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Documentary on the marginal Argentinian people who live near the river (Dock Sur).

Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. The film also makes a statement about the affect of dictatorship on personal and political freedom.

Rulo, a one-time rock star, is trying to support his aging mother and musician son. As his efforts go increasingly awry, it is the love of family and friends that keeps him hopeful.

Mecha, her husband Gregorio and their friends are spending another stifling day drinking and lounging around the filthy swimming pool of their crumbling summer estate when Mecha stumbles and is badly cut on her broken wine glass. On hearing the news, her less affluent cousin Tali marshals her own large family for a visit. The long, hot summer and crowded situation strain everyone's nerves and repressed family conflicts surface. An atmosphere of oppressive humidity and constant foreboding fill this commentary on the decadence, malaise and racism of Argentina's decaying elite.

The film paints a blunt view of the realities of Argentine working-class life. Rulo (Luis Margani) is a divorced, unemployed 50 year-old day laborer in Buenos Aires who is desperate for whatever work he can scrounge up. The sole supporter of his elderly mother and son, an aspiring rock musician, Rulo takes a job operating an excavating machine in distant Patagonia.

A middle aged Argentine woman with a comfortable life discovers that her husband has been having affairs for years behind her back. She leaves him and for a time has trouble adjusting to her newfound yet unwelcome independence. Eventually, however, she accepts her condition and ultimately thrives as she finds new loves and a new life.

"Martina Juncadella stars as Analia, a shy 20-year-old woman from provincial Argentina who arrives in Buenos Aires on a delivery errand. But instead of heading home as planned, she extends her stay following a chance encounter with the city's Muslim community. Settling into a shabby guesthouse, she takes up lessons in Arabic and Islamic practice, dons a headscarf and reinvents herself as a Middle Eastern orphan called Habibi. This bold act of fakery helps her land a job at the local Lebanese grocery story, but it also creates tensions with the owner's son Hassan (Martin Slipak), whose romantic fantasy of reconnection with his roots becomes entangled with Analia/s equally fanciful dream of disconnecting from hers."--The Hollywood Reporter website.

Paraguay, Autumn 1935. It's unendingly hot. In a remote place, an old peasant couple, Cándida and Ramón, wait for their son, who has gone to fight in the Chaco war. They wait for the rain, seemingly arriving but not for a long time, for the missing wind, hoping the relentless heat will give up oppressing them. Above all, they hope for better things. The couple faces this situation with different attitudes: Ramón optimistic; Cándida believing her son is dead, yet continuing to hope. These roles insert themselves between the seated couple, while they pass the time in a Paraguayan hammock.

Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. The film also makes a statement about the affect of dictatorship on personal and political freedom.

After seven years in prison for murder and armed robbery, "Oso" is released on parole and returns to his hometown, a depressed suburb of Buenos Aires. He knows that his wife Natalia has moved on and is living with another man, but he's determined to establish a relationship with his young daughter Alicia and to collect the money owed to him by a local crime boss.

Set in Buenos Aires, this is the story of a cultured English governess whose display of compassion disrupts the tradition-bound existence of the wealthy household in which she works.

This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.

With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the great contemporary film debuts.

With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the great contemporary film debuts.

An elderly man is kidnapped during the Argentinian economic crisis of 2002, forcing his exiled daughter to return to Argentina and confront her family's past.