Un lado oscuro

Episodic feature film of five parts that have in common the city of Santa Fe and a terrible hot day with power outages and a varied sample of life in a small city, but rich in comedic drama and suspense.

Short film by Martín Massé

Celeste and Adela, driven by an urban legend, will enter a library in the middle of the night to read a sinister book that belonged to a maniacal killer. But what the girls don't expect is that the maniac's ghost will appear to tell them and make them experience the tales hidden in his book.

DOGMAN! He is a highly experienced hero who guards the streets. After losing everything he loves and has fought for since he was a teenager, he faces Charly, who will reveal himself as his creator and reality and fiction no longer have a dividing line. Faced with the loss of his own identity, DOGMAN! he will try to prevail over Charly, a strange being, who seems to be able to control everything, except his own destiny.

Short film included in the "Bajo Contraste" DVD combo.

A corpse appears in the underground tunnels of a house, or perhaps they're the dark corridors of the subway. The dead man doesn't speak, yet stories are woven around him. Just like in a novel, the characters create their own fiction, a story to tell to children, to society, or a way to imagine the missing passages of recent Argentine history. Félix the pool attendant and Kike the subway employee, both writers, take us, not without humor, to a narrative beyond the daily life: What remains to be resolved? How do you clean a pool full of frogs? Who is the dead man in the trunk? Is he one of the many people who disappeared during the dictatorship?

Two men kidnap a third on request. While new instructions deduce that they were deceived by a woman who was abandoned minutes before getting married, by them.

Jorge works all day as a gasman. That exhausting routine gives him a heart attack. Interned, he meets a nurse and considers a new way of life that will radically change his habits.

A young woman goes through an internal crisis when she learns that her father is dying in a distant hospital. Going to meet him to say goodbye, irreversible events happen.