36 Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
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- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsJoséphine SanzGabrielle SanzNina MeurisseNelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her age building a tree-house.
- DirectorMaureen FazendeiroMiguel GomesStarsCrista AlfaiateCarloto CottaJoão Nunes MonteiroFollows Crista, Carloto and João who are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden and share household routines, but they are not the only ones.
- DirectorRodrigo PláLaura SantulloStarsLeah MillerJorge CastroJulia ChavezA mother may lose custody of her son because she refuses to medicate his ADHD.
- DirectorChema García IbarraStarsNacho FernándezLlum ArquesJoanna ValverdeWhen the leader of a UFO association dies unexpectedly, José Manuel becomes the only person who knows a secret that could alter the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, a young girl goes missing in Spain.
- DirectorJohn AdamsZelda AdamsToby PoserStarsZelda AdamsToby PoserLulu AdamsA lonely teen discovers her family's ties to witchcraft.
- DirectorPanah PanahiStarsPantea PanahihaMohammad Hassan MadjooniRayan SarlakFollows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.
- DirectorJae-eun LeeJisun LimStarsJua KimSeoyoung YoonJongmin Lim20-year-old Jeonghee doesn't go to college and works part-time. She goes to meet Minyoung, her old high school roommate, for the first time in a while and wants to play with her as before. However, Minyoung, a college student, is busy sending correction emails for her credits and feels uncomfortable by Jeonghee's visit.
- DirectorJonás TruebaStarsAndrei MazgaPablo GaviraSancho JaviérezDirector Jonás Trueba captures the spirit of a group of teens in Spain in an empathic, compelling, and moving way. In 2016, Trueba asked the teens to participate in a five-year project, in which they recreated situations from their lives. They talk about their insecurities, wanting to be accepted, loneliness, and what they are supposed to do with their lives. They demonstrate against school privatisation, debate politics and, like many adults, worry about the planet's future.
- DirectorAlessio Rigo de RighiMatteo ZoppisStarsGabriele SilliMaria Alexandra LunguErcole ColnagoIn the 19th century, a wandering drunkard in Italy is cast out of his village for a crime. He is exiled to Tierra del Fuego, where he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption.
- DirectorRamon ZürcherSilvan ZürcherStarsHenriette ConfuriusLiliane AmuatUrsina LardiLisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.
- DirectorAleksandre KoberidzeStarsAni KarseladzeGiorgi BochorishviliOliko BarbakadzeA chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
- DirectorAndreas FontanaStarsFabrizio RongioneStéphanie CléauCarmen IriondoYvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.
- DirectorMartín BarrenecheaNicolás BrancaStarsRoxana BlancoHoracio CamanduleRogelio GraciaA successful football player suffering media harassment and the pressure of his surroundings seeks escape from the hell his life has turned into.
- DirectorPaz FábregaStarsRebeca WoodbridgeRaquel VillalobosErika RojasAlongside her work as an architect, 40-year old Luisa gives inspirational creative workshops to children. One day, she comes across 17-year-old Yuli by the school toilets; it turns out she has unintentionally become pregnant. Luisa decides to help her - in the process operating herself into a difficult position somewhere between friend, teacher and mother figure.
- DirectorCesar CabralStarsMilhem CortazPaulo MiklosGrace GianoukasBob finds himself trapped in a post-apocalyptic desert inhabited by glamorous mutant '80s pop stars out for blood - Bob's blood.
- DirectorInés María BarrionuevoStarsNina DziembrowskiMaite Lucía ValeroAdriana FerrerCamila is forced to move to Buenos Aires when her grandmother falls ill. She leaves behind her friends and a liberal public school for a traditional private institution. There, her fiery but premature temper will be put to the test.
- DirectorUlises PorraSilvina SchnicerStarsCecile van WelieMagnolia NunezRichard DouglasSara and her nanny Yarisa have a relationship that seems to transcend their class conditions: they are the closest thing to a daughter-mother, but an accident will test their intimate loyalty and the innocent illusion that nothing can separate them.
- DirectorFrancina CarbonellThe fire at the San Miguel prison in 2010 left 81 prisoners dead and a trial without culprits. With full access to the files of the judicial folder the documentary immerses us in the horror of that fateful morning.
- DirectorAna KatzStarsRaquel BankDaniel KatzNicolás LevinSebastián, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
- DirectorMaximiliano SchonfeldStarsLucas SchellJoaquin SpahnSofía PalominoJesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his village in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place. He moves in with Jesús' parents, wears his clothes, gets closer to his friends and ex-girlfriend. At first, people accept him and Abel takes a liking to the role. But the resemblance to his cousin becomes disturbing, to the point that he ends up transforming into Jesús López. A car race in homage to Jesús is organized in the village. Animated by the spirit of his cousin, Abel drives the deceased's car. The outcome of this race will determine whether or not the result of the transformation becomes definitive.
- DirectorPablo GiorgelliStarsMarcelo SubiottoEttore D'AlessandroHenry Shaq MonteroThree men try to survive the wreck of a human trafficking boat.
- DirectorIván FundStarsMara BestelliAlfredo CastroJeremias KuharoLess than a year ago, Greta's son mysteriously disappeared by the sea. As she and her husband Bruno are struggling with grief, her friend Sina travels to the coast to help them sell their summer beach house. While they are packing everything up and getting ready to move out, Bruno claims to have seen something that confirms the locals' rumors: the appearance of a strange shape coming from the sea.
- DirectorNico ManzanoStarsJesús NunesGabriel AgüeroEduardo BolAn alternative rock band's singer-guitarist starts a solo career, seeking inspiration as Venezuela's crisis roils, accompanied by The Beasts, two masked and mysterious beings.
- DirectorManolo NietoStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartCristian BorgesJustina BustosThe employer is a young man from a middle-class family; he leads a modern life and doesn't fit in with the traditional stereotype of rural producer. But he has one pressing concern: his baby's health. The employee is even younger than him and is in urgent need of his own job so that he can support his new family. Tragedy occurs. A film about the relationship between two young men and about the convoluted relationship of both with happiness, freedom and work.
- DirectorAna Elena TejeraStarsYolanda MathieuCandido RíosShe lives a lonely monotony, her days are a routine of repetitive actions. Then She stops and in the silence She remembers the body of a man stroked by war. She tries to free herself of the memory, but the memory goes through the skin.
- DirectorKim TorresStarsSimon DalzellNello RiveroWhen a mysterious light invades socially awkward Lila, she encounters its source: a cyborg who comes to remind her who she was in a past life.
- DirectorOscar VincentelliThe surgical precision of a thermal camera removes all the folklore that covers a bullfight. After turning what used to be 'the national fiesta' into a macabre dance, all that remains before your eyes is the ritual of death.
- DirectorJoaquín CociñaCristóbal LeónUsing human corpses and invoking the spirits of two damned Secretaries of State, a girl performs a ritual to free the kingdom of Chile from its feudal heritage.
- DirectorElías León SiminianiStarsJorge Eliécer GaitánLuis OspinaGustavo PetroIn 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves THE MOTIONLESS embark on a film about a hypothetical stillness syndrome in Colombia. Both an homage to the cinematographical universe of the Columbian filmmaker Luis Ospina and an exploration of the country's history, the film summons memory to go back in time.
- DirectorLeo BittencourtStarsDaniel Dos Santos de AndradeElisa LucindaGabriel Fernando de CastroThe night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep.
- DirectorDaniela SeggiaroStarsCarla CrespoVerónica GerezLeonel GutierrezThe way in which the territory is inhabited by the indigenous cultures of the Gran Chaco generates community movements close to the forest and the river, sources of life. The government is planning a new territorial order with popular houses and the displacement of Wichi families to the new urban periphery. Ana is the architect in charge of the project. Valentino is the chief of his community and with his grandson Leonel they will try to mediate what they consider to be a new cultural outrage.
- DirectorJuan Martín HsuHaunted by the violent death of his father, Martin Hsu, a young Argentinian filmmaker of Taiwanese origin, returns to Taipei with his brother Marcelo to join their mother. The reunion reveals the portrait of a woman whose tragic fate is marked by the years of the White Terror in Taiwan, then by the difficulties integrating during her exile in Argentina. Faced with linguistic and cultural differences, Martin and his brother set up their camera in the cramped family apartment, hardly an invitation to speak freely. Not unlike a hall of mirrors, the mise en scène plunges us into the heart of a perpetual drama. The director's moments of frustration are eloquent, and speak of the difficulty of a double quest : one of identity and one of filmmaking, full of obstacles, which Martin Hsu skillfully circumvents through the interaction of fiction and documentary. The director's contradictory feelings resonate throughout the film like music that has now become essential, imbuing this moving diary of uprooting with sad notes and unexpected melodies.
- DirectorMalena SolarzStarsSantiago CanepariAgustín GagliardiWalter JakobPedro and Sol are two best friends that coming to age. Their personal paths drive them thru different directions. He's interested in writing theatre, she's training as piano player.
- DirectorAgustina San MartínStarsTamara RoccaAna BrunJoão MiguelEmilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around.
- DirectorSamuel M. DelgadoHelena GirónStarsXoán ReicesDavid PantaleónValentín Estévez1492. Among the crew captained by Christopher Columbus, travel three men who should have been dead by now. They have managed to avoid their sad fate by participating in this uncertain journey. When reaching the Canary Islands they flee, taking one of the ship's sails with them. Meanwhile, in the "Old World", a woman tries to save her dying sister by bringing her to a healer. Both of these journeys attempt to laugh at death. Both journeys are at the mercy of History.