This documentary follows an extended trip through the Pampas, tracing the footsteps of Guillermo Enrique Hudson, an Argentine gaucho turned English writer. Despite fighting against the 'savages' in the army, he also defended them. Hudson's complex character is explored through his writings about his homeland and the film combines documentary speculation, personal memory, and dreams. (Plot relevance: 7)
The omnibus feature SUCESOS INTERVENIDOS consists of shorts by a who’s who of Argentine documentary and experimental-film giants, including Edgardo Cozarinsky and Gustavo Fontán but also Claudio Caldini, Andrés Di Tella and Gabriela Golder. Each one of them created a piece of a few minutes in length using archival footage from SUCESOS ARGENTINOS (“Argentine Events”), a popular newsreel series from 1938 to 1972 whose episodes have recently begun to be digitized by Buenos Aires’s “Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken” Film Museum.
Forbidden is a thought-provoking documentary that explores various societal taboos and their impact on individuals and communities. Through interviews and personal stories, the film delves into the complex and often controversial subjects that are typically avoided in mainstream discourse.
327 Cuadernos is a documentary film that follows a man who has been consistently recording his thoughts, experiences, and memories in 327 notebooks over the course of his life. The movie explores the significance and impact of journaling as a way of preserving memories and creating a personal legacy.
Argentina feature film.
Over several days and nights, an actor and an actress read the correspondence between Torcuato and Kamala, the film director's parents, he from Argentina, and she from India. The letters, encompassing the decades from the 50s to the 70s, refer to love and idealism, record world travels, talk about socialism and psychoanalysis, about pain and broken dreams. Their reading reveals a relationship between the actors, with similarities and differences. Meanwhile, with his own daughter, the director sets about solving the puzzle of the family memory, an intimate twentieth-century tale.
The history of Argentine Montoneros guerrilla group , since its founding in the early seventies, until its dissolution under the military dictatorship of 1976 .
In this documentary, Andrés Di Tella and Dario Schvarsztein discussed sensitively and accurately the motivations and creative processes of three Mexican contemporary artists of great global impact: Pedro Reyes, Carlos Amorales and Minerva Cuevas.
Short pieces including images taken with a mobile phone, personal photos and found material. Everyday incidents, childhood memories, portraits of friends, travel chronicles, readings and songs: diaries.
A documentary on the function of pornographic film and art during and after the Mexican revolution.
¡Volveremos a las montañas! is a documentary film that follows a group of climbers as they embark on a journey to conquer the mountains they once loved and lost due to environmental changes. Through stunning visuals and heartfelt stories, the film explores the human connection to nature and the resilience of the human spirit.
Director Andrés Di Tella travels for the first time to India in search of his Indian mother's past only to find unexpected facts.
A personal essay about television and memory. A round trip between history and autobiography: from a personal memory of the first television to the earliest memories of television in Argentina.
A documentary film that delves into the life and literature of Macedonio Fernández, a renowned Argentine writer who greatly influenced the Latin American literary movement. The film provides an in-depth look at his writings, ideas, and impact on the literary scene.
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