Marañas 2023
The path to the ideal job is never easy. Well… sometimes it is.
The path to the ideal job is never easy. Well… sometimes it is.
Don Hermosilla, a rural settler, wakes up in a cold, dark room. After having undergone surgery, a doctor presumes him dead. His naiveté will make us doubt if he is aware of what’s happened, leading us through an ambiguous, absurdist tale.
A little girl will do everything in her power to obtain the toy she desires from a grabber, but will end up discovering that insisting on the same methods is not the way of achieving different results.
Tonio, a young photography enthusiast, walks around the streets of his town during the Carnival. After sneaking into a bus, he meets R, the dancer at a traveling troupe, and sees through her a world he didn’t know.
The eldest member of a rural community of grape growers refuses to sell his land to a greedy real estate company. When he seems cornered by the dirty tactics of a corrupt businessman, he must decide whether to give up everything he owns, or take control of the situation.
After receiving a significant settlement following a workplace accident, Pablo decides to invest all the money he had promised to use for building a new life with his girlfriend, Victoria, into a business he knows little about. Together, they must deal with the consequences of this impulsive decision.
After ending a long relationship, Malena finds herself in an existential crisis. Locked in her studio, she dedicates herself solely to her work as a designer, avoiding any type of human contact. Suddenly, Andrea, her mother, shows up at her door with a statement: she has just had a fight with her husband, and she won't give up until she begs for forgiveness. In the meantime, he decided that he will stay with his daughter. This invasive and suffocating presence bursts into Malena's life to bring order to chaos, chaos to order, and examine each of her actions, past, present, and above all, future.
In the late ‘70s, in the midst of the military dictatorship, a surrealist literary work- shop is the oasis of Martín, a tormented young man who seeks to improve his poetry. Caron, a brilliant and eccentric writer, adopts him as a son. Their bond is recorded in short home movies and an unusual correspondence.
A group of students tries to recover the gaze of Mario Juan Muntaner, a fellow filmmaker who disappeared in 1978 by the Argentine civil-military dictatorship. It will be a lunch with his family and crew that will bring to bloom silences prolonged in time.
Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years telling stories.
Marta must deal with her bosses when she finds a rat inside her home. Amid a rodent infestation, fear and panic take hold of a family in decline.
Through acting, a secret is revealed within a group of friends.
Seeking to avoid the terrible economic crisis of 2001, a young man travels to 1990 to stop the Minister of Economy. But he will have to deal with his bodyguard, who will have to choose between his own interests and the fate of the entire country.
A retired boxer is willing to do anything to return to the ring and conquer the woman who never wanted to reciprocate him.
Sofía wanders around her neighborhood trying to escape from the difficult reality, while dealing with her father's terminal confinement.
"Sister death" explores the tension between the ritual and the everyday through the figure of Ariel, a priest who performs funeral responses in a cemetery of Buenos Aires
“Lo que guardamos” is about how Ariana reunites with her ex-boyfriend, Benjamín, to recover old vinyls before he moves away. In the moving boxes, Ariana comes across the memories of their relationship, among them, a CD composed by Benjamín for her years ago. By sharing music, they will remember their past together.