Section: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 6
Boys just want to have fun: the plan is to go for a ride, grab a few beers; maybe pick up some girl or getting distracted enough in order to forget other girls, the ones they have or those they want to have. All of this in the same night. Of course, things don’t go as planned. The main charact...
ViewSection: José Val del Omar
El Cultural San Martín - Paraná esquina Sarmiento
Room: 2
A free approach to the missing link with which the filmmaker from Granada expected to end his work, made up by what he would describe as lyrical documentaries, cinegraphies or elementaries. The elementary is a categorically poetic declination of documentary film. After the elementaries on water, fir...
ViewSection: International Official Competition
ArteMultiplex Belgrano - Av. Cabildo 2829
Room: 3
In order to attract attention on a film like Passers-by, it would be simple to resort to cold hard data and, for example, mention the fact that its shoot took place over the course of two decades in diverse formats, and had more than 6,500 cuts. However, these factors pale in comparison to the final...
ViewSection: New Swiss Documentary
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 2
Often laughed off as nothing more than an affliction of adolescence, heartbreak becomes the topic of this sensitive and compelling documentary film. Christian Frei dives into the frenzied nights of the newly rejected. Nights full of pain and tears, yet also wakefulness and creativity. An anthropolog...
ViewSection: Argentine Official Competition
Village Caballito - Av. Rivadavia y Av. Acoyte
Room: 4
The road, a car, and a certain family tension we feel in the air seem to be –once again– the basic elements Sotomayor needs in order to organize the story. In this case, it’s a trip to Villa Gesell, and the film starts with an already triggered conflict: we find Martín and h...
ViewSection: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 3
Originally German and made during the First and Second World Wars, Bergfilms –or mountain films– have an Argentine exponent: Gustav Lantschner’s Canción de la nieve (1954). As a consequence of the war, the German community in Bariloche welcomed their fellow countrymen in the...
ViewSection: Charlas, encuentros, presentaciones y seminarios
Punto de Encuentro [17] BAFICI - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Junín 1930
Room: El Aleph
Actividad organizada junto a la Embajada de Chile. Con Alberto Fuguet, Gonzalo Maza y Camila Gutiérrez. Modera: Agustín Masaedo.
ViewSection: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 7
It’s not easy to tell a documentary from a false documentary, and inventing a character is not that different from describing it. This is the case of Guillermo Gaede, a government employee turned musician, engineer, spy employed by five countries, and a dissident theoretical physic whose extra...
ViewSection: Argentine Shorts Films Exhibition
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 4
Sections: Panorama Competencia DDHH
Alianza Francesa - Av. Córdoba 946
This is a documentary about cartoon artists spoken in the first person by the artists themselves. The list is impressive: from Le Monde’s cartoonist Plantu to Damien Glez from Burkina Faso, the film features professionals of cartoon art in their different work environments, mostly dangerous ar...
ViewSections: Official Selection - Out of Competition Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 10
Sections: Panorama Competencia DDHH
ArteMultiplex Belgrano - Av. Cabildo 2829
Room: 1
Following his acclaimed 2010 documentary Nostalgia for the Light, legendary Patricio Guzmán delivers an equally stunning achievement with The Pearl Button. Whereas Nostalgia… vividly explored Chile’s national heritage through its distinctive skies and deserts, The Pearl Button ta...
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