María y el Araña

Miranda is a 48-year-old teacher who changes her perspective on life when she hears reports of harassment and abuse from the students at the school where she teaches. Over the weekend she will decide that it's time to hear her voice and make it heard along with many others.

A group made up of the ghosts of a conqueror, a rancher, a general and a para-policeman plans a coup.

The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a decadent comedian; Beto, the son, a taxi driver; and Martita, the daughter, a divorced and unemployed hairdresser. All live in 'harmony' in a 40 square-meter apartment. One day Leopoldo takes it upon himself to donate blood. The next day, he is summoned once more to the hospital. His life is about to change, and radically so.

At the end of the 19th century, a girl whom everyone considers ugly, becomes, over time, an insignificant woman, ignored by all. Yet she observes the world around her with a strange eagerness and finds signs of beauty everywhere she looks. Years later, a French photographer already married and with children arrives at her house. He will be the only person capable of seeing the beauty and the richness of her intense inner world.

Felix, a 21-year-old loner and drifter who seeks a way of life comes to a humble village entrerriano and work relationship with a man who after losing his job while you earn a living selling fruit, candy and canned prepared by his wife. The man takes his camper, which may help in exchange for food and a corner to sleep. As the days pass, tried to identify the bitter resentment of man, the quiet submission of his wife, discontent and violence undercover tense atmosphere. Also living there Chango, a baby a year and a half, unattended, which awakens in him the illusion of paternity until he is kidnapped and flees taking him to Buenos Aires.

María Victoria, a film director, decides to give up her career because of the uncountable difficulties that her job entails. Convinced by her friend Franca, she starts to film fun and emotional scenes of her daily life, that slowly and almost unintentionally lead her to reconnect with herself and with her true love for the cinema.

The year 2023 marks the 35th anniversary of the association La Mujer y el Cine, and 43 female directors have come together to deliver a fragment of their gaze, a frame, an aesthetic and ethical decision, a tribute to women who anticipated the struggle. A leap into the void made by women filmmakers of different ages and backgrounds. United, in a sort of electronic loom, as an offering and a legacy in which a moment in the history of Argentine cinema is told, where we were all one, with our eyes on the past, our gaze on the present and the horizon full of the future.

Something very common in our days, an adolescent who does not find communication with her mother or stepfather falls into a depression that drags her down paths of difficult return. A film that shows the harshness of loneliness and the wrong search for drugs as a way out of problems.