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In the 90s, members of the Wichí community of Gral. Mosconi, northeast of the province of Salta, searched for evidence and prepared the necessary arguments to face a judicial dispute that required them to demonstrate with evidence the possession and ownership of their property. territory. Indian Path is built from filming and testimonies generated at that time by the community itself, which introduce us to that complex process where, beyond the legal, the Wichí of Misión Tolaba put into play the ancestral notions of belonging to nature that give life and sustenance to mountain civilizations.

The omnibus feature SUCESOS INTERVENIDOS consists of shorts by a who’s who of Argentine documentary and experimental-film giants, including Edgardo Cozarinsky and Gustavo Fontán but also Claudio Caldini, Andrés Di Tella and Gabriela Golder. Each one of them created a piece of a few minutes in length using archival footage from SUCESOS ARGENTINOS (“Argentine Events”), a popular newsreel series from 1938 to 1972 whose episodes have recently begun to be digitized by Buenos Aires’s “Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken” Film Museum.

When Belén is hired as a cook at a gloomy orphanage, she discovers a group of children living under the cruel rule of its corrupt director and his ruthless assistant. Determined to restore hope and happiness to their lives, Belén joins forces with the children to expose the truth, overcome their oppressors, and build the loving family they have always dreamed of.

María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.

Set in Santa Victoria, Argentina, this 2SLGBTQ+ supernatural docu-drama tells the story of a Wichí community facing displacement, along with their efforts of retaliation, at the hands of a negligent government’s plan for urbanization.

In his previous films, Hacerme feriante (2010) and Embodied Letters (2015), Julián D’Angiolillo managed to go deep inside two universes that, even though they take place in front of everyone, remained invisible and inscrutable, as though they were subterranean—that of La Salada fair and of the authors of political graffiti in walls. For Ongoing Cave, his third work, the director goes back underground, this time in a literal manner, in order to reveal the mysteries of speleology, the science that studies caves and caverns. Italy, Slovenia, Cuba; antiwar bunkers; an exploring, revolutionary ballerina; an electronic party in which the stalactites and stalagmites dance under the flashlights. Everything is part of the ecosystem of tunnels and people that D’Angiolillo connects on screen, through images in which what lies still comes to life.