Gastón Biraben, 2005, 2011, Feature, Argentina, 120min, Spanish with English subtitles
Shortly after celebrating her quinceañera with her loving parents, Cristina is suddenly taken out of class and summoned to court. Cristina’s world crumbles when she learns that the couple who raised her are not her real parents.
Cautiva follows a lost daughter’s emotional journey to uncover truth while touching upon the many political issues of the dictatorship era with passion and realism.
Liliana Paolinelli, 2007, 2011, Feature, Argentina, 82min, Spanish with English subtitles
For her college thesis, film student Alicia is making a documentary about women related to prisoners in the local jail. The only problem is that no one is willing to be interviewed on camera.
In comes Elsa, a desperate woman whose son has recently been arrested. Elsa will grant Alicia an interview, only if she visits her son in jail. But when Alicia makes the visit, her world collapses.
A young girl’s odyssey into the heart of Buenos
Marcos Carnevale, 2009, 2010, 2011, Feature, Argentina, 106min, Spanish with English subtitles
The $1500 prize for best feature goes to Anita (Argentina, 2009, Marcos Carnevale). This film stole the audience’s hearts in Sydney as it has done in many other festivals around the world.
Rodrigo Grande, 2009, 2010, Feature, Argentina, 110min, Spanish/English with English subtitles
Principles and pragmatism collide in this modern tale of morality, leaving no-one unscathed!
Gonzalo Arijón, 2009, 2010, Documentary, Argentina, France, Uruguay, 110min, Spanish with English subtitles
Eyes Wide Open: Exploring Today’s South America (Ojos bien abiertos: Un viaje por la Sudamérica de hoy) is based on Eduardo Galeano’s searing book Open Veins of Latin America
Principles and pragmatism collide in this modern tale of morality, leaving no-one unscathed!
Rodrigo Grande, 2009, 2010, Feature, Argentina, 110min, Spanish with English subtitles
Castilla is an old-fashioned office worker with seemingly unwavering ethics who comes up against his new boss, Silva - a yuppie who believes everything has a price and will stop at nothing to prove it. Castilla is forced to confront his values, his family and himself, after refusing to sell his boss the last magazine he needs to complete his collection.
A black comedy about white lies.
Diego Sabanés, 2008, 2009, Feature, Argentina, Spain, 100min, Spanish with English subtitles
Based on a short story by well-known Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, this is a story about a web of white lies spun by two siblings to avoid telling their ailing mother that her favourite son has vanished after a trip to Paris. This evocative film set in 1950’s Argentina, keeps the audience wondering about Pablo’s disappearance, while the family tries to preserve the past at the expense of their personal desires.
multi-award winning drama about Roberto and Alma, two people who met in a traffic jam in a rain-soaked Buenos Aires.
Paula Hernandez, 2007, 2009, Feature, Argentina, 110min, spanish with English subtitles
It has been raining non-stop in Buenos Aires for three days. Alma and Roberto have not yet met. Immersed in their own solitude and at the mercy of the weather, they confront their own fears, uncertainties and losses. Alma has recently left the man she has lived with for nine years. Roberto has come back to the country after almost thirty years abroad. Here he has nothing, just a father in a coma, with whom he has no relationship, and an apartment that has to be emptied.