Docile Bodies

Fran is a famous actress. One night, at a local jet set party, she discovers that her partner and manager, besides abusing her financially, cheats on her. Fran escapes from the city to the desert to travel his own “drought”. In that 72 hours trip and, in solitude, she will have to face the question: Which way do I want to take…?

Three immigrants living in a Buenos Aires immersed in the profound economic, political, and social crisis that erupted in late 2001 and early 2002, where they are forced to constantly rethink their movements and reflect on what they were in their country of origin, what they are in this new land, and what their children will be here or there, somewhere in the global village.

Alberto Sarlo, an attorney and writer from La Plata, embarks on a utopian project: to teach philosophy, literature and boxing to 52 convicts from Cell Block 4 in a maximum security prison located in Florencio Varela, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Carlos "Kongo" Mena, an inmate who has just been released, returns to the jail as Sarlo's assistant, providing his perspective, somewhat closer to that of the reality of the other inmates. Alberto succeeds in turning Carlos into the first ex-convict hired to teach at Buenos Aires prisons. For many of them, he is proof that redemption is indeed possible.

Since the 1990s, a wave of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union has hit Argentina's borders. They lose their identity and, to a certain extent, their pride as they are forced to adapt to an unfamiliar language and an unwelcoming society. Vladimir is one of those immigrants; unemployed, he feels cheated by the supposed opportunities of the "free world," but at least he finds solace in the arms of a prostitute. Nevertheless, he feels compelled to make something of his life, even if he has to take advantage of others.

In 1978, the militant Tulio Valenzuela was kidnapped in Argentina, along with his partner Raquel ─pregnant─ and their little son. At that moment, General Galtieri proposes that they save their lives in exchange for traveling to Mexico and handing over the leadership of the Montoneros. There, Tulio escapes and denounces the Argentine military. He knows that with this fact, Raquel will have a tragic end.

For decades, visual artist Eugenia Bekeris dedicated her work to keeping alive the memory of a genocide. While discussing the wounds of the past with her family, she begins a new series of drawings that distance her from the horror and lead her into nature.

Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in Argentina where the books that were forbidden during the military dictatorship are kept. After the exhibition of the books is suspended, she'll try to open it again.

Tomás and Agustín are dedicated to different healing disciplines: Tomás works in palliative care and Agustín in biodecoding. A trip to the south of Argentina, where Tomás will run 120 km and Agustín will photograph him, becomes an opportunity to heal their relationship and face their conflicts.

In 2008, as part of the new human rights policy, the Ministry of Defense signed a resolution to change the curricula at the Military Institutes. The goal was to transform the cultural and ideological structure of an institution marked by coups d'état and crimes against humanity. The documentary follows the delivery of human rights classes at the National Military College.

Three blind friends share their relationship with blindness and nature in the city of Mar de Plata. Pablo Martínez is competing in the upcoming World Adaptive Surfing Championships. Alejandro helps out at a rehabilitation center for ex-prisoners while training to become a mountaineer. Micaela sings karaoke on weekends. The documentary portrays blindness not as a disability, but as a trigger for other senses more closely linked to touch and hearing.

A poet boxer. A child under the sun in a cotton field. The persistence of a young amateur boxer. A woman. Tenderness and absence. A portrait of a man with the wit and wisdom of those who have faced death.