Section: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 4
If documentary is an endless genre is not just because it can take any element in the world (a person, a city, or an object) and turn it into its subject, but rather because of the endless ways it can portray and question that element. In the case of Mudmen, the eye is on an old man who lives in Rio...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 9
In Camille Claudel, Bruno Dumont placed a tired-faced Juliette Binoche at the center of the frame. The French filmmaker seems to have switched thirds with P’tit Quinquin, a made-for-TV comedy set in a rural town. His last feature starts like a by-the-book crime story: with a strange murder in...
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Section: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 2
There’s an essential difference between Fifteen Days at the Beach, Flavia de la Fuente’s previous film, and The Walk. While the first one’s matter is the natural beauty of the ocean, the second one seeks beauty where apparently there is none. And, even better, it finds it. In both...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 1
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...
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Section: North Korean Cinema
El Cultural San Martín - Paraná esquina Sarmiento
Room: 1
No different to most other societies, Korea was once governed by princes and kings, and its defined aristocratic class structures forms the basis for Tale of Chun Hyang. The film is an adaptation of a traditional Korean tale of the impossible love between a beautiful young woman born of a nobleman a...
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Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 3
Toponymy is the discipline that studies the etymological origin of place names. What Perel chooses to analyze visually in his film is a series of towns located in the western portion of the province of Tucumán, which were founded by the military government during the mid-70s within the framew...
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Section: José Val del Omar
Teatro San Martín - Av. Corrientes 1530
Room: L. Lugones
Section: Panorama
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 2
The economic crisis in Spain and its impact on young people is the center of this film about a couple that tries to survive in Madrid with almost no money. Natalia lives with her divorced mother and her younger siblings, and there doesn’t seem to be much more to life than seeing her boyfriend,...
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Section: Panorama
ArteMultiplex Belgrano - Av. Cabildo 2829
Room: 1
A portrait of the filmmaker Patricio Guzmán. The film proposes a journey through his cinema marked by the recent history of Chile. From The Battle of Chile, a masterpiece of direct cinema recounting the last months of Salvador Allende and the Chilean Popular Unity to Nacre Button, still a pro...
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Section: Opening Night
Village Recoleta - Vicente López y Junín
Room: 5
I only shot one film Buenos Aires: that first feature-length film, Invasion, which I wrote with Jorge Luis Borges. 43 years later, I suddenly felt a clear need to plunge immediately into my city and film it again, with a passion. So, I wrote with Mariano Llinás… a fable? a Sufi tale?,...
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Village Caballito - Av. Rivadavia y Av. Acoyte
Room: 4
A military-industrial complex, dubious deaths, sickness, secrets, conspiracies, and an investigation that reminds us of State of Play. The Lies of Victors is a German political-journalist thriller about deception, power, and failure, which works, in rhythmic terms, just like a good Hollywood movie....
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