Ciudad Remota: parte uno

In each episode, which takes place independently of each other, commissioners Jiménez (Luis Luque) and Laurenzi (Darío Grandinetti) must solve different police cases that will be presented to them and will be a challenge for them, for which they will receive the help of the editor literary Daniel Hernández (Nicolás Cabré) who is looking to write a book about crimes.

A young man becomes obsessed with a gardening student who is about to leave for Switzerland.

Childhood friends Matías and Jerónimo reach adolescence and experience sexual attraction to each other, before being separated by circumstances. Later, as young adults, they meet again, and the film follows themes of complicated relationships and sexual tensions, as well as issues of homophobia.

Víctor Tellez is an intellectual, world-weary film critic who prefers to think in French and eschew the clichés of romantic movies...until he finds himself living a sappy, feel-good love story of his own.

Paula, a 32-year-old actress, unexpectedly stops a robbery at a café and appears on the TV and newspapers. But as the days go by and her fame fades away, we begin to see a woman who works as something else and has moved away from her profession. As Paula struggles to assume her situation, she will get in touch with some past relations. Confronting them will put her back on the scene.

When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life.

Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no when she has just come out of the hospital after a heart attack, but also because it would be nice to escape from their frustrations for a while.

Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing.

Ignacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously.

Marie is a Toronto police officer. One evening, her husband Joshua and their son Nicky are brutally murdered in their car. Marie quickly links Pablo Molina, an Argentinian drug trafficker who she'd arrested a few months earlier, with the crime. In despair, Marie heads to Argentina on the tracks of the killer. A journey of revenge and a journey to come to terms with her loss.

As laid-off factory worker Marcos pins his hopes for a new life on completing his long-unfinished one-man play, he contacts his estranged friend Martín, now a television writer, for help. But can their collaboration transcend an uneasy past? As the men come together in the creative process, they're offered a chance to rebuild their abandoned friendship.

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its narrative structure. There are several scenes with only the city in common, and more as a conceptual presence at that than as a precise geography. None of those scenes contains a single "story": Each one of them is part of a larger situation that we cannot see, as though the beginning and end of each "story" had to be filled in by the audience.

A young man decides to self-examine. He escapes from school and meets two friends who do not know his plan. They spend the whole day wandering around the center of Buenos Aires. Finally, the young man leaves his friends in a train while they sleep. The young man, alone, wanders through the city through the night. Security cameras monitor the city, but the young man disappears.

A camping trip for a group of friends turns into an unexpected nightmare when one of them encounters a mysterious stranger.