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In 1969, the film director Enrique Juárez thus anonymously produced Ya es tiempo de violencia (Now is the Time for Violence), mainly concerned with the events of the May 1969 Cordobazo riots and the assassination of the trade-unionist Augusto Vandor on 30 June 1969. Other images included those of the massive funerals of Emilio Jáuregui, another trade-unionist shelled three days before Vandor’s death during a demonstration in protest of Nelson Rockefeller’s (owner of Miramax there) arrival to Argentina.Read More »
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Enrique Juárez – Ya es tiempo de violencia AKA Now is the Time for Violence (1969)
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Cristian Ponce – Historia de lo Oculto (2020)
2011-2020ArgentinaCristian PonceHorrorFor the final broadcast of ‘60 Minutes to Midnight’, the most viewed journalistic show on television, the star of the night is Adrián Marcato, who is about to expose the president of the government’s ties to Satanism.Read More »
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Rodrigo Moreno – Un mundo misterioso AKA A Mysterious World (2011)
2011-2020ArgentinaDramaRodrigo MorenoAna tells Boris, “I need time.” Boris is confused. Time? A period of separation? What does Ana mean? Does ‘time’ mean a week, a month, a year, or ten years? All at once, Boris is alone. Things are pretty tough for Boris whose problems begin the moment he tries to organise his everyday life. Boris knows that planning, organisation and appointments are as important as taking one’s relationship seriously – but how on earth is he to manage all that?
Boris decides to buy his first car. His baby blue second-hand Romanian-built car is a dead ringer for a Renault 6. In fact, rather like the car’s owner, it’s somewhat conspicuous at first glance, but perfectly normal underneath. After a while and on closer inspection however, characteristics begin to emerge that nobody would have suspected; traits that could make it difficult to envisage a harmonious life together. Boris starts meeting people. A classmate introduces him to a circle of friends that end up confusing him. But then, Boris is invited to Uruguay to spend New Year’s Eve with friends in Montevideo. He climbs into his blue Tokha and sets off, but when he arrives in Montevideo there’s nobody at home, and when he calls all he gets is an answering machine message.
Rodrigo Moreno’s UN MUNDO MISTERIOSO tells the story of a likeable oddball moving through a paralysed society threatened by economic ruin.Read More » -
Jazmín López – Si yo fuera el invierno mismo AKA If I Were the Winter Itself (2019)
2011-2020ArgentinaDramaJazmín LópezFour friends meet on a remote estate to create a cinematic re-enactment of three iconic works that embodied the social and artistic revolution of 50 years ago: LA CHINOISE (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard, INEXTINGUISHABLE FIRE (1969) by Harun Farocki and the performance UNTITLED (FACIAL HAIR TRANSPLANTS) (1972) by Ana Mendieta.
A mysterious and soulful exploration of the complexity of mourning and letting go of a love that is lost.Read More »
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María Victoria Menis – La cámara oscura AKA The Camera Obscura (2008)
2001-2010ArgentinaDramaMaría Victoria MenisIn an argentinian colony of Jewish immigrants, at the end of nineteenth century, was born Gertrude, a woman considered to be rather ugly. She grows in the shade of his family and becomes an almost invisible woman. Until one day someone with another point of view, discovers her particular beauty. For the first time, Gertrude leaves behind the invisibility and can see herself in in a different way.Read More »
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Anne Chapman, Jorge Prelorán & Ana Montes – Los Onas, Vida y Muerte en Tierra del Fuego (1977)
1971-1980Ana MontesAnne ChapmanArgentinaDocumentaryJorge PreloránDocuments the life of the last generation of Selk’nam’s. Their way of life, economy, rituals, chants, traditions, and their slow extinction after the colonization…Read More »
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María Luisa Bemberg – Camila (1984)
1981-1990ArgentinaDramaMaría Luisa BembergRomanceQuote:
In Buenos Aires of the 1840’s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila’s family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story.Read More » -
José Celestino Campusano – El sacrificio de Nehuén Puyelli AKA Nehuen Puyelli’s Sacrifice (2016)
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In the impossible quest to complete the work of South America’s truly major filmmaker ‘au travaille’, here’s his southern film, his prison opus.Read More » -
Alejandro Agresti – El acto en cuestión AKA The Act in Question (1993)
1991-2000Alejandro AgrestiArgentinaDramaThe Act in Question (Spanish: El Acto en cuestión) a film directed and written by Alejandro Agresti. The film starred Carlos Roffé and Sergio Poves Campos. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
This movie was partly recorded in a castle in Oostakker near Ghent in Belgium (1992). The family “De Bruyn” who owned the castle, played as observers in the movie.Read More »