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Sandra Gugliotta – Un día de suerte AKA A Lucky Day (2002)
Quote:Buenos Aires in the year 2002; the economical depression has caught the country. Elsa keeps her head above water through several badly paid jobs and occasional criminal offenses with her friends...
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Fernando Birri – Tire dié AKA Throw Me a Dime (1958)
Fernando Birri’s Tire dié (Throw Me a Dime, 1958) begins with an aerial shot of the provincial city of Santa Fe, Argentina. The association of voice-of-God narration with perspective-of-God images...
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Lucas Gallo – 1982 (2019)
SynopsisIn 1982, the Argentine military dictatorship invaded the Falkland Islands, located 500 kilometers off the country’s coast. The government left no stone unturned in using propaganda to convince...
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Armando Bo – Furia infernal AKA The Hot Days (1973)
Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She...
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Alejandro Chomski – Hoy y Mañana AKA Today and Tomorrow (2003)
“Today and Tomorrow” follows the descent of an aspiring actress into prostitution.The downward spiral of Argentina’s middle class during the current economic and social crisis is brought to life in...
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Mariano Llinás – Lejano interior (2020)
Quote:“One day I am going to pull the anchor that keeps my ship away from the seas”, is one of the most famous phrases of the Belgian poet Henri Michaux, to whom the film director Mariano Llinás...
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Pablo Mazzolo – Ceniza verde AKA Green Ash (2019)
In the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery. A free, poetic view at the very place where the...
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Juan Schnitman – El incendio AKA The Fire (2015)
Lucía and Marcelo are thirty years old. They are carrying a hundred thousand dollars in cash to pay for their new house. But something comes up for the real estate agent and the signing of the papers...
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Edgardo Cozarinsky – Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los barbaros (1971)
M. is a common man, and we see his everyday life as he wonders through the city. But he’s also “a reactionary priest, a survivor of the right wing”, as David Oubiña properly described him –someone who...
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Raymundo Gleyzer – Los traidores AKA The Traitors (1973)
This film by the Marxist collective Cine de la Base urges Argentine workers to rise up and take control of the country, echoing the rubric: “Workers of the world, unite! You have only your chains to...
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Juan José Campanella – Luna de Avellaneda AKA Moon of Avellaneda (2004)
Description:Long ago, a quirk of fate installed Roman Maldonado (Ricardo Darín) as a lifetime member of a Buenos Aires sports club. Now he’s understandably upset to learn that local business owners...
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Mariano Blatt & Eduardo Williams – Parsi (2019)
Quote:“No es” (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, which is constantly written over the course of a lifetime. The text of the poem, a list of “what seems to be but isn’t”, to which verses...
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Eduardo Williams – El ruido de las estrellas me aturde (2012)
SynopsisAs a boy looks for a cybercafé he is overwhelmed by wild waves. A group of boys lives together surrounded by lots of things, they work, walk, talk in very different places, but we are never...
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Fernando E. Solanas – El viaje (1992)
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his latin American essence. 3.80GB |...
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Alejandro Fadel – El Amor – primera parte aka Love – Part one (2004)
A fresh, likeable comedy about the beginning, middle and end of a romance, “Love (Part One)” is a charming piece of froth that should hit the mark with young audiences who will see themselves...
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Osias Wilenski – El perseguidor AKA The Pursuer (1965)
PlotThe brief life and extraordinary times of American jazz great Charlie Parker is the subject of this Argentinian biography by director Osias Wilenski. One of the greatest saxophonists of all time,...
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Leonardo Favio – Gatica, el mono AKA Gatica, the Monkey (1993)
Quote:The story of Jose Maria Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina’s main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s. Quote:It won the Silver Condor for Best Film. The film was selected as the...
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Nicolás Prividera – I shot Antoine Doinel AKA I shot Antoine Doinel (2019)
SynopsisA film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary cinema to the character of Antoine Doinel. When he learns that the actor who played him is...
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Fernando Birri – El siglo del viento AKA Century of the Wind (1999)
SynopsisThe book EL SIGLO DEL VIENTO, the third part of a trilogy about the history of Latin America, is not a traditional historical work. The Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano (1940)...
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Manuel Antin – Circe (1964)
This classic motion picture from Argentina is a 1963 art-house adaptation of a short story by the renowned Argentine writer, Julio Cortázar. The short story of the same name appears in his 1951...
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