The Books and the Night

Fueye

The citizen music performed on the bandoneon serves as a poetic framework to talk about a Buenos Aires that little by little is disappearing.

Los totos

Produced in almost marginal conditions, Los Totos is a portrait of life in impoverished neighbourhoods

Evita: A Grave Without Peace

The secret story of Evita Peron's dead body.

Che: A New Man

The latest documentary by Tristan Bauer took 12 years to complete. It is a unique and invaluable historical document—a jewel not to be missed—that offers us a different, more intimate and personal, perspective on the life of Ernesto Che Guevara than other films about him that have emerged recently. Presenting brilliantly edited archival material, including private documents and intimate recordings that have never been made available to the public before (including recordings of Che reading poems by Vallejo and Neruda to his wife, intimate family gatherings on 8mm, a speech given by Che in French), Bauer allows us to see the iconic figure as a hero but also as the larger-than-life passionate and idealistic human being that he was.

Niños desaparecidos

A portrait of the courageous efforts of Argentine grandmothers to locate their missing grandchildren, victims of state terrorism during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Some were kidnapped, others were born in captivity. The film includes interviews with military personnel and grandchildren who were found and reunited with their families.

Santiago's Path: Disappearance and Death of Santiago Maldonado

Santiago Maldonado disappeared in the midst of repression against a Mapuche community that claimed to Luciano Benetton for his land. His body was found 78 days later. The need for truth and justice continues

Blessed by Fire

Argentine film about the experiences of conscripts in the Falklands War.

Clandestine Childhood

Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.

Cortázar

A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of Argentine culture and politics. The author reads his own texts in this poetic documentary.

Chile: A Genral Record

In 1985, exiled director Miguel Littín secretly reentered Chile to film this sweeping documentary portrait of the country under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Shot clandestinely and later released as a four-part television series, the film combines interviews, historical reflection, and on-the-ground footage to examine Chile’s political climate more than a decade after the 1973 coup.

Doli Goes Home

An early black-and-white mood piece, Rejtman’s lyrical short film fuses a young couple’s passage into early adulthood with a journey through Buenos Aires in the quietest moments at the very break of day.

Después de la tormenta

A couple with two children, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, suffering economic hardship. The father returns to his birthplace, the field, but there is his father and brother out of work, so they decided to return to the city with his family.

Historias Breves 0: Rubén, el Murciélago

Ruben is a bodybuilder, lives day and night dedicated to his body, which takes him all the time and does not look for work. But even the adversities of life cannot deter him from believing in himself as a superhero.

Reverendo

Tierra arrasada

A portrait of Argentina during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.

Edgardo "Cacho" Pallero

Edgardo "Cacho" Pallero, as a person, will offer a glimpse into the era, the commitment of young people in the 1960s, their ideological and political stances; and, in Pallero's case, his filmmaking training, taking on the role of producer from his earliest days.