Stories of the Argentine West 2023
At a tabern in the argentine interior, xenophobia among gauchos is in charge of blurring the line between the law and the trap.
At a tabern in the argentine interior, xenophobia among gauchos is in charge of blurring the line between the law and the trap.
Lucas and Mateo are brothers and have a distant and somewhat conflictive relationship. What seems to be just another morning becomes the beginning of a new stage in their lives. When they wake up, they notice that their mother is not at home and they wait for her to return, but that moment will never come.
An ex-combatant is admitted to a psychiatric facility due to what happened in the Falklands War. During his stay in that institution, he will find a purpose to fight against the treatments that tend to harm him.
The Argentine crisis of 2001 is about to explode. Felipe, 13, sees how his family environment is cracking due to the economic and political pressures. Misunderstood, he falls in love with Lucía, the neighbor next door and for a moment he stops feeling alone. But when external violence becomes a real danger, Felipe escapes with her, fed up with the lies of his parents, leaving behind his innocence.
"Unearths, the books we do not inherit" delves into the family memory of Maria Julia Blanco, its director. The unearthing of his father's student library - recovered in 2018 - is the starting point. Julia guides us through the province of Santa Fe following her family's story. Historian and bibliophile by choice, Julia takes books, which do not know what has happened on the surface, as a starting point to excavate family memory. Little by little it becomes evident that, in the remains of the books, both family history and Argentine history can be reread.
A detective must face his past to solve the crime of the present.
Remembering his old memories, he will leave a photograph in every place where he was happy.
Based on a discursive analysis of historical right-wing forces in Argentina and around the world, the objective is to situate the current Argentine government in the context of a resurgence of reactionary thinking, as well as to warn of the country's potential direction.