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- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsGuillermo FrancellaGastón CocchiaralePeter LanzaniThe true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsRicardo DarínJérémie RenierMartina GusmánWhile working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aires shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.
- StarsMirta BusnelliGastón PaulsAlejandro UrdapilletaFollows a lawyer sentenced to prison and his life inside an Argentinian jail.
- StarsAlejandro AwadaChino DarínCecilia RothThe Puccio are apparently a family like any other: Archimedes, the father has a plan in hand, for which he needs the help of his family. He gathers his children to help him carry out the company. Archimedes's house becomes the center of operations, maintaining a life of contrasts. The story of the crime family organization, Archimedes Puccio connections with other criminal gangs and unsustainable innocence of this story based on real events.
- DirectorErnesto ArditoVirna MolinaStarsIsadora ArditoRicky ArragaSergio BorisBased on real events, the life and struggles of a student of the Buenos Aires National College during Argentina's worst dictatorship.
- CreatorDamián SzifronDiego PerettiFederico D'ElíaStarsFederico D'ElíaAlejandro FioreDiego PerettiA team of 4 talented men solve their clients' problems by staging "drills" to deceive people.
- DirectorFederico GodfridJuan SasiaínStarsEzequiel TronconiGuadalupe DocampoAna AllendeLa Tigra, Chaco. A quiet town only 20 blocks long. Esteban returns after years of absence to the place where he spent his childhood summers. He returns looking for his father, Cacho, and to talk "about Buenos Aires". But Cacho, a truck driver who has started a new family in La Tigra, is often on the road and their encounter is postponed indefinitely. While he waits, Esteban meets Vero, a childhood friend that has grown into a beautiful woman. Each step together seems to take them back to the most precious moments of a shared memory. But their relationship is not a journey into the past; rather it holds the promise of a future. Federico Godfrid's and Juan Sasiaín's first feature film transmits the warmth, honesty and sadness of this reunion, thanks to its mise en scène and the performances of Ezequiel Tronconi and Guadalupe Docampo, who give their characters a rare spontaneity.
- CreatorAlejandro BorenszteinSebastián BorenszteinStarsDiego CadavidCristina UmañaMarlon MorenoOne real hour. An hour of suspense. An hour of life and death. After 60 minutes, nothing will be the same as before.
- DirectorNelson SchmunkHector BenicelliGisela ChicolinoStarsEugenia AlonsoNito DalingerJavier De PietroEmanuel travels to visit his grandma Catie, who lives in the countryside. He has a feeling this is going to be their last goodbye. His mother's looking after Catie and she has decided not to speak a word about grandma's diagnosis, because she does not want to embitter her. Emanuel does not agree with this decision, but on the other hand, he is also hiding his own sexuality to his grandma. Every little moment shared among them, makes strengthen family ties while mismatched feelings emerge. Emanuel should reconsider if things are really better left unsaid.
- DirectorMariano CorbachoGrandpa, why did they try to kill you? The documentary addresses the animic changes that the filmmaker experiences while he tries to understand the participation that his grandfather played, as a civil associate, during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. The role that he played as the Dean of the Architecture Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires, as a link with the concentration camp ESMA, is one of the multiple topics that grandpa "Pico" narrates in camera.
- DirectorAnahí BerneriStarsErica RivasNicasio GalánZenón GalánAre we what others see, or are we what we allow others to see? Most likely it is the view of others which delimits our own identity, as a young divorced mother named Julieta convinces herself. This evening is like any other: her two young sons are roughhousing in their cramped apartment. They whoop and shout while their mother makes desperately futile attempts at the computer to concentrate on writing a report for work. Feeling intense pressure, Julieta tries to quiet the conflict but finds it difficult without a partner to help. The tense situation changes unexpectedly when her two-year-old falls and hurts himself. In this story of a mother suspected of hurting her own child, the movie investigates themes of motherhood, guilt, duty, the role of men and women, fathers and mothers....
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsRicardo DarínCecilia RothHéctor AlterioThe film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "disappearance" of dissident friends, a human rights lawyer (Ricardo Darín) and his research scientist wife (Cecilia Roth) flee the city and hide from the military police in a vacant summer house. With them are their two kids: Harry, who is fascinated with the escape artistry of Harry Houdini, and El Enano, his little brother. (Translated as "Little Guy" in the English subtitles, played by Milton de la Canal. The actual translation is "dwarf".) The family adopts new identities and attempts to lead a normal life. Later, they are joined by a student who is using the alias Lucas (Tomás Fonzi). Their new life is difficult, but a visit with their estranged grandparents (Fernanda Mistral and Héctor Alterio) reveals that they are still a close-knit family. Subtly hinted, however, and used as a metaphor, is the mother's constant smoking and El Enano's renewed bed-wetting. Both serve to show how stressful and precarious their situation is.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsJosé SacristánFederico LuppiLeonor BenedettoMario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
- DirectorMariano LlinásStarsMariano LlinásWalter JakobAgustín MendilaharzuIn this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsPedro AleandroHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniIn 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.
- DirectorSantiago MitreStarsEsteban LamotheRomina PaulaRicardo FelixRoque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ideals than by a wish to get close to Paula, an attractive young teacher heavily involved in internal university politics.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoStarsFreddy FloresRosa SánchezOscar BerteaA Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
- DirectorMiguel PérezA history of Argentina's half century of coups and military governments.
- DirectorMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsTeófilo MendozaRafael SpregelburdEugenia AlonsoA small incident over two neighbors common wall sparks a conflict which affects the intimacy of the view over the chimney; the protagonist sparks a conflict and with paranoiac obsession destroys everyday life.
- DirectorEduardo WilliamsStarsSergio MorosiniShine MarxDomingos MarengulaA 3-country observation of the millenials in Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsNatasha JaramilloGiovanny RodríguezCarmenza CossioAfter the murder of her father, a young art student Paula searches for the contracted killer who carried out the crime, a young man named Jesús.
- DirectorAgustín ToscanoStarsSergio PrinaDaniel ElíasLiliana JuárezA robber regrets having brutally hit an elderly woman in order to snatch off her handbag and attempts to make up for the damage he inflicted. But his past deeds as snatch thief hunt him, keeping him from restarting his life anew.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsVictoria AlmeidaDiego GentileJoel NogueraUnable to have kids of their own, Cecilia and Diego get a call from the adoption agency they registered to some time ago. The sudden arrival of Joel, a nine-year-old with a troubled history, will change the course of their lives.
- DirectorArmando BoStarsGuillermo FrancellaCarla PetersonFederico SallesAntonio Decoud has the perfect life, a wife and children who love him, a great job, and a beautiful home. But one day he learns that he urgently needs a kidney transplant.
- DirectorSofía BrockenshireVerena KuriStarsSofía PalominoEugenia AlonsoAdriana FerrerIn a small Argentinian backwater town, a young woman sets out on a solitary search for her sister who has disappeared without a trace. When the family's car appears in flames on the bank of a nearby river, Alba falls deeper into a world of bureaucratic frustrations, bringing her to the edge of despair. Her journey drags her back to the river, where a silent witness seems to provide the only calm that's left.
- DirectorMatías LucchesiStarsPaula Galinelli HertzogPaola BarrientosAlvin AstorgaIn a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve it. The hostility of winter in such a harsh place turns this desire into a real threat: freezing in the middle of nowhere. Going behind the backs of the school authorities and the girl's mother, her teacher decides to help her. They set off on this quest for truth, but it is not going to be an easy journey... Their only clue is a small, rusty plate.
- DirectorDaniel RosenfeldStarsEugenia AlonsoEugenia CapizzanoBillie CartierThe young Cornelia arrives at the old paternal house to take the life. When he tries to fulfill his mission he is continually interrupted by unexpected appearances: a mysterious girl, a thief and a lover.
- DirectorMartín SalinasStarsValeria BertuccelliJuan MinujínMartín PiroyanskyCharly was abandoned right after birth in a convent. He is not aware of who the couple who are about to arrive and dine at the inn, actually are. Karla is about to show up with a dead man and one hundred dollars in the trunk of her car.
- DirectorDiego LermanStarsDiego VegezziJulieta ZylberbergAilín SalasSpying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenViilbjørk Malling AggerGhita NørbyA father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
- DirectorPablo AgüeroStarsGael García BernalDenis LavantImanol AriasThe embalmed corpse of Eva Peron is taken to various cities throughout Europe before returning to her home in Argentina, where it is ultimately abducted.
- DirectorFernando SpinerStarsJuan FornPablo MainettiRicardo RouxFernando returns to the town where he lived as a young man to meet his poet friend Anibal, there they perform the ritual they share for years, swimming to a buoy. This documentary is immersed in the relationship between friendship, the sea and poetry.
- DirectorMartín DeusStarsÁngelo Mutti SpinettaLautaro RodríguezGuillermo PfeningLorenzo lives a sheltered life in Argentine Patagonia with his parents and little brother. When a good friend of the family dies in an accident, his son Caíto is taken in by them.
- DirectorMaría AlchéStarsMercedes MoránLaura López MoyanoFederico SackMarcela's world becomes strange and fragile after the death of her sister Rina. She feels lost in her own home and the connections with her close family environment are dislocated.
- DirectorMartín De SalvoStarsCarlos BellosoLautaro DelgadoDiego GentileIn the 1950s, under a dictatorial government, a small group of political prisoners in Patagonia plan to escape.
- DirectorFederico GodfridStarsJuan GrandinettiAgustín PardellaVioleta PalukasTwo brothers return to Pinamar off-season to scatter the ashes of their mother and sell the family apartment. There, they are received by Laura, a beautiful young local who was Miguel's childhood friend. Among music, drinks and games, she awakens the desire of the brothers and turns what seemed like a trip that revolves around death into an adventure that connects them to the memory of those summers. A story as melancholy as it is luminous that builds itself almost imperceptibly, and in which feelings aren't transmitted rapidly-it may take the entire running-time for that latent chemistry to manifest itself. Pinamar expresses itself exclusively in cinematic terms, and gives a feeling of pleasure that floats around the story from the first minute and is worthy of cherishing as one of the great moments in film.
- DirectorCecilia AtánValeria PivatoStarsPaulina GarcíaClaudio RissiMaría Cristina LópezA journey through the vastness of the Argentine desert and what appeared to be the end of the road will become the beginning of a new life.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsDaniel Giménez CachoLola DueñasMatheus NachtergaeleBased on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsRicardo DarínAbel AyalaMiranda BodenhoferWith the advent of democracy in Chile, a general amnesty for prisoners of non violent crime is enacted. Angel Santiago, a young man determined to avenge the abuse he suffered in prison, goes in search of the famous bank robber Vergara Grey, whose robberies have earned him a reputation he'd leave back. His plan for a daring robbery is complicated by the magical presence of Victoria, a mysterious young dancer.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínEduardo BlancoMercedes MoránThe story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.
- DirectorLeonardo BrzezickiStarsLeonardo SbaragliaMiranda de la SernaEva LlorachIt follows an angst-ridden father, Santiago, whose emotional crisis is exacerbated by a complex and intense relationship with his teenage daughter who seeks to break free from him.
- DirectorNatalia MetaStarsErica RivasNahuel Pérez BiscayartDaniel HendlerThe story of Inés, a young woman who after a traumatic episode during a trip with her partner begins to confuse herself between the real and the imaginary.
- DirectorFranco VerdoiaStarsEsteban MeloniGabriel GoityGladys FlorimonteIn the midst of a family vacation, an unexpected reunion updates Pablo's childhood trauma. Confronted by the irony of chance, he begins a disturbing return to the landscapes of his childhood, dragging his wife Raquel and his son João in this process. Pablo decides to remain there, recovering the past to alter a memory that conditioned his entire life.
- DirectorEzequiel RaduskyStarsLiliana JuárezRosario BléfariVerónica PerrottaLila and Marcela have always worked on the cleaning staff of a state office. They know its nooks and crannies better than anyone, and have found a way to support themselves - and a dream - running a clandestine kitchen in an abandoned corner of the building. But times change: a new director arrives, spouting cynical speeches full of clichés with a fistful of empty promises. The kitchen is closed and a wave of redundancies disrupts the precarious equilibrium in the office, making everyday tasks a struggle for survival.
- DirectorFrancisco MárquezAndrea TestaStarsDiego VelázquezLaura ParedesValeria LoisDuring Argentina's dictatorship, Francisco Sanctis receives information about two people sentenced to "disappear." He must make a crucial decision: whether or not to risk his own life to save others.