The Vacant Lot

The writer Abelardo Castillo talks about the meaning of writing about the 70s, about newspapers, magazines and literary workshops, and about Sylvia, his wife. As in Blixen's story of the stork, he completes the drawing of his life.

A simple game can reveal secrets hidden for years.

COMPANIONS deals with the love between people and dogs. It’s made up of scenes of intimacy—caresses, habits, games, cares, stories of coming and loss, of protection, and uprooting. The stories intertwine and make up a map of love and its enigmas.

Iris' quiet and peaceful life begins to change dramatically when she hosts Maia, her friend's daughter. When Iris realizes that Maia is in love with an older woman, she begins to wonder if she herself might be that woman.

In this fun, filled romp, Mecha and Ophelia, a couple, are going through a crisis caused by a third woman. Mecha decides to get over it and swears to Ophelia that she'll stop seeing her lover. After a few months, she realizes she can't do it. Ophelia can't leave Mecha either, and decides to find a lover herself. Events take the most unexpected of turns for Mecha, who realizes her angst persists, and starts to suspect it has nothing to do with love...or does it?

Ruth has been with Nora for fourteen years. Everybody knows about their relationship except for her mother Estela, who has never suspected it. Ruth, who is almost forty, feels the need to confess her homosexuality to her mother, who at first is shocked and collapses on the floor. She then feels the desire to understand her daughter, who has hidden an important part of her life from her for many years. So elderly Estela begins to discover the L-World: she reads books and magazines, she tries to meet her daughter's ex girlfriends and she goes to lesbian nightclubs and meeting-places, creating misunderstandings and comic situations. What does Ruth think about this? At first, she is annoyed by her mother's intrusion into her life, but she will soon understand Estela's reasons and she will rely on her to get over her crisis with Nora. This sharp, amusing comedy deals with the difficult parent-child relationship, which is portrayed through irony and without hypocrisy.

A young woman tries to make a documentary about women who have relatives in prison, but she finds difficulties trying to get the testimonials.

A documentary about Néstor Perlongher. His life, his poems, and his activism in Argentina's Frente de Liberación Homosexual (homosexual liberation front).

A boy is about to move to another province with his mother. The last day of school passes amid a collage of dead leaves, recess, and singing "Aurora."

Imprisonment as seen through the eyes of common criminals' wives. Relationships, financial support, visits, waiting, emotional states.

A man steals his psychologist's address book and invites the other patients to a barbecue at his house.

A young woman asks a friend of her mother's to help her come out of the closet, in exchange for doing her a similar favor.

Sunbathing on the roof of the house at noon, with Sapolán Ferrini and music by Sumo.

A woman travels to the mountains during her period so as not to upset her family.

Suicide? Ordinary crime? A priest follows his hunches obsessed with the death of a woman. In turn, the commissioner finds the indications of a possible truth.

Sara hires a detective to watch her partner, Lucía, convinced that she will try to commit suicide when she discovers her infidelity. But Lucía is pregnant. Between jealousy and revelations, both try to accept the situation in order to stay together.