The "pasamanos" are a group of young people who transport backpacks with illegal contents from the capital to the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Paula is a "pasamanos" but she is reluctant to let her brother follow in her footsteps.
Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.
In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.
The night shift clerk at a sex hotel, suffering from narcolepsy, is faced with a night when things are unusually busy and housekeeping finds a gun in room 6.
Two contract killers give up their weapons to learn how to play ping-pong.
Lionel Messi has won everything there is to win - except the World Cup. Can he finally lead Argentina to win it?
A former communist militant and a "live and let live" man form an unlikely friendship on a park bench, sharing their life stories with humor and heart.
Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard publishing movement that has emerged from these in the 21st century. Reflecting on the different contexts that propelled this form of community publishing, like Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis, the independent art scene, and the movements which formed around waste-pickers, the film’s narrative is developed through conversations with important actors from the cartonera world.
A night in Buenos Aires. Young people between sunset and sunrise, in search of trash, love, justice, a future. Four life lines cross but never touch each other. A portrait of a society in crisis.
Bruno Díaz, a Buenos Aires security guard, follows a trail of blood that leads him to meet horrible creatures. Now, he must become the hero he always wanted to be in order to leave that place alive.
After the theft of his motorcycle, Lucio bums aimlessly around Buenos Aires drifting from one arcade and record store to the next, indulging in short chats with friends and, more often, setting out onto the streets alone.
In December 2001, in Buenos Aires, great crowds of people are heading towards the historic square Plaza de Mayo. Argentina, once amongst the richest economies in the world, has gone bankrupt. The government has resigned and Argentina’s president, Fernando de la Rua, flees from the presidential residency in a helicopter, amidst a storm of enraged people clashing with the police, breaking banks, looting super markets and shouting “Out with the lot of them!” The 2001 social explosion marked the end of a neoliberal economic model which lasted 10 years and left a toll of 35 deaths (murdered by the police and the private guards of the banks), 30,000 collateral damages (suicides, heart and brain attacks) and approximately 20,000,000 (over half the population) submerged in poverty and misery.
Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?
Frecuencia 82: Malvinas Argentinas
Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Joel, a young man of Chinese origin, competes in a singing contest in his neighborhood.
A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.
In a merchant neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Yoni survives through smuggling and a few fleeting alliances. Under the shadow of his partner and mentor, Leon, he strives to advance in a world that judges him by his appearance. A promising business deal seems poised to change his fate, but an unexpected setback forces him to confront his limitation