Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: 10
Sometimes we get distracted and surprised thinking that film history is, more than the history of the uses of techniques, the history of its progress. And in that confusion, the state of the world chooses to see conviction. But film history itself has always left clear that what remained in the marg...
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Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: 8
We thank Bafici and the Cultural Recoleta Center for the recognition implied in this exhibition, and DAC for helping us in making it real. But above all, we thank you because you forced us to dig into our archives and look our 20 year-old body of work in the face. You have helped us realize what we...
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Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: Espacio Central
“Pelicónicas (film posters)” is a collective experience from 450 designers (teachers and students from the Salomone chair of Graphic Design at the UBA) plus one hundred texts by teachers and researchers from the Fariña, Herke and Speziale chairs at the UBA, which seeks to a...
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Section: Museo BAFICI
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: 1
Mario Monicelli turns 100 years old! And he celebrates in Buenos Aires, the city he visited only once, in 2007, before continuing his trip to Mar del Plata.When we land in the city, Mario fell in love at first sight. He fell right at home: a South American Italy that was multi-ethnic, highbrow, surp...
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Section: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 10
With Life May Be, Cousins and Akbari revive a reformulated medium with added poetry, with the combination of language and visual oratory that persuades with its looping cadences and elementary statements of exile, nudity, Iran, existence and affirmative questioning. The film came to fruition after C...
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Sections: Panorama Competencia DDHH
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 3
The director of Garage Olimpo approached the figure of Vera Vigevani Jarach, a loving 86 year-old woman who was born in Italy and came to Argentina in 1939, and later joined the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Her heartbreaking story synthesizes two different horrors: the Holocaust and the last military d...
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Section: North Korean Cinema
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 8
Exhortations to put the common good above personal ambition are a recurrent theme of North Korean society guided by the Juche principle of self-reliance. In A Bellflower, a man crosses the mountains to return to his old home after many years away, full of regret for his youthful decision to follow a...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 6
In a run-down bar in Southern Italy, locals gather every day to play “padrone e sotto,” a game of cards and drinks. While the beer gets as warm as the spirit of these peasants, nurses, mechanics, and hunters, Cirigliano remembers the fascination and terror that mysterious hobby and its i...
ViewSection: International Official Competition
ArteMultiplex Belgrano - Av. Cabildo 2829
Room: 3
María José and Norberto live in the outskirts of Belo Horizonte. They have been married for 35 years, shared a life together, and have two children. One of them is André Novais Olivera, director of this film that discovers his parents in very simple and everyday-like domestic si...
ViewSection: A Secret History of Weimar Cinema
El Cultural San Martín - Paraná esquina Sarmiento
Room: 1
Mabuse is the dark hero of Weimar cinema. Full of charisma, sardonic charm and nasty ideas, he is the wicked genious of crime –a German Fantomas. Fritz Lang shot four Mabuse films, including his very last film in 1960. Other directors tried as well, but never reached Lang’s superb abilit...
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Village Caballito - Av. Rivadavia y Av. Acoyte
Room: 4
If you thought adventure films in the style of Kim (1950) or Lawrence of Arabia (1962) were Technicolor-exclusive, think again. Because Theeb tells a coming-of-age tale set in the Hejaz desert (Saudi Arabia) and during WWI. As the world is modified by means of explosions and massacres and the power...
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Section: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 7
Ever since the late Sixties, Narcisa Hirsch elaborated a body of work in Argentina with a wide aesthetic, conceptual, and cinematic range, which very few experimental filmmakers were able to match. She did so at times stretching the relation between the visual and the verbal, at times like a landsca...
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