As Lost As Convinced

Breif essay about the present, cinema, Buenos Aires, and humanity..

A fairly realistic fiction by Martín Piroyansky about the life of Martín Piroyansky. The story revolves around an actor who loses his job due to an employment contract, which for many people is an unsolved mystery.

In a tiny rural village in Argentina, Rita Lopez, a pious yet insatiably competitive woman, discovers that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood.

David, a young middle-class Jewish boy, overweight, homosexual and afraid of flying, returns to Buenos Aires from Europe when his uncle dies. During his time there, David learns that his mother has decided to disconnect his father from the ventilator.

This comedy of errors revolves around a hapless 30-year-old named Arturo. His penchant for indiscretions is as impossible to overlook as the finesse with which the film glides from March 2020 to the preceding decade and back again.

A man steals his wife's diamond ring and sells it to buy a pinball. Three friends travel to the coast to buy a pinball but are scammed and receive unexpected help. A woman accidentally kills her lover, disposes of his body, and later learns that he might have diamonds on top of him. Three absurd stories of love and crime around the popular machines.

Jimena's ex-boyfriend now lives in their old place with his new girlfriend. She still has the keys and things to tell him. She goes in when no one is there because it just feels normal. Mariana Sanguinetti creates an ode to intimacy and closure, with humour and a big heart.

How to say hi to someone. The fear of embraces, distance and severing ties. Mariana does the impossible in order to avoid saying goodbye to her best friend Rocío, who will soon move abroad.

A heat wave strikes Buenos Aires and Juana has to stay while everyone is on vacation; for her everything seems repetitive and dull, and a pop song about the sea follows her everywhere.

A portrait of the bond between a filmmaker great-granddaughter and her great-grandmother, photographer Annemarie Heinrich. Through this relationship, Mariana explores a shared obsession: what it means to portray and reveal someone.

Clara is worried to maintain the gathering with the women of her family friendly, but everything goes around the same feeling: asking forgiveness for being sad.

On a night full of familiar and unfamiliar faces, parties and paranoia, Lucas walks the streets of Buenos Aires as usual, devoted to his noble task of ensuring the enjoyment of others, while dealing with his mind about to overflow.

Inés spends her days at her father’s empty apartment. Without much to do, she receives a few visits and self-medicates with other people’s stories.