Orillas

In five different villages, a teenage angel narrates five different fables.

The story of Aphrodite from her birth and her relationship with the other gods of Greek mythology.

Hermes is an Argentine anthropologist who is living with the villagers of the Damara ethnic group in Namibia. Researching about the possible origins of mankind and specialized in the cosmogony of some people, he manages to obtain some results. He travels to Argentina searching an answer in San Felix, the last afro-descendant community in the country. Hermes provides a unique bridge that will help to recover the memory of a changed history, with the conviction that mankind descended from amphibious beings. But his desire of knowledge will show him how dangerous it is. Director Pablo Cesar specializes in co-productions between Argentina and Africa.

Filmed in India, it consists of five episodes. One, on transsexualism, including the sacrifice of a boy in a village inhabited by women; the next speaks of a white slave which the protagonist takes the money saved to buy a camel; the third refers to the adventure of an alchemist whose quest is not gold but eternity. The fourth deals with a caravan of life and in the fifth descends to hell with a colorful unleashed furies and other beings from the Greek tradition.

A group of people seeking shelter from a flood find a small farm whose owner takes advantage of their situation

A young woman, alienated by her work and confronted to her surroundings, falls into a depression that leads her to live in a sewer to find her identity. In there, life is no better; reality appears in images and alegoric figures that change its form and vanishes, without letting the woman communicate with anyone. It's a film with zero dialog in witch the songs takes us through the states of emotion.

A photographer has drawn his world by populating it with clandestine images. Photography allowed him years ago the excuse to try to escape from the family nucleus. And so, lightly packed, he boarded the first and only train.

Blood is a family portrait. A mother, her two children and the shadow of her husband who died 25 years ago under strange circumstances.

Gloria is a distinguished painter, writer and gallerist from Argentina. After a long and intense life, dedicated to her family and art, she faces the darkest years: her husband, with whom she has been since adolescence, decides to distance herself from her and leave the country. And illnesses begin to stalk her, feeling that every step is a fight with the Lorca elf. After the end is based on real events.

Ara lives in Corrientes, where he meets Kossi who is from Togo, Africa. The first one participates in clandestine fights while the second one dreams of being part of a football team. A sentimental relationship will arise between the two of them.

Life and work of the controversial Argentine film director Jorge Polaco who questioned all moral institutions, exposing himself to the most scandalous media ridicule and risking his vulnerability. Is it possible to evade legitimation? Does the era of the algorithm allow that gap through which these singularities were previously filtered?

Federico, Mabel, and their son Lucas leave their life in Buenos Aires and move south, lured by a promising job opportunity for Federico. Once there, Lucas is awestruck by the majesty of a glacier and begins exploring the ice in search of answers to its many mysteries, sensing something beneath those enormous blocks of ice that he cannot describe. In this context, Lucas connects with an Asian girl and an anthropologist who listen to him and accompany him on his quest.

Omar, a Moroccan haunted by a dark past, lives in Argentina with his grandson Rahmi, who loses himself in gambling games. Omar confesses to his grandson that he will soon die and that his last wish is to die in his homeland.

Two stories intertwine over the time. In the present, Felix, pessimistic and lazy teacher encounters a book that dazzles him, while he teaches geography in a detention center for minors. In the past, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, author of the book that has come to Felix, arrives in Argentina and is hosted by Victoria Ocampo, who lives a brief and innocent romance. Felix becomes more and more obsessed with the story of the poet.

Stimulated by the studies of a French ethnologist, his Argentine colleague, Hermes, travels through his country, Angola and Ethiopia to determine with the help of the young Angolan Oko, Ayelen and the Egyptologist Esteban if humanity is the creation of extraterrestrial amphibian beings.