so, with the meager resources he manages to gather, he sets out to undertake one last challenge: to make one last film, this time based on his memories as a young Peronist activist.

El fin del Potemkin

In 1991, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fishing boat where Viktor works is abandoned in Mar del Plata. With no direction and no nation, the sailor undertakes the challenge of surviving in a strange country. Twenty years later, without having returned to his homeland and the family he left behind, he continues to fight to survive in exile.

Historias Breves 3

Tumba sin nombre

Ángela Ferrer lost her grandson during the Falklands War. A year has passed since the end of the war, and Ángela has not resigned herself to accepting her grandson's death, much less to not being able to visit his grave and pay him the tribute she considers more than deserved. Today, Ángela searches the cemetery for an abandoned grave that could serve as a space to visit her grandson. Finally, she decides on one that shows signs of neglect. She refurbishes it and leaves behind a small painting she made, in which we see a sailboat sailing across the sea. These visits take place weekly, while Ángela continues her daily routine, until one day they are suddenly interrupted.

Teatro Colón: Música Palabras Silencio

Documentary that reflects a moment in the restoration of a musical icon of Argentine and universal culture. It is about the convergence of craftsmen, architects and engineers, conductors, opera singers and regisseurs. workers and artists. Testimonials from professionals, acoustic measurements, giant frescoes and choral or chamber pieces make up an audiovisual symphony of the Theatre.

Chapadmalal

During 11 days and with a small group of collaborators, Alejandro Montiel registered the holidays of a group of elders at Chapadmalal, a traditional summer resort in Argentina.